Welcome to the Last American Vagabond.

Joining me today is James Corbett to catch us up on his perspective on what the hell is going on in Syria.

Obviously, there's a lot of narratives flying around.

Clearly, there's more up in the air than there is that we can prove.

So James is somebody who has

been covering this for a very long time, very, very insightful, he documents things more than anybody

that I've talked to in the past. And so I wanted to bring him on to give us his perspective on

what might have happened recently, but also kind of the background of the story and overlapping

with some of the current conversations of today, drones and a lot of other things going on.

James, it's always an honor to have you on the show. How are you, brother?

I'm doing all right, Ryan. Thanks for having me on.

Yeah, always. And as I said, I really do think your long-term coverage of this is very,

the word, I guess, intricate as one of the words

in my mind, but very detail-oriented, which I really appreciate from your work. So I know we got

limited time today. So let's start with, generally speaking, the, you know, I guess the not-so-civil

war of Syria and give us the breakdown on what that really was. Because I know average people

tend to still regard it, even within the independent media,

as a civil war.

And I find that to be contrary to the truth.

So give us the background.

Yeah, I am very much on board with you on that.

So if people want the sort of summary of this, I would suggest they check out my recent

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