Radio War Nerd

Guest: Joshua Craze Recorded: April 11, 2024 Sudan researcher Joshua Craze joins us to lay out the complex horrors unfolding in Sudan in the year since he last appeared on RWN (EP #375) , leaving 18 million people in emergency near-famine, and 8 million displaced. Glossary: -RSF (Rapid Support Force

Recorded: June 10, 2022 The War Nerd and Ames discuss the latest grim news out of Ukraine, where the war isn't going the way the West intended...after the break, we look at Ethiopia's artificial famine strategy in Tigray, quietly memory-holed in the western media-foreign policy world. ***RWN IN NYC!

Recorded: June 23, 2021 The War Nerd & Ames do a roundup of the latest in wars: Tigray genocide & insurgency; British-Russia Black Sea kerfuffle; postwar elections in Armenia; Imran Khan & China; Khashoggi's Saudi assassins trained by Cerberus Capital subsidiary under US State Dept program; Afghanis

Guest: James McDougall, author & professor Recorded: September 24, 2019 Judging by subscriber requests over the years, you can't call yourself a true war nerd podcast until you've covered the famous France-Algeria War of the 1950s. Lucky for us, we're joined by Oxford U. history professor James McDo

Guest: Tim Shorrock, journalist & author Recorded June 18, 2018 The War Nerd interviews journalist and Korea expert Tim Shorrock, fresh from the Singapore summit between Trump and Kim Jong-un. Tim is one of the few western journalists who called Korea right all along—in this interview, he recounts w

Guest: Nassar Arrabyee, Yemeni journalist & documentary producer Recorded April 5, 2018 The War Nerd talks to Yemeni journalist and documentary producer Nassar Arrabyee from his bomb-damaged home in the capital Sanaa, about the American-backed Saudi-UAE war on his country. Presidents Obama and Trump