Aiming to Isolate Hezbollah, US Unleashes Sanctions on Ravaged Lebanon

Published: Sept. 9, 2020, 8 p.m.

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Laith Marouf, an award-winning multimedia producer as well as a media policy and law consultant with the Community Media Advocacy Centre, to talk about the new economic sanctions unleashed by the US on former Lebanese ministers, how so-called "targeted sanctions" punish the public, and why broader attempts by imperialist powers to exploit the post-explosion chaos to isolate Hezbollah from its base and its allies seem likely to fail.