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So here's me challenging @RaniaKhalek on her change on positions on Syria in 2016 - after which her career took off. She cut me off (even though others before me spoke for ages) and moderator muted me for the rest of the session. She complained of "deplatforming" earlier.
Not shown here due to the recording not showing all the screens, I repeatedly told the moderator and Khaleq both through my camera and the chat that they should allow me the last 30 seconds they allowed others before me. They refused.
In her response, @RaniaKhaleq did not even *attempt* to answer why *all three* of her, Blumenthal and Norton would adopt their new understanding of US policy at the precise moment when it could be least understood as regime change.
(about 1:10:52 here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/masspeaceaction/permalink/3724393140915188/)
(about 1:10:52 here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/masspeaceaction/permalink/3724393140915188/)
Instead, she said all three had come to simultaneous realization that they were "duped by "corporate propaganda". This is so silly: 1) They were still skeptical leftists and anti-imperialists before then, 2) idea that "corporate propaganda" claimed US supported Assad is stupid.
I sent @RaniaKhalek a message inviting her to a debate. In fact, we also reached out to @aaronmate - who (lol) "replied all" to the email chain I was cc'd in by saying *he didn't know enough about Syria to debate*, and his work was narrowly focused only on the OPCW investigation.
