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Lebanon
  • Cherifa Sirry in Egypt. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic, Naharnet, Washington Post

    It is only a few years ago that Rafiq el Hariri was assassinated and barely a few hours after his assassination the US and Zionist controlled media were already blaming Syria.  The pro-Syrian government in Lebanon resigned.   The US' fueled and financed "Cedar's 'revolution' " took place while world media... » read this article
  • Franklin Lamb. Lebonese Forces Official Website , Lebonese Forces Official Website

    Lebanon accepts Hezbollah’s weapons and Congress prepares its reply. 52 words that shook Washington and may light up the region.   So reads the Policy Declaration of the new Government of the Republic of Lebanon, issued on 11/26/09, four days after the celebration of Lebanon's 66 years of independence from... » read this article
  • Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD, A Bedouin in Cyberspace, a villager at home. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    Editor's Note: Noone I have ever read, tells the story of the Middle East with honesty, compassion and humanity equal to that of Mazin Qumsiyeh. Mazin leaves the trappings of his impressive intellect behind when writing his first hand accounts, allowing us to see the humanity of those - who alone - really... » read this article
  • Joyce Chediac and Paul Wilcox, Dahia, Lebanon , Workers World

    At mass rally in Lebanon Hezbollah rejects new Israeli threats Dahia, Lebanon - The pride was palpable and the emotion stirring. It was the pride of a people who have twice freed their land from U.S.-backed Israeli forces. Tens of thousands of men, women and children gathered in this poor... » read this article
  • Poet Nizar Qabani. Translated by Adib S. Kawar and revised by Les Blough , Axis of Logic

    You who in a minefield perform the morning prayer, from today’s rulers, expect not but words. Expect nothing but love letters back. Don’t look, our imam, nothing there except ignorance and darkness. Nothing there except mud and smut. Nothing there except miscarriage and dwarf cities, where the rich eat the... » read this article
  • Esam Al-Amin , CP via Middle East on Line

    Since the Lebanese parliamentary elections on June 7, the mainstream media have declared that the results of the elections clearly show that Hizbollah and its coalition partners have suffered a “crushing defeat.” Some, led by the New York Times and cable news outlets, went even further, suggesting that the Cairo... » read this article
  • Les Blough. Axis of Logic , Axis of Logic

    Javier Solana's meeting with Hajj Hassan today was pregnant with significance. Solana, EU's Foreign Policy Chief, was not only meeting with a Lebanese MP, he was also meeting with a "terrorist", by definition of the Obama regime in Washington. Hassan is one of 11 Hezbollah MPs who won seats in Lebanon's... » read this article
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    Sheikh Fathi Yakan passed away of natural causes Saturday 13 June 2009.  As a lifelong scholar of Islamic studies, Dr Yakan was the Head of the Islamic Labor Front in Lebanon.  He served thirty years as General Secretary of the Lebanese Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya, until 1992 when he won a seat... » read this article
  • Nicholas Blanford. Comment by Cherifa Sirri, Egypt , Christian Science Monitor. Axis of Logic

    Cherifa Sirry, Axis of Logic's correspondent in Egypt, writes: Another blow to the US and its poodle allies in the Middle East!!  The Lebanese pro-Syrian generals, turned out after all, not to be guilty of the Rafiq Hariri assassination as suggested all along!! The four generals were imprisoned and tortured for four years without... » read this article
  • Brenda Heard , Friends of Lebanon

    "Lebanon will not be intimidated.  Syria will not be schmoozed." We have already become accustomed to the brazen statements of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. And it is certainly no surprise that Israel considers the US to be firmly in its political pocket.  So it is but a mild irritation... » read this article
  • Joint Communique , Friends of Lebanon, London

    An open letter to Mr Barack Obama, US President-elect from Friends of Lebanon   Dear Mr Obama:   Tell me we haven’t been bamboozled.  We need the change you promise, but something just doesn’t seem right.  After eight years under a Bush administration that engendered misery at home and around... » read this article
  • Raja Chemayel , Submitted by Raja

