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Professor Robert Rabil discusses the fall of Assad and situation in Syria, the collapse of the "Axis of Resistance", the future of Lebanon, regime change in Jordan and Iran, the Gulf, the interests of Turkey-Israel-America, the danger of Islamic radicalism, the fate of Christians in the region, and more! Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / Substack Geopolitics & Empire · Robert Rabil: Post-Assad Middle East, Fate of Syria Uncertain, Axis of Resistance Collapsed #499 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Become a Sponsor https://geopoliticsandempire.com/sponsors **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.com Escape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics LegalShield https://hhrvojemoric.wearelegalshield.com Sociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Robert Rabil Websites Website https://www.robertrabil.com Books https://www.robertrabil.com/books X https://x.com/robertgrabil TNT Radio Archives https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/?s=robert%20rabil About Robert Rabil Robert Rabil is professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University. He served as the Red Cross's Chief of Emergency in the Baabda region, Beirut, during Lebanon's civil war and was the project manager of the US State Department-funded Iraq Research and Documentation Project. He has been awarded the LLS Distinguished Faculty Award, LLS Distinguished Professor of Current Affairs, and FAU Scholar of the Year award. He was conferred with an honorary Ph.D. in humanities from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He is author of Embattled Neighbors: Syria, Israel and Lebanon, Syria, the United States and the War on Terror in the Middle East, Religion, National Identity and Confessional Politics in Lebanon, Salafism in Lebanon: From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism, The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon: The Double Tragedy of Refugees and Impacted Host Communities, and White Heart. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Professor Robert Rabil discusses the fall of Assad and situation in Syria, the collapse of the "Axis of Resistance", the future of Lebanon, regime change in Jordan and Iran, the Gulf, the interests of Turkey-Israel-America, the danger of Islamic radicalism, the fate of Christians in the region, and more! Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rokfin / Rumble / Substack Geopolitics & Empire · Robert Rabil: Post-Assad Middle East, Fate of Syria Uncertain, Axis of Resistance Collapsed #499 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Become a Sponsor https://geopoliticsandempire.com/sponsors **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (use code GEOPOLITICS for 15% off!) https://easydns.com Escape The Technocracy course (15% discount using link) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics LegalShield https://hhrvojemoric.wearelegalshield.com Sociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Robert Rabil Websites Website https://www.robertrabil.com Books https://www.robertrabil.com/books X https://x.com/robertgrabil TNT Radio Archives https://tntradiolive.podbean.com/?s=robert%20rabil About Robert Rabil Robert Rabil is professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University. He served as the Red Cross's Chief of Emergency in the Baabda region, Beirut, during Lebanon's civil war and was the project manager of the US State Department-funded Iraq Research and Documentation Project. He has been awarded the LLS Distinguished Faculty Award, LLS Distinguished Professor of Current Affairs, and FAU Scholar of the Year award. He was conferred with an honorary Ph.D. in humanities from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. He is author of Embattled Neighbors: Syria, Israel and Lebanon, Syria, the United States and the War on Terror in the Middle East, Religion, National Identity and Confessional Politics in Lebanon, Salafism in Lebanon: From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism, The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon: The Double Tragedy of Refugees and Impacted Host Communities, and White Heart. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Congress has a June deadline to raise the debt ceiling, but there's a tense political standoff to be settled. It's not the first time something like this has happened. In 2011, Republicans were also trying to secure spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit. NPR's Ron Elving joins us. And, the Syrian refugee crisis has been going on for 12 years now, and it hasn't shown many signs of improvement. Political violence and natural disasters have forced more than 14 million Syrians out of their homes. Cate Blanchett — actor and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees goodwill ambassador — discusses her recent trip to Jordan and meetings with Syrian refugees. Then, gun violence and mass shootings are daily occurrences in the U.S., but new research shows that rates of gun violence differ across the country. Colin Woodard, researcher and director of the Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island, joins us.

In this episode, Phil and his guests talk about how their involvement in the Syrian Refugee Crisis taught them more about refugee ministry. In many ways, the things that were learned in the Syrian Refugee Crisis influenced a lot of the decisions we made during the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis. If you have been enjoying this show, please share it with a friend. Word of mouth always helps, but you can also help by sharing our podcast with someone, or our social media pages and/or posts. We would also appreciate you sharing a review of our show so more people can hear about Crossing Cultures. ENDING SONG USED IN THE EPISODE: Heavy Ghost by Josh White You can find his music on Any Music Platform Credit goes to these companies for their clips and news footage in this episode: Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa KPBS CBS ABC CNN NBC The Guardian Tapp Channel Euro News BBC Newsnight "Maidan" Official Movie Trailer #1 (2014) There are some conversations and topics in this episode that may be disturbing for some viewers. Viewer Discretion is advised.

