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Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.71,0:00:08.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This episode of It's the End of the world
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.96,0:00:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as we know it and I feel fine
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.50,0:00:12.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was made possible by contributions
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.38,0:00:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from slaves like you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.08,0:00:15.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Spank you very much!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.14,0:00:17.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ex-commercial TV Pr-man
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.94,0:00:20.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,old Etonian and occasional pigfucker,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.49,0:00:22.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,David Cameron would like to bomb Syria.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.91,0:00:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately Russia's got there first
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.69,0:00:26.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and America's been doing it for ages.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.65,0:00:28.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He wants to bomb Syria to stop the flow
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.68,0:00:30.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of refugees fleeing all the bombs.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.70,0:00:32.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He's also hoping it will stop
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.21,0:00:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the increased influence of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.51,0:00:34.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Islamic extremism.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.77,0:00:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bombing Syria will of course destroy
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.32,0:00:38.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the one remaining multicultural society
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.59,0:00:40.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the region, leaving it open to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.14,0:00:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the increased influence of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.80,0:00:43.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Islamic extremism.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.52,0:00:45.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To bomb Syria, therefore,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.18,0:00:46.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is clearly mental.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.87,0:00:54.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goooooooooooooood morning slaves
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.79,0:00:56.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and welcome to another sedition of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.57,0:00:58.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the End of the World as we Know it
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.49,0:00:59.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I Feel Fine....
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.91,0:01:02.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the show that gets under dictators’ skin.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.18,0:01:03.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Need another car.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.23,0:01:04.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fraid this last one ended up in the drink.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.58,0:01:07.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Look at you.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.21,0:01:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're a -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.88,0:01:09.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not puppet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.58,0:01:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're a bloody puppet!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.08,0:01:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Every person on earth, whether they
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.36,0:01:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,agree or disagree with President Putin,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.60,0:01:16.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they should respect him.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.50,0:01:18.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ I've got no strings to hold me down
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.97,0:01:21.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make me fret, or make me frown. ♫
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.39,0:01:22.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're a puppet!
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.18,0:01:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not puppet.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.82,0:01:24.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am your host the Stimulator,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.30,0:01:26.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this December will mark six years
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.41,0:01:28.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since 26 year old fruit vendor
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.48,0:01:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mohammed Bouazizi lit himself on fire
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.20,0:01:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the streets of Sidi Bouzid,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.33,0:01:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to protest harassment from the pigs,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.50,0:01:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the crushing weight of
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.82,0:01:38.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,systemic poverty,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.33,0:01:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,igniting the righteous fucking wave
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.12,0:01:42.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of revolt that came to be known as
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.10,0:01:43.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Arab Spring.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.31,0:01:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This historic uprising swept like wildfire
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.92,0:01:48.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across the Middle East and North Africa,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.12,0:01:50.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toppling dictators in Tunisia, Egypt,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.46,0:01:51.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Libya and Yemen,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.83,0:01:53.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,catching the United Snakes and
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.15,0:01:55.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its regional allies in the Gulf states
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.46,0:01:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off guard,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.32,0:01:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and scaring the living shit out of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.57,0:02:00.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Riots will start here.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.10,0:02:01.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iraq will be squeezed.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.97,0:02:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Syria, Jordan will fall.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.26,0:02:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who will stand with the United States?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.74,0:02:08.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who will stand with Israel?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.52,0:02:10.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tragically, the heady optimism
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.64,0:02:12.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seen on the streets of Tahrir Square
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.75,0:02:14.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has long since been replaced by
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.46,0:02:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the jackboot of counter-revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.62,0:02:18.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the grim fucking realities
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.49,0:02:20.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of terrorism and civil war.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.82,0:02:25.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Bahrain, a popular uprising was
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.32,0:02:27.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brutally put down by a Saudi-led invasion.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.49,0:02:29.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Egypt, one pro-Western dictator
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.84,0:02:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been replaced by another,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.96,0:02:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who has ruthlessly clamped down on
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.70,0:02:36.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,protests, jailing thousands of dissidents.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.19,0:02:38.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Libya and Yemen have both descended
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.88,0:02:40.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into civil wars, each drawing in
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.81,0:02:42.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foreign military intervention.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.39,0:02:44.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then there's Syria.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.75,0:02:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Up until now, me and my subMedia slaves
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.48,0:02:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have avoided putting out an
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.82,0:02:57.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in-depth sedition on Syria
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.82,0:02:59.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the situation on the ground
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.32,0:03:01.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is incredibly fucking complicated,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.51,0:03:04.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and well… frankly... depressing as fuck.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.36,0:03:07.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buuuuuuuuut despite being the defining war
Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.25,0:03:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of our epoch, a horrific fucking slaughter
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.26,0:03:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has killed upwards of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.76,0:03:12.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,half a million people,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.98,0:03:15.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and displaced 12 million more,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.05,0:03:17.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reduced entire cities to rubble,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.41,0:03:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spawned a massive flood of refugees
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.46,0:03:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that in turn has hastened
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.92,0:03:23.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the nationalist-fuelled disintegration of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.71,0:03:25.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the European Union,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.34,0:03:27.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and despite the fact that it has become
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.46,0:03:28.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a central battleground for
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.72,0:03:30.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the competing geopolitical ambitions
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.99,0:03:32.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of so-called great powers
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.59,0:03:34.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and regional state actors alike...
