{"id":8068,"date":"2020-12-05T11:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T15:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=8068"},"modified":"2020-12-05T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T15:47:19","slug":"reuters-explainer-lebanons-financial-meltdown-and-how-it-happened-mr-edmund-blair-edited-by-mr-timothy-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/12\/05\/reuters-explainer-lebanons-financial-meltdown-and-how-it-happened-mr-edmund-blair-edited-by-mr-timothy-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: &#8220;Explainer: Lebanon&#8217;s financial meltdown and how it happened&#8221; (Mr. Edmund Blair; edited by Mr. Timothy Heritage)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LebanonDrawing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8069\" width=\"249\" height=\"140\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Bambi would like to thank her spouse for sharing this article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-lebanon-crisis-financial-explainer\/explainer-lebanons-financial-meltdown-and-how-it-happened-idUKKBN268223\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-lebanon-crisis-financial-explainer\/explainer-lebanons-financial-meltdown-and-how-it-happened-idUKKBN268223<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have up five minutes to devote to reading this weekend, it is worth it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What an excellent explanation of Lebanon&#8217;s financial crisis&#8230; and why some Lebanese citizens are now forced to steal food from supermarkets or medication from pharmacies to feed or heal their families :(. These sad stories have been reported by both the media and by Bambi&#8217;s loved ones (different friends or relatives living in different regions of the country).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is heart-breaking, to say the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon deserves better than this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The world deserves not to always have to worry about Lebanon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All countries deserve to live in economic prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon&#8217;s problem has nothing to do with neither covid-19 (although the pandemic adds to the financial tragedy!) nor climate-change (although Lebanon needs ecological reforms too). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon&#8217;s financial tragedy is all about mismanagement AND corruption, period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, Lebanon has also another potentially deadly problem called &#8220;Hezbollah&#8221; (which literally means the &#8220;Party of God&#8221; as if God needed to be defended) . This pro-Iranian Lebanese party has a militia wing that is larger than tiny Lebanon and its official army (which, by the way, cannot afford to feed its soldiers with meat anymore). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mafia-like governance co-exists with militia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One hides behind the other. One justifies the other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both are ruining Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bambi would like to thank her spouse for sharing this article: https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-lebanon-crisis-financial-explainer\/explainer-lebanons-financial-meltdown-and-how-it-happened-idUKKBN268223 If you have up five minutes to devote to reading this weekend, it is worth it. What an excellent explanation of Lebanon&#8217;s financial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8068"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8075,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8068\/revisions\/8075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}