What's literary fiction?It's not easily defined. Maybe because literary fiction is not what it is but it isn't. Essentially, it is fiction writing that does not fit into any genre. Like crime, romance, horror, science-fiction, and other what have you genres.Another characteristic of literary fiction is that the story is driven by its protagonists or characters and not by a plot. It can speak of humanity, embrace a philosophy, dwell for pages on describing something that may well be inconsequential to the subject and indeed, stray very far from whatever plot or path it may have chartered for itself.You read literary fiction for the journey you make from cover to cover. It's not necessarily a whodunit, such that you get to the end only to find out that the butler didn't.For dint of its lack of conformity to genre, I reckon, literary writing is considered an art form and therefore an idealistic higher form. So does it follow that genre based literature is somehow mass media?And despite loud protestations to the contrary, the Nobel Prize for Literature has frequently gone mostly to writers of literary fiction. Also the Booker. To wit, literary fiction is not written with the objective of entertaining and amusing the reader. It calls for the reader to appreciate its prose.My guest today is Omar El Akkad, a craftsman if I ever read one. A few writers—very few—begin their careers by making a mark. He's one.Omar's first book, American War—a dystopian novel set in the future—received deservedly great accolade. Omar's latest work is a novel called What Strange Paradise. It is the story of a young Syrian refugee. The narrative alternates between his journey on a refugee boat and what ostensibly happens after it washes up broken, on a shore in Greece.Whatever it is that pundits accept as literary fiction, you might say Omar's prose rises to it.My introduction to him was his essay in the literary magazine, The Paris Review. I found the story—titled “Flight Paths”—so compelling that I asked my team to invite him to be my guest today on this podcast. And I was delighted he was available.So here he is. Joining us from his home in Portland, Oregon, is award winning literary novelist Omar El Akkad.ABOUT OMAR EL AKKADAuthor and journalist, he was born in Egypt, grew up in Qatar, moved to Canada as a teenager and now lives in the United States. He won a National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His fiction and non-fiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Guernica, GQ and others. His debut novel, American War, is an international bestseller, winning several awards. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times and others. His new novel, What Strange Paradise, was released in July, 2021 and won the Giller Prize, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Award, the Oregon Book Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize. It was also named a best book of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR and several other publications.Buy What Strange Paradise here: https://amzn.to/3b0YLiLWHAT'S THAT WORD?!Co-host Pranati "Pea" Madhav joins Ramjee Chandran in the segment "What's That Word?", where they discuss the phrase "toe the line".WANT TO BE ON THE SHOW?Reach us by mail: theliterarycity@explocity.com or simply, tlc@explocity.com.Or here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theliterarycity.Or here:  https://www.instagram.com/explocityblr/.

Adam and I grew up together on Vancouver Island. It has been incredible to reconnect with him and discuss the absolutely mad path that he has taken through life. Like myself he was bit with the desire to seek out new horizons but where my path took my to Japan, his took him all over the world. There is so much to Adam's story that we cannot nearly cover it in this one episode but that does not limit its scale. Adam started his career assisting the UN in Zimbabwe which offered him a totally new sense of life and culture. He would then go on to assist in the Syrian crisis in a role which would see him allocating resources and working the execute the particulars of plans laid out for aid.

It's not often that we have the opportunity to welcome a living composer into our midst, but that's indeed the case as Emmy-nominated composer Kareem Roustom joins us to talk about his clarinet concerto Adrift on the Wine-dark Sea. Inspired by Homer's classic epic The Odyssey and Melissa Fleming's A Hope More Powerful Than The Sea (a harrowing story from the Syrian Refugee Crisis), Kareem's concerto is a meditation on the nature of survival and hope in the face of despair. Local concert-goers have a chance to hear it live from the Toledo Symphony and "intensely soulful" (NY Times) clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, in a program which also features Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and another modern work, Errollyn Wallen's Mighty River - which is based in part on the hymn tune New Britain (familiar as the melody of Amazing Grace).

Why are medical school grads shy away from family medicine, Even as the price of meat soars, plant-based alternatives still cost more, New documentary highlights Syrian refugee crisis &  Exploring the hype surrounding hydrogen - April 28th, 2022   Why are medical school grads shy away from family medicine? Guest: Dr. Brady Bouchard, College of Family Physicians of Canada President and Saskatchewan family physician     Even as the price of meat soars, plant-based alternatives still cost more  Guest: Melanie Morrison, CEO of BetterCart Analytics    New documentary highlights Syrian refugee crisis Guest: Noura Kevorkian, Lebanese-Syrian film director and producer based in Toronto    Exploring the hype surrounding hydrogen Guests: Heather Campbell, Executive Director of Alberta Innovates, Clean Resources David Layzell, Energy Systems Architect, The Transition Accelerator, Professor & Director, Canadian Energy Systems Analysis Research (CESAR) Initiative, University of Calgary

Guest: Noura Kevorkian, Lebanese-Syrian film director and producer based in Toronto 

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It's not often that we have the opportunity to welcome a living composer into our midst, but that's indeed the case as Emmy-nominated composer Kareem Roustom joins us to talk about his clarinet concerto Adrift on the Wine-dark Sea. Inspired by Homer's classic epic The Odyssey and Melissa Fleming's A Hope More Powerful Than The Sea (a harrowing story from the Syrian Refugee Crisis), Kareem's concerto is a meditation on the nature of survival and hope in the face of despair. Local concert-goers have a chance to hear it live from the Toledo Symphony and "intensely soulful" (NY Times) clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, in a program which also features Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and another modern work, Errollyn Wallen's Mighty River - which is based in part on the hymn tune New Britain (familiar as the melody of Amazing Grace).