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.77,0:03:36.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fact is that the Syrian Revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.72,0:03:38.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and subsequent civil war
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.82,0:03:40.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is still woefully misunderstood.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.63,0:03:42.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the right side of the spectrum,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.22,0:03:43.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,corporate and state-run media
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.49,0:03:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have depicted Syria solely as
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.90,0:03:46.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an external threat;
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.02,0:03:47.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a breeding ground for ISIS terrorists
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.83,0:03:49.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are trying to smuggle their way
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.33,0:03:51.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into Western population centres
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.29,0:03:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by pretending to be war-torn refugees.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.92,0:03:55.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is the United States opening its doors
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.75,0:03:57.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to potential terrorists?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.35,0:03:58.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could never have imagined
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.64,0:04:00.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an Islamic radical sleeper cell
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.56,0:04:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,becoming president.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.50,0:04:04.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If they can cross... anybody can cross.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.88,0:04:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I'm here today to ask you:
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.68,0:04:07.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you feel safe?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.75,0:04:08.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We ain't scared of you.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.77,0:04:11.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're not gonna let you guys use your fear
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.00,0:04:12.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to take our rights away.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.68,0:04:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They claim to be in America now!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.68,0:04:16.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as soon as you come into our country
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.73,0:04:18.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're gonna trick your ass out!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.56,0:04:20.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other news, Muslims are bad.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.58,0:04:21.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What more do you need to know
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.94,0:04:22.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about these people?!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.86,0:04:25.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many Western leftists, on the other hand,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.30,0:04:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have adopted a disgustingly
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.18,0:04:29.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amoral pragmatism that rationalizes
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.42,0:04:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their lack of solidarity by pointing to
Dialogue: 0,0:04:31.87,0:04:33.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the lack of a sufficiently moderate
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.73,0:04:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,armed rebel faction to support.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.42,0:04:37.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who are the fighters there?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.19,0:04:39.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well it's not just ISIS, but it's al-Nusra
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.96,0:04:42.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well... the Al Qaeda affiliate.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.53,0:04:44.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are said to be moderates there,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.22,0:04:46.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you know... and there probably are,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:46.34,0:04:47.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they're not a -
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.72,0:04:49.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're a minority force.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.69,0:04:51.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While others have gone so far as
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.42,0:04:52.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to throw their support behind
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.84,0:04:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the psychopathic regime of that ugly
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.12,0:04:57.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teen-stached motherfucker himself,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.31,0:04:58.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bashar al-Asaad.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.58,0:04:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Death to imperialism,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.84,0:05:02.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,victory to Bashar Assad.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.43,0:05:05.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Victory to the Syrian Arab Army,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.29,0:05:06.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the National Defense Force,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.67,0:05:08.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Popular Front for the Liberation
Dialogue: 0,0:05:08.74,0:05:13.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Palestine, and everyone who is fighting
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.75,0:05:15.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within Syria for the Syrian people.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.12,0:05:20.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This confused and politically bankrupt
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.38,0:05:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fucking narrative is particularly popular
Dialogue: 0,0:05:22.62,0:05:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with tankies who have a collective hard-on
Dialogue: 0,0:05:24.61,0:05:27.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Vladimir Putin, and seemingly base
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.37,0:05:29.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their entire fucking worldview on
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.09,0:05:31.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a fossilized Cold War narrative that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.28,0:05:33.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,supports any state that they deem to be
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.26,0:05:35.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an official enemy of the United Snakes.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.54,0:05:37.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tankie leftists believe that Assad
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.62,0:05:39.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been targeted for regime change by
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.77,0:05:41.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the United Snakes and its allies,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.39,0:05:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that Syria is being protected
Dialogue: 0,0:05:43.27,0:05:45.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by its staunchly anti-imperialist homies,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:45.75,0:05:47.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Russia and Iran.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.13,0:05:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buuuuuuuuut putting aside the fact that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:49.05,0:05:50.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Russia and Iran are both gangsta
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.80,0:05:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imperialist states in their own right
Dialogue: 0,0:05:52.83,0:05:54.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who oppress the fuck out of
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.13,0:05:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their own citizens, there's an
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.52,0:05:57.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even more obvious flaw in this logic...
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.87,0:05:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fact that the United Snakes isn't
Dialogue: 0,0:05:59.65,0:06:02.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually trying to overthrow Assad at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:06.80,0:06:08.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The real threat to Assad's fascist
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.43,0:06:09.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fucking regime has come from Syrians
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.95,0:06:12.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,themselves, who after growing sick and
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.02,0:06:13.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mothafuckin tired of having their peaceful
Dialogue: 0,0:06:13.89,0:06:16.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,protests bombed and machine-gunned,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.11,0:06:18.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,launched a popular fucking armed uprising.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:18.41,0:06:20.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's racist as fuck to ignore
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.03,0:06:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this fact, and to see all Syrian people
Dialogue: 0,0:06:22.64,0:06:24.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as either Islamic terrorists or
Dialogue: 0,0:06:24.75,0:06:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helpless victims only worthy of support
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.30,0:06:29.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once they become refugees.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.02,0:06:30.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the Presidential elections in
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.65,0:06:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the United Snakes draw ever closer,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:32.68,0:06:34.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,members of the Obama administration
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.19,0:06:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are in a rush to add a victory over ISIS
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.08,0:06:38.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to their presidential legacy,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:38.90,0:06:40.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before the next war-criminal-in-chief gets
Dialogue: 0,0:06:40.85,0:06:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sworn in in January.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.98,0:06:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To help accomplish this,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.50,0:06:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they've stepped up cooperation with Russia
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.77,0:06:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the two sides have recently agreed
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.40,0:06:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to a so-called Cessation of Hostilities,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.76,0:06:51.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in order to join forces to fight ISIS
Dialogue: 0,0:06:51.77,0:06:53.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Al Qaeda.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.09,0:06:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buuuuuuuuuuut few peeps following things
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.04,0:06:57.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the ground actually think this latest
Dialogue: 0,0:06:57.31,0:06:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,diplomatic push is gonna work.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.62,0:07:01.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s only one person who can end
Dialogue: 0,0:07:01.35,0:07:02.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the civil war in Syria.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.93,0:07:04.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You would rule in the possibility
Dialogue: 0,0:07:04.42,0:07:05.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of using nuclear weapons against ISIS?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:05.77,0:07:07.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well.... I'm not going rule anything out.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.77,0:07:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh fuck no... not that fucker.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:10.54,0:07:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’m talking about Syria’s greasy,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.37,0:07:14.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sunken-eyed, goose-necked dictator
