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Radio War Nerd EP #383 — Economic/Ukraine War Update, feat. Ben Aris

Guest: Ben Aris, founding editor BNE IntelliNewsRecorded: June 14, 2023Ben Aris joins us for an update on the US-led economic war on Russia, Russia's invasion, Ukraine's counteroffensive, and various outbreaks of war-related stupid.Total time: 1:31:52Direct link to this episode's mp3 her...

Radio War Nerd EP #382 — Brief History of Nukes, feat. Annibale

Guest: AnnibaleRecorded: June 8, 2023Last year, Conventional Wisdom had it that Putin might drop a nuke on Ukraine as Russia's military seemed to implode; this year, Conventional Wisdom says only dupes worry about Russian nukes. We talk to RWN favorite Annibale about the history & science of nuk...

Radio War Nerd EP #381 — Football Hooliganism: War By Other Means, feat. Aamer

Guest: AamerRecorded: June 1, 2023RWN favorite Aamer joins us for a brief & brutal history of football hooliganism, made intelligible to those of us who call it soccer.Total time: 1:33:42Direct link to this episode's mp3 here*NEW!! Buy John Dolan's comic memoir "Pleasant Hell" now av...

Radio War Nerd EP #380 — Pancho Villa & The Punitive Expedition

Recorded: May 26, 2023Every GOP contender for president in 2024 has a plan to invade Mexico upon taking office, and the good news is it's been done before so we don't have to guess how stupidly badly it will go. This episode the Nerd & Ames look back at Pancho Villa's raid on a small New...

Radio War Nerd EP #379 — World of Wars: Bakhmut to Belfast

Recorded: May 23, 2023We talk 108th Rochester Regiment Civil War reenactments, end of the endless Battle of Bakhmut, GUR-trained & US armed neo-Nazis invading Belgorod...and then some cheerful news for a change, this time out of Ireland...*Civil War funday fotosTotal time: 1:35:57Direct link to this...

UNLOCKED: Radio War Nerd #297 [REPOST] — The US Civil War, Part 2: Bleeding Kansas

Originally recorded: September 23, 2021Free unlocked repost of the second installment in the War Nerd US Civil War series: Bleeding Kansas, the southern slavers' dirty war in the Kansas territory, on the eve of the Civil War.Would you like to know more? This unlocked repost of RWN Episode #297 c...

Radio War Nerd EP #378 — The US Civil War, Part 14: The USCT (US Colored Troops)

Recorded: May 15, 2023In this 14th installment of the War Nerd US Civil War series, we look at the (oftentimes frustrating) history of the North's belated willingness to let African-Americans fight for the Union, and some battles that the USCT participated in when they were finally allowed to fi...

Radio War Nerd EP #377 — Cloak & Dumber: Spyfail, feat. James Bamford

Guest: James Bamford, authorRecorded: May 9, 2023We talk to national security investigative reporter James Bamford about US counterintelligence calamities over the past decade, with near apocalyptic consequences, in the larger context of US ruling class incompetence & corruption, all captured in Bam...

Radio War Nerd EP #376 — Salammbô, pt. 2 + Who's Afraid of Pentagon Leaks?

Recorded: April 26, 2023Part 2 of our look at Flaubert's gory war novel, Salammbô, plus a brief history of leaking secrets in the USA.At 7:00 — we discuss part 2 of Salammbô, Carthage & Flaubert...At 55:38 — we discuss leaks & leakers, from Jack Teixeira to Samuel Morison, and how leaking ...

REPOST: Radio War Nerd #375 [UNLOCKED] — Sudan Crisis, feat. Joshua Craze

Guest: Joshua Craze, writerRecorded: April 22, 2023We're reposting our interview with Joshua Craze, author of "Gunshots in Khartoum" in New Left Review, on the complex politics fueling the fighting in Sudan between the the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).Would you like t...

Radio War Nerd EP #375 — Sudan Crisis, feat. Joshua Craze

Guest: Joshua Craze, writerRecorded: April 22, 2023We discuss the crisis in Sudan with writer-researcher Joshua Craze, author of "Gunshots in Khartoum" in New Left Review.*Map of SudanTotal time: 1:21:28Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

Radio War Nerd EP #374 — Understanding Putin, with Philip Short

Guest: Philip Short, authorRecorded: April 18, 2023We talk to celebrated biographer Philip Short (Mao: A Life; Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare) about his controversial new biography on Vladimir Putin.First: we briefly discuss events in Sudan.At 15:00 - our interview with Short begins.Buy Philip Shor...

Radio War Nerd EP #373 — World of Wars: The Insulted & The Humiliated

Recorded: April 11, 2023The War Nerd & Ames catch up on current war-related events: toothaches, border crossings, Taibbi's humiliating thrashings, peace outbreak in Yemen, US diplomacy fails, the never-ending Bakhmut battle & more...Total time: 1:29:20Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

Radio War Nerd EP #372 — Iraq War 20th Anniversary, pt. 3: The Forever Warmongers

Recorded: March 28, 2023In part 3 of our look back at the Iraq War, we name names & throw a few feckless rocks, because all the Iraq War perps are still with us, still warmongering away with lifetime tenure...*Memories:*Kenneth Pollack, the liberal interventionists' big brain bug (according to t...

Radio War Nerd EP #371 — Iraq War 20th Anniversary, pt. 2: Countdown To Lunacy

Recorded: March 24, 2023The War Nerd & Ames recall the long loony lead-up to the Iraq War from their literary bunker in Moscow...Total time: 1:27:49Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

Radio War Nerd EP #370 — Iraq War 20th Anniversary, pt. 1: Abandoned Soldiers, feat. Seth Harp

Guest: Seth Harp, contributing editor Rolling StoneRecorded: March 22, 2023On the 20th anniversary of the dumbest war in living memory, we talk to Iraq war veteran Seth Harp about the lost history of how America's leaders and field commanders abandoned their soldiers to poor quality equipment th...