Turkey fears another exodus of Syrian refugees as Damascus, backed by Russia, is ramping up attacks against Idlib, the last Syrian rebel enclave. A Turkish military force stands in the way of Syrian troops that are poised to seize Idlib, a move Ankara fears could result in millions of refugees fleeing to Turkey. Russian-backed Syrian regime forces are stepping up their attacks on Idlib with artillery and airstrikes. Syrian President Bashar Al Assad is pledging to retake the rebel-controlled enclave, home to around four million people, many refugees from across Syria.  For now, Turkish armed forces in Idlib stand in the way of Assad's goal. But analysts warn they are in an increasingly precarious position.  Risk of conflict  "The Turkish government put itself and the Turkish government under this situation, a kind of horns of the dilemma," said Haldun Solmazturk, a retired Turkish army general, now an analyst with the 21st Century Turkey Institute.  "Now they are so closely engaged, they are many risks involved—the risk of direct conflict with Syrian forces, involving even Russian armed forces elements. Risk of conflict with those so-called Idlib emirates controlling the Idlib area," added Solmazturk.  Last year, 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in Idlib in an airstrike that Ankara blamed on the Syrian air force. However, many observers believe the sophisticated attack was carried out by Russian planes.  Turkey's military presence in Idlib is part of a deal struck between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. But Moscow accuses Ankara of failing to honor the agreement to purge Idlib of radical jihadist groups along with heavy weaponry.  Turkey and Idlib Turkey recently reinforced its military presence in Idlib. But the main Turkish opposition CHP Party is warning any Idlib attack threatens a humanitarian disaster.   "When the civilian population feels that such an attack is coming from the Syrian army, supported by the Russian air force. Then the civilians will probably try to find refuge moving towards the north," warned Unal Cevikoz, a CHP member of the Turkish parliament's foreign affairs committee. "And that, of course, will cause a new migration wave, and it could place serious pressure on the Turkish border. That is the main security risk we are facing," Cevikoz added.   Turkey says it is already hosting nearly five million refugees who fled the Syrian civil war. However, the possibility of another wave of refugees is spurring the main opposition parties to call on Ankara to open talks with Damascus, a move Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled out.  Instead, Erdogan is looking to his relationship with Putin. Analysts suggest Putin benefits from the current tensions over Idlib.  "After six years of interlude, Bashar Al Assad suddenly rushed to Moscow in the middle of the night like a month ago and had a one-on-one meeting with Putin,' observed Aydin Selcen is a columnist with the Duvar News portal.  "And right after that, Erdogan went to (meet Putin) at Sochi(Russian Sea resort)," Selcen continued, "So in a way, Putin shows that he is the kingmaker, that he can both push Erdogan and Basar Al Assad in the interests of Russia and Russia only."  For that reason, some experts predict Putin may broker another compromise over Idlib, ensuring Russia retains its leverage over both Ankara and Damascus. 

Featured interview: Analysis on the current Syrian refugee crisis in Europe and growing comparisons of the situation to Myanmar's military crackdown -미얀마 쿠데타 상황과 시리아 내전 및 난민 문제의 유사성 분석 Guest: Professor Natasha Lindstaedt, Department of Government, University of Essex

On this episode of the Global News podcast Whatever Happened To…?, journalist Erica Vella revisits the story of Alan Kurdi and the Syrian refugee crisis (Part 2) In 2012, Ruba Bilal was living in Damascus, Syria with her husband and two sons; she had reached a level of stability in her life, but the country where she had lived her whole life was in the middle of a dangerous civil war. Bilal said she was an activist in her community and worked on providing aid to people who were in areas that were under siege, but her family had concerns that she would be taken and detained because of the work she was doing. That year, Bilal and her family felt tensions beginning to mount and she said they made the decision to temporarily relocate to Lebanon. As the civil war continued, it was clear Bilal and her family would never have the chance to return to Syria and she submitted an application to LifeLife Syria, an organization that connects Syrian refugees with potential sponsors in Canada. In 2016, she learned her family would be coming to Canada as privately sponsored refugees. Bilal and her family were one of thousands who came to Canada in 2016, after the federal government made promises to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees. The commitment came after a photo of two-year-old Alan Kurdi garnered international attention on the dangers refugees undertake to seek safety. Kurdi and his family were attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea by boat after fleeing war-torn Syria. On the journey Alan, his brother Ghalib and mother Rehana perished; Abdullah Kurdi, Alan and Ghalib's father, was the only one to survive. On this episode of Whatever Happened To…?, Erica Vella speaks with Bilal about how she and her family adapted to life in Canada. She also finds out what happened to the Kurdi family and if the federal government has continued its commitment to resettle refugees in Canada. Contact: Twitter: @ericavella Email: erica.vella@globalnews.ca See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In early September in 2015, a photo of a young boy lying lifeless on a beach in the Mediterranean captured the world’s attention. The picture showed two-year-old Alan Kurdi lying face down in the sand. Kurdi and his family were attempting to cross the Mediterranean by boat after fleeing war-torn Syria, but on the journey Alan, his brother Ghalib and mother Rehana perished; Abdullah Kurdi, the family’s father and husband, was the only one to survive. Tima Kurdi, Abdullah’s sister and Alan’s aunt, spoke about the night the family boarded the boat in Bodrum, Turkey. Tima said she went to grab her phone and noticed she had dozens of missed calls; she called her sister-in-law who was living in Turkey. The journey the Kurdi family took was one thousands of Syrians attempted at the height of the civil war. On this episode of the Global News podcast Whatever Happened To…?, journalist Erica Vella revisits the story of Alan Kurdi and the Syrian refugee crisis and speaks with Tima about the Kurdi family’s devastating journey and finds out how the photo of Alan mobilized Canada to take action and help thousands of Syrians fleeing persecution. Contact: Twitter: @ericavella Email: erica.vella@globalnews.ca See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Avital Livny of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne talks about her latest book, Trust and the Islamic Advantage: Religious-Based Movements in Turkey and the Muslim World, with Marc Lynch on this week's podcast.  The book shows that the Islamic advantage is rooted in feelings of trust among individuals with a shared, religious group-identity, and presents a new argument for conceptualizing religion as both a personal belief system and collective identity. (Starts at 27:01). Ala' Alrababa'h discusses the article, Attitudes Toward Migrants in a Highly Impacted Economy: Evidence From the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan (co-authored by Andrea Dillon, Scott Williamson, Jens Hainmueller, Dominik Hangartner, Jeremy M. Weinstein) published in Comparative Political Studies. (Starts at 0:58). Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl of Leiden University talks about his article, On-Side fighting in civil war: The logic of mortal alignment in Syria, published in the Rationality and Society journal. (Starts at 12:58). Music for this season's podcast was created by Feras Arrabi. You can find more of his work on his Facebook and Instagram page.

