Friday, October 21, 2016
How to abolish the sectarian system in Lebanon
How to abolish the sectarian system in Lebanon: Interesting that you think I have answers to what was the Parliament doing over the past 26 years, or even think that I ever voted for the esteez....
Monday, October 17, 2016
Sunday, October 16, 2016
[Berri adjourns parliament session till 31 Oct] Lebanese Presidential elections
From 1988-1990 Aoun appointed himself President illegitimately and illegally. Constitutionally, he was to lead a transitional government for the duration of six months to facilitate the elections of the President. He decided to lead a military governed state and assumed that he owns the Lebanese Army. He decided the fate of the Lebanese people when he was not elected. This was not the mandate. This may tell a little about the institutional values he is promoting. Corruption is what this is.
Then, he decides to wage a war against the world with the Lebanese Army, starting with the Syrian Army. Syria was backed by the United States at these times. He was leading a lost war against the Syrians for certain. He still did it. This is the indication of poor calculation, and poor judgement, especially at the level of the human loss associated with his violent decisions.
Yesterday, I watched on Al-Manar TV station coverage of the commemoration of his departure, from Baabda. I also saw the clips and messages framing the event around the martyrdom of Hezbollah fighters dying in Syria on Al Manar شهدائنا ماتو دفاعاً عن لبنان. Interesting.
I also saw the commemoration of a few operations against Israel in Nabatieyh and the Security Zone on October 13, 1990, prior to FPM event.
Then came Aoun, I listened to him reading from papers he did not rehearse reading. Meaning, this speech was the last thing on his mind.
Making a call across the country and arranging transport from Beca lal Hermel w men Trablous lal el jnoub, and having hundreds in the audience, is an absolute demonstration of his lack of popularity.
Thousands and tens of thousands are the numbers that would say, the "Lebanese" people want him, or his Mithaq, or his violence towards his own civilian nation and his own religious enemies.
He is taking the country hostage when,
[Berri adjourns parliament session till 31 Oct] Lebanese Presidential elections: 18:24 حرب: تمنياتي ألا تتعارض الحلول التي نسير باتجاهها مع المبادىء التي نؤمن بها وان تعارضت سأتخذ الموقف الذي تعودت اتخاذه حتى ولو كنت وحيدا
Then, he decides to wage a war against the world with the Lebanese Army, starting with the Syrian Army. Syria was backed by the United States at these times. He was leading a lost war against the Syrians for certain. He still did it. This is the indication of poor calculation, and poor judgement, especially at the level of the human loss associated with his violent decisions.
Yesterday, I watched on Al-Manar TV station coverage of the commemoration of his departure, from Baabda. I also saw the clips and messages framing the event around the martyrdom of Hezbollah fighters dying in Syria on Al Manar شهدائنا ماتو دفاعاً عن لبنان. Interesting.
I also saw the commemoration of a few operations against Israel in Nabatieyh and the Security Zone on October 13, 1990, prior to FPM event.
Then came Aoun, I listened to him reading from papers he did not rehearse reading. Meaning, this speech was the last thing on his mind.
Making a call across the country and arranging transport from Beca lal Hermel w men Trablous lal el jnoub, and having hundreds in the audience, is an absolute demonstration of his lack of popularity.
Thousands and tens of thousands are the numbers that would say, the "Lebanese" people want him, or his Mithaq, or his violence towards his own civilian nation and his own religious enemies.
He is taking the country hostage when,
- he refuses to resign from the parliament, but he considers the Parliament illegitimate.
- He recognizes the parliament legitimate the moment he manages to enforce a vote to his advantage.
- He is in parliament and he refuses to go and vote for the next President, because he knows he is going to lose.and,
- Because he lacks institutional legitimacy he goes to the street o demonstrate a show of muscle.
Friday, October 14, 2016
Oct 13, 1990 - Oct 13, 2016 commemoration
Oct 13, 1990 - Oct 13, 2016 commemoration: لسفير الفرنسي السابق يروي تفاصيل عملية اسقاط العماد عون عام 1990
السبت 08 تشرين الأول 2016 - 04:47
للمرة الأولى، تناول السفير الفرنسي السابق في لبنان...
