Lebanon

A Call from Beirut: To All Revolutionary Forces and Movements of Solidarity and Liberation Around the World

March 6, 2026 UNAC Editor Action!!, Anti-Imperialism, Imperialism, Iran, Lebanon, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Resistance, Revolution, U.S. Aggression, U.S. Hegemony, US Intervention, Zionism

The Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil) and the Popular Democratic Party in Lebanon issue this urgent joint call to the free people of the world, to all organizers, activists, and collectives struggling for justice and liberation; to liberation movements, political parties, grassroots movements, labor unions, and student and women’s organizations: Act now to stand with Lebanon, Palestine, Iran,[…]

US Lawmaker Revives PAGER Act Demanding Lebanon ‘ End Any Recognition of Hezbollah’

March 7, 2025 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Imperialism, Israel, Lebanon, United Nations

from the News Desk at The Cradle, March 5, 2025 On 5 March, US Representative Greg Steube reintroduced to Congress the Preventing Armed Groups from Engaging in Radicalism (PAGER) Act, which seeks to condition US financial aid to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) until Beirut ends “any official recognition of Hezbollah and its allies.” According to the text of the[…]

Residents Return to Lebanese Border Villages as Israeli Withdrawal Deadline Expires

January 29, 2025 UNAC Editor Israel, Lebanon, Occupation, Resistance

From the News Desk at The Cradle, January 25, 2025 Despite the agreement that the Israeli army would leave and civilians would be allowed to return, the IOF continues to target returning civilians in the south of Lebanon after the 60 day ceasefire expired. [jb] Residents of south Lebanon who were displaced during the war returned to their towns and[…]

Has the Resistance in West Asia Been Defeated?

December 21, 2024 UNAC Editor Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, U.S. Aggression, US Foreign Bases

By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein, published on Workers World, December 20, 2024 A Venezuelan international relations expert, Rodriguez Gelfenstein was previously Director of the International Relations of the Presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, his country’s ambassador to Nicaragua and an adviser for international politics for TeleSUR. Translation: John Catalinotto. Dec. 18 – The situation in Syria has generated more[…]

The Fall of the Keystone in the Axis of Resistance

December 17, 2024 UNAC Editor Austerity, Genocide, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Palestine, Resistance, Syria, Uncategorized, Yemen, Zionism

by Paul Larudee, published on Dissident Voice, December 16, 2024 For most of the time since its 1946 independence from France, Syria has resisted all attempts to make it a vassal state. It has paid dearly, as a target of subversion, war, occupation and the most onerous economic sanctions in the world, for its anti-imperialism and anti-Zionism, its support for[…]

Why Pro-Palestine Must Also Mean Pro-Syria

December 8, 2024 UNAC Editor Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, US Intervention

Statement from the Bronx Antiwar Coalition, December 7, 2024 To support Palestinian liberation while opposing the Syrian government under President Bashar al-Assad is an irreconcilable contradiction. Syria plays a vital role as the logistical, political, and military backbone of the Axis of Resistance—a coalition of state and non-state actors fighting Zionist and U.S.-led imperialism across West Asia. The war against[…]

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: The Man Who Defeated Israel

October 30, 2024 UNAC Editor Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Wars, Palestine, Revolution

by Vijay Prashad, published on People’s Dispatch, September 27, 2024 Editor’s note: This is late, but it is important to understand the true face of the revolution now taking place in West Asia. Israel assassinated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (1960-2024) because he refused to stop the attacks on northern Israel until the Israelis ended the genocide against the Palestinians. During the[…]

Censorship, War Propaganda and Fascism

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Fascism, Genocide, Imperialism, Iran, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Middle East Wars, US Government Action, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 16, 2024 The U.S. edges closer to hot war and continues aiding and abetting a genocide. Censorship and war propaganda are necessary tools when a rogue state chooses to silence its opponents. The F-word of the moment is fascism. Establishment pundits, Democratic Party politicians, and corporate media are of one accord[…]

The Legacy of Martyr Nasrallah and the Zionist Massacre That Won’t Crush Resistance

October 18, 2024 UNAC Editor Anti-Imperialism, Colonialism, Indigenous peoples, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Middle East Wars, Occupation, Palestine, Paths to Emancipation, Peoples' Movements, Resistance, Revolution, Syria

Statement from The Bronx Antiwar Coalition, published on Workers World, September 30, 2024 Editor’s note: Some time has passed since this was first published, but I think it is increasingly pertinent as the impact of the initial disaster falls away. Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a deeply buried underground bunker along with some other leaders of Hezbollah and more than[…]

The Year After Al Aqsa Flood

October 4, 2024 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Colonialism, Genocide, Iran, Iran, Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Palestine, U.S. Aggression, US Hypocrisy, US Politics

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, October 2, 2024 The maniacal alliance between the U.S. and Israel has exposed the sham of western democracy and the illusion of international law. Iran’s missile attacks on Israeli military targets were the result of a year of provocation. Months of restraint ended when Israel escalated its war on the rest of[…]