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Today, Israel launched a deadly strike on the Beirut suburb of Dahieh.
It did so despite warnings from Iran that Iran would strike northern Israel if Israel bombed Beirut again.
True to its word, the Iranian military just launched a series of missiles strikes on northern Israel. Iran has dubbed this military operation as "True Promise Five".
Dimitri Lascaris is in Beirut, Lebanon today, and reports on what is happening there.
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Reason2Resist - 25 mar 2026
On March 1, an Israel airstrike inflicted severe damage on the Ghandi Hospital in Tehran.
The attack destroyed the Hospital's in-vitro fertilization department along with its equipment, forcing staff to move cells and embryos.
The Hospital appears to have been damaged after Israel's genocidal military struck buildings housing Iranian state television’s Channel 2, only 30 metres from the entrance of the Hospital. World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said reports of damage to the hospital were "extremely worrying".
While in Tehran, Dimitri Lascaris visited what remains of the Hospital and spoke to its Vice-President about efforts to restore the facility to normal functioning.
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Reason2Resist - 30 Jan 2026
Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Laith Marouf, Executive Director of Free Palestine TV, about the ongoing crimes of Western elites in West Asia, and the escalating repression of dissent in the West.
https://www.youtube.com/@TVFreePalestine/videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcLnmCiZ691HyvB6UvZq69A
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Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris – 2 nov 2025
This week, after Donald Trump met with Chinese President Xi Xinping in Busan, South Korea, Trump made his usual extravagant claims about what their meeting had achieved. Yet the Chinese government's account of the meeting raises serious questions about whether the U.S. and Chinese governments resolved any major disputes.
If anything, the available evidence suggests that the Trump regime backed away from its more hostile measures against the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Moscow-based correspondent John Helmer about the the limits of U.S. power over the PRC.
In addition, Dimitri and John discuss whether China and Russia will defend Venezuela's sovereignty in the face of U.S. aggression. They also examine new revelations about Jeffrey Epstein's relationship to the Israeli regime, and the harsh monetary policy of Russia's Central Bank.
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Reason2Resist - 13 oct 2025
Donald Trump insists that Israel's war on Gaza has ended, but can Trump and Netanyahu be trusted to stop their wanton murder and dispossession of Palestinians?
Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Dr. Setareh Sadeqi Mohammadi about the next chapter in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
Dr. Mohammadi is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran. She holds a Ph.D. in North American Studies, and her research focuses on U.S.–Iran relations, sanctions, media narratives, and political communication.
Dimitri and Dr. Mohammadi also discuss the possibility of another Israeli attack on Iran, the U.N.'s snapback sanctions, and the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Trade with the genocidal entity:
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Laith Marouf [50:20 - 59:23]: "Es importante señalar que China se negó a reconocer a la colonia sionista hasta que la OLP firmó los acuerdos de Oslo en 1992. Esto es totalmente diferente del problema con la Unión Soviética, que reconoció la existencia de la colonia sionista incluso antes que Estados Unidos en 1948. Por lo tanto, la historia de China difiere del error cometido por la Unión Soviética, es una historia más cercana al sur y al este, y de apoyo a los movimientos de liberación.
Dicho lo cual, actualmente China es, creo, el segundo socio comercial más importante de la colonia sionista, y la gran mayoría de las armas que esta recibe de países occidentales no se fabricarían sin los componentes electrónicos, metales raros y acero de China, cruciales para estas industrias. Por ejemplo, llevo puesto un micrófono DJI. O sea, adquirimos este equipo DJI al principio del genocidio, pero ahora sabemos que el 90% de los drones cuadricópteros que los sionistas vuelan dentro de Gaza son drones DJI.
