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Very interesting. Is anybody able to recommend a work that covers Libya's Gaddafi - good, bad, and ugly - at a similar level of detail? On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 4:53 PM Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > (The events described below are found in chapter 9 of Sam Dagher’s > “Assad or We Burn the Country”. Like the NY Times’s Anthony Shadid, > Dagher was one of the few seasoned, Arab-speaking, professional > journalists on the ground in Syria. Unlike Patrick Cockburn and Robert > Fisk, he was not interested in triangulating between the dictatorship > and the masses. It has now been just over 9 years since the events he > describes below took place. Although I have been following events in > Syria very closely over the past 9 year, I wasn’t prepared for the level > of detail and the deep insights Dagher provides. In March 2011, the > people one activist in Daraa described as “high school dropouts, > laborers, farmers” decided to challenge the mafia state that Dagher > analyzes in the chapters preceding this one. I use the term mafia > advisedly. Syria was run by a family of gangsters who used their power > to get rich. For those of you who only know Syria as a desolate piece of > real estate fought over by Turkey, Russia, et al, this reporting is > essential since it will give you an idea of the pent-up revolutionary > anger that will explode again sooner or later.) > > full: > > https://louisproyect.org/2020/04/08/daraa-march-2011-the-birth-of-a-peoples-revolution/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Progressive Economics" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pen-l+unsubscr...@mail.csuchico.edu. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/mail.csuchico.edu/d/msgid/pen-l/bed15ab5-e3f0-6362-9b27-2be9f01d7c1b%40panix.com > . > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
