Radio War Nerd

Guest: Adam Johnson, author & podcaster Originally recorded: July 15, 2026 We're reposting FREE unlocked our episode with Adam Johnson on his infuriating new book, How To Sell A Genocide, documenting how the most influential US media lied, contorted, censored and dehumanized all to run cover for Isr

Guest: Adam Johnson, author & podcaster Recorded: July 15, 2026 We talk to Adam Johnson about his enraging new book How To Sell A Genocide, documenting how the most influential US media lied, contorted, censored and dehumanized all to run cover for Israel's US-backed genocide in Gaza. Mark is joined

Guest: Aamer Recorded: April 21, 2026 During the US-Israel war on Iran, Kuwait got hit harder than the other GCC countries aside from the UAE. In the aftermath, Kuwait is stripping citizenship from 20% of its citizens. We talk to Aamer about the history, politics and economics of Kuwait's reaction t

Guest: Aamer Originally recorded: March 18, 2026 We're reposting unlocked our discussion with Aamer on Bahrain, how the widely despised royal family is managing the US-Israel-Iran "situation", the videos of Bahrainis cheering on the Iranian missiles hitting US bases, Bahrain's relations with other G

Guest: Aamer Recorded: March 18, 2026 Aamer returns to discuss how Bahrain is managing the US-Israel-Iran "situation", the early videos of Bahrainis cheering on the Iranian missiles hitting US bases, the loathed ruling family, Bahrain's relations with other GCC states, and more. Further listening wi

Originally recorded December 6, 2024 Guests: "Cyrus" + guest co-host Aamer Many of our RWN subscribers asked us to repost free & unlocked for the public our episode with MENA-based researcher "Cyrus" and guest co-host Aamer, on the two major events of November-December: the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefir

Guest: Cyrus, MENA researcher *Guest co-host: Aamer Recorded: December 6, 2024 We talk to friend of the show "Cyrus" about the two major recent events: the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire, and Assad's collapsing Syrian state. (Note: The War Nerd had to slip away on a dark mission before recording this ep

Guests: Nihal El Aasar and Aamer Recorded: November 12, 2024 We're joined by friend of the show Aamer and guest Nihal El Aaser to discuss how Israel's Gaza genocide is impacting the Arab masses and Arab states, focusing on Egypt and Bahrain. *Read Nihal's article "Left-wing Melancholia:The Arab poli

Guest: Aamer Recorded: October 8, 2024 We're joined by friend of the show Aamer to provide some counterpoint to our recent bummer-ep with Joshua Landis [EP #473] on takeaways and lessons of Israel's ongoing rampage. But first, we get on update on Canada's most venerable Nazis, and we do rhetorical a

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

Guest: Aamer Recorded: August 29, 2022 Aamer returns to talk about Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, which Aamer's family lived through. First we discuss the invasion & occupation. After the break Aamer explains the origins of "the little fort" and the Sabah family, and traces the relationsh

Guest: Aamer Recorded: September 28, 2021 As we've said since the beginning of RWN time, 1979 was a big year in our ancient lives, the year of the Big Reaction. One of the most important events that year, so little understood at the time, was the seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca by Wahhabi milit

Guest: Aamer, podcaster & writer Recorded: May 12, 2021 What do endangered grouses, Qatari royals, Syrian sectarian population exchanges, and kidnapping have in common? We're joined by RWN guest Aamer to make sense of one of the wildest, dumbest & darkest episodes of the past decade. Check out the n

Guest: Aamer, podcaster & writer Recorded: February 12, 2021 Bahrain is known to USians as "the home of the US Fifth Fleet". But you may be shocked to learn that there's more to this Persian Gulf island kingdom than floating American coffins. We talk to previous RWN guest Aamer about the history of

Guest: Aamer, podcaster & writer Recorded: November 16, 2020 The final episode in our 4-part series on the early Arab Conquests, with popular guest Aamer. This episode begins with the doomed reign of Ali (656-661) through the epochal Battle of Karbala, the formative events in the Shia-Sunni divide t

Guest: Aamer, podcaster & writer Recorded: October 21, 2020 In Part 3 of our series on the Arab Conquests in the 7th century (EP #246, #249), the third caliph Umar seizes Sassanid-controlled Iraq, triumphs at the Battle of Nahavand, and chases the Sassanid Empire all the way to Central Asia and exti

Guest: Aamer, podcaster & writer Recorded: October 7, 2020 We're back with Aamer for Part 2 in our series on the Arab Conquests in the 7th-8th centuries. In Part I (EP #246) we learned about pre-Islamic history of the Arabian peninsula & the rise of Muhammad and Islam through Muhammad's death in 632