Radio War Nerd EP #57—Andrew Cockburn on Yemen
Guest: Andrew Cockburn, journalist & author
War Nerd interviews the great Andrew Cockburn about his recent feature article on the Yemen war, "Acceptable Losses," published in Harper's magazine. Cockburn is the Washington editor at Harper's Magazine & author of "Kill Chain: Rise of the Hi-Tech Assassins" and brother of RWN guest Patrick Cockburn. Afterwards, War Nerd & Ames discuss the new neocon hipster trend, bearded Brooklynites panting for war in Syria...Plus another week of Russia Panic in the US media, and Michael Weiss's funders include Turkey's Army College, Turkish Petroleum Corp, Saudi Arabia and more...
Total Time: 2:23:01
Comments (15)
The RSS feed works but this weeks episode is broken. Same here on Patreon. I liked Mark's comments on the pro-Syria intervention hippies being so hyped to lead other people into war. I think that's where neocons came from in the first place. That plus handy weapons industry profits.
Does anyone have a working RSS feed for subscribers? The previous one posted is dead.
Ditto on that song at the end... any ideas?
Not sure why but on patreon app for iPhone the download keeps saying 'failed'. Anyone else run into that?
Great show again. If I might make a suggestion: the intervention in Ex-Yugoslavia keeps coming up in your shows as well as its consequences. The rise of Putin, the decline of the left. Why don't you guys do a show on that? I think that would be really helpful because many people don't know about this.
The RSS feed seems to be broken. Is there a new URL?
Hello friends. I would prefer the format for episodes with special guests start with the world news summary. I think that helps me get in the right mindset before a deep dive with a guest.
I was called an "Assadist" recently too. My goodness.
Loved the show. I like the discussion about the Verso panel. Much of the left support for Syrian intervention regard early Syria protests as a revolution and that there is a genuinely revolutionary movement that might need to make a temporary alliance with empire. (Like the Kurds do.) That's the fights I've been having anyway.
Anyone know the name of the outro song? A segment was used in episode 41 but for the life of me I can't find it anywhere.
Came here to ask too ... tried googling some of the lyrics, but no hits.
Thank god for you guys.
Mp3 link at the top missing. Any other way of downloading to mobile rather than streaming?
There is a direct mp3 link at the bottom of the description
You guys liked Adam Curtis' documentary Bitter Lake. Did you know he has released a new documentary about Syria and Libya? <a href="http://bbc.in/2e3PwjZ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://bbc.in/2e3PwjZ</a>