The real story of the U.S. occupation of Syria: The historical, political, and geostrategic context

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Mar 8, 2021
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Imperialism and War Middle East

In this episode episode of The Socialist Program, a podcast providing news and views about the world for those who want to change it, PSL co-founder and Central Committee member Brian Becker gets beneath the tweets and headlines to suss out the real reason the U.S. continues to occupy vast swaths of Syrian territory.

Becker dissects the reasons for the US military occupation in yria and analyzes the objectives and strategies of U.S. imperialism in Syria, and its wars against Iraq and Libya. Becker examines in detail ow the Pentagon completely dominates U.S. policy in the region and eviews how and why U.S. strategy in the Middle East dramatically hifted 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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Israel: Base of western imperialism

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Liberation School introduction The following text was published in a May 1969 pamphlet issued by the “Ad Hoc Committee on the Middle East,” which held its first conference on June 21, 1967, days after the U.S.-Israeli war against Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. The...

Leila Khaled: Palestinian fighter, Marxist revolutionary

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In celebration of International Women's Day, and in honor of Leila Khaled and all the women who have played a decisive role in the struggle for Palestinian national liberation, we are republishing this article originally published by Liberation School April 17, 2007....

Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”

Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”

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The following is the text of a speech Walter Rodney delivered 50 years ago at Queen's College, New York, USA in 1975. Along with Cheddi Jagan's article, "Pragmatism and rightist opportunism," it was published in the pamphlet 1986 pamphlet, Yes to Marxism! by the...

Studying “Socialist reconstruction in America”

Studying “Socialist reconstruction in America”

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Preface Discuss the case being made in the opening paragraphs of the Preface for the need to build socialist consciousness in the U.S. Why is it argued that Socialist Reconstruction is an unorthodox text within the Marxist tradition? If the book represents such a...

Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”

Walter Rodney: “Marxism and African liberation”

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The following is the text of a speech Walter Rodney delivered 50 years ago at Queen's College, New York, USA in 1975. Along with Cheddi Jagan's article, "Pragmatism and rightist opportunism," it was published in the pamphlet 1986 pamphlet, Yes to Marxism! by the...

Studying “Socialist reconstruction in America”

Studying “Socialist reconstruction in America”

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Preface Discuss the case being made in the opening paragraphs of the Preface for the need to build socialist consciousness in the U.S. Why is it argued that Socialist Reconstruction is an unorthodox text within the Marxist tradition? If the book represents such a...