Abstract/Sommario: Nella cover story compaiono i seguenti articoli : Empire Comes to Lebanon / Aijaz Ahmad (The Us-Israel axis goes all out to remove last impediments to building a 'New Middle East" in which the whole history of oil nationalisations shall be reversed and control over oil resources of the region shall be transferred to the petrodollar corporations of the core capitalist countries. Box about the history of the rise of Hezbollah); Engineered war / John Cherian (Hezbollah holds out and civi ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Nella cover story compaiono i seguenti articoli : Empire Comes to Lebanon / Aijaz Ahmad (The Us-Israel axis goes all out to remove last impediments to building a 'New Middle East" in which the whole history of oil nationalisations shall be reversed and control over oil resources of the region shall be transferred to the petrodollar corporations of the core capitalist countries. Box about the history of the rise of Hezbollah); Engineered war / John Cherian (Hezbollah holds out and civilian casualties rise as Israel continues to wage a war that it planned for over a year); Summer of shelling / Atul Aneja (From the war zone in Lebanon, an account of the distress and the relief effort; many south Lebanese villages are facing a severe humanitarian crisis); Lebanese quagmire / Yael Lotan (The way Israel positions itself in the world political order is not a prescription for peace in the region; though Israel claims to have killed many of Hezbollah's leaders in the town of bint Jbeil, it seems no nearer to capturing or killing its leader Hasan Nasrallah than it was when the war started); The 'liberated' Iraq / John Cherian (The country is sliding into a civil war, but this reality is overlooked by the U.S. despite heavy casualties in sectarian violence. Shia and Sunni vigilante groups are busy targeting each other by bombing mosques and public places. Sunni groups allege that there is a concerted campaign against them supported by influential sections of the government)