Lebanese government meets after night of raging protests

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By FADI TAWIL

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s prime minister held an emergency Cabinet meeting Friday after a night of raging protests that saw demonstrators shut down roads across the country with burning tires in renewed protests spurred by a plunging national currency.

Scuffles with security forces broke out in several locations Thursday night as people spontaneously took to the streets after the pound tumbled to a new low against the dollar. Protesters in central Beirut pelted police and soldiers with rocks and smashed some storefronts, drawing volleys of tear gas.

Some protesters set fire to a private bank, while others threw stones at the offices of other banks in an expression of anger at their perceived role in deepening their economic malaise.

“Three glass windows were broken in the front and the back, the fridge and the phones. And they broke the photocopy machines and the chairs. ... I am not sure yet what is the estimated material loss,” said the owner of a travel agency in downtown Beirut.



CORRECTS DATE TO EARLY FRIDAY, JUNE 12 Riot police advance to push back the anti-government protesters from a square near the government house, during a protest against the political leadership they blame for the economic and financial crisis, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, early Friday, June 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)


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[yaesu]

1. we may see that here in the not too distant future

as the 6 to 8 trillion printed dollars pumped into the stock market comes due. Add to that our service based economy not recovering and fascists refusing to help anyone but themselves and their bankster buddies.

[McKim]

2. This Beautiful Country

This beautiful country is in economic ruins due to bad greedy disorganized government. Don’t let it happen here! My husband attend the American Community School of Beirut in the 1950s back when the US actually had friends in the Middle East and Americans had established universities and Made other efforts for development. Those were the days. The Wars on Iraq, Syria and Lybia broke our hearts, and now this!