Radio War Nerd

Guest: Cyrus, MENA researcher Recorded: August 17, 2025 Cyrus returns to RWN to update on Syria's worsening descent into Sunni-supremacist violence under the Jolani regime, Druze and Jews, stillborn plans to disarm Hezbollah, Israel's genocide on Palestine, and more... *Map Further listening with Cy

Guest: Annibale Recorded: April 7, 2025 With Trump back in power, it means the "F" word is back in vogue. We talk to friend of the show Annibale about Original Fascism in Italy, what it was in practice, the specific context that produced fascismo, and its leader Mussolini. RWN has done several shows

Guest: Dan Boeckner, Wolf Parade Recorded: April 3, 2025 We talk to Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner about Trump's looming war on Canada, collaborators, oafs and oaf-overseers... Buy Dan's music - Wolf Parade and Boeckner Follow Dan on Twitter. Total time: 1:38:34 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here *

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

Guest: Annibale Recorded: September 9, 2020 Popular RWN guest Annibale joins the War Nerd to discuss how Italy's Years Of Lead and "strategy of tension" compare to today's protests and police violence in the US. A wide-ranging discussion, Annibale explains the Battle of Valle Giulia and Pasolini's f

Guest: Annibale Recorded: May 27, 2020 Fourth in our series with popular RWN guest "Annibale" on Italy on the Eastern Front in WWII. This episode: the fate of Italian POWs taken by the Soviets after they smashed Italian and Axis lines in early 1943, and how the POWs influenced Italian postwar politi

Guest: Annibale Recorded: April 29, 2020 In the third episode in our series with RWN guest Annibale on Italy on the Eastern Front in WWII—the Italian breakout at Nikolaevka & the collapse of Italian fascism. First - the War Nerd & Ames on memories of Evel Knievel & Bay Area hicksvilles... At 06:28 -

Guest: Annibale Recorded: April 24, 2020 In this second part of Annibale's look at Italy on the Eastern Front in WWII, Hitler agrees to have a modest-sized Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia join the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union to perform mostly backup duties well behind the front lines. By

Recorded: April 17, 2020 Guest: Annibale First, the War Nerd and Ames discuss foxes... At 07:45 - Annibale joins us for an update on the pandemic in Italy: crackdown on Lombardy's privatized medical care hucksters & coming to grips with possibility there'll be no vaccine or cure... At 31:00 - Anniba

Recorded: November 10, 2019 Mark Ames recovers the early history of neoliberalism in 1920s Italy and 1930s France. From the first proposal of "neo-liberalismo" in 1921 by Fascist thought-leader Massimo Rocca, and the Mussolini regime's liberal/"neo-liberal" austerity regime; to French intellectual L

Guest: Pablo Ben, associate professor Recorded: June 13, 2019 "Peronismo" has dominated Argentina's politics for nearly 8 decades now. But who was Juan Perón? Was he a fascist, according to popular received ideas in the US and elsewhere? Pablo Ben, a Buenos Aires native and associate professor of hi

Guest: Annibale, Italian war nerd Recorded May 21, 2018 Back by popular demand, RWN #131 guest "Annibale" follows up his episode on the Italian Resistance movement with this episode on Italian politics in the post-war period. To get there, we have to start with the radicalized & dynamic period immed

Guest: Annabile, Italian war nerd Recorded April 26, 2018 We know all about the French Resistance in WWII, but nothing about the far larger Italian Resistance movement that emerged in 1943, and the various wars that took place inside Italy from 1943-45. Thankfully we have Italian war nerd "Annibale"