Lebanon

The Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance Met in Tehran to Honor the Achievements of the Martyr Qasem Soleimani

January 27, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Imperial Wars, Iran, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Syria, Yemen

by Judith Bello, published on Syria Support Movement, January 22, 2024 I traveled to Tehran to meet with the Gathering in Support of the Choice of Resistance the first week in January this year. The Gathering is an international organization based in Lebanon, but our meeting in Tehran at this time was an opportunity to attend memorial events for Qasem[…]

Resistance Regionalizes as Yemeni Navy Seizes Israeli-Linked Vessel

November 29, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Imperial Wars, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Resistance, Syria, Yemen

by Abayome Azikiwe, published on Black Agenda Report, November 29, 2023 Israel’s continued escalation of its genocidal campaign in Gaza, the operations by the resistance fighters against the IDF, and the growing involvement of the regional resistance movements make a regional war seem possible. United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken among other high level White House officials have repeatedly[…]

Netanyahu is an Albatross Around India’s Neck

October 15, 2023 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Colonialism, India, Iran, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Palestine, Racism, U.S. Aggression

. . . . and maybe some other countries neck’s as well! Operation Al Aqsa Flood in an international context. by M. K. Bhadrakumar, published on Indian Punchline, October 14, 2023 One week has passed since an explosive situation erupted in West Asia around Israel. India’s famously loquacious External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is maintaining deafening silence. That is not[…]

Why Hezbollah is Bringing Iranian Fuel to Lebanon

August 24, 2021 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Lebanon, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Saudi Arabia, Shortages of Supplies, Syria, US Hypocrisy

by Radwan Mortada, published on The Cradle, August 23, 2021 With the war in Afghanistan winding down, US abuses of power and the incompetence of their puppets are bared for all to see. Lebanon’s economy is collapsing from similarly incompetent Saudi controlled and western manipulated politicians and financial officers, the Caesar sanctions on Syria, its primary trading partner, and a[…]

Resistance is not Futile: A Brief History of Lebanon’s Hezbollah

January 18, 2021 UNAC Editor Lebanon, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Resistance

by Steve Lalla, published on CounterPunch, January 15, 2021 Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has inspired fear within the Empire through both armed struggle and its success in electoral politics. For effectively wielding this double-edged sword, the “Party of God” has been vilified by countless politicians and media outlets. From its birth as an armed resistance to Israeli attacks on Lebanon[…]

Oppose U.S. Government Interference in Lebanon

September 29, 2020 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Lebanon, Middle East Wars

Statement by the Chicago Anti-War Coalition (CAWC), September 29, 2020 Lebanon has been in the news recently because of demonstrations and a huge explosion at the port in Beirut. There has been a lot of talk about what is going on in Lebanon. CAWC thinks, as we have been expressing in a series of Statements against U.S. government interference and[…]

Franco-American Designs on Lebanon, A Post-Catastrophe Update

September 15, 2020 UNAC Editor Censorship and Propaganda, Lebanon, Lebanon, Political Corruption, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by As’ad AbuKhalil, published on Consortium News, September 13, 2020 Lebanon moves from one catastrophe to another; as if the blast at Beirut airport last month wasn’t enough. There was another fire there this week at Beirut port, an area that was subjected in August to government emergency laws. Those emergency laws put the Army command in charge of the[…]

How the US Helped Push Lebanon to The Brink of Collapse

August 26, 2020 UNAC Editor Economic Blockade, Economic Collapse, Lebanon, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by Ben Norton, published on The Grayzone, August 13, 2020 As the people of Lebanon suffer through one of the worst economic crises in their nation’s conflict-ridden history, the Donald Trump administration is exploiting the disaster to force regime change and weaken Lebanese resistance groups. A massive explosion on August 4 devastated Lebanon’s capital Beirut, killing more than 150 people,[…]

After Explosion, Imperialists Pressure Lebanon; Iran, China Send Aid

August 25, 2020 UNAC Editor Lebanon

by Karin Leukefeld posted on Workers World, August 19, 2020 It was only last January — in response to the street protests — that the technocratic government of the engineer and former university professor Hassan Diab was sworn in in Lebanon. One week after the explosions in the capital Beirut, this government resigned on Aug. 10. Diab, who has no[…]

Defiance Against US Dollar War and Caesar Act Sanctions

June 20, 2020 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Lebanon, Middle East Wars, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria

by Hassan Nasrallah, published on Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies, June 16, 2020 Extract from the translation of a speech on June 16, 2020. He is talking about the effects of the increasing US economic war on Lebanon (and also Syria). This is interesting as it is an international reflection of the struggles of domestic resistance to the US racist[…]