Green Socialist Notes, Episode 239 with Special Guest Nidal Bitari

Green Socialist Notes

This week Howie is once again joined by Nidal Bitari, a Palestinian refugee raised in a Syrian refugee camp, to discuss the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.

Links shared during the stream: Nidal Bitare, "The Assad Dynasty Was Hatched at My Grandfather’s Home. They Later Destroyed it,” New Lines Magazine, March 16, 2021, https://newlinesmag.com/writers/nidal-betare/ Joseph Daher, “Understanding the Rebellion in Syria,” Tempest, December 9, 2024, https://tempestmag.org/2024/12/understanding-the-rebellion-in-syria Gilbert Achcar, “Where is Syria headed?” December 10, 2024, https://gilbert-achcar.net/where-is-syria-headed Gilbert Achcar, “The Collapse of the Assad Regime,” New Politics, December 13, 2024, https://newpol.org/the-collapse-of-the-assad-regime-an-interview-on-syria-with-gilbert-achcar/ Anand Gopal, "Syria: What Comes After the Despot?,” Jacobin, December 11, 2024, https://jacobin.com/2024/12/syrian-revolution-assad-hts-democracy Anand Gopal, “Syria’s Last Bastion of Freedom,” The New Yorker, December 3, 2014, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/syrias-last-bastion-of-freedom Louis Project, “An extraordinary meeting on Syria,” May 22, 2018, https://www.howiehawkins.org/an_extraordinary_meeting_on_syria Paul Mason, "Decolonising Syria: the tankie meltdown explained. Why the pro-Putin left is in mourning over Assad,” Medium, December 8, 2024, https://paulmasonnews.medium.com/decolonising-syria-the-tankie-meltdown-explained-b88d681f32ad

Streamed on 12/14/24

Watch the video at: https://youtube.com/live/dClHWapZxeU

Green Socialist Notes is a weekly livestream/podcast hosted by 2020 Green Party/Socialist Party presidential nominee, Howie Hawkins. Started as a weekly campaign livestream in the spring of 2020, the streams have continued post elections and are now under the umbrella of the Green Socialist Organizing Project, which grew out of the 2020 presidential campaign. Green Socialist Notes seeks to provide both an independent Green Socialist perspective, as well as link listeners up with opportunities to get involved in building a real people-powered movement in their communities.

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