Democracy Now! - interviews about Lebanon

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Great interviews -

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/17/1423250

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AMY GOODMAN: We’re joined on the phone by As’ad AbuKhalil, a Lebanese professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus, visiting professor at UC Berkeley. He runs a blog called the “Angry Arab News Service.” He recently returned to the United States from a month-long trip to Lebanon. In our studio in New York, we’re joined by journalist and author, Chris Hedges, former Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times, senior fellow at the Nation Institute, author of War Is a Force Which Gives Us Meaning, among other books.

But first we go to Northern Lebanon to speak with Rania Masri, assistant professor in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Balamand in Lebanon, assistant director of the Institute for Environmental Studies at that university. Welcome to Democracy Now!, Rania Masri.

RANIA MASRI: Pleasure to be with you, Amy.

AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about what is happening in Lebanon right now, and particularly in your area?

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1. "this is a war on the entire civilian population of Lebanon"

Both Rania Masri and As’ad AbuKhalil make this point, which I haven't heard on any MSM news source.