© Credit Sebastián Liste/Noor Images, for The New York TimesAl-Hatab Square in Aleppo’s Old City.
Thus the piece headline: Aleppo After the Fall but one of the key sentences in it says just the opposite:
Yasser said he was one of the first people to come back [to east-Aleppo], right after what he — like everyone else I met — called the liberation.Jihadi propaganda claims of government bombing of random hospitals without reason "verified" by a Skype call to some al-Qaeda propagandist in Idleb- are mixed with reality based on-the-ground reporting:
On my second day in the city, I went to see the Aleppo Eye Hospital, a sprawling compound that the rebels had used as a military headquarters. As we walked through the burned and shattered building, my government minder and the soldiers guarding the place kept picking up markers of the rebels' Islamist leanings. They weren't hard to find. A fire-blackened car out front still had the Qaeda logo on its hood. ...Unfortunately the piece also includes factual errors:
The reporter, an Aleppan named Rida al-Basha, described the neighborhoods where [looting] had taken place and named the militias, including the notorious Tiger Forces, whose leaders include well-known thugs.
Comment: A universal basic income and universal healthcare are very progressive ideas with enormous potential one way or another, and measuring the health and wealth of a society should go beyond narrow metrics such as GDP. However, as always, the devil is in the details:
Automation, economic collapse, basic income slavery: Our dystopic future?