Press TV – October 26, 2019 Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has warned that foreign elements and certain political parties are seeking to “exploit” recent protests in Lebanon and “create a political vacuum in the county.” But who are these voices of chaos in Lebanon? “Some protests have been […]
By Marwa Haidar| Al-Manar | October 25, 2019 Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah urged the resistance supporters on Friday to leave the streets, noting that a dangerous scheme aimed at targeting Lebanon on the political level has being prepared. In a televised address to the Lebanese people on the latest local developments, Sayyed Nasrallah […]
It was the morning of 9 January 1984. The command “Battle Stations” came over the 1MC of the USS New Jersey. As we took our stations I remembered the conversations aboard ship in the preceding days. I remember wondering about these “enemies” our officers and comrades seemed so anxious to eradicate. And then New Jersey’s main battery of 16-inch guns opened up, for the first time since Vietnam.
A Rumor of a War
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 not hold together, indefinitely.
We seem to be at a breaking point in Lebanon as this tiny country finally starts a political and economic meltdown. What was the tipping point? Hariri’s own scandal with his TV station and then the 16m dollar payout to a South African paramour? The local currency taking a beating which created a dollar panic, resulting in the banks just stopping supplying cash machines? Or perhaps the forest fires which really drove the point home just how mismanaged the country is, if managed at all.
By Ghassan Kadi | The Saker Blog | October 22, 2019 Hezbollah is facing a new challenge, and this time it is not a military one, but rather political. Perhaps few countries need peaceful “popular revolutions” more than Lebanon does. In my simplistic way of thinking, Lebanon should actually be on the top of the […]
One would have been blind, deaf, dumb or disnfo not to have seen this deal coming. Oh wait there are lots of those type around :))Putin calls Assad, who voices support for deal
Al-Manar | October 22, 2019 Hezbollah stressed on Monday it has no relation with the motorcade which threatened protests in Beirut Downtown and was thwarted by Lebanese Army. In a statement, Hezbollah’s Media Relations Office firmly denied involvement in the motorcade. “The Media Relation would like to affirm that Hezbollah definitely has no relation with […]
