Two true experts on the Middle East assess the future of Syria: Rather dim, given the plans of the Obama/al-Qaeda/Israel/Saudi axis

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Rania Masri and Chris Hedges On Obama's Syria Address

Pt 1: Scholar Rania Masri and writer Chris Hedges respond to President Obama's Major Syria Address - September 11, 13

PT 2: Chris Hedges and Rania Masri On What the Future May Hold For Syria

Pt 2 of writer Chris Hedges and scholar Rania Masri response to President Obama's Syria address - September 12, 13   Original Here

Bio

Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. He has written nine books, including "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" (2009), "I Don't Believe in Atheists" (2008) and the best-selling "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America" (2008). His book "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Rania Masri is an Arab American human rights activist, environmental scientist, university professor, and writer. Since 2005, she has been a Chair of the Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Balamand in Lebanon. Before then, Rania directed the Southern Peace Research And Education Center at the Institute for Southern Studies in NC. She has been active against the wars on Iraq, Lebanon, and, now, Syria. Since May, she has been giving a series of talks about US involvement in Syria. She has been representing a growing coalition of NC social justice organizations against the war.