السبت 08 تشرين الأول 2016 - 04:47
للمرة الأولى، تناول السفير الفرنسي السابق في لبنان...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Sovereignty, State Legitimacy and the Nation State: The Case of Lebanon
By Abir A. Chaaban
This study addresses is the problem of the legitimacy of sovereignty within the international institutional legal system being a problem associated with the conceptual structure of sovereignty in the system. Working with Foucault, I conduct a micro analysis of relations of force around institutional transformations as effects of power. I scrutinize the function of discourse as a mechanism of popular recruitment and mobilization into conflict. The aim of this historical comparative analysis is to pinpoint tension by the antagonism employed in discourses of resistance taking the case of Lebanon and the historical cases of the English and the French Revolutions. I ask the question how the power of resistance consequently leads to a radical change in the normative institutional rules of recognition of the legitimacy sovereignty. This study was the primary research for a documentary video on the Lebanese civil conflict. The documentary is titled: Her Journey in the Cave: My Memory of the Past Part I." The documentary was previewed at the Lebanese American University, January 2014 as part of an event with the aim of creating awareness about peace education to Lebanese educators.
This study addresses is the problem of the legitimacy of sovereignty within the international institutional legal system being a problem associated with the conceptual structure of sovereignty in the system. Working with Foucault, I conduct a micro analysis of relations of force around institutional transformations as effects of power. I scrutinize the function of discourse as a mechanism of popular recruitment and mobilization into conflict. The aim of this historical comparative analysis is to pinpoint tension by the antagonism employed in discourses of resistance taking the case of Lebanon and the historical cases of the English and the French Revolutions. I ask the question how the power of resistance consequently leads to a radical change in the normative institutional rules of recognition of the legitimacy sovereignty. This study was the primary research for a documentary video on the Lebanese civil conflict. The documentary is titled: Her Journey in the Cave: My Memory of the Past Part I." The documentary was previewed at the Lebanese American University, January 2014 as part of an event with the aim of creating awareness about peace education to Lebanese educators.
Sovereignty, State Legitimacy and the Nation State: The Case of Lebanon
By Abir A. Chaaban
This study addresses is the problem of the legitimacy of sovereignty within the international institutional legal system being a problem associated with the conceptual structure of sovereignty in the system. Working with Foucault, I conduct a micro analysis of relations of force around institutional transformations as effects of power. I scrutinize the function of discourse as a mechanism of popular recruitment and mobilization into conflict. The aim of this historical comparative analysis is to pinpoint tension by the antagonism employed in discourses of resistance taking the case of Lebanon and the historical cases of the English and the French Revolutions. I ask the question how the power of resistance consequently leads to a radical change in the normative institutional rules of recognition of the legitimacy sovereignty. This study was the primary research for a documentary video on the Lebanese civil conflict. The documentary is titled: Her Journey in the Cave: My Memory of the Past Part I." The documentary was previewed at the Lebanese American University, January 2014 as part of an event with the aim of creating awareness about peace education to Lebanese educators.
This study addresses is the problem of the legitimacy of sovereignty within the international institutional legal system being a problem associated with the conceptual structure of sovereignty in the system. Working with Foucault, I conduct a micro analysis of relations of force around institutional transformations as effects of power. I scrutinize the function of discourse as a mechanism of popular recruitment and mobilization into conflict. The aim of this historical comparative analysis is to pinpoint tension by the antagonism employed in discourses of resistance taking the case of Lebanon and the historical cases of the English and the French Revolutions. I ask the question how the power of resistance consequently leads to a radical change in the normative institutional rules of recognition of the legitimacy sovereignty. This study was the primary research for a documentary video on the Lebanese civil conflict. The documentary is titled: Her Journey in the Cave: My Memory of the Past Part I." The documentary was previewed at the Lebanese American University, January 2014 as part of an event with the aim of creating awareness about peace education to Lebanese educators.
