It's hard to believe that just five days ago, the situation in Syria was the same as it had been for over a decade: Bashar Al-Assad was president and the U.S. empire was trying to overthrow him.

Then, suddenly, on the morning of December 8, 2024, everything changed. In what seemed like an instantaneous collapse, Damascus fell to the empire's "moderate rebels," Assad fled the country, and the Russian Navy evacuated its long held base at Tartus.

A strategic win for the empire to be sure, but was Washington actively involved? Or did the empire merely greenlight the deposition of Assad? And why after all these years did Assad's army seem to melt away before the rebels it had previously defeated?

These and many more questions have been going through my head since Saturday night/Sunday morning. And there is no one better to ask than veteran reporter Eric Margolis. Eric has been covering the Middle East since the 1970s. He interviewed the founder of Al Qaeda (not Osama bin Laden, btw) numerous times. He does what all the worthless propagandists on cable news claims to do: investigates important stories and tells the truth as he sees it, and damn the consequences.

This has not always made him friends in high places. But as he has forgotten more about Syria than most of us ever knew, it was my pleasure to interview him for today's episode of Tom Mullen Talks Freedom.

Listen to Episode 190 here...

Tom Mullen is the author of It’s the Fed, Stupid and Where Do Conservatives and Liberals Come From? And What Ever Happened to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness? 

 Tom