Radio War Nerd

Guest: Akbar Shahid Ahmed Recorded: September 26, 2026 We talk to DC-based investigative journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed about his new book, Crossing the Red Line, a merciless autopsy on the Biden Administration's warped complicity in the Gaza genocide. Buy Akbar's book Crossing the Red Line: Biden, h

Guest: Kelley Vlahos, Responsible Statecraft Recorded: November 24, 2024 We're joined by longtime friend of the show Kelley Vlahos for our quadrennial look at the New Boss's foreign policy. Spoiler: don't get yer hopes up. Check out Kelley's site Responsible Statecraft. Previous RWN with Kelley: *EP

Recorded: November 21, 2024 For once, the timing-gods delivered two major events hours BEFORE we recorded: ICC's arrest warrant for Bibi Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant; and, following a series of escalatory policies by Biden in Ukraine, noted "bluffer" "coward" Vladimir Putin responded by detonating an

Guest: Mouin Rabbani, writer & researcher Recorded: August 15, 2024 Last time we talked to Mouin Rabbani (EP #407), Israel was 1 month into its genocidal war on Gaza. This episode, we talk to Mouin about Israel's war now in its 10th month, in all of its insanity, brutality, and endless ability to sh

Recorded: July 9, 2024 This episode, we say goodbye to friend of the show Genghis, discuss death, demons, Biden, the Gaza genocide, and end on a nearly hopeful note... Total time: 1:06:37 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowarnerd Sound productio

Recorded: February 28, 2024 We discuss death & elite failure as the New York Times scrambles to cover up its "Hamas mass rape" journalism scandal + Ukraine's rapidly deteriorating military-political situation amid worsening manpower problems. Articles cited: *"Extraordinary charges of bias emerge ag

Guest: Trita Parsi Recorded: February 5, 2024 We talk to Trita Parsi about Washington's unhealthy obsession with Iran, what it means to be an Iran-backed Iraqi militia group & the absurdity of Late American Empire. Read Trita's articles at Responsible Statecraft. Follow Trita on Twitter (formerly kn

Recorded: January 31, 2024 The War Nerd & Ames discuss late imperial genocidal petulance, Ukraine's factional split, Tower 22, and a brief history of anti-ship missiles... Total time: 1:24:23 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowarnerd Sound produ

Recorded: January 19, 2024 The War Nerd goes back to Yemen's history, and personal experience near the Yemeni border in southern Saudi Arabia, to make sense of the people & region that constitute today's Houthi movement. First — We update current WW3 news as Israel's war on Gaza spreads to Iran and

Recorded: January 12, 2024 Emergency episode on Biden's bombing campaign against Houthi-controlled northern Yemen, a region subjected to US bombings and deadly blockades for most of the 21st-c. Total time: 1:03:27 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/ra

Recorded: November 15, 2023 Roundup of the latest war news: Myanmar's new rebel alliance; Ethiopia's got its eye on someone else's beachfront property; Ukraine no longer the belle of Washington's ball; latest in the Gaza slaughter... *Music break by Brendon Anderegg (check out his group Mountains he

Guest: Mouin Rabbani, writer & researcher Recorded: November 6, 2023 For you podcast-only peeps, here is the audio version of our livestream with Mouin Rabbani, discussing the Gaza war, Hamas' strategy & political history, Israel & the Blob, and more... Read Mouin's articles at Jadaliyya, DAWN, Al J

Guest: Mouin Rabbani, writer & researcher Recorded: November 6, 2023 Our first ever livestream, with guest Mouin Rabbani discussing the Gaza war, Hamas' strategy & political history, Israel & the Blob, and more... Read Mouin's articles at Jadaliyya, DAWN, Al Jazeera and elsewhere. Follow Mouin on Tw

Guest: Joshua Landis, Director of Center for Middle East Studies & blogger Recorded: January 25, 2022 Our monthly World Of Wars looks at two wars: the phony Russia-Ukraine war that NATO & western media is screaming about...and the grim, real ongoing war in Syria, which NATO and the western media don

Recorded: December 21, 2021 Looking back at another miserable year in humanity's oldest profession. The War Nerd & Ames discuss the Ethiopia-Tigray conflict, Afghanistan, Cold War sequels & the end-of-the-year Russia/Ukraine hysteria. Thanks to the mighty RWN community for making the show happen, we

Guest: Leonid Ragozin, journalist Originally recorded: November 29, 2021 Hysteria about an imminent Russia-Ukraine war—almost entirely manufactured from the bowels of certain DC/London thinktanks—has only worsened since we recorded this excellent, wide-ranging discussion with Riga-based journalist L

Guest: Leonid Ragozin, journalist Recorded: November 29, 2021 There's been a lot of noise lately about a large-scale Russian military buildup on its border with Ukraine, with Serious People in DC claiming Putin is planning to invade by February. Riga-based journalist Leonid Ragozin joins the Nerd &

Recorded: July 6, 2021 20 years ago, the US Pentagon and its media cheerleaders were celebrating "victory" over the Taliban in Afghanistan. Today, the US is hastily abandoning the last of its bases, while the Taliban is routing US-backed Afghan National Army forces. The War Nerd and Ames discuss the

Recorded: April 13, 2021 The War Nerd returns to the Motherland to discuss the latest in war news: Afghanistan withdrawal announcement, China and "overdemonization", and further observations on late imperial dementia... Check out the new Radio War Nerd Merch store here! Total time: 1:38:34 Direct li

Recorded: January 28, 2021 We take a break from historical war stories to make some sense of the miserable present tense: war & repression in Ethiopia's Tigray province; Team Biden & imperial stagnation; and the recent unrest in Russia over Alexei Navalny's arrest. Total time: 1:35:04 Direct link to

Guest: Kelley Vlahos, Responsible Statecraft editor Recorded: December 4, 2020 Kelley Vlahos returns to RWN to size up the successes and failures of Trump foreign policy, warn us about the return of the Blob under Biden, and throw us for bit of a loop with some potentially positive developments for

Recorded: November 6, 2020 The War Nerd & Ames discuss the 2020 freakshow in the country that calls itself "the world's oldest democracy" — and look to the past and across the oceans to make some sense of this thing called election violence. First, we discuss the 2020 election... At 1:04:00 - the Wa