The Dig: Aslı Bâli on Syria, Part I

<p>[note: this is being re-posted because the original post was accidentally deleted. So if you have already listened, no need to listen again!]</p><p>Aslı Ü. Bâli joins Daniel for part one of a two-part interview on the Syrian Civil War and the murderously instrumentalized geopolitics that fuel it. Syrians continue to suffer and to die while various actors treat the conflict as a proxy for their own geopolitical ends; meanwhile, huge numbers of Syrian refugees languish in neighboring countries, and the much smaller number who have made their way to Europe and the United States have been utilized by a resurgent far-right to blame ordinary Syrians for violence rooted in the colonial operations of those very same countries that now insist on keeping the refugees out.</p><p>Read: Remember Syria? by Bâli and Aziz Rana <a href="http://bostonreview.net/war-security/asli-bali-aziz-rana-trump-putin-syria" rel="nofollow">bostonreview.net/war-security/asli-bali-aziz-rana-trump-putin-syria</a> and The U.S. Debt to Syria <a href="http://bostonreview.net/war-security/asli-u-bali-aziz-rana-us-debt-syria" rel="nofollow">bostonreview.net/war-security/asli-u-bali-aziz-rana-us-debt-syria</a></p><p>Live recording of The Dig coming up in New York City. Friday, August 17, 7 PM at Verso Books (20 Jay Street in Brooklyn). It's called Blockadia and Beyond: Left climate politics for the 21st century <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2042636042656908/?active_tab=about" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/events/2042636042656908/?active_tab=about</a></p><p>Thanks to Verso Books. Check out New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future by James Bridle <a href="http://versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age" rel="nofollow">versobooks.com/books/2698-new-dark-age</a> And Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class by Mike Davis <a href="http://versobooks.com/books/2759-prisoners-of-the-american-dream" rel="nofollow">versobooks.com/books/2759-prisoners-of-the-american-dream</a></p><div>Support this podcast with your money at <a href="http://patreon.com/TheDig" rel="nofollow">patreon.com/TheDig</a></div>