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Aug 05 2025 
Tripoli: The Scent of History
A poignant travelogue and historical review of this former pearl port city of the Eastern Mediterranean
Laith Marouf and Hadi Hotait travel to Tripoli, Lebanon’s second largest city, to discover its hidden and neglected treasures, discuss its brilliant past, and analyze threats by the USA to hand it over to the Wahhabi Death-Squads governing Syria today,… Continue reading
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Feb 25 2025 
The funeral that sealed Hezbollah’s unbreakable covenant
Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral in Beirut became a powerful testament to the enduring spirit of resistance, as millions gathered to honor his memory amidst the wreckage left by the Israeli aggression in south Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
Despite the destruction and constant threats, the resolute defiance of the people… Continue reading -
Dec 16 2024 
After the Road to Damascus…
By Strategika51 at strategika510.com.
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This brief analysis of the rapid evolution of an advanced phase of the war, hybrid ongoing global attempts to identify elements of intelligibility to a developing situation and can not claim in any way to enter a meaningful way the reality of the phenomenon underlying that allowed for the moment to… Continue reading -
Dec 03 2024 
Syria the Unfinished War
By Elijah J. Magnier
The Unfinished War and Its Long-Term Divisions: Syria’s Shifting Frontlines and the Limits of Diplomacy
The situation in Syria cannot be understood through the lens of a single event. Instead, it reflects a complex interplay of factors, motivations, and the interests of various states—some of which coordinate directly, while others act independently, relying… Continue reading
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Nov 18 2024 
Syria in the Eye of the Storm
Israel threatens, but Russia won’t play the role of guard dog.
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
To understand the escalation of Israeli airstrikes against Syria amid renewed US diplomatic moves in the region, we need to go back to last week’s press conference held by Israel’s new foreign minister Gideon Saar.
This coincided with the… Continue reading
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Oct 23 2024 
Resistance to Israel Will Never Surrender
Rania Khalek hosts a special live episode of Dispatches with Lebanese journalist Ghadi Francis.
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Oct 15 2024 
The Sermon
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Chapter 9
The Sermon
Father Mapple rose, and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense. “Star board gangway, there! side away to larboard—larboard gangway to starboard! Midships! midships!”
There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women’s shoes,… Continue reading
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Sep 14 2024 
Is the Great War Knocking on the Doors of Lebanon and Syria??
Israel has decided to expand its attack on Lebanon.
By – Elijah J. Magnier.
Since the war on Gaza began, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken increasingly complex and intensive steps to deflect blame for the failure of October 7 onto the security and military apparatus. He has also pointed fingers at his powerful army for… Continue reading
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Sep 14 2024 
9.11 to 10.7: The Fake ‘War on Terror’ Collapses
For years, the US executed Israel’s regional destabilization program using phantom terrorists as justification for the ‘War on Terror.’ But 7 October 2023 killed Washington’s never-ending war project – with a flip of the switch, US adversaries have now turned the ‘Long War’ on Israel.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
“Colonization … is the best affair… Continue reading -
Aug 26 2024 
Era of Delusion gave way to Age of Heroism
Excerpt of President Bashar al-Assad’s speech to the People’s Assembly, Damascus, Syria, 25.08.2024.
🇸🇾 Syria President Assad: “The resistance in Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq and Yemen are a role model, an example that we follow in the path of liberation, the path of dignity, honor and successful independence. pic.twitter.com/ziYQ0fZwqQ
— COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) August 25, 2024🇸🇾 Syria President… Continue reading
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Jun 18 2024 
Hezbollah is Ready
The agony of Empire: They cannot possibly win. They cannot possibly walk away…
Garland Nixon interviews Laith Marouf — the weekly West Asia and World update.
🔹Hezbollah:
🔻has shaped the coming battle. They’re ready
🔻~9min mark: reminder of the “Merkava [tank] Massacre” at Bint Jbeil in 2006 just 1 km inside Lebanon.. so with what will Zion use to… Continue reading -
Jun 15 2024 
The BRICS Weigh in on Palestine
The gravity around the newly-enlarged BRICS constellation is drawing in Arab, Muslim, and Global South adherents to the influential group’s message on international law, Palestine, and halting forever wars.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
Something of extraordinary magnitude happened in Moscow on 23 May. Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa personally asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to help… Continue reading
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Jun 14 2024 
The Axes of Resistance linked Novorossiya and Greater Syria
A masterful exposition by Almassian. He reminds us why Shoigu went to Damascus in the very days before the start of the SMO in February 2022: the two theatres of Novorossiya and the Holy Land are intimately connected. They are part of the same campaign against the relentless and possessed Anglo-Zionists. Inevitable defeat to Russia… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2024 
Abu Obeida’s Revolutionary Message
Gaza’s resistance could be transformative for the Arab World
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
Millions of people around the world eagerly await the occasional televised appearances of Abu-Obaida, the official spokesman of Hamas’ military wing the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades.
There are several reasons for this. His speeches are short and to-the-point. He conveys morale-raising good… Continue reading
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