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1 month

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Lara Bitar

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1 month

The US travel advisory for Gaza: - Draft a will and designate appropriate insurance beneficiaries - Leave DNA samples with your medical provider The US inadvertently admits that every single person in Gaza is a target for the Israeli war machine & that there are no safe zones.

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11 months

Palestinians have been saying -- for decades -- that today's historic resistance is inevitable in the face of a brutal settler-colonial ethno-state, but "analysts" & "observers" of the region are now in shock. They even dare to publicly proclaim: "we never saw this coming."

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4 years

AFP video of the violence protesters were subjected to during yesterday's protest. Security forces used excessive tear gas, rubber-coated bullets and birdshot pellets as French President Macron gave the Lebanese oligarchs a new lifeline and ushered in a new mandate over Lebanon.

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22 days

Our children in Lebanon and across Palestine deserve better than this life of constant terror they're subjected to by the terrorist Israeli army.

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22 days

Breaking Two loud sonic booms heard across Beirut as Israeli jets broke sound barrier. I captured the second one. Children were playing in the school’s playground. You can hear them screaming… We had a few days of calm in Beirut but it seems it started again.

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5 years

"The house of the people" will host you for free for as long as you'd like. Bfast and morning yoga provided. Location : Ring Bridge. #إضراب_عام #لبنان_ينتفض

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4 years

Outsized and ridiculous poster of Lebanese President Aoun in Badaro ripped by protesters in Lebanon. #سبت_الإنتقام #سبت_الغضب

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8 years

"Comrades, do get into your heads, this 'lesser evil' ... Will very soon mean having to stomach the Nazis." -- Bertolt Brecht

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@LaraJBitar

3 months

Nothing surprising about The Telegraph manufacturing consent for a strike on the Beirut airport. If there's a decision to expand the war, most Western outlets will follow suit. But shame on local media, like LBC & MTV, for engaging in psychological warfare against their own.

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@LaraJBitar

1 month

Does anyone remember the relentless buzzing of Israeli drones during the Covid-19 lockdowns? Pretty short-sighted to claim this started on Oct 8 & by Hezbollah. How about the 22,355 times Israel violated Lebanese airspace btw 2007 & 2022? Occupying our skies for 8.5 years.

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5 years

In Martyrs Square at 6 pm: Free Christmas dinner will be served to 1,000 people. Usually this time of year, the only activity that takes place here is families snapping pictures by the expensive tree. Most can't afford to eat in downtown Beirut (not my video). #LebanonProtests

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4 years

The barely alive 85-year-old Lebanese president is now struggling to read a pointless statement prepared for him. Mr. Poet was advised by his PR team to use the Lebanese dialect to appear more relatable. Rescuers are still looking for bodies and the missing. Boggles the mind.

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

What a brilliant idea to subject a traumatized population reeling from a massive explosion and living in a country whose airspace is regularly violated to a military show rn. Thank you for the terrifying sounds, extra pollution & for reviving war-related PTSD. Vive la France!

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4 years

In front of the Consulate of Kenya in Badaro now as domestic workers demand the right to go home. This comes after @tamaraqiblawi 's report on systematic abuse by Lebanese consulate employees. The women are now chanting, "haramiyeh." #AbolishKafala #Lebanon

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

Lebanon in just 24 hours: - Fires raging across the country from north to south. - Diesel tank explosion kills 4 in Tariq el-Jdideh last night. - Gas canister explosion kills 1 in Achrafiyeh this morning. No conspiracy, just the Lebanese state collapsing before our very eyes.

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4 years

The investigative journalist who's been exposing corruption at the Port of Beirut for years is saying, "Corruption at the Customs has literally exploded among the Lebanese." Al-Jadeed reporting the highly explosive ammonium nitrate's been there since 2014.

riad kobaissi

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يمكننا القول ان فساد الجمارك انفجر باللبنانيين !! كل المؤشرات تقول ان ما حصل هو نتيجة تراكم من الإهمال والفساد (رواية نيترات الأمونيا المخزن). حرفيا فساد الجمارك انفجر باللبنانيين !!

