Hello and welcome to Collodial Outcast, the anti-imperialist podcast that a lot of people are going to hate and no one is going to be happy.

And the pro-Palestine movement will be refractured again because this is an emergency Sunday episode about Syria.

Probably the messiest battle space in existence with dozens of warring

factions. Literally every global and regional power has its fingers invested in this conflict,

and there is propaganda coming from every side. I'm here with Alina Xenophantos. I tried getting

a Syrian journalist on here, but he didn't want to put his face on this for obvious reasons.

But I have some stuff to read from him and from some other people in Syria, who also would not want to be public right now.

Anyways, yay, it's Sunday.

This is a truly awful situation.

How are things? Terrible. It's Sunday. This is a truly awful situation. How are things?

Terrible. It's terrible. I mean, you know it's bad when, you know, we're recording on a Sunday and I even, you know, it's emergency situation.

We even had to use my mobile phone, but it has to be done.

Yeah.

So just bear with Alina's audio.

She's going to make a concerted effort to speak slower this particular episode just because of the audio quality.

So, yeah, if you're trying to listen to her so you don't get Alzheimer's later on, this is not going to be the episode for you.

All right. So, okay, well, let's, let's get started. You know, because, I just wanted to make a couple notes.

Because I'm critical of the HTS transitional government,

which is ostensibly meant to be transitional,

even though Al Jolani said elections would take up to four years to organize.

I'm apparently an Asadas,

because I still call Al Jolani Al Jalani,

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