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This week on Angry Planet writer David Faris joins us to talk about his time in Syria and life in America.
- David’s travels from Lebanon to Syria
- When people hoped Bashar al-Assad would change Syria
- What a real totalitarian state feels like
- The nightmare that follows the collapse of a dictatorship
- Once again, the ugly legacy of colonialism rears its head
- The post-Assad players
- After 15 years, everyone is tired of war
- Turning to domestic politics
- Don’t panic
- “Trump will govern very corruptly.”
- Talking politics with children
- The Trump Cinematic Universe
- “We need billionaires to fight billionaires.”
- The collapse of the liberal intelligentsia
The McDonald’s bombing in Beirut
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