    The Dirty, the Clean and the Obelix Lebanon (Phoenicia) was always in the middle of many Historical happenings and between many different Empires and Cultures.... nothing new....nothing strange.  Suleiman Franjieh Lately two opposed Lebanese leaders went simultaneously to visit Cairo and Tehran.   Both leaders were Christian-Lebanese and even from the... » read this article
  • Hicham Safieddine , Electronic Lebanon

    Published 2 September 2008 Lebanese-Syrian relations witnessed a turnaround this month. The visit by Lebanese President Michel Suleiman to Damascus culminated in a declaration to establish full diplomatic relations between the two countries for the first time. Promises were made to intensify efforts to resolve long-standing disputes around delineating the... » read this article
  • John Catalinotto , WW Newspaper

    The agreement negotiated among contending Lebanese paties in Doha, Qatar, on May 21 reflects the military and political victory of the progressive Hezbollah-led opposition in Lebanon over the Bush regime and its clients in the Lebanese government. The victory came in early May after the pro-imperialist government had made an... » read this article
  • Cherifa Sirry , Wake from your slumber!

    The US Charg' d' Affaires in Lebanon, Ambassador Michele J. Sison has certainly changed her tune during those past 10 days.  We are not seeing her grumpy face or hearing her usual criticism regarding the Lebanese resistance and opposition.  Quite the contrary, ambassador Sison seems to have developed a sudden... » read this article
  • al-Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Translated by Cherifa Sirry , Promise

    Editor's Note: Our friend and sister, Cherifa Sirry, wrote a letter to us regarding Nasrallah's speech at the funeral of Imad al Mughneyeh. We provide an excerpt of her letter here to serve as an introduction to this extraordinary, powerful and uplifting speech by Al-Sayyed Nasrallah. The speech should be... » read this article
  • John Catalinotto , Workers World Newspaper

    Published Feb 21, 2008 Tens of thousands of people gathered in Beirut, the Lebanese capital, on Feb. 14 to praise and mourn Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, who had been assassinated in Damascus, Syria, two days earlier. In contrast to this massive sympathetic outpouring of Lebanese people, the corporate media... » read this article
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World News
  • Journalist shot to death in Honduras
    New York, March 12, 2010—Unidentified gunmen killed radio journalist David Meza Montesinos on Thursday as he was driving in the Honduran city of La Ceiba, local press reports said. The Committee to Protect Journalists urged...
  • Monsanto May Lose Bid to Halt Argentinean Soy Imports
    March 9 — Monsanto Co., the world’s biggest seed company, can’t rely on a European patent for its Roundup Ready soybeans to block imports of Argentinean soy meal, an adviser to the European Union’s highest...
  • Bangkok: Redshirts Ready for 'Million-man' March
    Anti-government Redshirt supporters say that the Thai government must choose between suppression of its proposed “million-man” peaceful protest on March 14, or dissolution of the current Democrat-led government. “Our aim is to bring down the...
  • Religious Hatred Leads to Carnage in Nigeria
    JOS, Nigeria — Christians and Muslims once shared their lives together in Nigeria’s fertile central belt, buying each other’s goods in mixed neighborhoods and cultivating each other’s farms across a sun-baked plateau. But growing religious...
  • Arabs Organize to Get Counted in U.S. Census
    A coalition of Arab-American cultural organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area have launched a grassroots organizing campaign designed to send a clear message to Washington: that they, along with every other Arab in America,...
  • Israel imposes West Bank closure
    Ma'an – Israeli forces imposed a general closure on the West Bank beginning Friday morning, the army said. The decision means those Palestinians with permits will generally not be permitted to access Jerusalem over the...
  • Greenpeace's Corporate Overreach
    Greenpeace has come a long way since the Rainbow Warrior, the retrofitted trawler used to challenge nuclear testing and whaling, was enough of a threat that the French government dispatched commandoes to sink her in...
  • When Crime Pays: How the EU subsidises illegal fishing
    Fishsubsidy.org today publishes a list of 42 convictions of fishing vessel owners that have also received EU subsidies under the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). The study, which focuses on two major EU fishing nations, Spain...
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