Today we'll be talking to Emmi Bevensee. They're a data journalist who utilizes a data storytelling approach to make complexity understandable. Topics discussed: First section: Complex Warfare; Disinformation Warfare; Drones; 3D-printed Guns; Houthis and Saudi Arabia; Asymmetrical Warfare; Surveillance; Anti-authoritarian communities; Open-source intelligence (OSINT); Katehon; Russia; Complexity Dynamics; Pandemics and Viral Spreads; Ukraine/Russia/Syria. Second section: 8kun; 8chan; 4chan; Gamergate; Gab; Parler; January 6 Coup Attempt; Jim Watkins; Ron Atkins; QAnon; Child sexual abuse (not in detail, just in the context of the Watkins family's role in the online hate scene); Swarm tactics; BBC Eye investigations; Shabbiha; Mexican government, paramilitary troops and the Zapatistas; role of governments in conspiracies like QAnon; Kraken; Dominion Conspiracy; Trump; ‘Stop The Steal'; Cults; Hezbollah; “Q Clearance: Unmasking QAnon” podcast with Jake Hanrahan; Third Section: Syncretism; Fascist entryism; Alt-Imperialism; Legacy of 2003 Invasion of Iraq on Campism; Boomer socialism; Answer coalition; Stop The War in the UK; Anti-semitism; Assadists; Hong Kong; Dugin and Duginism; Ajamu Baraka and the US Green Party; Code Pink. Fourth Section: Syria; Living on the Turkey-Syria Border; No Fly Zone; Syrian Refugee Crisis; Lessons from the Syrian experience for anti-authoritarians; Syrian-related disinformation and authoritarianism; Libya; London Syria scene. PATREON Help me make more podcast episodes by supporting me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/firethesetimes PAYPAL If you'd rather make a one-time donation you can do it via PayPal: https://paypal.me/ibnbaldwin BLOG POST https://thefirethisti.me/2021/01/26/59-60-anti-fascism-and-the-future-of-complex-warfare/ If you can't donate anything, you can still support this project by sharing with your friends and leaving a review wherever you get your podcasts! Music by Tarabeat.

2 Queer Arabz talk with Shahla Raza, the founder and director of Yusra Community Center in Istanbul, Turkey. Shahla shares how the center was started, the Syrian refugee crisis in Istanbul, and her abilities to cuss in Arabic. We also discuss Arab culture, such as being stuffed like a turducken and dancing the dabka. Shalha highlights the amazing women led business collective calIed Inshirah, which is for Syrian refugee women who utilize the center. Products from the Inshirah collective could be bought through the the Yusra Community Center facebook pages: Yusra Community Center and Inshirah or on Instagram @ inshirah_collective

How do states’ foreign policy goals affect their policies towards refugees? What is the impact of forced displacement on host states’ political development? Gerasimos Tsourapas draws on elite interviews conducted across Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey in the context of the Syrian refugee crisis to examine the particularities of migration diplomacy in the Levant. He identifies how the three states sought to secure economic aid from the international community, relying on both bargains and threats, in exchange for hosting Syrian refugees within their borders. In fact, the absence of a functioning global refugee regime and the reluctance of Western countries to host refugees led to the commodification of forced migration and the emergence of a new type of state, in which forced migration constitutes an instrument of economic leverage – the refugee rentier state. In this talk, Gerasimos discusses the effects of such processes on the international politics of the Levant, as well as on the future of refugee protection across the world. About the speaker: Dr Gerasimos Tsourapas is Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Birmingham and CBRL’s Acting Honorary Treasurer. His research focuses on the politics of migrants, refugees, and diasporas in the Middle East and the broader Global South. He has also written on the international dimension of authoritarianism. Gerasimos’ first book, The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt – Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies (Cambridge University Press, 2019), was awarded the 2020 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award by the International Studies Association. His second book, Migration Diplomacy in the Middle East and North Africa – Power, Mobility, and the State, is forthcoming with Manchester University Press.