Así pues, China podría fácilmente, incluso si no quiere sancionar a nadie, decir: "No les exportaré mis productos ni mis materias primas si venden o envían armas a Israel". Sencillo. Esto tendría drásticas e inmediatas consecuencias. China controla la flota naviera más grande del mundo. Podría prohibir a sus barcos que atraquen en puertos israelíes. China podría cancelar sus proyectos en el puerto de Haifa, el del tren ligero y otros que está construyendo dentro de la colonia sionista. Todas estas son posibles medidas que China podría tomar y que tendrían consecuencias más efectivas que sus palabras en el Consejo de Seguridad o sus pronunciamientos diplomáticos. Así pues, creo que China podría hacer más. Claro que, no está directamente involucrada en el genocidio ni exportando armas para matar palestinos. Pero, como dije antes, muchos de los productos electrónicos que China exporta se están utilizando en el genocidio en Gaza. Aunque eso no es todo. Como China es la segunda, si no la primera, economía más grande del mundo, si dice «no les exportaré mis productos si hacen negocios con los sionistas», lo más probable es que la mayor parte del mundo dejaría de comerciar con la colonia sionista. Especialmente los países más pequeños, sobre todo aquellos que dependen de las exportaciones a China para el funcionamiento de sus economías, como los países del Golfo, si estos no exportan su petróleo y gas a China no tienen nada que hacer. Emiratos Árabes Unidos, por ejemplo, su economía colapsaría si no le vendiera petróleo y gas a China. Y EAU es el principal patrocinador de la economía israelí en la región. China podría decirle a Egipto: «Deja de enviar barcos mercantes desde tus puertos a puertos sionistas o suspenderemos esto o aquello». China tiene mucho peso y está decidiendo no usarlo.
Y os diré algo, y espero que nuestros hermanos y hermanas chinos estén escuchando esto, porque este es el error que cometieron los soviéticos. En primer lugar, esperar que inmerso en guerras eternas con el mundo árabe pueda conducir a Occidente a su colapso y a un resurgir como el de China, como esperaba la Unión Soviética, es una falsa esperanza,. En segundo lugar, es la antítesis del mundo multipolar. Sí, los árabes somos obstinados y lucharemos hasta el último hombre. Pero llevamos 100 años librando esta guerra en nombre de la humanidad del este y del sur. Y se está volviendo agotador. También nos hace sospechar de estas potencias emergentes, si no están dispuestas a aliarse con nosotros, como los estadounidenses lo hacen con sus propios “aliados”, Occidente está dispuesto a sacrificar todos sus recursos, todo su potencial, todas sus armas, todos sus esfuerzos diplomáticos y mediáticos, así como los derechos de sus propios ciudadanos, en el altar del sionismo. Y ni Rusia ni China están dispuestas a darnos ni el 1% de eso. Si Rusia o China, por ejemplo, hubieran situado sus destructores con defensas antiaéreas en las costas del Líbano, ¿bombardearían los israelíes el Líbano a diario? No quieren acudir a salvar Gaza. Vale, pero que al menos que no ataquen también al Líbano. Hagan algo. ¿Dónde están esas acciones que pudiéramos considerar remotamente parecidas a lo que Occidente está haciendo para defender a Israel? Ya sé cuál va a ser la respuesta. Me imagino lo que la gente dirá: "Si ustedes no están dispuestos a defenderse, ¿por qué Rusia o China deberían acudir en su ayuda?". Esto es lo que algunos escribirán en los comentarios. Al parecer, Israel sí puede defenderse sola, cuando todos sabemos con certeza que no habría durado ni una semana, ni una semana desde 1948 si no fuera por el apoyo directo e ilimitado de Occidente. Hoy, si Occidente dejara de apoyar a Israel una semana, Israel dejaría de existir. Pero nuestros, entre comillas, "aliados", Rusia y China, no están dispuestos a permitir que los árabes venzan. Permitidme ir más allá de lo que nadie diría. No están dispuestos a permitir que la liberación árabe acontezca. ¿Por qué? Porque tienen miedo. Si dicha liberación aconteciera, tendría lugar la unificación del pueblo árabe que gobernaría y controlaría el 50 % del petróleo y el gas del mundo, y las rutas de transporte estratégicas más importantes del planeta, y seríamos soberanos. Ese es el motivo por el que nadie quiere, ni China ni Rusia, que el eje de la resistencia ponga fin a la existencia de Israel. Por eso Rusia y China comercian con los saudíes, los emiratíes y los qataríes, y nunca lo hicieron con Siria, atacada por todos ellos. Por eso. Y por eso nosotros, como árabes y musulmanes, incluido Irán, al que no hay que excluir, tendremos que librar estas guerras por nuestra cuenta y depender de nosotros mismos, no porque no merezcamos el apoyo de los chinos o los rusos, sino porque, lamentablemente, la geografía nos dice que siempre estaremos solos porque todos temen nuestra unificación".
