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2020-08-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
The revolution may be leaderless for now but won't be so forever.
[EN.ANNAHAR] 220 victims and counting, thousands injured, and billions in estimated damages in just a matter of seconds. The official version: Around 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate that have been sitting for seven years at Beirut port fuelled a massive explosion that sent shockwaves through the capital and displaced thousands of families.

One week into this man-made humanitarian disaster, the Hezbollah-backed government of Hassan Diab resigned as thousands erupted into the streets to protest the catastrophe that capped decades of corruption and mismanagement, and provided, once again, evidence of Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s hijacked illusory sovereignty.

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Posted by Fred 2020-08-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top
 File under: Hezbollah 

#1 Send the Clinton team in...
Posted by crazyhorse 2020-08-12 00:25||   2020-08-12 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Tuzla runway tango...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-12 00:44||   2020-08-12 00:44|| Front Page Top

#3 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-08-12 01:19||   2020-08-12 01:19|| Front Page Top

#4 "national unity Cabinet "

Emergency corruption cover-up squad. No wonder Macron is involved.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-08-12 04:26||   2020-08-12 04:26|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought this was going to be about the Left in the US.
Posted by Hellfish 2020-08-12 20:53||   2020-08-12 20:53|| Front Page Top

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