The Real Story: A Socialist Look at Syria and US Intervention
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Brian Becker dissects the reasons for the US military occupation in Syria and analyzes the objectives and strategies of U.S. imperialism in Syria, and its wars against Iraq and Libya. Becker examines in detail how the Pentagon completely dominates U.S. policy in the region and reviews how and why U.S. strategy in the Middle East dramatically shifted during the past 30 years.
The people of the United States heard that Biden bombed Syria last week just as Trump bombed Syria in the early days of his administration. But they don't have a clue that U.S. are troops are occupying the oil rich parts of Syria. This episode of The Socialist Program explains why.
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| 0:00.0 | Last week, President Biden authorized the bombing of Syria, but most Americans don't know that the U.S. |
| 0:07.3 | military is actually occupying vast parts of that country. |
| 0:11.8 | Why is this happening? |
| 0:13.6 | What is the real reason that the United States is at war with Syria? |
| 0:20.4 | We need a new system. We need a new system. |
| 0:22.5 | We need a new society. |
| 0:24.4 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible |
| 0:27.2 | even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:29.0 | but is not only realizable, |
| 0:31.4 | but an imperative necessity. |
| 0:36.8 | Music Welcome to The Real Story on The Socialist Program. |
| 0:58.9 | I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:00.8 | If you enjoy the show, please support this independent programming |
| 1:04.7 | by going to patreon.com forward slash the socialist program and subscribing. We can do this show with you, but we cannot do it |
| 1:14.9 | without you. Please subscribe today. Last week, President Joe Biden announced the bombing of the country |
| 1:26.5 | of Syria, and there was a great deal of analysis, commentary on the fact |
| 1:33.0 | that Biden, in spite of the fact that he was running against Donald Trump and denounced |
| 1:38.0 | Donald Trump as a profound evil force had in fact continued his policy. We can all remember back in April |
| 1:48.1 | 2017, just a couple months after Donald Trump took office. And while he was having dinner with |
| 1:55.2 | the Chinese president, Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago, he told the Chinese president, I just authorized the bombing of Syria. And in fact, |
| 2:07.4 | in April 2017, under Trump's orders, the Pentagon dropped 59 cruise missiles on the country of |
| 2:16.4 | Syria. And it was very, very interesting at the time. A great number of |
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