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The risks of rent-seeking: What kind of future do we want for our industry and energy?
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/20209

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Protesters against the rise of rent prices in #Lebanon on April 8, 2014. Large poster reads :"Free us from the new rent laws." (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) Protesters against the rise of rent prices in Lebanon on April 8, 2014. Large poster reads :"Free us from the new rent laws." (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)

I am not debating the issue of whether or not to extract #Oil, except to warn against wrongly believing hydrocarbons are a panacea for all ills. On the contrary, as many experts have warned, if oil is dealt with as a silver bullet, it could destroy what is left of our productive economic activity.

Alain Tabourian

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#Lebanon: Embassy Suicide Bombers Are Graduates of the Assir School
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanon-embassy-suicide-bombers-are-graduates-assir-school

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A few hours after the #Iran_Embassy bombing, the Internal Security Forces (ISF) removed security checkpoints at the entrance of the commercial market in #Saida, prohibiting the entry of all cars. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah) A few hours after the Iran embassy bombing, the Internal Security Forces (ISF) removed security checkpoints at the entrance of the commercial market in Saida, prohibiting the entry of all cars. (Photo: Marwan Tahtah)

DNA tests reveal that the two suicide bombers behind the attack on the Iranian embassy in Beirut resided in South #Lebanon and were followers of Salafi cleric #Ahmad_al-Assir.

Amal Khalil

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