Radio War Nerd EP #369 — Georgia Protests & NGO Colonialism, feat. Sopo Japaridze

Guest: Sopo Japaridze, labor activist & podcasterRecorded: March 10, 2023We talk to Georgia-based labor activist Sopo Japaridze about the recent mass protests, backed by the West, against proposed new laws to regulate foreign-funded NGOs. We also discuss the sorry state of post-Soviet politics in Ge...

Radio War Nerd EP #368 — Salammbô & The Mercenary War, Part 1 (Prequel): The First Punic War

Recorded: February 19, 2023Part one in our 2-part series on Flaubert's novel, Salammbô, on ancient Carthage during the Mercenary War, otherwise known as the Truceless War. In this prequel episode, we look at the background to the Mercenary War: Carthage's first disastrous war with Rome, the...

Radio War Nerd EP #367 — Ethiopia-Tigray War, feat. Ann Neumann

Guest: Ann Neumann, journalistRecorded: February 17, 2023We talk to Ann Neumann, one of the few journalists to report from Ethiopia on the ongoing war against Tigray, which has resulted in at least 600,000 civilian deaths, mostly in Tigray, as well as revenge atrocities in border regions south-south...

Radio War Nerd EP #366 — Seymour Hersh on US Bombing Nord Stream Pipelines

Guest: Seymour HershRecorded: February 11, 2023We talk to legendary Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh about his latest bombshell scoop: the United States, on President Biden's orders, blew up the Nord Stream pipelines that were foundational to Germany's export economy until last ...

Radio War Nerd EP #365 — Economic War Update, feat. Ben Aris

Guest: Ben Aris, founding editor BNE IntelliNewsRecorded: February 9, 2023Friend of the show Ben Aris joins us from Berlin to update us on the G-7's economic war on Russia launched a year ago in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Total time: 1:29:12Direct link to this episode's mp3...

Radio War Nerd EP #364 — Tanks-giving In Ukraine, feat. John Griffiths

Guest: John Griffiths, Totally Tanked podcastRecorded: January 30, 2023Tanks are all the rage in the Ukraine war, a very mid-20th-c. weapon for a very 20th-c. war. We talk to Totally Tanked's John Griffiths about the workhorses of this war — the T-64 and T-72 — along with the alleged "ga...

Radio War Nerd EP #363 — Trillion Dollar Pentagon Baby, feat. Andrew Cockburn

Guest: Andrew Cockburn, Harpers magazineRecorded: January 26, 2023We talk to Andrew Cockburn about the DoD's tragicomic budget as it nears the magical 1,000,000,000,000 mark, to the accompaniment of crickets from our media-political "watchdogs".Subscribe to Andrew's substack Spoils O...

Radio War Nerd EP #362 — The US Civil War, Part 13: Civil War Movies, with Eileen Jones

Guest: Eileen Jones, Filmsuck co-host & writerRecorded: January 13, 2023We talk to OG friend of the show Eileen Jones about the good, bad & ugly — mostly bad & ugly — in Hollywood movies about the US Civil War. In true Hollywood fashion, this episode even features a happy ending: the 100-year re...

Radio War Nerd EP #361 — CIA-NATO Sabotage Ops Inside Russia, with Jack Murphy

Guest: Jack Murphy, journalist & writerRecorded: January 9, 2023We talk to journalist & special forces veteran Jack Murphy about his monster scoop on NATO's CIA-run sleeper cells activated since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine to spread chaos inside Russia — and the problems Jack had getting his ...

Radio War Nerd EP #360 — It Was The War-st of Times (2022 in Review)

Recorded: December 20, 2022The War Nerd & Ames look back on the year in wars that was 2022, and consider how a failed regime-change movement in Belarus influenced Putin's cockamamie Ukraine war plan.Total time: 1:39:51Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

Radio War Nerd EP #359 — Smedley Butler & American Empire, feat. Jonathan M. Katz

Guest: Jonathan Katz, author & journalistRecorded: December 15, 2022We talk to Jonathan Katz about US Marines Gen. Smedley Butler's journey from the US Empire's lead "racketeer" in small wars and coups from China to the Caribbean, to anti-militarist hero and whistleblower who took do...

Radio War Nerd EP #358 — Syria War Update, feat. Joshua Landis

Guest: Joshua Landis, Director of Center for Middle East StudiesRecorded: December 9, 2022The war in Ukraine has sucked all the west's attention away from other wars around the world, including the Syria war, which was once the star of the NATO thinktank world. Dr. Joshua Landis is of the few we...

Radio War Nerd EP #357 — Out Of Russia & Into The Twittergarchy, with Yasha Levine

Guest: Yasha Levine, journalist & authorRecorded: December 6, 2022Friend of the show Yasha Levine joins us to discuss the big Twitter brouhaha, journalism in the age of oligarchy, former eXile colleague Matt Taibbi, and Yasha's doomed family trip to Russia on the eve of Putin's mobilization ...

Radio War Nerd EP #356 — Ottoman Empire's End (Part 2), feat. Ryan Gingeras

Guest: Ryan Gingeras, historian & professorIn Part 2 of our interview with historian Ryan Gingeras on the final years of the Ottoman Empire [Part 1/EP #355 here], we discuss the Ottoman catastrophes in World War One, the Armenian Genocide, surrender in 1918, and the transformation of the Ottoman rem...