The Rakhine State and the Syrian Refugee Crisis are among the most daunting challenges posed to the UNHCR today. While both topics possess critical security aspects, delegates are challenged to address the humanitarian needs present in these topics.

Welcome to Majority.FM's AM QUICKIE! Brought to you by justcoffee.coop TODAY'S HEADLINES: The New York Times has Donald Trump’s tax returns, and you’ll never guess what they show. Oh, you guess that they show he’s barely paid any taxes through nefarious means? Well. You’re right. You guessed it. Meanwhile, President Trump has officially nominated Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the GOP is full steam ahead to get her on the bench before he has the chance to get voted out of office. And lastly, Portland Oregon weathers another contentious weekend, even as a far-right rally fizzled. Police continued to crack down hard on protesters, catching journalists and some bystanders in the crossfire. THESE ARE THE STORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW: Trump Pays No Taxes Want to know how much Donald Trump paid in taxes in 2016? $750. He paid about that much in 2017 as well, taking full advantage of a broken system set up to help the rich get richer and greasing the wheels with some underhanded deals along the way. The New York Times published a massive report on Sunday evening based on more than two decades of tax return data for President Trump and his companies. For 11 of the 18 years the Times examined, Trump paid nothing in federal income taxes. He did this, in a large part, by reporting massive amounts of losses every year. Basically all of his signature businesses report losing huge amounts of money. By reporting gigantic losses, he’s been able to keep his tax burden extremely low -- which also helped him get a questionable $72.9 million ​_refund_​ from the government. That transaction is under audit by the IRS. But he’s kept up the billionaire charade by writing off basically all his personal expenses, taking tax deductions on everything from $70,000 in TV hairstyling to aircraft and private residences. The full report is absurd -- there are just so many ludicrously crooked details. The full picture it paints is of a man under a massive amount of debt staying afloat, and in luxury, through loopholes that exist just to protect the super rich. It remains to be seen if it will actually affect voters, but one thing is for sure: the system that enabled Trump isn’t anything new. It’s just that one of its worst abusers managed to get elected president. ACB Nominated to Succeed RBG President Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barett to the Supreme Court on Sunday, offering up the Seventh Circuit Judge as his pick to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg. We talked a little bit about Coney Barrett last week, so we’ll spare some of the details. Suffice to say, she’ll be gunning for Roe V Wade, Obamacare, and a whole host of other social and economic landmarks right after that. A recent poll by the New York Times and Siena College showed that 56 percent of likely voters would prefer to have whoever wins the election nominate the next justice, but that probably isn’t what’s going to happen. That’s because as expected, Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans have set up a lightning-fast timeline to get Coney Barrett confirmed, and they most likely have the votes to do it. What the Democrats can do to stop them is still up in the air, but activists are turning up the pressure on leadership to pull out all the stops. Protesters gathered outside of Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer’s home on Saturday to urge the leading Democrat to publicly and vocally refuse to hold hearings to confirm a new justice, use every procedural block they can to gum up the works, and fully commit to ending the filibuster and packing the court the next time Democrats take back the Senate. Hopefully, that’ll be this year. If it’s not, we may see a far grimmer country by the time the Democrats can take back the court again. Portland Cops Plaster Protesters Violence on the streets, much of it perpetrated by the police, rocked the city of Portland again this weekend, as rival demonstrations gave way to street protests that were brutally broken up by Portland authorities. Police presence was aggressive over the weekend because of a large rally organized by the far-right Proud Boys group. But fortunately, a last minute location change for the rally kept it isolated from most counterprotests. Still, there were some skirmishes and assaults when Proud Boys attacked people they suspected of being antifa activists. After the right wingers had gone home, though, the cops returned to their regularly scheduled crackdowns on protesters, arresting more than two dozen according to the Oregonian. In one video captured online by journalist Sergio Olmos, police smashed a cyclist off his bike in the street and arrested him while he screamed that he was an UberEats delivery rider just trying to do his job. In another instance, Portland police knocked 73-year-old photographer John Rudoff to the ground while aggressively arresting and striking protesters with their baton. According to Gregory McKelvey, Rudoff’s friend and the vice Chair of the Oregon Democrats Black Caucus, Rudoff said quote: “I shot the Syrian Refugee Crisis, I shot Paris Protests, I shot Bangladesh, I shot Hong Kong, and it was Portland Police who beat the shit out of me.” AND NOW FOR SOME QUICKER QUICKIES: Clashes broke out on Sunday between Azerbaijan and Armenia, who have been in conflict over the breakaway province of Nagorno-Karabakh [NA GOR NO, KAR AH BACH] for years. Wire reports describe the recent fighting as much more severe than typical border skirmishes, with both sides reporting civilians dead or wounded. ABC reports that Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Brad nwas taken into custody on Sunday night by Fort Lauderdale Police after allegedly threatening to harm himself and briefly barricading himself in his home. Meanwhile, the Covid pandemic churns on. The World Health Organization warned on Friday that the global death toll from the virus could top two million if world governments don’t take collective action. And finally, zoomers rejoice! A U.S. judge temporarily blocked Trump’s ban on the TikTok app just hours before it was scheduled to go into effect, ruling that TikTok could have a temporary injunction against the ban on downloading the app that was supposed to go through on Sunday night. Sept 28, 2020 - AM Quickie HOSTS - Sam Seder & Lucie Steiner WRITER - Jack Crosbie PRODUCER - Dorsey Shaw EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Brendan Finn

