Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

So on today's episode, we finally got an episode together on the issue of Syria and current and recent events in Syria, tying it back to, you know, many, many years of turmoil going back and beyond the Syrian Civil War. We connect it

with the Palestinian issue and try to make sense out of what's happening. This is an ongoing

and developing situation. So, of course, a lot of these questions are still unanswered, and we're

going to have to keep a close eye on it. But we get into, you know, controversial topics, like how

to think about Assad, how to think about Syria under Assad, what role Syria played materially in the, you know, anti-imperialist struggle and in the axis of resistance more broadly.

And I think the conclusions and the insights with our wonderful guests are really enlightening on that front.

And I think really principled.

So today we have on Theraya, Muhammad, Angie, and my friend Ed.

We got a Palestinian, a Syrian, a sociologist, anti-imperialist, activist, etc.

So we have a lot of different really informed people who are tied deeply to this issue

talking about it.

And so I'm really happy to release this episode.

And I hope it really helps a lot of people understand what's going on.

I also wanted to mention that we are now coming up on eight years of doing Rev Left.

This February will be our eighth year anniversary.

So I just wanted to say, you know, we're so grateful

to everybody who has listened and supported the show in any way over the years who has shared

the show, et cetera. As always, we can support us on patreon.com forward slash rev left radio and get

access to multiple bonus episodes. Sometimes I release like a two and a half, three hour bonus episode every month.

It's a great way to support the show. I respond to every comment on the comment section.

But we also have a new way to support the show because I've heard a lot of people over the years say that they don't want to join Patreon for various reasons.

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