Amid jubilation [11] following the overthrow of long-ruling dictator Bashar Assad, the only fighting [12] in Syria is now between Arabs and Kurds—as the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA [13]) expels [14] the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF [13]) from the town of Manbij [13]. Ankara's design [15] is clearly to expunge the Kurdish autonomous zone [16] in the northeast region of Rojava. Yet there are also positive signs [17] of an accommodation [18] between the Rojava Kurds and the new revolutionary administration in Damascus. In Episode 256 [19] of the CounterVortex podcast [20], Bill Weinberg examines the new political landscape in Syria and tries to identify a way forward—past the threat of ethnic war [16] and toward a multicultural democracy [21].
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