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4 years

Lebanon, just this past year: - June 2020: Antoine Dagher, head of ethics and fraud risk management at Byblos Bank, found killed in a parking lot. - September 2020: Activist Abed Abbas found dead two days after his disappearance.

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@LaraJBitar

3 years

we're fucked.

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3 years

World leaders toss a coin at Trevi for good luck fighting the climate emergency

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7 years

@pogform White Night riots, San Francisco, 1979: In reaction to the lenient sentence ex-cop Dan White got after killing Harvey Milk.

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@LaraJBitar

5 years

"We want to dance and we want to sing and we want to topple the regime." #LebanonProtests #لبنان_ينتفض

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

1 month

Over the past 10 months, Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for its operations, recognized its martyrs & explained its strategic calculations. Israel's circulated jaw-dropping & insane lie after lie, 100s of them. If you believe the latter over the former: you're a Zionist.

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@LaraJBitar

5 years

Good morning day 12 of the #LebaneseRevolution , it's 5:30 am at the Ring bridge.

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

4 years

After 30 yrs, my mom decided to (temporarily or not, who knows) close her women's clothing store. It's a fixture of our neighborhood that has weathered many storms. This place is a hub: ard 70% visitors & 30% customers. I'm heartbroken at the daily loses we're all experiencing.

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

This was our childhood and now that of our children. The culprits are one and the same, regardless of the explosion's cause. It's time to turn the page on this dark history. Time for justice has come and we should seize it.

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

This was not your run of the mill explosion. Its environmental, health, financial, and other repercussions will be endured by all of us for years to come. This is Beirut today. Trending is a call to execute Director General of Lebanese Customs Badri Daher. #الاعدام_لبدري_ضاهر

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6 years

Happy #LiberationDay to everyone, but especially to the revolutionary women who fought the Israeli occupation. From Soha Bechara, militant w/ the Communist Party, & Cosette Ibrahim, militant journalist, to the 100s of women tortured in Khiam for their everyday acts of resistance.

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4 years

You can't oppress this rage and power, pigs. Repatriation now! Kenya's Honorary Consul in Lebanon, Sayed Chalouhi & his assistant Kassem Jaber are both accused of sexual assault. Jaber passed by earlier and taunted the women, waiving & smiling that they're sleeping on the street.

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@LaraJBitar

10 months

Israel's downfall is taking down the illusion of Western democracy, rule of law, international law, human rights, etc. Not only is the Zionist state weaker than a spider web, but so is "democracy" across Europe.

Owen Jones

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We are now being told that publishing the public record of how MPs voted on a ceasefire is incitement to violence. This is a profoundly sinister attempt to shut down basic concepts of scrutiny and accountability, and it represents a war on democracy itself.

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4 years

Shamel Roukoz, one of several establishment figures trying to proclaim himself "leader of the revolution," just got kicked out of Martyrs Square by protesters (not my video). #BeirutProtests #كلن_يعني_كلن

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

Pls stop trying to make the balcony clapping & anthem singing happen. Demand instead protective gear, free tests, & full salaries for those at higher risk: -Healthcare workers -Garbage collectors -Supermarket employees -Domestic workers -Deliverymen -Janitors #CoronavirusPandemic

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@LaraJBitar

5 years

Day 7 of #LebanonProtests & 3rd day of general strike: The army is heavily deployed + forcing the re-opening of roads in Nahr el-Kalb (video), Saida, & others. Activists using their bodies as road blocks. Several reportedly injured. ISF attacked protesters in Saifi. #لبنان_ينتقض

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

Lebanon "is just weeks away from official hyperinflation... If this does happen, it'll mark the 1st time hyperinflation has ever occurred in the ME & only the 61st time it has happened in history." Meanwhile, political parties are fighting over credit for their "accomplishments."