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Reason2Resist - 30 ago 2025
This week, Dimitri Lascaris returned to Cyprus to investigate the huge influx of Israeli investors, immigrants and tourists into this island nation.
While travelling from Larnaca to Limassol, Lascaris visited major commercial and residential projects that have been funded by, and cater to, affluent Israelis.
Lascaris argues that the deluge of affluent Israelis into southern Cyprus is altering the very nature of the economy and society of Cyprus, and is undermining the sovereignty of the Cypriot state.
During his visit to Cyprus this week, Lascaris also returned to the British military base situated on the peninsula of Akrotiri. While there, he recorded the departure of British military aircraft to occupied Palestine, as well as the arrival of a British military cargo plane from Saudi Arabia.
This investigative report builds upon an investigative report that Lascaris produced when he visited Cyprus in October 2024. That widely watched report can be found here: • Israelis 'Flooding' Into Cyprus to 'Buy An... .
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Reasen2Resist - 17 jun 2025
Since Israel attacked Iran several days ago, the so-called “mainstream” discourse in the West has been chock full of proclamations that Israel has a “right to defend itself”.
But there have been few (if any) competent analyses of the legality of Israel’s actions.
To examine the legality of Israel's attacks on Iran and Iran's response to those attacks, Dimitri Lascaris speaks with former United Nations human rights lawyer, Craig Mokhiber.
Craig is a specialist in international human rights law, policy, and methodology. On October 28, 2023, three weeks after Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza began, Craig stepped down as the director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, four days before he was due to retire.
In his final letter to High Commissioner Volker Türk, Craig harshly criticized the organization's response to Israel’s war on Gaza, calling Israel's military intervention a "textbook genocide" and accusing the UN of failing to act.
During the interview, Craig referred to a recent article he wrote for Foreign Policy in Focus. That article can be found here:
https://fpif.org/weog-the-uns-settler...
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Reason2Resist - 20 may 2025
Israel's genocidal regime has launched a savage, broad-based assault on Gaza and continues to deprive Gaza's starving civilian population of desperately-needed humanitarian aid.
Meanwhile, Israel's criminal leaders have openly declared their intention to destroy Gaza and 'cleanse' it of Palestinians.
By all appearances, Israel has begun to implement its 'final solution' in the Gaza Strip.
In response to Israel's assault on Gaza, major Western governments have issued unprecedented threats to sanction Israel. In addition, people around the world are escalating their resistance to Israel's genocidal project.
Dimitri Lascaris and Beirut-based, geopolitical analyst Laith Marouf debate where all this is heading. Who will prevail in Gaza? Will it be the resistance, or will it be Israel's genocidal regime?
Lascaris and Marouf also discussed Trump's recent trip to West Asia and the nuclear negotiations between the United States and Iran.
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Free Palestine TV - 10 mar 2025 KFARKELA
Laith Marouf, David Miller and Dimitri Lascaris were the first international journalists to enter Kafarkila (Kfarkila) in south Lebanon right on the borders of occupied Palestine. They witness the deliberate mass destruction of every structure in the village, and the uprooting and looting of the ancient world renowned Kfarkila olive trees, by the satanic Zionist invaders.
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Reason2Resist – 12 feb 2025
After Donald Trump announced his brazen, criminal plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza, prominent Western commentators reacted in ways that revealed their own unconscious racism toward the peoples of the Global South.
Their reactions raise an important question: who, in reality, are the most propagandized people in the world today?
To break all of this down, Dimitri Lascaris spoke with Karim Bettache. Karim is an Assistant Professor for the Faculty of Social Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Reason2Resist - 22 ene 2025
Alon Mizrahi is an Arab Jewish writer and activist who left Israel over the genocide it has perpetrated in Gaza. He now resides in the United States.