Dialogue: 0,0:07:14.64,0:07:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,himself… Bashar Al-Assad.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:16.84,0:07:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So with that in mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.05,0:07:19.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I’ve got a simple plea.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.78,0:07:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bashar… you’ve done some pretty fucking
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.57,0:07:26.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heinous shit over the past five years.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.09,0:07:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But there’s still time for you to do
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.52,0:07:28.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the right thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.74,0:07:30.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, it’s pretty simple…
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.92,0:07:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just fucking kill yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.46,0:07:36.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You do realize you’re not getting out
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.79,0:07:38.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this shit alive, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.50,0:07:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Once Russia and Iran get tired of
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.12,0:07:41.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,propping up your corrupt,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.34,0:07:43.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hollowed out regime, and decide to reach
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.26,0:07:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some sorta deal to cover their own asses,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.54,0:07:47.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they’re throw you to the fuckin sharks.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.58,0:07:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how do you wanna go out?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.04,0:07:50.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You wanna die like Ceausescu,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.70,0:07:52.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,swarmed by a pissed off mob and lynched?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.83,0:07:54.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Who knows… with all you’ve done,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.77,0:07:57.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you’d probably get the full Mussolini.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.31,0:07:58.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or maybe, just maybe, you’d prefer to
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.81,0:08:00.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take the dignified way out,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.68,0:08:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a fucking samurai,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:01.94,0:08:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or... or viking warrior or some shit…
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.72,0:08:06.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or as dignified as a man as hideous and
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.34,0:08:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,awkward as you could possibly hope for.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.90,0:08:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fuck it… you could shoot yourself out of
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.98,0:08:12.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a fucking cannon into the Mediterranean
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.92,0:08:14.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,....that might be fun.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.42,0:08:16.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And seriously… who’s gonna miss you?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:16.72,0:08:18.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aside from these tankies,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:18.13,0:08:19.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your ugly fucking cousin Rahmi.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.99,0:08:22.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And on the plus side… just think about
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.07,0:08:23.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how much suffering and bloodshed
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.47,0:08:24.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you could avoid…
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.57,0:08:26.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let alone all the rope peeps would save
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.53,0:08:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by not having to hang you by your
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.10,0:08:29.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,freakishly long neck!
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.69,0:08:32.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway Bashar… just an idea.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.21,0:08:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ball's in your court,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.18,0:08:35.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you miserable piece of shit.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.54,0:08:39.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,♫ Head high, you made a revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:08:39.19,0:08:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Be proud of yourselves,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.58,0:08:42.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you destroyed a dirty band.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.46,0:08:45.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know I have lost many things
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.51,0:08:47.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I feel I have gained many things.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.30,0:08:49.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freedom, dignity, it is not easy.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:49.16,0:08:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not easy to do something
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.07,0:08:52.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without victims and war machines.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.86,0:08:54.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Destroy the tree and the stone
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.98,0:08:57.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not one wall left standing
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.96,0:09:01.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The regime humiliates me,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.13,0:09:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fuck him, he will not have me
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.81,0:09:04.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Opposition failed on one side,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.65,0:09:06.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the other false media
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.23,0:09:07.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hezbollah, Daesh and others
Dialogue: 0,0:09:07.91,0:09:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,countries of a world cursed
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.54,0:09:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They let the people die & prepared coffins
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.70,0:09:14.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I speak for the people,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:14.62,0:09:16.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gone are the days of silence
Dialogue: 0,0:09:16.82,0:09:20.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gone are the days where you not dare express
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.19,0:09:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If the revolution is here, it's your time
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.73,0:09:25.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not a civil war
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.24,0:09:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its the revolt of your people
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.08,0:09:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Refugees of RAP,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:29.40,0:09:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the voice of the people came back.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.96,0:09:32.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is not a civil war
Dialogue: 0,0:09:32.87,0:09:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is the revolt of a people, began peacefully
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.08,0:09:42.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a revolution. ♫
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.50,0:09:46.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On August 25th, Turkey’s thin-skinned
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.44,0:09:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,proto-fascist tyrant, Tayyip Erdogan,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.66,0:09:50.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,officially joined the geopolitical
Dialogue: 0,0:09:50.41,0:09:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clusterfuck in Syria, when he sent
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.60,0:09:54.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turkey’s armed forces to lead
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.23,0:09:56.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a cross-border incursion, ostensibly to
Dialogue: 0,0:09:56.10,0:09:58.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fight Daesh or the so-called Islamic State
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.83,0:10:00.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but transparently as an effort to
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.24,0:10:01.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,halt the breaks on advances by
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.62,0:10:03.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Syrian Democratic Forces, led by the
Dialogue: 0,0:10:03.21,0:10:06.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kurdish People’s Protection Unit, or YPG,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:06.17,0:10:07.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which has been making territorial gains
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.94,0:10:09.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the region that Syria’s Kurds have
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.69,0:10:11.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,re-christened as Rojava.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.15,0:10:12.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For many outside observers of the
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.79,0:10:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Syrian civil war, the Rojava Revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.18,0:10:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been a lonely beacon of hope
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.10,0:10:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in an otherwise bleak fucking tragedy,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.30,0:10:21.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and anarchists and other revolutionaries
Dialogue: 0,0:10:21.09,0:10:22.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around the world have accordingly flocked
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.79,0:10:24.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to show solidarity with their cause.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.60,0:10:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This has ranged from the establishment
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.36,0:10:28.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Rojava solidarity chapters in cities
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.44,0:10:29.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and countries across the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.89,0:10:31.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the way to peeps traveling to join
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.57,0:10:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,international battalions of volunteer
Dialogue: 0,0:10:33.36,0:10:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fighters on the front lines, in an act of
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.84,0:10:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,international solidarity that hearkens
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.84,0:10:39.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back to the Spanish Civil War.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.59,0:10:40.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the past several years,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:40.92,0:10:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the liberated cantons of Rojava
Dialogue: 0,0:10:42.52,0:10:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have witnessed some of the most
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.98,0:10:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inspiring revolutionary transformations
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.77,0:10:47.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in modern history, most notable being
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.92,0:10:49.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its grassroots Tev-Dem system
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.63,0:10:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of participatory democracy, and the
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.70,0:10:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accompanying self-organization and
