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: Adam Johnson, author & podcaster Recorded: July 15, 2026 We talk to Adam Johnson about his enraging new book How To Sell A Genocide, documenting how the most influential US media lied, contorted, censored and dehumanized all to run cover for Israel's US-backed genocide in Gaza. Mark is joined

Guest: Mouin Rabbani Recorded: January 19, 2026 Mouin Rabbani returns to RWN to update us on the year 3 of Israel's genocide in Gaza, the phony "ceasefire" and worsening regional chaos. Subscribe to Mouin's newsletter. Listen to Mouin's podcast Connections. Follow him on Twitter. Further listening w

Recorded: October 7, 2025 The War Nerd returns to recount the gory details of his head wounds, the Calabrian Ward, and the snarly Cuban doctors giving off "Yanqui go home!" vibes. We discuss two years of Israel's Gaza genocide, the Zionist Ellison Clan's takeover of new & old media instrumentalizing

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

Recorded: August 1, 2025 The War Nerd asks "A cosa serve?" - What's the use? In the world of wars, not much, not for anything good. This episode, we discuss: 01:09 - A cosa serve? 02:38 - Ames' lost parrot 07:25 - Raiders follies 11:13 - Tariffs, Trump & Deadocrats 35:55 - Gaza, GHF & genocide denia

Guest: Ori Goldberg Originally recorded: June 26, 2025 We're reposting unlocked & free our interview with Israeli scholar and Iran expert Ori Goldberg on Israel's cult of assassinations, the war on Iran, the genocide in Gaza, and sanity... Read Ori's latest articles here and here. Follow Ori on Twit

Guest: Mouin Rabbani, writer & researcher Recorded: May 29, 2025 Mouin Rabbani returns to RWN to discuss Israel's genocidal war on Gaza under the Trump Administration, the noticeable shift in establishment discourse, Israel's increasingly maniacal behavior and miscalculations & more... Further liste

Originally recorded November 12, 2024 Guests: Nihal El Aasar and Aamer Free repost of our episode on the Gaza genocide's impact on the Arab masses, now free thanks to the mighty RWN subscribers. In this episode, Nihal and Aamer discuss the war's impact in Egypt and Bahrain, Nasser, and the 1967 war.

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

Guests: Nihal El Aasar and Aamer Recorded: November 12, 2024 We're joined by friend of the show Aamer and guest Nihal El Aaser to discuss how Israel's Gaza genocide is impacting the Arab masses and Arab states, focusing on Egypt and Bahrain. *Read Nihal's article "Left-wing Melancholia:The Arab poli

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: January 4, 2023 As Israel moves closer to a final solution for Gaza, mass ethnic cleansing, we look at the Biden Administration's support for a final solution, and look at other genocides that US presidents supported and how the New York Times reported on those. Total time: 1:30:50 Direct

Guest: Greg Grandin, author, professor of history Recorded: December 6, 2023 Greg Grandin joins us to stomp on Henry Kissinger's grave, his career & his legacy. *Buy Greg's book "Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman" Total time: 1:26:55 Direct link to this epi

Guest: Ann Neumann, journalist Recorded: February 17, 2023 We talk to Ann Neumann, one of the few journalists to report from Ethiopia on the ongoing war against Tigray, which has resulted in at least 600,000 civilian deaths, mostly in Tigray, as well as revenge atrocities in border regions south-sou

Recorded: March 24, 2022 This episode, the War Nerd & Ames discuss the latest in Russia's war on Ukraine. At 52:00 - Ames goes back a few centuries in the long gory history of the Russian-Chechen Wars, from Sheikh Mansur in the late 18th-c. up to Dzhokhar Dudayev's return to Chechnya as its independ

Recorded: November 10, 2021 The War Nerd and Ames catch up on current war events: the hot war in Ethiopia, and the latest cold war follies as the Steele Dossier/Russiagate edifice continues it long slow collapse. Total time: 1:28:57 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

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: The Fakir Recorded: June 2, 2021 In part II in our 2-part series on the 1971 Bangladesh genocide & wars, RWN guest The Fakir takes us from the first months of the genocide in Operation Searchlight in spring 1971, up through the war between India and Pakistan in December 1971 that led to the c

Guest: The Fakir Recorded: May 29, 2021 This is the 50th anniversary of the forgotten genocide in Bangladesh in 1971 , carried out by the US-backed dictator of Pakistan to crush Bangladesh's popular democratic autonomy movement back when Bangladesh was a province of Pakistan known as "East Pakistan.

Guest: Lika Zakaryan, journalist Recorded: October 11, 2020 Journalist Lika Zakaryan speaks to us from under Azerbajaini bombardment in her hometown Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh (also known as "Artsakh"). Lika describes war—and life under existential threat—from a very close-up and p

Guest: Prof. Henry Reynolds, historian Recorded: September 22, 2020 First: the Nerd and Ames discuss seasons & Belfast murals... At 15:45 - Prof. Henry Reynolds joins us from Tasmania to explain both Australia's Frontier wars against the Aborigines, and also the forgetting of that war in the context

Guest: Chika Oduah, journalist Recorded: August 19, 2019 We talk to Nigerian-American journalist Chika Oduah about her travels to Boko Haram's strongholds in Nigeria's far northeast, about the politics of Nigeria's north-south divide, and the lost history of the Biafra rebellion and its legacy. Chec