The History and Impact of Sanctions on Syria w/ Greg Shupak

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries. In this important episode, we bring on Greg Shupak to discuss the history and impact of sanctions on Syria, and how these sanctions continue in their brutality despite the ongoing humanitarian disaster unfolding. Get the word out and share this with comrades involved in the anti-sanctions movement.

Greg Shupak teaches English and Media Studies at the University of Guelph-Humber and is the author of the book, The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel, and the Media (OR Books, 2018). You can follow him on twitter @GregShupak.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Ben-Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.3	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your co-hosts,
0:39.4	Henry Huckimacki, joined as usual by my two co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and
0:44.7	director of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are
0:49.4	you doing today? Hi, Henry. I'm doing great. It's wonderful to be with you. Absolutely, nice to see you as well.
0:57.1	Also joined as usual by our other co-host, Brett O'Shea, who of course is host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast.
1:05.3	Hello, Brett. How are you doing? I'm doing very well. Thank you very much. Absolutely. It's great to see you.
1:28.0	We have a great topic lined up for today with a great guest, and this is going to be a continuation of our sanctions as war series, which is our ongoing mini series focused on the text sanctions as war. Listeners, if you're new to this series, we definitely recommend you going back and listen to some of the previous installments in this series, including introductory and more theoretical discussions,
1:33.4	as well as these case studies that we're carrying on here. Today's episode is going to be based
1:38.8	on the chapter written by Professor Greg Shupak titled Writing Out Empire, the Case of the Serious
1:45.9	Sanctions. And we are joined by Professor Greg Shupak, who is an English and Media Studies
1:51.4	professor at the University of Guelph, Humber, and author of the book, The Wrong Story, Palestine,
1:56.4	Israel, and the media. Hello, Greg. How are you doing today? I'm fine. How are you? Terrific. Really glad to have
2:03.9	you on. And I think that talking about sanctions in Syria right now is a particularly timely topic.
2:10.5	And I'm sure that we'll get to talk about the timeliness of this topic later on. But before we
2:15.3	turn to those more contemporary issues, let's talk about the history first.
2:19.7	So most people that are listening to this episode probably have seen Syria in the news relatively
2:24.8	frequently, but this really only dates back to about 2011. Of course, there was basically a civil
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