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3 years

New rule: Every time someone says "خلي القضاء يأخذ مجراه" you can immediately punch them in the face. no questions asked.

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4 years

Volunteers, many tied to Oct17, who've been cleaning sites around Beirut all day are livid at Hariri's visit. One says, "don't you dare dream of it [returning to power] again." Woman gets attacked for hitting a car of his provocative convoy that signals only we r allowed safety.

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4 years

Spent the last couple of days in Mar Mikhayel, but always on the sidelines or on nearby rooftops. When I got near, I put my phone on airplane mode & kept quiet. I won't be going to the site anymore bc I'm disgusted by how journalists have been eying a scoop from under the rubble.

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@LaraJBitar

11 months

From Ramallah to Beirut, our streets are boiling with rage. This shall not pass.

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

In Beirut just now: It felt like it was an earthquake for a few seconds then something big exploded. Not sure what it is yet.

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@LaraJBitar

9 years

Out next week, Hillary Clinton's "I'm sorry" - a memoir.

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@LaraJBitar

5 years

Protesters headed near Safadi's house in Clemenceau, Beirut to mark their objection to his potential designation as next PM, calling him out "come down you thief ... Al-Zeitouna belongs to us... You are one of them." #محمد_الصفدي #القوة_للناس #لبنان_يثور

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4 years

Up to 300,000 people have been made homeless by the #Beirut_Explosion . Volunteers were setting up a donation station when Hariri thugs attacked them & destroyed the tent. Even during a national tragedy, the political system in Lebanon proves how repulsive and irredeemable it is.

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@LaraJBitar

8 months

The only thing that's clear so far is that collaborators roaming freely among us are posing an ever-growing threat to Lebanon and must be dealt with much more severely.

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

The militarization of public health on full display tonight in Tripoli, Lebanon.

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8 years

"Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance" is now free to download this month @AKPressDistro #antifa

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3 years

One of my fav wall scribbles from 2019. #عيد_العمال

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@LaraJBitar

3 years

Good reminder: - Not to film people's faces (if you do, blur before uploading) - Wear plain, preferably black, unidentifiable clothes (w/o any branding) - Cover your face, neck and any visible tattoos on your body - Move in packs to make it more difficult for them to snatch you

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10 years

In a truly shocking turn of events, #myNYPD backfires on @NYPDnews http://t.co/tX9ycNdLOT

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@LaraJBitar

5 years

"'Fag' is not an insult. 'My pussy' is not an insult. 'Female' is not an insult." A necessary intervention by leftists in the midst of a mass of people chanting all day about fucking so and so's mothers and sisters. #LebanonProtests #Beirut

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@LaraJBitar

5 years

Demonstrators very angry and agitated after shots were fired earlier at them in Beirut, chanting "the people demand the downfall of the regime." March now roving, cops in riot gear playing catch up.

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@LaraJBitar

5 years

The Lebanese street is quite literally on fire with material retrieved from upcoming real estate development in the despised downtown Beirut. Number of demonstrators keeps growing, sentiment is now unfettered rage. #لبنان_ينتفض

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5 years

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The Public Source

In-depth and uncompromising independent journalism in the public interest.

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@LaraJBitar

5 years

At the Philippines embassy in Baabda, mostly women migrant workers are demanding to return home. Most protesting are employed in restaurants, massage parlors, & nail salons and are getting paid in Lebanese liras so loosing a significant amount of their pay at exchange bureaus.

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5 years

Who is funding the #LebaneseProtests ? In response to unfounded conspiracy theories, activists provide an answer: #انا_ممول_الثورة #لبنان_ينتفض

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@LaraJBitar

5 years

Counter-view: Gebran Bassil should not be cancelled from Davos. Davos should be cancelled.