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Discourses of Revolution- The Model from Below
Thinking about discourses around encounters of power as they communicate statements of opposition. I decided to use this space to document my observation of discourses of change in the Orange Room dialogue on political change and revolution. This discussion emerged out of an online debate with Assaad Thebian Activist with +You Stink
"Unfortunately a complete collapse of the system will not result in a secular republic. Secularism needs an intellectual backbone. The collapse you are talking about will be lead by the antithesis of secularism -- the Islamists. Because they are the only ones powerful enough to impose their own will unto others."
@Mighty Goat
Marcus Rediker in Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail, tells us some thing of interest about communication relations around the American Revolution.
The Motley Crew is a multi-ethnic model of resistance. It had the capacity to transmit the message of resistance through the oral narrations of the sailors spreading the message of violent resistance, consequently leading to the American Revolution.
In this example there is no separation between the Motley Crew and the Intellectuals, and while the force of mobilization base is the Motley Crew, what mobilized the media relations and the communication legitimating the the use of violence were the intellectuals. It was the intellectuals, and journalists then traveling through the ships, talking to sailors and passing such knowledge to Europe that played a fundamental role in the consequent European national revolutions.
In this example there is no generalized type of equilibrium between the finalized activity of the American Revolution, the relations between the Motley Crew and the capitalist, and transmission of the message of resistance from sailors to intellectuals and journalists.
The Motley Crew-Intellectuals model established itself in relation to the material operations and conditions surrounding the circulation of power around the revolutionary model being formed. Impressment was the rule contested violently by the Motley Crew.
In the case of Lebanon a revolutionary model is establishing its own dynamics. In my opinion such a model cannot be engineered from above. The model is being formed from below by the forces of resistance that would mobilize it to redirect power against the force of oppression caused by the National Pact. This model is forming while there is something called the Syrian conflict or probably because of the Syrian conflict.
As to whether one may predict how would this model mobilize and what outcome may come out of it, I doubt that this is as simple as Islamists would take over Lebanon just like that.
"Unfortunately a complete collapse of the system will not result in a secular republic. Secularism needs an intellectual backbone. The collapse you are talking about will be lead by the antithesis of secularism -- the Islamists. Because they are the only ones powerful enough to impose their own will unto others."
@Mighty Goat
Marcus Rediker in Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail, tells us some thing of interest about communication relations around the American Revolution.
The Motley Crew is a multi-ethnic model of resistance. It had the capacity to transmit the message of resistance through the oral narrations of the sailors spreading the message of violent resistance, consequently leading to the American Revolution.
In this example there is no separation between the Motley Crew and the Intellectuals, and while the force of mobilization base is the Motley Crew, what mobilized the media relations and the communication legitimating the the use of violence were the intellectuals. It was the intellectuals, and journalists then traveling through the ships, talking to sailors and passing such knowledge to Europe that played a fundamental role in the consequent European national revolutions.
In this example there is no generalized type of equilibrium between the finalized activity of the American Revolution, the relations between the Motley Crew and the capitalist, and transmission of the message of resistance from sailors to intellectuals and journalists.
The Motley Crew-Intellectuals model established itself in relation to the material operations and conditions surrounding the circulation of power around the revolutionary model being formed. Impressment was the rule contested violently by the Motley Crew.
In the case of Lebanon a revolutionary model is establishing its own dynamics. In my opinion such a model cannot be engineered from above. The model is being formed from below by the forces of resistance that would mobilize it to redirect power against the force of oppression caused by the National Pact. This model is forming while there is something called the Syrian conflict or probably because of the Syrian conflict.
As to whether one may predict how would this model mobilize and what outcome may come out of it, I doubt that this is as simple as Islamists would take over Lebanon just like that.