What's it like to help a community recover from an earthquake? Why join disaster management as a career? What kind of person is needed to save lives and property? Find out these answers and more in this episode, a wonderful interview with Dr. Burçak Başbuğ Erkan, Coventry University, UK. And be sure to check out the Study Guide for the program! Click on the top left where it says "Pdf" above the date! https://multi-hazards.libsyn.com/earthquakes-disaster-management-education-protecting-communities-interview-with-dr-burak-babu-erkan/ Dr. Burçak Başbuğ Erkan's Bio Dr. Burçak Başbuğ Erkan is Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) at the School of Energy, Construction and Environment, at Coventry University, United Kingdom (UK). She is a Lecturer and also the Course Director for the Master of Science in Disaster Management and Resilience at Coventry University, as well as an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR). Her other current positions include Editorial Board member of the journal ‘Disasters’, a Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) Urban Disaster Hub project team member with responsibility in Istanbul city, Turkey, Academic Director of the Institute for Civil Protection and Emergency Management (ICPEM), etc. Her past experience in these fields reaches back to 2005. She has a Ph.D Statistics, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, United Kingdom (2007), A Master of Science in Statistics, University of Warwick, United Kingdom (2002) and a Bachelor of Science in Statistics, Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey (1999). Dr. Burçak Başbuğ Erkan has expertise on policy development in disaster risk reduction, disaster risk management, resilience, accountability, financial management strategies for disaster losses, catastrophe insurance, DRR/DRM education, risk management, and risk analysis. She has been the director of the Turkish Disaster Data Bank project for AFAD (Turkey), as well as the Turkish Catastrophe Insurance Pool. She has 20 years of national and international work in teaching, consulting and training in Disaster Risk Reduction / Disaster Risk Management. Dr. Burcak Basbug Erkan has extensive working experience in developing multi-hazard countries and also field experience such as the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis, the 2011 Van Earthquakes, and the May 2014 Soma Mine Fire in Turkey. She has published many journal publications and books, worked on numerous projects and received many awards.

If the world doesn't act now, experts warn the coronavirus will decimate refugee camps. And it's just a matter of time before the virus reaches densely crowded camps where there is already little or no water or health care. So what are refugee communities doing to protect themselves from the highly contagious virus?In this episode: Al Jazeera senior correspondent Mohammed Jamjoom (@MIJamjoom) reports on the possible outcomes and solutions being proposed to provide aid to global refugee communities.For more:Growing calls to evacuate Greek refugee camps amid virus threatWar-torn Syria braces for lockdown after first virus caseTimeline: How the new coronavirus spreadConnect with The Take: Twitter (@AJTheTake), Instagram (@ajthetake) and Facebook (@TheTakePod).

On this episode of The Raben Report, we discussed the Syrian Refugee crisis. But, like our first episode, what you'll here is not exactly as advertised...see for yourself! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/therabenreport/support

Everyone told us that we'd never get 7 episodes in. WELL LOOK AT US NOW MOM! We're rich and famous thanks to all 50 people who've listened so far. We won't forget what you've done for us. This time it's Florida and more importantly, China's turn to be put on blast so now we're on a list. Your favorite segment, Shut Up & Swallow This! makes its triumphant return. We also break new ground on subjects like: Integers, how do they work? Initialisms vs Acronyms Fantasy Football Pro Strats Tim dodges his royal upbringing Vape juice market manipulation How Addison caused the Syrian refugee crisis How to properly tell a 5 year old Santa isn't real Why don't we price things at $69.69? COWARDS! Tim cancels Target We tried really hard to keep it to an hour this week....but we're bad with time management, ok! I hope you're happy! If you want to see images of THICC Flubber and other things we talk about in the episode, Follow us on Instagram I guess? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/part-time-pod/message

Dr. Fadlo Khuri. Khuri is the 16th president of the American University of Beirut and professor of medicine (hematology and medical oncology) at the Faculty of Medicine and Medical Center. Prior, he was professor and chairman of the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine where he held the Roberto C. Goizueta Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research. Moderated by Howard Koh, Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership.

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"After seven years (of working with Syrian refugees in Lebanon), I'm still alive," Love Aid Singapore Founder Gilbert Goh joked. Why did this Singaporean decide to dedicate so much time and effort to humanitarian efforts there? Find out about Mr Goh's mission and the challenges he encountered in this lecture of the ME 101 series held on 28 August.