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.37,0:10:54.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mass empowerment of women.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:55.24,0:10:57.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freedom for Kurdistan starts with
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.41,0:10:58.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,freedom for women.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.75,0:10:59.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When women are free,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.84,0:11:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then Kurdistan will be free.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.50,0:11:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These hard-fought gains have been
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.06,0:11:05.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the more impressive given the fact
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.34,0:11:07.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they've taken place while waging
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.16,0:11:09.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an existential war against the
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.16,0:11:11.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,genocidal fucking jihadis of Daesh.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.53,0:11:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut while this will no doubt
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.52,0:11:15.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,piss a lot of peeps off…
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.02,0:11:16.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh boy, here we go!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.61,0:11:18.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the uncomfortable truth is that many
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.51,0:11:20.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,supporters of Rojava have adopted a
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.67,0:11:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dogmatic, uncritical approach to
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.32,0:11:24.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Kurdish struggle in northern Syria,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.85,0:11:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,particularly its military aspect,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.60,0:11:28.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the process have ignored or
Dialogue: 0,0:11:28.15,0:11:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,downplayed actions that not only
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.54,0:11:31.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,contradict fundamental principles of
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.24,0:11:33.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Rojava revolution, but also
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.27,0:11:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pose serious fucking threats to
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.64,0:11:36.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its future viability and the spread of
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.57,0:11:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,values within the region.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:38.04,0:11:39.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kurds have long and tragic history of
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.83,0:11:41.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,betrayal and oppression at the hands of
Dialogue: 0,0:11:41.70,0:11:43.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the different states and ethnic groups
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.49,0:11:45.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that surround them on all sides.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.52,0:11:47.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Under the Assad regime they were
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.38,0:11:48.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,officially banned from speaking their
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.82,0:11:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,own language, and were targeted by
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.44,0:11:52.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so-called Arabization policies aimed at
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.85,0:11:54.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,controlling natural resources and
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.52,0:11:56.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,manipulating ethnic demographics
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.27,0:11:57.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the region.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.29,0:11:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of the main tenants of Rojava’s
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.20,0:12:01.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Tev-Dem system has been an embrace of
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.97,0:12:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,secular pluralism and cultural
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.92,0:12:05.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and political autonomy for different
Dialogue: 0,0:12:05.55,0:12:07.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ethnic groups and religious minorities.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:07.67,0:12:08.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the same time,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.40,0:12:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Democratic Unity Party, or PYD, the
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.16,0:12:13.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ruling Kurdish political party in Rojava,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.48,0:12:15.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has pursued a policy of geographically
Dialogue: 0,0:12:15.64,0:12:17.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,linking the three Kurdish cantons of
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.63,0:12:19.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Afrin, Kobane and Jazira, which are
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.62,0:12:21.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,physically separated from one another by
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.13,0:12:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,large swaths of land primarily
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.04,0:12:24.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,populated by Arabs.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.99,0:12:28.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The YPG militia, from the start of
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.98,0:12:30.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the revolution, has been working for
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.40,0:12:31.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its own interests.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.99,0:12:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It created an autonomous area....
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.87,0:12:36.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it never recognized the Syrian revolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.11,0:12:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it used it to create its own state.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.28,0:12:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The efforts to link the cantons militarily
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.58,0:12:42.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has provoked a great deal of inter-ethnic
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.57,0:12:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strife in Northern Syria, with YPG forces
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.42,0:12:47.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,benefiting from both US and Russian
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.20,0:12:49.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,airstrikes - in the latter case leading to
Dialogue: 0,0:12:49.44,0:12:51.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ethnic cleansing of rebel-held positions
Dialogue: 0,0:12:51.22,0:12:52.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the province of Aleppo.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.89,0:12:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,YPG supporters have tended to justify
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.04,0:12:56.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these actions by claiming that the Arab
Dialogue: 0,0:12:56.68,0:12:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forces they have been targeting are all
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.07,0:13:00.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,head-chopping jihadis,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:00.38,0:13:02.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or members of Daesh or Al-Nusra.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:02.80,0:13:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hopefully this doesn’t become a
Dialogue: 0,0:13:04.08,0:13:06.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self-fulfilling prophecy, and the YPG
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.64,0:13:08.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and local militias of the Free Syrian Army
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.84,0:13:10.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are able to come to an understanding
Dialogue: 0,0:13:10.42,0:13:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and mutual fucking coexistence.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.13,0:13:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is especially important now that
Dialogue: 0,0:13:14.04,0:13:15.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Turkey’s military has joined the fray,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.86,0:13:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Erdogan, drunk on the authoritarian
Dialogue: 0,0:13:18.07,0:13:19.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fucking powers he seized in the wake of
Dialogue: 0,0:13:19.94,0:13:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,July’s failed coup,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.22,0:13:23.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has begun further cracking down on Kurds
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.11,0:13:24.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in south-eastern Turkey.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:24.58,0:13:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While it’s important that anarchists
Dialogue: 0,0:13:25.82,0:13:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fully support aspirations of Kurdish
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.38,0:13:29.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,autonomy and self-determination,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.16,0:13:31.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether in Syria, Turkey, Iraq or Iran…
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.62,0:13:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it’s also important to support the
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.16,0:13:34.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,autonomy of Syrians in other parts of
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.78,0:13:36.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the country, who are struggling against
Dialogue: 0,0:13:36.61,0:13:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a fucked up combination of
Dialogue: 0,0:13:38.04,0:13:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,authoritarian Islamists, the Assad regime,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.47,0:13:42.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and its Iranian and Russian backers.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:42.34,0:13:44.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are more powerful with weapons,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:44.45,0:13:47.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we are more powerful in our hearts.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:47.28,0:13:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of you have your freedom
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.08,0:13:51.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of a revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.49,0:13:53.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The time for our freedom is now.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:53.83,0:13:55.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So… in an effort to shed some
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.35,0:13:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well-needed light on this other aspect
Dialogue: 0,0:13:57.13,0:13:58.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Syrian Revolution, I recently
Dialogue: 0,0:13:58.93,0:14:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caught up with Robin Yassin-Kassab,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.08,0:14:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a Syrian-British journalist, and co-author
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.04,0:14:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:14:05.48,0:14:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and War.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.09,0:14:08.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hey Robin, how the fuck are you?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.11,0:14:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm very well indeed.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.50,0:14:11.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back in January, you and your co-author
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.62,0:14:13.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Leila al-Shami published Burning Country:
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.65,0:14:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Syrians in Revolution and War, which is
Dialogue: 0,0:14:15.72,0:14:17.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,widely regarded as one of the best
Dialogue: 0,0:14:17.59,0:14:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,English-language accounts of
Dialogue: 0,0:14:19.01,0:14:20.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Syrian Revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.76,0:14:22.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What inspired you to write this book?
