I am pleased to welcome Laith Marouf to Wider View.  Laith is a Canadian journalist and activist who has served as national chair of the group Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, Executive Director of Concordia University Television in Montreal, and a senior consultant to the Community Media Advocacy Centre there.  Laith Marouf currently lives in Beirut Lebanon where he is a geopolitical and media analyst.  I spoke to Laith while he was in a cafe in Damascus, Syria.

We debunk some of the mainstream media lies about current events in Syria, particularly the US pullout that is getting so much negative attention.  It's refreshing to hear from a native of Syria who also has studied the situation there for many years.