Beating back the Billionaire Variant
By Anthony Kamande In the informal settlement area of Kawangware in Nairobi, my friend Joe, a nurse, is quarantining in his small room after getting COVID-19 for the second time. He’s less concerned about the virus than his finances, which have deteriorated severely in the…
Lebanon is collapsing, and our ruling elites are watching from their superyachts
By Dana Abed and Sasha Al Hilani Lebanon, that small country on the Mediterranean, is rocked and rotten by core inequalities, that make life today on its premises insufferable - unless you are, of course, part of the oligarchy! For the past two years, Lebanon…