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istians but we have to see that the first attempt was to crash the revolt and shift to a sectarian position from the ruling classes at that time so within that sense we have to understand there are two dynamics that happened you have the conditions of class struggle rising from the ground people started to perceive it but they perceived it based on a tradition of ideas when we move to later on we had a very powerful christian political elite by the day of independence because of their economic developments at the same time we had a very powerful commercial elite within beirut which is around the sunni community in the meantime we also had a much weakened feudal structure in the mountains in the druze areas and the shia areas in the south at the start of the civil war by the 1970 s due to the deterioration of feudal structures meaning the deterioration of peasant economy people were moving more and more towards the cities when you move towards the cities you see the injustice in the economic structure that meant the state which was controlled by the kataeb or the right wing christian parties attempted to gain their legitimacy through the sectarian practices that means for example facilitating the christian workers while not allowing shia workers to benefit or vice versa i am still working on the english translation and update of my piece in dutch published by dewereldmorgen but the constantly evolving situation means i need to go back and rewrite things all the time so hopefully by tomorrow share email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit print opens in new window print like loading by bart in uncategorized 26 august 2015 1 668 words leave a comment breaking turkish government concerned about the territorial integrity and political unity of syria simply touching this newfound concern of the turkish regime about the territorial integrity and political unity of syria especially as expressed in their intention to occupy part of syria s territory and exclude the majority of the syrians living there from playing any role in controlling that territory cavusoglu said s yrian kurdish pyd militia forces which have proved a useful ally on the ground for washington as it launched air strikes on islamic state elsewhere in syria would not have a role in the safe zone that the joint operations aim to create unless they changed their policies ankara is concerned that the pyd and its allies aim to unite kurdish cantons in northern syria and fear those ambitions will stoke separatist sentiment among its own kurds yes the pyd has been fighting daesh but the pyd is not fighting for the territorial integrity or political unity of syria this is unacceptable cavusoglu said we prefer that the moderate opposition forces actually control the safe zone or daesh free areas in the northern part of syria not the pyd unless they change their policies radically in that sense share email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit print opens in new window print like loading by bart in uncategorized 25 august 2015 26 august 2015 186 words leave a comment you stink as the next color revolution what began as an expression of legitimate grievances however quickly spiraled into the world s latest color revolution attempt korybko is seriously getting ahead of himself here maybe in a few weeks or months this will sound like a prophetic statement but right now it is a serious stretch of the imagination and most of all korybko is strangely mixing up the different sides and parties if anybody it is some of the organisers of the original peaceful protest who are the ones with ties to the ned usaid otpor complex while the radical youth who started throwing rocks and petrol bombs at police officers are squarely and decidedly on the other side so the specific scenario korybko proposes here requires drastic suspension of disbelief as a general point of course it is valid the organisers of the protests already seem to have lost control over the crowds and are running behind events first announcing a suspension of the protests then realising nobody listens to them and the protests continue anyway then rushing to call people to join the protests after all it is worth remembering how very similar protests in syria and elsewhere have been infiltrated taken over very quickly by armed elements controlled by various interested outside and inside parties with a fragmented state like lebanon where not only different regions but different institutions and departments are controlled by different factions and with pre existing entrenched group identities which people very quickly are forced to return to when shit hits the fan the risk of protest unrest and violence being exploited or pushed into a certain direction by either lebanese regime factions or outside interests is very real the protesters should be aware of that and closely guard against it to preserve their own agency on the other hand the question is how can they possibly do so the country is as always flooded with weapons filled to the brim with refugees from the syrian and palestinian war zones divided into bitterly opposed sectarian and political sides with a large diaspora continuously entering and leaving the country powerful embassies such as the us french saudi qatari and iranian to name the most obvious ones control entire lebanese constituencies and have massive political influence moreover the course of any evolution in the country can be drastically changed if the southern nuisance decides to raise its ugly head in attack again as it is continuously threatening to do in its eternal delusional plans to finish off hizbullah once and for all so many factors are beyond control that predictions are virtually senseless lebanese protesters demonstrated in beirut this weekend as part of the you stink movement which was organized by citizens fed up with the garbage that had been piling up in their streets for weeks what began as an expression of legitimate grievances however quickly spiraled into the world s latest color revolution attempt some radical youth started throwing rocks and petrol bombs at police officers uncannily reminiscent of the earlier hijacking of the peaceful intentioned electric yerevan protests which resulted in a forceful counter response that was then immediately used to justify the movement s transformation into one of open regime change ends the thing is however lebanon doesn t really have a functioning government to begin with having been without a president for over a year if the prime minister steps down as he threatened to do then it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis that might bring the formerly civil war torn and multi confessional state back to the brink of domestic conflict any significant destabilization in lebanon is bound to have a serious impact on syria which would be put in a difficult position by the potential cutoff of the strategic beirut to damascus highway and the possible redeployment of valuable hezbollah fighters back to their homeland share email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit print opens in new window print like loading by bart in uncategorized 25 august 