Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast.

Decades of dictatorial rule in Syria has come to an end, leading to something else to be determined.

Israel sprang into action taking control of Syrian land on their border, and no one seems to care what the U.S. thinks of all of this,

which is telling. For those looking for a quick overview, our sources providing our top

takes in about 50 minutes today includes the Muckrake political podcast, Middle East Eye, American

prestige, The Take, Democracy Now, and Double Down News.

Then in the additional deeper dives half of the show, there will be more in three sections.

Section A, the Syrian people, Section B, Israel, and Section C, historical context and the proxy war.

Thank you. historical context and the proxy war. I found out that Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria had fallen.

Assad had fallen to his regime, which by the way, his family has been in control for 50 years, more than 50 years.

Assad himself has been in charge for 24 years. There's been 13 years worth of civil war in Syria.

It's been the largest humanitarian crisis we've seen in the modern era.

Rebels have taken control of Syria.

Assad hopped a plane and went and hung out with his buddy Vladimir Putin.

I hope the two of them have a lot to talk about in Moscow.

This is a big giant story.

There's a lot of stuff that has occurred in the past couple of days that we need to get people up to speed about.

What was your initial reaction to finding that Assad was finally deposed in Syria?

I mean, I think obviously it's extremely, uh, encouraging and positive to be able to have

an authoritarian dictator like that removed, or be forced out.

Like that's a blue shit bag.

Yeah.

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