Does The U.S. Really Care About Repression In Syria?

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In this video, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald critically examines the Western media’s portrayal of Bashar al-Assad’s ousting in Syria. He highlights the emotional narratives surrounding Assad’s removal, emphasizing the lack of critical analysis regarding the foreign interventions that shaped the conflict and the potential consequences for Syria’s future stability and prosperity.

This video was produced by System Update and published on their YouTube channel on the 10th of December, 2024.

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ABOUT GLENN GREENWALD

Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional lawyer, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, and the author of several bestsellers, including No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State (2014) and Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Bolsonaro’s Brazil (2021).  Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights litigator. He was a columnist for The Guardian until October 2013 and a co-founder and former editor at The Intercept, which he left in 2020.