Lebanon

Why should Pakistan trust us?

28 July 2010

The Afghan ‘war leaks’ have revealed in stark detail the mistrust and tension that lies at the heart of the West’s relationship with Afghanistan and Pakistan. But this mistrust is not merely the product of a nine-year war, but of decades of economic control which have sewn the seeds of inequality, injustice and appalling governance across the Muslim world. Indeed for Western governments to lecture countries like Pakistan about democracy and stability, as David Cameron did this morning, must (...)

Against Sectarian Violence and Its Neoliberal Roots: A Call for a Citzen’s Lebanon

13 May 2008

Attac Lebanon’s analysis of the current dramatic escalation of violence in the streets of Beirut The violence in the streets of Beirut is the climax of verbal sniping and attacks that has been accumulated for the past 2 years even faster than the national debt. The source of these verbal volleys and the gun battles in the stress is found in all the sectarian leaders and politicians speaches, those same leaders who control the political and economic system of Lebanon. * First, the (...)

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Lebanon: the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) opposes the false solutions proposed by the Paris Conference

5 February 2007

On Thursday January 25 a third meeting of the world’s richest countries took place with great pomp in Paris in order to find funds for Lebanon. By giving hundreds of billion dollars, France and the United States claim to help this country that is crippled by its debt and was a victim of Israel’s military aggression in the summer of 2006. Back in August 2006, the CADTM wrote, “From now on, Lebanon will have to call on foreign capital for help to rebuild itself. This implies a renewed increase (...)

Critics Decry ’Destroy and Lend’ Policy in Lebanon

4 September 2006

Lebanon is firmly en route to becoming the third nation in the Middle East after Iraq and the Palestinian territories to experience a devastating Washington-backed war and a massive influx of new illegitimate debt to cover reconstruction expenses, anti-debt activists say. A conference held Thursday in Stockholm for donors raised more than $940 million in pledges of new money to reconstruct Lebanon after 33 days of Israeli bombing of the country’s infrastructure, bridges, roads, and (...)

Lebanon en route to an illegitimate debt

29 August 2006

Lebanon has just lived through a month of murderous conflict. More than 1,100 people have been killed during Israeli army raids and its blind strikes. A third of them are children under 12. Approximately a million people have fled. The human suffering which has been inflicted is unspeakable. The trigger was the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah, a militia present in South Lebanon. But the response of Tsahal, the Israeli army, was unprecedented. Undoubtedly, here Tsahal is a (...)