Dialogue: 0,0:14:22.51,0:14:24.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we wrote the book because
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.66,0:14:27.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we felt that the story of the Syrian
Dialogue: 0,0:14:27.60,0:14:29.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Revolution, and then the various
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.96,0:14:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,counter-revolutions which came back at it
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.54,0:14:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wasn't being told properly.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.40,0:14:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody knows about the jihadists and
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.48,0:14:39.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the head-choppers, and everybody knows
Dialogue: 0,0:14:39.48,0:14:42.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about Putin, and Turkey and Qatar,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:42.66,0:14:43.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Saudi Arabia.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.93,0:14:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But nobody seems to know about, y'know,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:46.55,0:14:49.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grassroots Syrian workers and farmers,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.69,0:14:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and students who were going out there
Dialogue: 0,0:14:52.04,0:14:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and protesting, and then who began to
Dialogue: 0,0:14:54.58,0:14:56.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pick up weapons when they were
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.27,0:14:57.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so oppressed.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.49,0:15:00.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So we did it because we wanted to give a
Dialogue: 0,0:15:00.20,0:15:02.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,voice to those remarkable Syrian
Dialogue: 0,0:15:02.81,0:15:04.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,revolutionaries, which we thought they
Dialogue: 0,0:15:04.65,0:15:06.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were lacking in the English language,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.55,0:15:07.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the west.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.80,0:15:09.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have been pretty fucking outspoken
Dialogue: 0,0:15:09.32,0:15:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your criticism of the international
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.50,0:15:12.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,response to the conflict in Syria,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.33,0:15:13.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and particularly scathing with regards to
Dialogue: 0,0:15:13.95,0:15:16.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the posture adopted by western leftists.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.23,0:15:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What in particular pisses you off
Dialogue: 0,0:15:18.01,0:15:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about how peeps have approached
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.40,0:15:20.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the situation.... and what do you think
Dialogue: 0,0:15:20.99,0:15:22.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this says about the current state
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.71,0:15:24.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the left more generally?
Dialogue: 0,0:15:24.31,0:15:25.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well I think it's been really depressing,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.87,0:15:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really tragic that a lot of Syrians
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.36,0:15:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,expected at the start that they would be
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.01,0:15:35.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting help, or solidarity from the
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.46,0:15:38.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leftists, the so-called anti-imperialists
Dialogue: 0,0:15:38.50,0:15:41.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the west, and very often it was
Dialogue: 0,0:15:41.52,0:15:43.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the left, at least the mainstream or
Dialogue: 0,0:15:43.27,0:15:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dominant left, which misrepresented them
Dialogue: 0,0:15:46.04,0:15:48.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spread lies about them even before
Dialogue: 0,0:15:48.18,0:15:49.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the right did.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.25,0:15:51.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So for example, nowadays we have the
Dialogue: 0,0:15:51.89,0:15:53.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right-wing telling us that all these
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.51,0:15:55.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Syrian refugees, they're all Al Qaeda,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:55.92,0:15:57.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're all dangerous jihadists
Dialogue: 0,0:15:57.71,0:15:59.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we shouldn't let any of them in....
Dialogue: 0,0:15:59.31,0:16:01.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this notion that every Syrian, or every
Dialogue: 0,0:16:01.89,0:16:04.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Syrian revolutionary is Al Qaeda was
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.33,0:16:05.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually spread by lots of people
Dialogue: 0,0:16:05.88,0:16:06.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the left.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.90,0:16:09.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think what the left has done, not just
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.66,0:16:11.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the case of Syria, but in general,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.86,0:16:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tragically, the left has given up on
Dialogue: 0,0:16:14.78,0:16:15.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ordinary people.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:15.72,0:16:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems to have lost hope that people at
Dialogue: 0,0:16:18.06,0:16:20.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the grassroots can actually change things,
Dialogue: 0,0:16:20.20,0:16:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and therefore it's just got itself
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.68,0:16:24.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,obsessed with states.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.54,0:16:26.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems to think that being
Dialogue: 0,0:16:26.01,0:16:27.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,left-wing is about supporting certain
Dialogue: 0,0:16:27.84,0:16:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,states against other states, as if there
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.16,0:16:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are, y'know, goodie states against
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.72,0:16:33.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the badie states.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:33.65,0:16:35.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that's not classical leftism.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:35.65,0:16:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not Marxism... I mean Marxism talked
Dialogue: 0,0:16:37.76,0:16:41.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about doing a class analysis in which you
Dialogue: 0,0:16:41.41,0:16:44.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give your support to the working classes
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.14,0:16:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in their struggle against
Dialogue: 0,0:16:45.84,0:16:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ruling classes. And I think that's
Dialogue: 0,0:16:48.09,0:16:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what leftists should be doing
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.80,0:16:51.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if they want to be in any way relevant
Dialogue: 0,0:16:51.47,0:16:53.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to real struggles in the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:53.83,0:16:55.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They should be supporting people within
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.98,0:16:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every state who are trying to fight
Dialogue: 0,0:16:58.02,0:16:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,against their oppressors.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.65,0:17:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the left has failed to do that,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.84,0:17:04.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and instead, through this very inaccurate
Dialogue: 0,0:17:04.41,0:17:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,state-based analysis, they're just making
Dialogue: 0,0:17:07.90,0:17:09.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,silly assumptions. They seem to think,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:09.85,0:17:11.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for example, that this is a regime-change
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.76,0:17:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plot directed by the United States against
Dialogue: 0,0:17:15.10,0:17:18.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the glorious resistance regime in Syria.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:18.35,0:17:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, y'know, the facts don't bear
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.16,0:17:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that out at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:22.08,0:17:23.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've stated on several occasions
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.72,0:17:25.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your belief that the Syrian Revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:17:25.15,0:17:26.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been the most significant revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.85,0:17:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since 1930s Spain.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:28.73,0:17:30.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could you elaborate on this?