For our first episode, we spoke with the Co-CEO of Israaid, Yotam Polizer. Yotam and his organization respond to humanitarian crises across the globe which include the Syrian Refugee Crisis, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Maria, Sierra Leone Ebola Outbreak, Fukushima Earthquake, among other disasters. Yotam provided emotional, real-world stories about his experiences responding to the worst the world has to offer. This episode was recorded in December of 2018. Make sure to check out Israaid at Israaid.org to learn more about their organization. Also, check out Truth Serum History to learn more about the show and get access to all of Truth Serum's content. Truth Serum aims to educate Americans about our shared history.  The host, Noah Starr, has a personal blog titled Rambling Digressions, his excuse to ramble about some nonsense. Check it out at here. Make sure to tune in next week for the next episode of the What's it like podcast...

In September 2018 our local chapter of Physicians for Human Rights hosted an event where guest speaker Amal Kassir gave a talk called “The Syrian Refugee Crisis and Islamophobia.” A few members of the Medicus team were at this event and we thought her message was worth sharing, so we’ve decided to play the audio from this event on the podcast. She delivers her message with a mixture of poetry and storytelling about her experience growing up as a Muslim-American, her extended family living through Syrian Civil War, and the importance of empathy. Amal Kassir is a Muslim Woman, born and raised in Denver, CO to a German-Iowan Mother and a Syrian Father. She is an international spoken word poet, having performed in 10 countries and over 45 cities. She has conducted workshops, given lectures, and recited her poetry in venues ranging from youth prisons, to orphanages to refugee camps to universities to churches to community spaces for the public. She designed her own undergraduate degree called 'Community Programming in Social Psychology' and she is a major proponent in education and building individual agency in particularly underserved and vulnerable populations, especially through writing. She hopes to take part in the global effort for literacy in war-struck areas and refugee camps, Insha'Allah. You can see Amal's TEDx talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIAm1g_Vgn0 Amal Kassir's Social Media Links: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/activistamalkassir Instagram https://www.instagram.com/amalthepoet Twitter https://twitter.com/amalthepoet Website http://www.amalkassir.com/ For the introduction to this episode we are joined by Abdallah, the president of a local chapter of Physicians for Human Rights, an organization that “works at the intersection of medicine, science, and law to secure justice and universal human rights for all.” You can find out more information about them at https://www.phr.org Outro Music: Chillin Hard - Kevin Mcleod Episode produced by: Nate Burstedt www.medicuspodcast.com | medicuspodcast@gmail.com | Donate: http://bit.ly/MedicusDonate

This week we are talking to Desiree Matel-Anderson. Desi has created a team that implements intelligence products in the disaster zone. The Field Innovation Team (FIT) an organization that focuses on bringing smart technology and design into resilience initiatives and disaster responseGuest BioDesiree (Desi) Matel-Anderson the first and former Chief Innovation Advisor at FEMA, she led the first innovation team down to Hurricane Sandy to provide real-time problem solving in disaster response and recovery. During her tenure she ran think tanks nation-wide to cultivate innovation in communities, the event trended globally on social media during the broadcasts. She has deployed teams into several disasters including, the Boston Marathon Bombings assisting at the scene with social media analysis and Moore, Oklahoma tornadoes for continued mobile registration and coding solutions. She has also deployed teams into the Oso, Washington Mudslides to fly drones and 3D print topography maps for Incident Command and the Nepal earthquakes to collaborate with Nepali women leaders in relief efforts, including the rebuilding of schools and empowerment trainings. In 2015, she led a team to Lebanon to support the Syrian Refugee Crisis launching an artificial intelligent robot for psychosocial services and built a survivor-to-survivor guide for the McMurray Wildfires in Canada. In 2016, her team provided public health gaming to the Miami-Dade Public School System to educate on the outbreak of the Zika virus. Last year, she deployed a team to Rockport, Texas during Hurricane Harvey to design a system for efficient donations management serving over a thousand survivors daily along with kick starting a mobile medical unit and a smart sheltering system. Recently, the team responded to the wildfires in Paradise, California problem-solving challenges with responders, citizens and survivors for safe, responsible and resourced re-entry into the town. Desi and the team continue to work with communities’ worldwide.Desi began her emergency management experience by volunteering in Northern Illinois University’s Office of Emergency Planning followed by working with the Southeast Wisconsin Urban Area Security Initiative, and the City of Milwaukee Homeland Security and Emergency Management Office. In addition to her regional emergency management duties, she worked as an Emergency Management Accreditation Program Assessor, which included assessing the City of Boston’s emergency management services prior to the tragic Boston Marathon bombings. Desi lectures on innovation at Harvard, Yale, Berkeley and various universities. She serves as a consultant on innovation for agencies and governments, nationally and internationally, including her advisor role to the European emergency management consortium in UNESCO’s I-REACT team.Desi attended the National Preparedness Leadership Institute at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and School of Public Health in 2011, advised on Harvard’s Executive Education on National Preparedness Leadership Institute Advisory Board in 2013 and obtained a Juris Doctorate from Northern Illinois University in 2009. When Desi is not deployed in a disaster, she enjoys the fresh mountain air in Utah with her dogs and family.Related ShowsLinks LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/desiree-matel-anderson-4141617a/Twitter: https://twitter.com/FITreadytogoInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/fitreadytogo/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FITreadytogo/Website: http://www.fieldinnovationteam.orgEmail: info@fieldinnovationteam.orgAdvertisersTitan HST https://www.titanhst.com/Emergency Managers Leadership Conference www.emlc.us

On today’s episode of Let’s Talk About Society, Adam and Melani discuss the Syrian Refugee Crisis, a worldwide problem today.

