Who Will Rule Syria? With Professor Bassam Haddad
Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté
Useful Idiots, LLC
4.6 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Useful Idiots. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Katie Halper. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Marri Mate. |
| 0:08.8 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:09.3 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:11.2 | Our website is Useful Idiots Podcast.com. |
| 0:14.6 | Go there to support the show and get bonus content. |
| 0:18.6 | This week, we are covering the change of regime in Syria, where Bashar al-Assad has |
| 0:25.1 | been overthrown. And we're going to speak to Basim Haddad about how Assad was ousted and what comes |
| 0:33.4 | next? I think I really appreciate Bassem's analysis. It It's very not to sound corny, but it is very |
| 0:38.8 | nuanced. I think there's a lot of like taking sides on this issue. Not that we shouldn't take |
| 0:43.8 | sides, but there's a lot of oversimplification of it. And I think he does a good job at |
| 0:48.8 | navigating through that. You know, I always try to avoid the word nuance because I know me too. |
| 0:54.2 | My experience is usually used to like, you know, just justify taking what I think is like a sellout position. |
| 1:00.5 | But in the case of Syria, I actually think nuance applies because there is so much criticism to throw around of all sides to this horrible conflict. |
| 1:10.1 | So yes, a rare exception for nuance, |
| 1:13.9 | a nuance pass for Syria. Yeah, Syria gets a nuance pass. All righty. So should we start with the |
| 1:19.3 | four basic food groups? Yes, we should. What do we have for Democrats suck? Well, for Democrats suck. |
| 1:24.1 | People probably know about the National Labor Review Board, the NLRB, |
| 1:28.2 | and it's set up to protect workers' rights to organize and also settle disputes between unions |
| 1:33.0 | and employers. |
| 1:33.8 | And Democratic control over the NLRB is one of the areas that I think even critics of |
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