In Episode 86 [8] of the CounterVortex podcast [9], Bill Weinberg returns to the book The Responsibility to Protect in Libya and Syria: Mass Atrocities, Human Protection, and International Law [10] by Syrian American legal scholar Yasmine Nahlawi [11], exploring applicability of its analysis to the current disaster in Afghanistan [12]. This discussion is taken up at the request of Eric Laursen [13], author of The Duty to Stand Aside: [14]Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Wartime Quarrel of George Orwell and Alex Comfort [14]. Laursen is the first to take up the CounterVortex special offer [15], by which new Patreon subscribers [16] get to choose a topic for exploration on the podcast. When do we have a responsibility to protect, and when do we have a duty to stand aside, and how can these imperatives be reconciled? Listen on SoundCloud [8] or via Patreon [16].
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