Radio War Nerd

Guest: Brian Mier Recorded: October 1, 2026 Brazil-based journalist Brian Mier returns to RWN to talk about Brazil's upcoming presidential elections, corruption scandals, Bolsonaro's 2023 coup plot and his son's American-backed attempt to take power, media malpractice and more. Check out Brian's med

Guest: Anya Parampil Recorded: January 8, 2026 Journalist Anya Parampil joins us to talk about her personal impressions of Maduro and Delcy Rodriguez, and making sense of Trump's kidnapping/coup. We also discuss America's long war on Venezuela's chavismo governments over the past 25 years, focusing

Recorded: January 14, 2024 Part 2 of our series on the US Empire's first stab at "reshaping the Middle East", this episode we follow CIA man Wilbur Crane Eveland as he's sent to Lebanon and Syria in the mid-1950s to spread more democracy in the form of coups, election meddling, and ultimately invasi

Recorded: January 9, 2025 With all the boasting in Washington about "reshaping the Middle East" today, we look back at the first time the US Empire tried "reshape the Middle East" from the early Cold War years up through Ike's 1958 intervention in Lebanon, using ex-CIA agent Wilbur Crane Eveland's m

Recorded: December 11, 2024 The War Nerd returns from the bowels of hell, otherwise known as "The Social Security Administration office on Alabama Street", to discuss some of the latest developments in coups, false flags, war defeats & forgotten nerds... (image: h/t Tom Parsons) Total time: 1:18:54

We talk to Ryan Grim about Pakistan's shock election results & Biden's coup plot to collapse Pakistan's democracy for the Ukraine war Guest: Ryan Grim Recorded: February 12, 2024 We talk to reporter Ryan Grim of The Intercept about last weekend's shock election results in Pakistan & the Biden Admini

Guest: Dr Jeremy Rich, professor Recorded: August 31, 2023 We talk to Dr Jeremy Rich about Gabon's history from French colonialism up to the recent coup Gabon overthrowing the Bongo dynasty. Dr Rich also shares his personal experiences in Gabon in the 1990s up through his strange gig as an election

Guest: Anatol Lieven, author & journalist Originally recorded: June 25, 2023 Free unlocked repost of our emergency episode with Anatol Lieven on Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's failed Russian coup-slash-mutiny, Kremlin succession, class warfare in the trenches & the stalled Ukrainian counteroffensi

Guest: Anatol Lieven, author & journalist Recorded: June 25, 2023 RWN emergency episode with guest Anatol Lieven on Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's failed Russian coup-slash-mutiny, Kremlin succession, class warfare in the trenches & the stalled Ukrainian counteroffensive. Anatol guested on RWN EP

Recorded: February 15, 2022 As the War Nerd packs his bags for the Great White North, he walks us through a year in Africa coups across the Sahel. This episode: Guinea Bissau, Burkino Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan... First: Ames and the Nerd discuss border crossings, Ukraine/Atlantic Council follie

Guest: Annibale Recorded: January 22, 2021 In the second part of our 2-part series on Italy's 1970 Borghese Coup plot (RWN #264), our Years Of Lead expert Annibale describes the political conditions in Italy at the time of the coup, the events, who benefited, the likely goal of the coup plotters, an

Guest: Annibale Recorded: January 21, 2021 We talk to popular RWN guest Annibale about the murky 1970 Borghese Coup, in the early part of Italy's Years Of Lead. In part one, we look at Junio Borghese's background: the famous Borghese family, his wartime heroics & plans to bomb New York harbor, and h

Recorded: January 14, 2021 The final part of our series on Yeltsin's 1993 coup, we look at the aftermath — the end of Russia's democracy, a constitution making the presidency a near dictator, all fully backed by Washington DC. And we look at the coup's apologists in the US media: New York Times, Was

Recorded January 8, 2021 In part 3 of our RWN series on Boris Yeltsin's US-backed coup in 1993, we look at the bloody coup as it unfolded on October 3-4, and Ames' disturbing memories of those bitter days. First - after a brief introduction by Zombie Yeltsin, the War Nerd and Ames discuss what passe

Recorded: December 23, 2020 In Part 1 of our series on Boris Yeltsin's 1993 coup (EP #260), we laid out the background of the conflict between Boris Yeltsin and his former allies in Russia's parliament: from 1990 up through the referendum in April 1993. In this episode, we talk about what Yeltsin di

Recorded: December 22, 2020 We recover lost history from Boris Yeltsin's coup against the Russian parliament in October 1993. Yeltsin's coup came courtesy of his biggest sponsors: then-President Bill Clinton, the international financial institutions, and their waterboys in the western press corps, w

Guest: Vincent Bevins, journalist & author Recorded: May 15, 2020 The 1965 anticommunist holocaust in Indonesia killed somewhere between 500,000 and 2 million, though we don't know the actual figure, for reasons we discuss—and it was fully supported by the US Embassy and Washington. Why do we know s

Guest: Yasha Levine, journalist Recorded: May 8, 2020 Intro - On radio intros... 10:10 - "Operation Gideon": Silvercorp USA mercenaries' failed Venezuela coup... 47:02 - "Operation Red Dog" - the failed Reagan-era US mercenary coup in Dominica (see header photo). Proof that "yes, Virginia, they real

Recorded: January 26, 2020 BANGKOK— With the recent death of Oman's longtime ruler Sultan Qaboos, the War Nerd and Ames recover the little known history of Oman, British colonial rule, and the forgotten leftist Dhofar Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. But first: At 08:18 Ames quickly reviews Sam Me

Guest: Greg Grandin, author, journalist, professor Recorded: November 19, 2019 For non-subscribers, here is a 30+ minute preview of Radio War Nerd episode #206 with guest Greg Grandin, author of Empire's Workshop", and his newest, "End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of

Guest: Brian Mier, editor Brasil Wire Recorded: October 23, 2018 On the eve of Brazil's 2018 presidential election between the neofascist Jair Bolsonaro—a zealous fan of Brazil's military dictatorship—and leftist Fernando Haddad, the War Nerd invited Sao Paulo-based journalist Brian Mier on to walk