The Dig: Aslı Bâli on Syria, Part I

Jacobin Radio · Aug 15, 2018 · 1h 11m

[note: this is being re-posted because the original post was accidentally deleted. So if you have already listened, no need to listen again!]

Aslı Ü. Bâli joins Daniel for part one of a two-part interview on the Syrian Civil War and the murderously instrumentalized geopolitics that fuel it. Syrians continue to suffer and to die while various actors treat the conflict as a proxy for their own geopolitical ends; meanwhile, huge numbers of Syrian refugees languish in neighboring countries, and the much smaller number who have made their way to Europe and the United States have been utilized by a…