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@LaraJBitar

5 years

If you can't join the revolution, be the revolution wherever you are. Physicians at Roum hospital earlier today, a scene that is repeating itself in offices, government administrations, and public spaces all over the country. #ثورة_لبنان #لبنان_ينتقض

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5 years

On day 13 of #LebanonProtests , organizers insist there can be no retreat now. "If we retreat, we get stuck ... We get hungry ... We get sick ... We get burned." General Strike ongoing, banks to remain closed for 10th consecutive day. #لبنان_يتنفض #مقطوعة #قطاع_الطرق

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4 years

This is how security forces attacked volunteers who objected to Hariri's theatrics in downtown Beirut a little earlier. This is not a day for national unity with a murderous ruling class. This is a day for national vengance. #Beirut_Explosion #انفجار_المرفأ

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

Slim's murder today does not signal a "return to the era of assassinations." It marks yet another chapter of the continuous impunity of the powerful & connected. 204 people, after all, were slaughtered on August 4, 2020, and it's looking unlikely anyone will be held to account.

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4 years

Beirut a little earlier today, explosion so massive it was felt and caused significant damage outside the city.

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5 years

*Woman crying from exasperation at her bank. Smart expert: Look at her weaponizing her tears agst those poor bank employees Smarter expert: She's an idiot. If she read me she would've known her money is not there Da smartest: Someone explain to her she needs to go cry at BDL

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4 years

50 killed, so far. Fifty people have been murdered by their own state, so a few former warlords, now government officials, can line their pockets.

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@LaraJBitar

3 years

UN report on Lebanon: - 78% of the population is estimated to be in poverty. An estimated 36% of the Lebanese population is facing extreme poverty (March 2021 figures). - 89% of Syrian refugee families live in extreme poverty, increasing from 55% only a year before.

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11 months

The journalist community in Beirut is mourning tonight the painful loss of Issam Abdallah, cowardly targeted by Israeli occupation forces along the Lebanon border. He was martyred for practicing journalism. RIP Issam 💔

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

"النظام يريد اسقاط الشعب"

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

In about an hour, one week after the #BeirutExplosion , #LebanonProtests expected to have toppled two Cabinets in under a year. Protesters are already gathering near Parliament, demanding it be dissolved ad well and the president's resignation.

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8 years

2,000 feminists reclaimed the streets of Beirut today for #IWD2017 under, "our fronts are many, our struggle one." #IWDMarch #مسيرة_النساء

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

Confirmed. Medicine, some for cancer patients, that expired 15 years ago was found at the Port of Beirut. Hard to tally the number of crimes uncovered daily. The expired medecine scandal is a recurring one and no one is ever held accountable. #Lebanon

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

1 year

Thank you to everyone who has expressed their support! Your solidarity means a lot in light of everything going on in this country. <3 Other than showing up on Thursday (if you can), it'd be great if folks read and shared the article in question.

مصدر عام | The Public Source

@ThePublicSource

1 year

On Friday, March 31, the Cybercrime Bureau, on behalf of the Lebanese Forces, summoned our editor-in-chief, Lara Bitar, to appear for interrogation.

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@LaraJBitar

7 years

Hariri looks exhausted, almost teared up before the break, and is trying very hard to sound convincing (but isn't). #تحت_الضغط

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@LaraJBitar

3 years

Most major events (such as today's) that've taken place over the past 2 yrs in Lebanon have led to a state of collective disorientation that prevents most of us from having political clarity. The noise was so intense today that I found it more debilitating than the sound of RPGs.

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4 years

Gemayzeh, famous for its nightlife but also for the hardship its senior residents have had to endure bc of unregulated bars, noise pollution, and crowds overtaking their streets, was hit hard by the Beirut Port explosion. The homes of some of these residents are now destroyed.

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4 years

What if... What if... Instead of mourning Bristol's demise, we turn it into an autonomous social center that serves its community rather than wealthy visitors. What if we turned every other bank in Hamra into a public library, free health clinic, arts and recreational centers...