2015 26 august 2015 636 words leave a comment you stink http www dewereldmorgen be artikel 2015 08 24 straatprotesten libanon trotseren brutale repressie this is an article i wrote in dutch on the protests going on in beirut last weekend and which are continuing today despite the original organisers seemingly doing their utmost best to call them off and to exclude as many people as possible an english translation will follow tomorrow insh allah meanwhile this is an interview i did a few years ago with some of the people who are also involved in the demos today http mepei com in focus 372 we want to reform the system not become the nineteenth sect share email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit print opens in new window print like loading by bart in uncategorized 24 august 2015 25 august 2015 85 words leave a comment and the spy wars continue a thorough treatment of all the israeli stooges caught in lebanon over the past three years is here it is written by nour samaha who poses the obvious question if lebanon s telecom operators have been infiltrated by israeli henchmen to the level where they had access to passwords and software enabling them to change data including ttrack records of calls and names associated with phones where does that leave the stl investigation the stl has accused first syria and then hizbullah of being behind hariri s murder but all their evidence besides being circumstantial and inconclusive even in their own admission is based on telecom data unless you count the paid false witnesses which have already been discarded meanwhile the iranians have apparently captured a us drone presumably using the same hacking techniques employed by hizbullah and the mahdi army of muqtada al sadr since at least 2004 and the israelis were forced again to blow up one of their eavesdropping devices after it was discovered by hizbullah an iranian military official quoted on iranian state television claimed that an iranian military cyber warfare unit managed to take over controls of the drone and bring it down this on top of the cia being forced to close down its beirut station or at least pretend to do so seems the powers that used to be are getting seriously sloppy and complacent these days only question is if ha can control the israeli drones why did they allow them to blow up their telecoms toy or are they playing on us israeli hubris and reserving the big surprise for a more appropriate occasion ps on ha s technical capabilities see also abu muqawama aka andrew exum s interview with nick blanford here although regardless of exum s praise for blanford i maintain that he should not be taken at face value as he has been employed by the hariri faction and wrote a entire hagiographic biased and totally flawed book about hariri s murder which was literally paid for and distributed by saad hariri ps2 rumours are doing the rounds that the iranians downed the lockheed boeing drone using the special russian made radio electronic warfare system avtobaza delivered to iranians few weeks ago this incidentally points to the greater war games going on behind the iran syria ha vs us israel screen and which involve russia and china on the former side still covertly and timidly now but i would not be surprised if the chinese were to announce soon that they had placed nuclear missiles in iran just in case anybody would stop barking and think of actually biting i have said it before whenever capitalism faces a structural and systemic global crisis it needs to start a global war to save its skin whether the coming exercise in global slaughter will be won by neo liberal capitalism or by state capitalism remains to be seen however share email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x share on reddit opens in new window reddit print opens in new window print like loading by bart in uncategorized 5 december 2011 5 december 2011 485 words 1 comment hizbullah s technical prowess several articles have appeared recently in the us which finally have the cia acknowledging that their lebanese station and network of informers have been virtually dismantled by hizbullah closely on the heels of ha finishing off the israeli network of spies in 2009 see here and here as well as here for a lebanese perspective that basically means that the israel us combine has lost a lot of its ability to independently assess ha s military and will now have to rely on its lebanese m14 partners who are not only notoriously unreliable and prone to exaggerate or belittle facts as it suits them but also have very little inside information on ha themselves in a separate article nicholas blanford also discusses ha s military capabilities and its possible reaction to a potential israeli and or us attack on iran now blanford is himself virtually a mouthpiece of the m14 hariri camp and certainly not likely to have access to ha insiders but much of what he argues in the article is common knowledge in lebanon anyway or can be deduced by simple common sense obviously in a climate of constant warmongering of israel and the us and even the uk recently has joined the chorus against iran ha will work out a contingency plan they did that a long time ago already and blanford s suggestion of dramaticvally expanded recruitment into ha s military is just for propaganda purposes neatly coinciding with the cia s admission and why now after months of official denial as many ask of its failure in lebanon but the real question is will the western side actually be as foolishly suicidal to actually attack iran militarily rationally speaking they don t stand a chance to achieve any military objective in doing so not even taking out the nuclear capabilities of iran if indeed any capabilities beyond energy generation are present which has never been proven yet the new iaea report does not offer a single new fact or shred of evidence its new chief has just rewritten and re interpreted old known data to suit the us and israel s purposes on the other hand as an overwhelming majority of analysts and commentators keep pointing out iran has enormous capabilities of more conventional retaliation starting with closing off the street of hormuz and with it 40 of the world s oil supply and a far greater percentage of the west s oil supply continuing with ha and hamas attacking and possibly invading israel and possibly even escalating to the point where china russia and india decide that they cannot afford to have an important business partner undergo the fate of iraq or afghanistan then again at times when capitalism is undergoing a major global crisis as it must in its perpetual boom and bust cycle the way out has historically involved starting a major global war as anti capitalist protests are growing in size around the globe and most threateningly in the core areas of the capitalist system this is becoming an increasingly attractive possibility for the elite additionally israel and the us may decide that having lost what eyes and ears they had inside ha this might be the last opportunity to have a go at destroying it with any chance however slim of succeeding in any case if the west is foolish enough to actually start that war the outcome will be the end of israel as we know it and...