On January 21, 2025, Dimitri Lascaris spoke with Alon about his experiences as an Arab Jew in Israel, his abandonment of Zionism, and the future of the 'Jewish state'.
According to Alon, Israel's political elite and society have become so infused with hatred of Arabs, and have enjoyed impunity for so long, that the region cannot achieve a lasting and just peace unless Israel is dismantled.
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Reason2Resist - 3 ene 2025
The EU has fallen into an accelerating decline. Its financialized economy suffers from stagflation, its political elite has become increasingly authoritarian, and its proxy war in Ukraine has become a debacle of epic proportions.
Despite all this, can the European Union be saved?
In a conversation with Dimitri Lascaris, Professor Lapavitsas argues that the EU is irredeemable. To recover and sustain their prosperity, European states must reclaim their national sovereignty, democratize their economies and, under the direction of the state, make the massive investments that are necessary to improve their productivity.
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30 oct 2024 - Richard Sakwa is a Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury and an Honorary Professor in the Faculty of Political Science at Moscow State University.
This week, Professor Sakwa spoke with Dimitri Lascaris about the emergence of a new world order.
According to Professor Sakwa, the wars in Ukraine and West Asia are linked: both are being driven by the West's project of global hegemony.
In both wars, however, the political West is losing badly. As a result, a new world order is emerging in which Western power will be constrained by the power of other states.
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24 sept 2024
Dimitri Lascaris speaks with Ali Abunimah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada, about the extraordinary wave of repression sweeping over the West, and Germany in particular.
In July of this year, German legal authorities issued an order to Abunimah banning him from giving a speech via Zoom to the Palestine Conference in Exile, organized by supporters of Palestinian rights in Germany in late July.
The order threatened Abunimah with fines and up to one year in prison for participating in the conference.
Abunimah defied the order of the German "regime", stating that Germany "never purged itself of deep and pervasive racism."
Lascaris and Abunimah also discussed increasingly aggressive censorship by social media companies, as well as the growing political instability in West Asia.
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24 sept 2024
Last week, Israel killed hundreds and wounded thousands of persons by remotely detonating rigged pagers and walkie talkers in Lebanon. Former CIA Director Leon Panetta condemned the attacks as a "form of terrorism".
In retaliation, Lebanon's Islamic Resistance launched waves of missile attacks on Israel's Ramat David airbase and production facilities of Israel's Rafael Advanced Defence Systems. The Rafael facilities are situated near Haifa, Israel's third-largest city.
These strikes constituted the deepest missile strikes into Israel since the 2006 war between Israel and Lebanon's Islamic Resistance.
On September 23, 2024 (the day after the missile strikes in Israel), Dimitri Lascaris spoke with Beirut-based, geopolitical analyst Laith Marouf about the rapidly escalating war between Israel and the Resistance.
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Dimitri Lascaris – 17/09/2024
On September 17, 2024, in an apparent terrorist attack by Israel, thousands of persons were maimed and killed by exploding pagers in Beirut and other parts of Lebanon.
Dimitri Lascaris spoke withe Beirut-based, geopolitical analyst Laith Marouf about the victims of the attack, the means by which it was perpetrated, and the likely response of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon.
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Dimitri Lascaris - 4 ago 2024
As a potentially decisive war in West Asia looms, Dimitri Lascaris spoke with Lebanon-based, geopolitical analyst Laith Marouf about the causes and consequences of the recent assassinations of resistance leaders in the region.
Marouf argues that this will be a decisive war over control of West Asia's land and resources, that the war is spreading to the streets of Western cities, and that even the Olympic Games have become a theatre of conflict between the Western and non-Western worlds.
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Dimitri Lascaris – 24/07/2024
On July 23, 2024, Dimitri Lascaris spoke with Lebanon-based, war correspondent, Ghadi Francis.
Ghadi has been to conflict zones throughout West Asia, including Gaza, Syria and Yemen.
She and Lascaris have an in-depth discussion about the myriad ways in which Western corporate media mischaracterize and demonize resistance to U.S. and Israeli hegemony in West Asia.
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