The mean streets of Beirut (Photo: Andre Vltchek 2019©)
Andre Vltchek
21st Century Wire
Good bye, Lebanon, metaphorically and truly.
Good bye to a country which, many believe, actually has already ceased to exist.
For five long years I have been commuting between the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. And Beirut, for all that time, it was one of my homes.
-by Reese ErlichHundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Lebanese have been demonstrating in the streets against corruption and for democratic rights. The protestors come from all economic classes and religious/ethnic groups.Like the Arab Spring uprisings that began in 2010, these protests are spontaneous and without traditional leaders.
During EP #300 of the SUNDAY WIRE show this past weekend, host Patrick Henningsen spoke to special guest, Middle East-based journalist and academic, Dr. Marwa Osman, for a breaking update on simmering protests in Lebanon.
With the country now at an apparent crossroads, some are concerned that the risk of a civil war type situation may emerge should tensions escalate. Where will they go from here? Listen:
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Following the Damascus-Kurdish alliance, Syria may become the biggest defeat for the Central Intelligence Agency since Vietnam, says Pepe Escobar.
Pepe ESCOBAR
What is happening in Syria, following yet another Russia-brokered deal, is a massive geopolitical game-changer. I’ve tried to summarize it in a single paragraph this way:
Tony Cartalucci
21st Century Wire
When the West’s leading media organizations attempt to convince audiences they know nothing about where Mohammed Aly – a Spanish-based Egyptian protest leader – came from, the first thing one can be sure of is they are being lied to.
Jeremy Kuzmarov has written a seminal book, Obama’s Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State (Clarity Press, August 2019), on the US Military Empire led for eight years by a black-faced president residing in the African slave-constructed White House.
Is the Overthrow of el-Bashir in Sudan a Sign of a Second Arab Spring?
I'm constantly amazed at the resourcefulness of the Gizar community for spotting the strange and unusual story, and this is one of those cases. […]
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Professor Isa Blumi joins me for part 2 of our series on Yemen. We pick up in the late 90’s after Ali Abdullah Saleh has come to power in a unified Yemen. Isa discusses Saleh’s strategy of sowing chaos all over the country in order to maintain absolute power. Isa talks about Saleh’s use of extreme violence, and his reliance on US power. We then explore how the so called Arab Spring played out in Yemen. We discuss the orchestrated nature of the movement, and how is sought to control the very real desires of the Yemeni public.
