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A lot of people I personally know have been down with COVID-19. At least one has died, and it is somewhat amazing to consider that so many people I know have come down with the Koof and so many others have been untouched by it. I know a lot of others who have never been […]

https://www.mideastdiscourse.com/2021/07/14/i-do-think-that-russia-is-r… By Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Hot-spots in the Middle East are heating up to volcano-like tensions. With Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Turkey living on a knife edge, Steven Sahiounie of MidEastDiscourse interviewed Gilbert Mercier.

The main symbol of NATO’s air power, the multifunctional stealth fighter of the 5th generation F-35 Lightning II, did not justify the expectations put on it. Broadly advertised as the “best aircraft in the world” F-35 in reality turned out not to be a formidable weapon capable of “blowing into stone age” anyone doubting in […]

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Donald Henry Rumsfeld held many varied US governmental positions over many years of service to his country, but will always be remembered for being an architect of the war in Iraq, which killed at least 1 million Iraqis within the first five years of war. Rumsfeld had never been to […]

https://www.mideastdiscourse.com/2021/07/01/sectarian-policies-in-leban… Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Lebanon’s 6 million people have been suffering through a crisis which began 20 months ago, and there is no end to the suffering in sight.  Severe shortages of medicine, fuel, electricity and a myriad of basic goods in the import-dependent country. The crisis, which began in late 2019, […]