John Bolton new National Security Adviser 9 quotes that show his stands  “The Secretariat building in New York has 38 stories; if you lost 10 stories today, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference,” Bolton said in a 1994 speech, referring to the UN’s headquarters. He added later: “There’s no such thing as the United […]

by Kif Leswing – business insider — The Tesla and SpaceX Facebook pages have vanished, minutes after Elon Musk — the CEO of both companies — said that he had never seen the SpaceX Facebook profile and planned to delete it. It started when Musk replied to a tweet earlier in the week from WhatsApp cofounder Brian […]

by Elliott Abrams & Zachary Shapiro — Politico — the 2006 evacuation was an overall success. But according to a 2007 assessment from the Government Accountability Office, the internal federal government watchdog, the operation demonstrated a number of difficulties that called for changes that would be even more important in a larger and more complex future conflict. The report […]

By hrw.org (Beirut) – Nabih Berri, Lebanon’s speaker of parliament, should schedule a vote on a draft waste management law before parliamentary elections on May 6, 2018, Human Rights Watch said today. The law has been stuck in parliament since 2012, but came before the joint committees of parliament in January, the final step before […]

By Ruth Umoth cnbc.com Amazon has been on a hiring spree lately and it appears that employees are liking what they see. The retail giant topped LinkedIn’s 2018 Top Companies list, unseating last year’s No. 1 Google. The e-commerce site, which has 566,000 global employees, enjoyed a successful 2017 with the $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole […]

  by KRISHNADEV CALAMUR – THE ATLANTIC—  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is showing off the new face of Saudi Arabia in the U.S. He has emphasized women’s rights in his country, long known for enforcing strict gender rules; made much of his plan to diversify the Saudi economy away from oil, on which it is […]

The Daily Star BEIRUT: A Dubai-based company said Monday that the number of Lebanese investors who obtained a second citizenship surged by 27 percent in 2017 compared to 2016. The figures came in a report by Citizenship Invest which is specialized in programs to legally obtain a second nationality. “Demand for obtaining a second passport […]

by Jennifer Gnana and Massoud A Derhally — the national.ae — French oil major Total will avoid work in the maritime area disputed by Lebanon and Israel as Beirut starts its delayed offshore exploration for oil and gas in the Mediterranean, the company’s chief executive said. “We are a commercial company and we do things respecting the […]

by KAVEH WADDELL theatlantic.com— In early December, a shocking video recorded in the lobby of an apartment building on the outskirts of Beirut surfaced on the internet. The video, posted to an unusual Facebook page called Weynieh el Dawleh—or “Where is the state?”—showed two young men grabbing another man and leading him away at gunpoint. A caption […]

by JOHN PAUL ROLLERT – theatlantic.com — Rex Tillerson is hardly the first person to be targeted in a tweet from Donald Trump, but on Tuesday morning, he became the first Cabinet official to be fired by one. It was an ignominious end to Tillerson’s 13-month stint as secretary of state, a tenure that would have been undistinguished if it […]