On this episode of Insights From Abroad, Jeff Villegas interviews Hille Hanso, where they discuss migrants, refugees, and the present situation in Syria. The views expressed in this publication are entirely those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the staff, officers or advisers of the University of Central Florida’s Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd Program for Strategic Research and Studies or Department of Political Science Department. PMBF website: https://sciences.ucf.edu/pmbfprogram/ College of Sciences website: http://sciences.ucf.edu/ Follow PMBF on: Twitter @PMBFprogram Instagram @pmbfprogramucf

Take a few minutes to listen to our podcast on the Syrian refugee crisis.

Hear about the war and the millions killed on the way to the great Americas.

Saria Samakie was a teenager living in Aleppo when the Arab Spring plunged Syria into conflict. In this episode, he shares a personal account of how conflict upended his family and community and led him on a journey as a captive, a refugee in search of education, a co-founder of a nongovernmental organization for fellow refugees in Jordan and ultimately a student at a U.S. university.

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Today I have a very special interview with a gal I'm calling Katie from Alabama. I can't use her full name or her photo, so that's a bummer, but the reason is because of the sensitive nature of her work. Katie works directly with Syrian Refugees. Yes, the refugees who have been the topic of conversation for every politician across the globe here in the past few months. We are going to talk specifically about some time she spent working in a refugee camp in Lebanon, and also about ISIS and the refugee crisis as a whole. Katie knows what she's talking about and her perspective is fascinating.

  Guest:  Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda......we will look at President Obama's reaction to the ISIS crisis.........how badly is he damaging his presidency?..............the unrest on universities and its impact on higher education........how will the public react to mobs pushing administrators around..............the political reaction to the Paris attacks, from the Democrats and climate change to some Republicans calling for ground troops in the Middle East............the outcry over Syrian refugees.....the role of national security and terrorism in 2016.......the growing problems of Obama Care......the 52nd anniversary of President Kennedy's assasination in Dallas.........and other stories of the week.. Click to support some of our friends.... ...CLICK AUDIBLE.COM, YOUR SOURCE FOR AUDIO BOOKS! CHECK OUT MY FRIEND CARLOS GUEDES AND HIS MUSIC........ FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER......

Pastor J.D. addresses the so-called Syrian Refugee Crisis, and explains the significance of what's happening in the world today, and perhaps more importantly, where it's all heading prophetically.

Kenny, Tom, Raine & Pete usher in the weekend with 3 hours of News, Opinion & Laffs! The Syrian Refugee Crisis looms large and the xenophobes and bigots are ginning up fear with the GOP base. Fortunately sanity and compassion are in abundance on the Left and there are a few voices of reason on the Right. Senator Al Franken lays out the facts of the Syrian Refugee Crisis followed by some empathy & decency from Republican Congressman, Steve Russell. News Ninja Action: For Your Health! President Obama calls out the GOP bigots that want to play politics with human lives. Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson & Donald Trump make fools of themselves discussing the Syrian Refugees. The audio needs to be heard to be believed. Name Calling, Biden's B-Day & The Suz on Reverse Call-In! Putin / Palin fan-porn-fic! Bryan Fischer has gone Full Church Lady! And so much more! Enjoy!

Ed and Lance discuss what Disney Princess is best, and how to fix the Syrian Refugee crisis. Ed forgot to describe what the cookie analogy is.... So here :: Cookies = Refugees Peanut particles = ISIS My house = My house (or My Country)

1. Terrorism in Paris: Will America+NATO fight ISIS in Syria? 2. Bill Murray of Religious Freedom Coalition explains the Syrian Refugee Crisis. 3. How America has contributed to the rise of ISIS and downfall of freedom in the Middle East. (c) 2015, Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD. Airs 11/15 on NRB Network, TheWalkTV, Roku, GoogleTV, ITunes, IPointTV, Glorystar Satellite

Scott Adams and Leonora Cravotta interview Patrick Fornari, auhor of "Commoner Sense Politics, the Working Person's Guide to America" about Black Lives Matter, the Syrian Refugee Crisis, and the 2016 Presidential Campaign.

Today we'll interview Steve Pauwells from Clashdaily.com to discuss the Pope Francis visit, Syrian Refugee Crisis, and Ben Carson's comments regarding a Muslim as President.

We're joined by David Platt, the current President of the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board, to talk about international missions and the Syrian Refugee Crisis. 

Scott Adams and Leonora Cravotta discuss the Syrian Refugee Crisis, Radical Islamic Terrorism and the 2016 Presidential Campaign

Scott Adams and Leonora Cravotta discuss the Syrian Refugee Crisis with Rose Zenian Cravotta

Scott Adams and Leonora Cravotta discuss Iran nuclear Deal, Syrian Refugee Crisis and Hillary's Email Server.