Dialogue: 0,0:17:30.31,0:17:32.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the revolution, and then particularly
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.75,0:17:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as it became a war, when the regime was
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.52,0:17:37.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forced to withdraw from certain parts of
Dialogue: 0,0:17:37.88,0:17:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the country... as the regime withdrew,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.54,0:17:43.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it withdrew the services that if offered,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.69,0:17:46.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of course. The state collapsed.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.54,0:17:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what you had then, was that in many
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.78,0:17:50.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different parts of the country,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:50.72,0:17:53.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people started setting up their own
Dialogue: 0,0:17:53.12,0:17:56.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self-organized administrations.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.39,0:17:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they set up local councils for example.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:59.28,0:18:01.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the moment there are about 400
Dialogue: 0,0:18:01.58,0:18:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,local councils operating in the liberated
Dialogue: 0,0:18:05.40,0:18:07.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,areas of Syria. And these are the people
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.76,0:18:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are keeping life together in the
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.60,0:18:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,liberated areas, under the bombs,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:11.83,0:18:13.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the most difficult circumstances.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:13.56,0:18:15.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're keeping the electricity going,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:15.21,0:18:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're keeping the water supply going,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:17.08,0:18:19.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they're trying to build makeshift
Dialogue: 0,0:18:19.19,0:18:21.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hospitals and underground schools
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.30,0:18:23.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where people can be educated
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.22,0:18:24.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,despite the bombs.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:25.36,0:18:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is remarkable!
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.55,0:18:29.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This self-organization, this local
Dialogue: 0,0:18:29.07,0:18:31.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,democracy, and nobody notices it.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.10,0:18:33.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody talks about it. It's much easier
Dialogue: 0,0:18:33.34,0:18:35.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for us to talk about the Saudis and
Dialogue: 0,0:18:35.30,0:18:38.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Russians and the states than it is
Dialogue: 0,0:18:38.34,0:18:39.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to talk about the remarkable things
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.69,0:18:40.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that people are doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:40.66,0:18:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not just councils... women's centers,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.37,0:18:43.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,free radio stations,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:43.80,0:18:45.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,free television stations,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.30,0:18:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,newspapers, an explosion of popular art,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:48.03,0:18:49.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of this kind of thing is happening
Dialogue: 0,0:18:49.89,0:18:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Syria, in the middle of an awful war,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.73,0:18:55.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amidst starvation sieges... it's really
Dialogue: 0,0:18:55.91,0:18:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,remarkable and it's inspiring what's
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.39,0:19:00.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happening in Syria, as well as tragic,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:00.51,0:19:01.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's our loss that we don't
Dialogue: 0,0:19:01.84,0:19:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pay more attention to it.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:02.72,0:19:04.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Outside of Rojava, many western anarchists
Dialogue: 0,0:19:04.78,0:19:07.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are unfamiliar with the influential role
Dialogue: 0,0:19:07.10,0:19:08.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that anarchists have played in the
Dialogue: 0,0:19:08.27,0:19:10.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Syrian Revolution - a prime example being
Dialogue: 0,0:19:10.47,0:19:11.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Omar Aziz.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:11.53,0:19:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can you tell us a little bit more about
Dialogue: 0,0:19:13.73,0:19:15.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who he was, and his material and
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.39,0:19:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,theoretical contributions to
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.02,0:19:18.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the revolutionary process?
Dialogue: 0,0:19:18.65,0:19:22.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah well, Omar Aziz was a remarkable man,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.22,0:19:23.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a very influential man.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:23.51,0:19:25.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was an anarchist, I mean, he
Dialogue: 0,0:19:25.83,0:19:29.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self-identified as an anarchist.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:29.66,0:19:31.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of course, many of the people who set up
Dialogue: 0,0:19:31.45,0:19:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the self-organized committees and councils
Dialogue: 0,0:19:34.72,0:19:36.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we were talking about, do not
Dialogue: 0,0:19:36.33,0:19:38.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,necessarily use the word anarchist to
Dialogue: 0,0:19:38.41,0:19:40.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,describe themselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:40.36,0:19:41.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They don't necessarily come from that
Dialogue: 0,0:19:41.91,0:19:43.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,theoretical tradition.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:43.49,0:19:45.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They haven't necessarily read Bakunin
Dialogue: 0,0:19:45.16,0:19:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so on, but what they're doing
Dialogue: 0,0:19:48.09,0:19:50.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is anarchist. Omar Aziz actually
Dialogue: 0,0:19:50.57,0:19:52.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identified as an anarchist, and he'd
Dialogue: 0,0:19:52.48,0:19:54.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,obviously read a lot of anarchism,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.18,0:19:55.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and studied it. He was living outside
Dialogue: 0,0:19:55.77,0:19:57.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Syria, he came back to join
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.89,0:19:59.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the revolution, and then in the 8th month
Dialogue: 0,0:19:59.80,0:20:01.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he wrote a paper in which he said
Dialogue: 0,0:20:01.71,0:20:04.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's not enough to go out and protest.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:04.03,0:20:06.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have to withdraw from the state,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:06.02,0:20:08.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and stop giving our consent, and we have
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.66,0:20:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to set up our own alternative bodies
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.50,0:20:13.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and organizations, and he recommended
Dialogue: 0,0:20:13.58,0:20:15.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,setting up local councils - the local
Dialogue: 0,0:20:15.57,0:20:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,councils I was just talking about.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:17.52,0:20:19.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He helped to set up three of the first
Dialogue: 0,0:20:19.51,0:20:22.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,local councils in the Damascus suburbs,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:22.43,0:20:23.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then he was arrested.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:23.90,0:20:26.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he died in prison. Some people say
Dialogue: 0,0:20:26.49,0:20:28.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he was tortured to death, we don't know.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:28.33,0:20:30.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He already had weak health when he went
Dialogue: 0,0:20:30.88,0:20:33.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into prison... he died there a day before
Dialogue: 0,0:20:33.54,0:20:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,his 64th birthday.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.08,0:20:38.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But after he died, this model that he had
Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.01,0:20:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helped to build, spread like wildfire...
