Radio War Nerd

Guests: Andreas Krieg + "Cyrus" Recorded: November 20, 2025 Since we launched RWN, the United Arab Emirates has repeatedly appeared as a quietly malign player in wars from Libya to the Horn of Africa to the Arabian peninsula, leading to comparisons to the Venetian Republic. This episode we talk to D

Guest: Vincent Bevins, writer Recorded: October 1, 2023 We're joined by previous RWN guest Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book, "If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade & The Missing Revolution" — about the 2010s, the decade that began in what looked like mass people power, and ended worse than befor

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: "Cyrus", MENA researcher Recorded: June 15, 2020 Are the nationwide protests across the US anything like the Arab Spring? We spoke to MENA researcher "Cyrus", who has spent much of the past two decades in the region researching the political changes from the US invasion of Iraq up through to

Guest: Isa Blumi, author and professor Recorded August 28, 2018 By popular demand from our subscribers, we're reposting free for the public our important interview with Isa Blumi on the Yemen war's little-reported deep causes — political, financial, imperialist — and the high-stakes Gulf Clan politi

Guest: Isa Blumi, author and professor Recorded August 28, 2018 For non-subscribers, here is a 20+ minute preview of Radio War Nerd episode 147 with Isa Blumi, author of "Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us About the World" about the Yemen war's little-reported deep causes: political, fi

Guest: Isa Blumi, author and professor Recorded August 28, 2018 The War Nerd talks to Isa Blumi about the Yemen war's little-reported deep causes — political, financial, imperialist—in a wide-ranging interview. Blumi explains the murky political and strategic differences between Qatar, Saudis and UA