Nasrallah

Lebanon is facing a major challenge this week. How it fares depends on a multitude of factors and forces, all pushing up against each other at once – anyone of which could help make or break the country’s near-term future.

(ANTIMEDIA) — A senior military official reportedly recently told the Media Line that Israel has prepared a partial evacuation plan for areas close to the border with Lebanon in anticipation of a renewed war with Hezbollah, the Jerusalem Post reported.

October 25, 2015
By Stephen Gowans
In a speech delivered in the southern suburbs of Beirut on October 23, 2015, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, a resistance organization rooted in Lebanon’s Shia community, presented a description of US imperialism that largely comports with that of secular leftwing anti-imperialists in the West.

 
by NICOLA NASSER
Long gone the days when the U.S.-led so-called “Friends of Syria” could plausibly claim that two thirds of Syria was controlled by rebel forces, that Syrian capital Damascus was under siege and its fall was just a matter of time and that the days of President Bashar al-Assad were numbered and accordingly he “should step down.”

Al-Akhbar | September 23, 2013

Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other regional countries backing Syria’s rebels must acknowledge their failures to bring down the Syrian government, and join efforts for a political solution to end the two and a half year civil war, Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said on Monday.