The International Dictatorship of the United States,
Its Friends (Amnesty International, ISIS and the Nusra Front) and
Enemies (Hassan Nasrallah, Cuba and Ana Montes)
October 25, 2015By Stephen Gowans
In a speech delivered in the southern suburbs of Beirut on October
23, 2015, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, a resistance
organization rooted in Lebanon’s Shia community, presented a
description of US imperialism that largely comports with that of secular
leftwing anti-imperialists in the West.
Hezbollah was established in the early 1980s to end Israel’s
occupation of Lebanon. With Israel’s withdrawal in 2000, and a
subsequent Israeli incursion in 2006 repulsed by Hezbollah fighters, the
resistance organization remains on the qui vive against future
Israeli aggressions. It is now assisting the Syrian Arab Army in its
death struggle against extreme sectarian Sunni Islamists, among them
ISIS and Jabhat al Nusra. These al-Qaeda offshoots pose an existential
threat to the Shia community in Lebanon, explaining why Hezbollah has
chosen to enter the conflict.
Nasrallah: US foreign policy is driven by the owners of oil and weapons companies, not by human rights organizations.
