The reports through Western presses read rather familiarly. Joyful residents taking selfies on abandoned, sullen tanks. Armed men ebullient and shooting into the sky with adventurist stupidity. The removal of statues and vulgar reminders of a regime. Prisoners freed; torture prisons emptied. The tyrant, deposed.
Published on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 by Common Dreams
“This is in response to the will and demand of the thousands of Lebanese demanding change,” Saad Hariri said in a televised address.
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Jake Johnson, staff writer