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Today, the iconic hotel, Le Bristol (built in 1951) announced it is closing down - losing over a 200 jobs. The lockdown is really the nail in the coffin after Lebanon’s currency-debt-banking crisis began last year

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Just two minutes before Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah is set to give an address, Israeli warplanes break the sound barrier over Beirut, causing the most intense and prolonged sonic booms (over Beirut) since October 7. (Not my videos)

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

President of the Lebanese Farmers Association Antoine Hwayek warns of a farmers' revolt. (1/2)

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

By participating in this sham meeting, local and international organizations gave legitimacy to a system that cages, enslaves, and kills migrant workers. Should've refused to participate w/o the represensation of the Domestic Workers Union in Lebanon at the head of the table.

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@lamiayammine

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ورشة عمل اليوم في الوزارة حول #عقد_العمل_الموحد للعاملات في الخدمة المنزلية ضمن مبادرة #إصلاح_نظام_الكفالة بمشاركة فريق من منظمة العمل الدولية، منظمة العفو الدولية، كاريتاس، منظمة كفى وهيومن رايتس ووتش. #وزارة_العمل @hrw @iloarabstates @AmnestyAR @Caritaslb @KAFALebanon

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

Lebanon's interior minister, the little thug Fehmi, says he doesn't know why the explosive material was there & refers the question to the Customs. Several dead, 100s injured, and a city reeling from immeasurable loses on all fronts is also subjected to the horrors of this gvt.

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

A theory is floating around that the explosion at the Port of Beirut was caused by fireworks. Whatever it is, whether a bombing or an attack or an error, it's now high time to unleash all of our rage & power against this criminal ruling class that thinks our lives are worthless.

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@LaraJBitar

3 years

Hamra St., 1 am.

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Timour Azhari

@timourazhari

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#Lebanon President Michel Aoun to Paris Match: “I do not regret being president at all.” He says some wish he wasn’t president while others “trust me and my determination to work to save the country.” “I have never escaped from responsibility. Rather, I bear it to the end.”

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

Everything seems to indicate criminal negligence caused the #Beirut_Explosion . Port GM Hassan Koraytem knew the material was dangerous but "not to this degree." Customs DG Badri Daher wanted to make $$$ by selling it. PM Hassan Diab informed of the material when he took office.

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4 years

They reinforced the gates of EDL in Gemayzeh today, which can only mean even longer power shortages are upon us. The logic of state security will soon gift us metal gates at bakeries and pharmacies.

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4 years

A lot of this kind of garbage is floating around. Not only is it journalistic malpractice, it also erases what we think happened and puts us in even more danger. Ignore it.

AHMED | أحمد

@ASE

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Lebanese security official announces that "explosive material" was stored in a warehouse in Beirut's port (a very heavily populated area). Israel has long accused Hezbollah of storing explosive weapons in downtown Beirut. At least 15 people killed and hundreds more injured.

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10 months

Every Arab leader's head on a stick, starting with Sisi and Abbas and ending with the Lebanese Zionists among us.

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@LaraJBitar

5 years

Good morning day 4 of #LebanonProtests . Props to Al-Jadeed reporter @Halima_Tabiaa who successfully de-arrested a young man live on air with the help of others. Seems there's zero patience for the thuggish behavior of security forces today. #Beirut

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4 months

Students at several universities across Lebanon (incl. LU, AUB, LAU, BAU, Haigazian & USJ) will start mobilizing starting tomorrow in support of Gaza & Palestine and to pressure their uni. administrations to abide by the global call to BDS the Zionist settler-colonial regime.

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@LaraJBitar

5 years

[Throwback] Friday, October 18, 2019. Beirut, Lebanon. #LebanonProtests

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@LaraJBitar

2 years

After over 3 years of hustling to get a pesky little paper signed, @ThePublicSource has finally gained legal status! We're now looking to form an advisory board that can help us advance our public interest journalism and reach a wider readership.

