Podcast: The Beirut Explosion, Economic Terror and the Drumbeat of War Against Hezbollah

Lebanese journalists Laith Marouf and Marwa Osman recount their experience living through the recent blast that destroyed much of Beirut, an explosion that not only occurred during a period of rapid economic decline but of increasing public outrage over corruption and Western sanctions that have squeezed Lebanon dry.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
Beirut Blast podcast image

Welcome to MintCast -- an interview series featuring dissenting voices the establishment would rather silence-- I’m your host Mnar Muhawesh Adley. Lebanon is reeling from a blast that destroyed much of the capital Beirut on Tuesday, August 4. 2,700 tons of ammonium nitrate in the city’s port is thought to have caught fire and exploded, killing

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US, Israeli Media Scramble to Blame Hezbollah for Deadly Beirut Explosion

Pundits in the US and Israel are sounding the trumpets of war and trying to blame Hezbollah for the massive explosion in the port of Beirut. But a closer look at the stories being promulgated turn up the same old propaganda by the usual suspects

Raul Diego
By Raul Diego
Beirut Explosion Feature photo

The narrative that puts Hezbollah in the hot seat for the devastating explosion of ammonium nitrate, allegedly stored by the thousands of tons in one of the busiest ports in the eastern Mediterranean and which killed over two hundred people has a few holes in it, to say the least. As the mainstream U.S.-led international media beats the drums of

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Apocalyptic Scenes from the Site of the Deadly Beirut Blast

Just as the anniversary of the Hiroshima blast lapses, images are beginning to come to light from one of the worst explosions in modern history.

MintPress News Desk
Associated Press
By MintPress News Desk
And Associated Press

A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the city's port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. More than 100 people are feared dead and thousands injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said. It was not clear what caused the blast, which struck with the force

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Beirut Blast a Deadly Blow to Lebanon’s Already Shattered Economy

With Lebanon already suffering from a food crisis, currency collapse, and economic sanctions, the devastating explosion at Beirut’s biggest port may be a death knell for the country’s economy.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
Lebanon Explosion Feature photo

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab today called for a day of national mourning after a massive explosion ripped through the capital Beirut yesterday, killing at least 100 people and injuring at least 4,000 others. The extent of the damage is immense; the city’s governor Marwan Abboud estimated that up to 300,000 have immediately been made

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Lebanon: Beirut Hotel Bomber Is Saudi Citizen

The bomber detonated his explosives at Beirut’s Duroy Hotel during a security raid on Wednesday evening, and died in the blast. Another man was wounded and was being questioned by security agents at a Beirut hospital.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Mideast Lebanon

BEIRUT — A suicide bomber who blew himself up at a Beirut hotel and his accomplice, who survived the blast, are citizens of Saudi Arabia, Lebanese officials said Thursday. The bomber detonated his explosives at Beirut's Duroy Hotel during a security raid on Wednesday evening, and died in the blast. Another man was wounded and was being

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Blast In Beirut Kills Five

As civil war in Syria increasingly spills over the border, sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shiites run high in Lebanon.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

BEIRUT (AP) — An explosion tore through a crowded commercial street Thursday in a south Beirut neighborhood that is bastion of support for the Shiite group Hezbollah, killing at least five people, setting cars ablaze and sending a column of black smoke above the Beirut skyline. It was the latest in a wave of attacks to hit Lebanon in recent

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