Proxy Car-Bomb War in Lebanon Follows Iraq Pattern

Spate of Deadly Car Bombings Rock Lebanon

by TRNN

Vijay Prashad: Tensions high in Lebanon as a series of lethal car bombings rock Beirut.

Vijay Prashad is the Edward Said Chair at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of sixteen books, including The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso, 2013), Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (AK, 2012) and (co-edited with Paul Amar) Dispatches from the Arab Spring (2013). He writes regularly for The Hindu, Frontline, Jadaliyya, Counterpunch, Himal and Bol.