Just when I thought I had witnessed the worst of the atrocities committed by Israel. Just when I imagined I could see nothing more horrific than the scenes of extreme suffering I have already watched during this year long genocide, in the early hours of Monday Oct 14th I saw people in hospital beds, still attached to IV drips, burning […]
Lebanon
How Will Iran Respond to Israel’s Attack?
As Israel attempts to draw the US into conflict with Iran, we ask: what’s next for the region? TNT Radio host Patrick Henningsen speaks with Middle East based journalist Leila Hatoum about the latest developments regarding Israel’s attack on the Iran embassy in Damascus and what the geopolitical ramifications might be for this act of aggression by an increasingly desperate Zionist regime […]
UK army seeks unrestricted access to Lebanon: Report
The clauses of a proposed memorandum with Beirut include giving British troops immunity and authority to move around Lebanon armed and in uniform Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar revealed on 21 November, citing diplomatic and military sources, that the UK wants to give its army access to Lebanese soil through a proposed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Beirut. “There is a draft being discussed […]
War With Hezbollah: What the Israelis Fear
A recently published report reveals the trepidation of Zionist military experts The worst fears of the Zionist entity on the precipice of escalated military confrontation with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon are compiled in a 130-page-report entitled ‘The Most Deadly War of All’. [Thank you to Resistance News Network (RNN) on Telegram for alerting me to this report] The report includes the opinions […]
Syria’s so-called ‘cradle of the revolution’ has been liberated
The West’s campaign to topple Bashar al Assad is all but over fter three years of a fragile ceasefire and a campaign of assassinations of Syrian government ‘loyalists’ by embedded fundamentalist armed groups, the Syrian flag has once more been raised in Daraa Al Balad. Western media persists in portraying the emergence of extremist armed groups in Daraa, south of […]
‘With Iran fuel, Lebanon breaks US siege & turns East’
Lebanese economist Ziad Nasreddine comments on the potential ramifications of Hezbollah’s ongoing efforts to ship Iranian fuel to Lebanon, an effort announced by Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah a day earlier. Source: Al-Manar TV via Kalam Siyasi (YouTube) Date: August 20, 2021 (Note: Please help us keep producing independent translations by contributing a small monthly amount here ) Transcript: Host: Mr. Ziad, some say: what could (the ships) change, […]
Who Profits from the Beirut Blast?
The narrative that the Beirut explosion was an exclusive consequence of negligence and corruption by the current Lebanese government is now set in stone, at least in the Atlanticist sphere. And yet, digging deeper, we find that negligence and corruption may have been fully exploited, via sabotage, to engineer it. Lebanon is prime John Le Carré territory. A multinational den […]
The City We Love – BSNews Editors Speak About Beirut
Alison Banville writes: I spent two weeks in Beirut in November 2019 when I thought it would be just one night. I was on my way to Syria and had previously stopped over in Beirut in 2017 and 2018 but never got the chance to explore the city. However, being ‘trapped’ in Beirut I fell in love with it and […]
Black Lives? Palestinian Lives? You Don’t Have to Choose
Over a decade ago, in 2009, I was on a protest at Scotland Yard about the death of Sean Rigg, left to die on the floor of Brixton police station. His family was there; Lowkey, best known for his fight for justice for the Palestinians, was there performing in the street one of his brilliant, incisive, truth-telling raps. No-one there […]
What’s Really Happening in Lebanon?
Excellent analysis of the protests in Lebanon by Laith Marouf: Hear me out about Lebanon; although all the demands of the protesters are legitimate, the cascade of events that triggered them is all planned meticulously. Since 2017, the Empire and its local enforcers, Apartheid Israel and Saudi Occupied Arabia, wanted the government of PM Hariri to collapse, therefore bringing down the […]
Iran Squeezed Between Imperial Psychos and European Cowards
The overwhelming majority of Global South nations are watching the U.S. neocon offensive to ultimately strangle “the Iranian people”, aware more than ever that Iran may be bullied to extinction because it does not posses a nuclear deterrent. The IRGC has reached the same conclusion.
Video: Hezbollah Warns Israel: ‘If You Dare Attack, You Will Regret it’
On the evening of Friday, November 30, Hezbollah’s war media broadcasted this video addressed to Israel and subtitled in Hebrew, in response to recent Israeli military exercises simulating an aggression against southern Lebanon, an escalation of violations of Lebanese airspace –from which aggressions against Syria are usually carried out– by Israeli drones, and new threats to assassinate Hezbollah Secretary General. The […]