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Hello at the war College listeners, this is Matthew Gault here with a quick insert at the top.

I just want to say that we recorded this episode on October 3rd,

before the American withdrawal from Syria and the subsequent

invasion by Turkey. The information here only deals in part with Syria and

Assad and I think after Turkey's invasion, more relevant

than ever.

But you'll see what I mean. Dennis Kossenich came to the UK to give a ProSats speech and he was paid $20,000 for it by the same group.

So that's not like the kind of money that an ordinary solidarity movement has. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the front lines.

Here are your hosts. Hello, welcome to war college. I am your host Matthew Galt. There's anti-government protests in Hong Kong, Venezuela, and Russia.

The Civil War in Syria rages on and thanks to Twitter, VK Facebook, and Facebook, anyone can share their opinion about world events.

Elements of both the left and right say that any anti-government protest in one of America's

rivals is actually a CIA plot and dictators such as Bishar al-Assad are good actually. Is this information warfare or just shit posting?

Here to help us figure that out is Idrese Ahmed.

Ahmed is a lecturer in digital journalism at the University of Sterling and a contributing

editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. His work has appeared in the Washington Post,

Vice and the Atlantic.

Sir, thank you so much for joining us.

It's a pleasure to be with you.

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