Radio War Nerd

Guest: Mohsen Milani Recorded: September 15, 2025 Here's part 2 of our talk with Mohsen Milani about the Islamic Republic of Iran's evolving geopolitical strategy. In this episode, we discuss Iran's varied relationships with the Axis of Resistance: Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas, PIJ, Iraqi militias, and

Recorded: September 11, 2025 The War Nerd took a break from his peninsular campaign to discuss the latest wave of assassinations: Charlie Kirk, Israel's attempted mass-assassination in Qatar, the strange assassination of Ukrainian neo-Nazi (and former parliament speaker) Andriy Parubiy, and the Trum

Originally recorded January 17, 2025 Guest: Jon Elmer, Electronic Intifada By popular demand from our RWN subscribers, we're reposting unlocked & free our episode with Jon Elmer of Electronic Intifada on the Gaza resistance forces, structure, strategies, tactics and weapons — one of the central stor

Guest: Jon Elmer, Electronic Intifada Recorded: January 17, 2024 We talk to Jon Elmer about the Gaza resistance forces, structure, strategies, tactics and weapons — one of the central stories in the Gaza war that's been completely ignored by the western media. *Check out Jon's weekly Resistance Repo

Guest: Cyrus, MENA researcher Recorded: October 21, 2024 We're joined by RWN guest "Cyrus" from Beirut, to talk about Israel's sectarian war strategy in Lebanon, Nasrallah's legacy, profound changes taking place in the Arab and Muslim world that have so far gone little reported, and Cyrus's own rece

Guest: Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada Recorded: March 12, 2024 Free unlocked repost of our episode with guest Ali Abunimah talking about Israel's forced starvation campaign in Gaza, the founding of Electronic Intifada, war propaganda, the ground invasion & more... Would you like to know more? Thi

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

Guest: Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada Recorded: March 12, 2024 We talk to Ali Abunimah about Israel's forced starvation campaign, the founding of Electronic Intifada, war propaganda, the ground invasion & more... Read The Electronic Intifada. Follow Ali on Twitter. Articles mentioned: -"In memory

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

Recorded: December 7, 2023 Illegally changing borders by force got its post-Cold War start with NATO's war on rump Yugoslavia, but it's really started to accelerate in the last decade with Russia's wars on Ukraine, the US affirming Israel's illegal annexations in Golan and East Jerusalem, and now Et

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

Recorded: October 29, 2023 We continue our series on the history of Hamas (see EP #404 for Part 1). This episode we pick up with the founding of Hamas in 1988, through the first & second Intifadas, the 2006 legislative elections that Hamas swept, and the split with the Palestinian Authority that div

Recorded: October 27, 2023 We catch up on the last week of Gaza war insanity, too much to talk about before we continue our Hamas series next ep. *NSC spokesperson John Kirby crying for Ukraine war victims, April 29, 2022 Total time: 1:01:53 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radi

Recorded: October 19, 2023 First in our two-part series on HAMAS. In this episode, we go back to the organization's beginnings in Gaza and the Muslim Brotherhood, up through the start of the First Intifada and the first time the HAMAS acronym appears in 1988. FIRST — We discuss some recent events in

Guest: Antony Loewenstein, journalist & author Recorded: October 12, 2023 We talk to Sydney-based journalist Antony Loewenstein about his all-too-timely new book, "The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World" in the context of today's Hamas-Israel war.

Recorded: October 9, 2023 Brief-ish update on the third day of the Hamas-Israel war... *War Mapper map of Hamas incursions into Israel as of today, October 9: Total time: 52:12 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowarnerd Sound production by Telescop

Recorded: October 7, 2023 In this emergency episode, we discuss today's surprise attack by Hamas into Israel, just hours into the invasion, to make sense of why Hamas invaded their far stronger enemy and what they stand to gain & lose... Previous RWN episodes on Gaza, Israel & Palestine: -EP #281 —

Guest: Max Blumenthal, author, journalist, podcaster Originally recorded: May 25, 2021 By popular demand from our subscribers, we're reposting free & unlocked our latest interview with journalist Max Blumenthal about the latest Israel-Gaza war in the context of Israel's years-long wars on Gaza & Pal

Guest: Max Blumenthal, author, journalist, podcaster Recorded: May 25, 2021 We talk to friend of RWN Max Blumenthal about the latest Israel-Gaza war in the context of Israel's years-long wars on Gaza & Palestinians, late-stage Zionism, and the manufactured postwar "anti-Semitism" hysteria sweeping A

Recorded: May 18, 2021 A brief "emergency episode" on Israel's latest war on Palestinians and Gaza, trying to make sense of Israel's gruesome strategy, such as there is any; if we're seeing a cracking of Israel's propaganda Iron Dome, which has snuffed criticism of Israel in the West for decades now