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.94,0:20:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,particularly in 2012-2013 as the regime
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.44,0:20:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was withdrawing from key areas of
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.76,0:20:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the country, people were setting up
Dialogue: 0,0:20:48.59,0:20:50.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,local councils everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:50.43,0:20:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's also important to remember, I mean,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:52.82,0:20:56.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a way that anarchists in the west can
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.07,0:20:58.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identify with Omar Aziz to an extent
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.11,0:20:59.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- if they've heard of him - because he
Dialogue: 0,0:20:59.85,0:21:02.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identified as an anarchist. But then,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:02.82,0:21:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,y'know, when we're looking at cultures
Dialogue: 0,0:21:04.45,0:21:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we as westerners don't immediately
Dialogue: 0,0:21:06.40,0:21:08.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recognize - Islamic cultures,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:08.07,0:21:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,African cultures, y'know, cultures all
Dialogue: 0,0:21:09.74,0:21:13.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the world - people there may be using
Dialogue: 0,0:21:13.92,0:21:16.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their own vocabulary, their own cultural
Dialogue: 0,0:21:16.98,0:21:20.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vocabulary, but they're sometimes arriving
Dialogue: 0,0:21:20.05,0:21:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the same conclusions of
Dialogue: 0,0:21:21.63,0:21:23.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,self-organization and cooperation that
Dialogue: 0,0:21:23.57,0:21:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anarchists in the west would hope that
Dialogue: 0,0:21:25.84,0:21:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they arrive to, so that's interesting and
Dialogue: 0,0:21:28.02,0:21:29.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think we need to look out for that
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.49,0:21:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the future.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:30.22,0:21:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What effects have the revolution
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.74,0:21:34.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and subsequent civil war had in terms of
Dialogue: 0,0:21:34.30,0:21:36.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women's participation in Syrian society?
Dialogue: 0,0:21:36.33,0:21:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a result of the revolution, women have
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.28,0:21:42.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been empowered a great deal, and then as
Dialogue: 0,0:21:42.47,0:21:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a result of the counter-revolutionary war,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:45.21,0:21:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in many ways things have gone backwards.
Dialogue: 0,0:21:47.80,0:21:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In terms of the revolution, I mean,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:49.38,0:21:53.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Razan Zaitouneh, a woman, was the founder
Dialogue: 0,0:21:53.37,0:21:55.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Local Coordination Committees,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.20,0:21:57.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a grassroots revolutionary unit which was
Dialogue: 0,0:21:57.60,0:21:59.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,set up at the start and spread all over
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.65,0:22:01.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the country. There was another group of
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.42,0:22:03.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coordination committees set up by
Dialogue: 0,0:22:03.17,0:22:05.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sohar Itasi, another woman,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:05.49,0:22:08.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so those two very important key bodies
Dialogue: 0,0:22:08.78,0:22:11.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were set up by women.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:11.66,0:22:13.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also, what you've had during
Dialogue: 0,0:22:13.33,0:22:16.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the revolution in liberated areas is a lot
Dialogue: 0,0:22:16.67,0:22:19.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of women's centers have been set up
Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.25,0:22:23.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by women themselves in order to encourage
Dialogue: 0,0:22:23.55,0:22:26.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women's participation in the revolution,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:26.11,0:22:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in society, in the economy, in order to
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.26,0:22:30.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,teach skills where necessary, and also as
Dialogue: 0,0:22:30.93,0:22:32.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,places where they can go and talk and
Dialogue: 0,0:22:32.93,0:22:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,express solidarity to each other, and try
Dialogue: 0,0:22:36.18,0:22:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find common solutions to their problems
Dialogue: 0,0:22:39.58,0:22:42.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that the fact of revolutionary
Dialogue: 0,0:22:42.12,0:22:44.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,work, as well, has to an extent liberated
Dialogue: 0,0:22:44.28,0:22:47.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women. Everything has been questioned
Dialogue: 0,0:22:47.29,0:22:49.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Syria in the last years, including the
Dialogue: 0,0:22:49.37,0:22:51.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,relations between men and women, between
Dialogue: 0,0:22:51.40,0:22:53.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,husbands and wives, between fathers and
Dialogue: 0,0:22:53.27,0:22:55.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,daughters, parents and children.
