Lebanon

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[…]

Technocracy Now! The US Is Working to Turn Lebanon’s Anti-Corruption Protests Against Hezbollah

December 28, 2019 UNAC Editor Color Revolutions, Hybrid Warfare, Lebanon

by Rania Khalek, published on The Grayzone, December 1, 2019 Lebanon erupted in massive protests this October. The demonstrations transcended sect and class, and quickly spread across the country. The movement was spurred by the levying of regressive taxes and the persistence of a corrupt neoliberal order that has mismanaged the economy and hollowed out the public sector while enriching[…]

U.S. Role in Lebanon’s Crisis Goes Unrecognized

December 7, 2019 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Lebanon, Middle East Wars, Sanctions and Economic Warfare

by As’ad Abukhalil, published on Consortium News, December 24, 2019 Of all the underlying causes of Lebanon’s current crisis, the role of the U.S. remains the least recognized, not only by Western media but also that of Lebanon. Search “Lebanon crisis” under “news” on Google and you are unlikely to find any headlines mentioning the U.S. A more targeted search[…]

Secret Document Reveals US Plans for Civil War in Lebanon, False Flags and Israeli Intervention

November 28, 2019 UNAC Editor Lebanon, Middle East Wars

Yes, this article was published in April. However, the plan in question is flowering now. Though the extreme US and Israeli goals of this plan are unlikely to result, the protests like so many around the world, are being hijacked. They are mutating, becoming violent, rejecting the resolution of their original demands, and calling for the destruction of popular leadership[…]

Beirut is Burning

November 1, 2019 UNAC Editor Lebanon, Protest

by Andre Vltchek, published on Countercurrents, October 30, 2019 Tires are burning, smoke is rising towards the sky. It is October, the 18th day of the month, the capital city of Lebanon, in the past known as the “Paris of the East”, is covered in smoke. For years I was warning that the country governed by corrupt, indifferent elites, could[…]