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After defeating the US and its allies’ decade-long dirty war, Syria is finding ways to rebuild under US military occupation and crippling sanctions/economic warfare.
Author Tim Anderson discusses Syria’s post-war recovery under sanctions and occupation; routine Israeli bombings and Russia’s failure to stop them; Syria joining China’s Belt and Road Initiative; and, in the wake of recent New York Times exposes on deadly US airstrikes that were covered up in Syria, how the US used ISIS as a tool for regime change while claiming to fight it.
Guest: Tim Anderson. Writer, academic, and Director of the Sydney-based Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies. His books include “The Dirty War on Syria” and “Axis of Resistance.”
Discussed in this segment:
Aaron Maté: “To keep troops in Syria, US leaders are lying like in Afghanistan”
https://mate.substack.com/p/to-keep-t…
New York Times: “How the U.S. Hid an Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians in Syria”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/13/us…
See also this new NYT exposé, published after this interview was recorded: “A Dam in Syria Was on a ‘No-Strike’ List. The U.S. Bombed It Anyway.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/us…
Tim Anderson
Tim Anderson was a Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the University of Sydney for 20 years. Now he is Director of the Center for Counter Hegemonic Studies. He researches and writes on development, rights and self-determination in Latin America, the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. He has published many dozens of chapters and articles in a range of academic books and journals. His latest books are Land and Livelihoods in Papua New Guinea (Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2015), The Dirty War on Syria (Global Research, Montreal, 2016) and AXIS OF RESISTANCE- Towards an Independent Middle East (Clarity Press, 2019).
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