Dialogue: 0,0:22:55.63,0:22:57.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other hand, y'know... of course
Dialogue: 0,0:22:57.86,0:23:00.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fact of war, in many ways has made
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.95,0:23:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things terrible for women. I mean, women
Dialogue: 0,0:23:03.06,0:23:07.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have been subject to a mass rape campaign
Dialogue: 0,0:23:07.02,0:23:09.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which the regime organized.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:09.40,0:23:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ISIS also, of course, has raped women and
Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.49,0:23:15.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made Yazidi women into sex slaves, all of
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.87,0:23:17.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this kind of barbarism has gone on.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.86,0:23:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact of war has victimized women
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.79,0:23:24.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in particular... but the revolutionary
Dialogue: 0,0:23:24.13,0:23:26.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,impulses are there, and I think they will
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.15,0:23:28.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,continue, and I think that women who've
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.10,0:23:31.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a taste of activism and freedom,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:31.20,0:23:32.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if only for a moment, during
Dialogue: 0,0:23:32.98,0:23:35.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the revolution are not going to give
Dialogue: 0,0:23:35.36,0:23:36.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that up, and they're going to pass
Dialogue: 0,0:23:36.76,0:23:38.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that on to their daughters.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:38.18,0:23:39.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anything else you wanna add?
Dialogue: 0,0:23:39.24,0:23:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that we should really be paying
Dialogue: 0,0:23:40.94,0:23:43.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much more attention because, as I said,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:43.22,0:23:45.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's remarkable what Syrians are doing,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:45.87,0:23:48.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,socially, politically and culturally.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:48.80,0:23:50.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As well as all of the terrible things,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:50.79,0:23:53.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the torture, the jihadism, the bombing,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:53.11,0:23:54.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the rest of it, there's all of this
Dialogue: 0,0:23:54.82,0:23:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cultural explosion, the free newspapers,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.50,0:24:00.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the community cooperation that's happening
Dialogue: 0,0:24:00.43,0:24:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which we could learn from.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:02.30,0:24:03.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This kind of thing doesn't happen
Dialogue: 0,0:24:03.96,0:24:06.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very often in history, and certainly
Dialogue: 0,0:24:06.89,0:24:09.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people who claim to be revolutionaries,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:09.65,0:24:11.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anarchists and leftists they really should
Dialogue: 0,0:24:11.59,0:24:13.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be the first people who are without
Dialogue: 0,0:24:13.54,0:24:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prejudice, without silly binaries, without
Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.36,0:24:18.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,worshiping different lines set out
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.23,0:24:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by states - they should be attending
Dialogue: 0,0:24:20.14,0:24:21.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to what's happening on the ground at the
Dialogue: 0,0:24:21.61,0:24:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grassroots, and showing some solidarity.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:24.41,0:24:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thanks Robin… and that about
Dialogue: 0,0:24:26.04,0:24:27.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does it for this sedition of it's the end
Dialogue: 0,0:24:27.54,0:24:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the world as we know it and I feel fine
Dialogue: 0,0:24:29.82,0:24:31.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To listen to the entire interview
Dialogue: 0,0:24:31.69,0:24:33.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Robin, for a playlist of the music
Dialogue: 0,0:24:33.72,0:24:36.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we used, or to subscribe to our podcast
Dialogue: 0,0:24:36.18,0:24:38.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or email list just visit my fuckin website
Dialogue: 0,0:24:40.24,0:24:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted send a massive shoutout to the
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.82,0:24:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,folks of newday.host for saving our ass
Dialogue: 0,0:24:44.54,0:24:45.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when our webhost banned us,
Dialogue: 0,0:24:45.92,0:24:49.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,essentially leaving sub.media offline.
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Dialogue: 0,0:24:51.71,0:24:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also big ups to Louis, Antoine and Micah
Dialogue: 0,0:24:53.94,0:24:55.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for giving us tips on how to deal with
Dialogue: 0,0:24:55.41,0:24:56.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a hacking crisis this summer.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:56.91,0:24:59.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And of course, mega big ups to the slaves
Dialogue: 0,0:24:59.36,0:25:02.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who help us keep the lights on. So big ups
Dialogue: 0,0:25:02.37,0:25:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to: Harjap Jessica, Jay, Jim, Alexandra,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:05.26,0:25:07.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blade, Karlis, Steve, Gavin, Eradour, Jan,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:07.84,0:25:10.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jane, Jamie, Per, Laura, Flyn, Bear,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.34,0:25:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Michael, Gabriel, Brett, Saganites, Juliano,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:13.08,0:25:14.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Christopher, Stephen, Sebastien, Coby,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:14.88,0:25:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sakura, Aaron, Hanging Around Hammocks,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:17.08,0:25:20.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,William, Adam, Bogrestov, Salissen, Jordan
Dialogue: 0,0:25:20.54,0:25:23.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Robert, Dan, Michelle, Andrew, Tyler,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.26,0:25:25.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Aris, Justin, Michael, Joseph, Sawyer,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.38,0:25:27.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marisol, Corbin, Marten, Kirk, Elizabeth,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:27.49,0:25:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jens, Alyssa, Jakub, Justyna, Jose, David,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:30.26,0:25:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Joni, Jeffrey, Christopher, Wolfgang,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:32.78,0:25:34.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Andy, Danny, Paul, Gavin, Jeremy,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:34.85,0:25:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Moresca, Christopher, John, Renzo, Yifan,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:37.54,0:25:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sebastian, Ken, Alexandra, Erin, Bogrestov
Dialogue: 0,0:25:41.32,0:25:44.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Max, Skyler, Luigi, Paul, Maciej, Nigel,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:44.45,0:25:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Heinrigh, Gregory, Liam, Adrian, Derrick,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:47.10,0:25:50.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marten, Margaret and Meghsha... Antojitos!
Dialogue: 0,0:25:50.92,0:25:53.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I also want to welcome the newest members
Dialogue: 0,0:25:53.56,0:25:55.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the taconspiracy: Anonymous, Alberto,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:55.88,0:25:58.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sam, Liam, Corbo, Tunic and Talisman.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:58.74,0:25:59.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Bolijos!
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.71,0:26:01.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's all for now, stay tuned to
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Dialogue: 0,0:26:04.09,0:26:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the global muthafuckin resistance.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:06.04,0:26:07.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hasta la pasta compañeras!