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🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Journalist and host of "Dispatches" at Breakthrough News Rania Khalek returns to Bad Faith to give a comprehensive rundown of the history that led to the ousting of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, explain how the West is rehabilitating former al-Qaeda member Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as a moderate, & discuss the implications for Israel's expansionist goals in the region. Stay to the end for Rania's assessment of AOC's failure to win a key committee chair, and what that means about the viability of the left's "inside" strategy.
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0:11.0 | I'm so glad to have returning to Bad Faith podcast, one of my all-time favorite |
0:41.2 | journalist, showrunners, content creators, Rania Kali. |
0:46.1 | You'll see her over a breakthrough news and you'll see her giving amazing commentary |
0:49.9 | on some feisty mainstream shows like Pierce Morgan where where you're really one of our best fighters, |
0:55.4 | and I'm so glad to have you back. |
0:57.2 | Thank you. That's such a nice introduction. |
0:59.4 | It's good to be on for me. |
1:00.0 | I mean, it's true. |
1:01.4 | So, you know, Ronnie, I did, I've been avoiding doing Pierce for a few months now. |
1:06.1 | I feel like every time they reached out, they wanted me to come on and talk about some cultural issue |
1:11.4 | where they either wanted to frame me up as a crazy lib or in particular, a crazy black lib, |
1:16.9 | expecting me to take some pro-comala position on X, Y, and Z so they could just demonstrate to their |
1:21.9 | audience how we shouldn't be listened to. So I've said no. Or let's be a mix of topics where I would |
1:26.8 | have to fight about trans women in sports or, you know, something that they were using to be vulcanizing and polarizing. And I just wasn't interested. But then when the Luigi and Gianjioni story came along and the conversation was so inextricably tied to health care, I was like, okay, this is a moment. |
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