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@LaraJBitar

4 years

Things security forces have done: - Harass Syrian men cleaning the streets - Sexually harass women cleaning the streets - Film ppl cleaning the streets - Set up checkpoints to intimidate ppl cleaning the streets Not done: Clean the streets #BeirutBlast

Lina Mounzer

@warghetti

4 years

Authorities sending ISF intelligence forces to devastated areas (SIX days after explosion) w/ brooms & cameras to make promotional video showing them cleaning up after they've done NOTHING & left civilians to pull bodies out of the rubble. Scum. #Beirut #BeirutExplosion

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5 years

Day 28 of #LebanonProtests starts by honoring Alaa Abou Fakher who liberated himself from sectarian and political IDs to join a rightful revolt for "education, bread, & freedom." Day of mourning and vows to continue the path in his memory. #لبنان_ينتفض #علاء_ابو_فخر

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@LaraJBitar

5 years

Not even the dead can rest in Lebanon. This video of a collapsing cemetery in Sodeco, Beirut is making the rounds right now. #لبنان_يغرق

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

5 years

Spatial configuration of protest sites in Beirut neatly explained with new signs. It's more complicated, but "protest" leads to Riad el-Solh, "discussion" to Azariyeh, direction to block the Ring Bridge, and "chant" leads to Martyrs Square. #LebaneseRevolution #لبنان_يثور

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

4 years

"The Resistance" in Lebanon, with a capital R, came out today in fierce defense of a loan from dee World Bank. That's it. That's the tweet. #سد_بسري_لن_يمر

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

3 years

"Why don't you revolt?" is a really stupid question and obv asked by people who don't even have the skills to organize a spice rack.

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

4 years

Dramatic plot twist: You have no windows.

Lina Daouk-Öyry

@LinaDaoukOyry

4 years

Dilemma in #Beirut at the moment: Do I open my window in case of explosion or do I close my window to save myself from the toxicity of the smoke?? This level of incompetence is just UNACCEPTABLE @najat_saliba @CarmenGeha @JEK_Psych @Ckaram12 @fadikhatib15 #مرفأ_بيروت

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

4 years

The United States stands ready to starve the Lebanese people and wage economic warfare on them during one of the worst economic crisis the country has witnessed, so long as it manages to neutralize Hezbollah.

U.S. Embassy Beirut

@usembassybeirut

4 years

The United States stands ready and will continue to help the Lebanese people as the government takes the necessary steps to address the underlying causes.

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

3 years

Banin Assoc tried to withdraw donations it received for 5 urgent cases from Lebanese Swiss Bank & got nowhere. Tried through the judiciary. Nothing. Today, it stormed the bank, dropped a banner "thief of poor ppl's money" & got $180,000 transferred. Direct action gets the goods.

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

4 years

Some thoughts on Nasrallah's speech. More later...

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

5 years

This outlines exactly what I'm attempting to do in Beirut: radicalize your peers and establish worker-owned independent media organizations.

Kim Kelly

@GrimKim

5 years

My first piece for @commune_mag is, put simply, a call for digital media workers to size the means of production. We’ve been dreaming about it for long enough as parasitic bosses have bled us dry. Worker-owned media cooperatives now ✏️

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

4 years

How do we know when it's time to stop greeting each other with "hamdellah al-salemeh?" #BeirutBlast

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

3 years

Lebanon's political class has seemingly selected its next PM-designate whose qualifications don't extend beyond being a Sunni & a masterful crook who has amassed great wealth at our expense. Not a word on his political program, reforms he'll enact, etc. Even darker days ahead.

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

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Hezbollah's highly anticipated retaliation against the Israeli occupation over the assassination of top commander Fuad Shukr has started. In a statement, the party said the operation will take some time. #Lebanon

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Lara Bitar

@LaraJBitar

4 years

- December 2020: Retired customs officer Munir Abu Rjeili found dead in his apartment. - December 2020: Photographer Joseph Bejjani killed in broad daylight in front of his house. And today, political commentator Lokman Slim was found killed in his car.

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