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
رسالة ألى السيد حسن نصرالله
رسالة ألى السيد حسن نصرالله: Discuss anything related to Lebanon, Lebanese Politics, Breaking News and Live Updates on Major Events related to Lebanon
Monday, August 29, 2016
The Terrorist in Kristeva's Abject and Foucault's Antagonism Strategies 2016
Abstract:
This paper explores Julia Kristeva’s discourse of the abject through the lens of Foucault’s antagonism strategies being a way of analysis of government techniques and processes of government of the population domestically, and mobilization into war internationally within the actuality of a world set to function in bio-political mode. The antagonism of strategies is a way of analyzing power relations within society by studying the opposite of the thing one wishes to analyze. The opposite is determined by the binaries defined by the actual conflict pinpointed at the points of contestation and consequently the manifestation of and the proliferation of discourse. So when one speaks of the terrorist one also speaks of government and the law. I compare Foucault’s archeology genealogy and the antagonism of strategies as tools of analysis of terrorism with Julia Kristeva’s semiotic psychoanalysis by taking the notions, of discourse, intertextuality and le langage as central points of comparison.
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Thursday, August 25, 2016
Turkey's Entry into the Syrian Conflict
The Iranian tango with Turkey has produced some unpredictable events with the intrusion of Turkey inside Syria. But I think, it is also the decision of Bashar al Assad that Turkey enters along the side the of the FSA.
Iran, Syria and Turkey seem to have understood something that makes them have one common interest in this region.
They agree that their survival as states is dependent on the survival of their regimes over the territories they call their states. The two regimes that are struggling with their own legitimacy are the Iranian rule of the Wilayat Al-Faqih and the Muslim Brotherhood governing Sunni Turkey and Shi'a Iran.
The Saudis are already weakened. They lost the public of both sects. The Iranian Turkish unity is against ISIS. Saudi was bankrupt in Yemen and stripped in Syria.
The question that Turkey poses to Iran is called Hezbollah. This is why the Lebanese Hezbollah should leave the war because Iran will dispose of the militant proxy.
The regime will not come out of this war to the same position it occupied two years ago. The death toll, the refugee crisis and the human catastrophe means it is time to get a grip of actuality.
Turkey's entry on the side of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) is designed to give the rebels a strong base to negotiate with the regime. Consequently, reducing the negotiating powers of the regime, and equating him with the rebels.
The picture as it is unfolding is making a spectacle of the players in the civil war between the government and the rebels. The government lost its legitimacy but did not collapse.
So far, the government invited the Russian, Hezbollah and Iran on its side. Turkey is creating a balance to the disadvantage of the the survival of the government and in the advantage of maintaining the territorial integrity of Syria.
In all this Hezbollah will not be a party to the negotiations. They are simply not Syrian. The question of Hezbollah would become the central question in any Turkish and Iranian alliance.
Monday, May 30, 2016
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Monday, May 2, 2016
The amazing name Abir: meaning and etymology אביר
The amazing name Abir: meaning and etymology: An indepth look at the meaning and etymology of the awesome name Abir. We'll discuss the original Hebrew, plus the words and names Abir is related to, plus the occurences of this name in the Bible.
Friday, April 29, 2016
Facebook, ISIS, Zionist: What is the relation?
It has been two months since I deactivated my accounts on
Facebook and Twitter. This is after I went through a serious security concern
that was handled with the most unintelligent strategy by Facebook making me
wonder about the intellectual level behind those that read and evaluate posts
on Facebook administration.
I was on Virtual Jerusalem site and I posted something that
offended a Zionist poster, probably from the United States. We all know how vulgar
these people can get and the level of language and intellect they deploy.
Mainly, they try to provoke by some religious thing, picture, image, normally
about Islam, some ISIS pictures demonstrating Islamic brutality, by the vulgar
Jew.
As I was cool and sarcastic about the images the Zionist was
posting, he was becoming furious. He went to my about page. He gathered
information on the internet and then really threatened to send people to get me
and would contact the University to remove me from Canada.
I posted the following:
“Marvin Grossman Great because
now that we are under common ground, then we are under the same law. Thanks for
sharing. You seem not to think that you are in a country governed by laws. You
also seem to assume that your Zionism is superior and you are capable of
intimidating a citizen and telling this citizen that you are calling some
friends to locate where this citizen lives. I find this very un Canadian.”
Consequently, Facebook blocked my account, deleted the post,
and gave me a warning of what I am allowed and not allowed to post on Facebook.
Now this is news.