Notations On Our World (Special Edition): On the US Election Scene

Former Vice President Biden, the Presumptive Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States, chose US Senator Kamala Harris of California as the Vice Presidential Nominee Yesterday.   Senator Harris is a First Generation American who was raised by a Single Mother of Indian Descent and whose father was from Jamaica.   

As the news broke of her appointment, the Trump Campaign had some reaction and our team complied the following as the supporters (including MoveOn, JStreet and others) came out in support: 

The Campaign has begun in earnest as this was also noted from the Financial Times on the potential risk of a Broken US Election:  

World The risks of a broken American election Trump’s assault on absentee voting amid coronavirus is a dark omen AUGUST 9, 2020 by The editorial board

Notations On Our World (Special Edition): Weekly #RandomThoughts on Our World

The Prime Minister of Lebanon has resigned as protests continue.   Hassan Diab admitted the corruption and the ineptitude in his final speech as the future of Lebanon is murky--especially as in our view Hezbollah will not go quietly.  Al Jazeera's Marwan Bishara underscored it: 

   As our team continues to assess it, we decided to feature these clips from the 2019 protests by the Revolution DJ Madi Karimeh  that is so poignant for the moment:

This is as our team has been assessing the on-going developments in India & Turkey and analyzing the latest from the Financial Times' Gideon Rachman as , "..  Narendra Modi and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have grandiose views of themselves as refounders of their own nations. In rejecting secularism, both the Indian and Turkish leaders are remaking their countries as faith-based states..."  

It has also been quite a week On the US Political Scene--We hereby present a sampling of the discourse over Social Media along with the on-going situation in Iran as COVID-19 rages and nationwide strikes continue--The National University Exams was postponed in light of the raging pandemic as we went to press: 

Notations On Our World (Special Sunday Edition): ; #Lebanon

 As we went to press, protests were continuing in Lebanon in the aftermath of the horrific explosion that left an estimated 300,000 homeless, 5,000 injured and over 150 people dead at last count.   A number of ministries were attacked and taken over by protesters as the Lebanese Prime Minister said that he would introduce a bill Monday to call for early Elections--as we salute Lebanon, we are confident that Lebanon will rise again like the Phoenix not withstanding all the odds stacked against it: