Radio War Nerd

Recorded: September 9, 2024 We discuss South Carolina slaver incest, brewing war in the Horn, Venezuela's oppo leader flees, imperial headline porn over Palestine, Ukraine crumbling... Total time: 1:05:48 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radiowarner

Guest: Annibale Recorded: May 9, 2024 Here's the final episode in our 3-part series on the Battle of Kursk with Annibale. This episode: Annibale's 9 Points about Kursk and the Memory Battles waged by ex-Nazis and their newbie western benefactors long after the kinetic battle ended... Check out parts

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

Guests: Lee Fang & Jack Poulson Recorded: December 14, 2023 The pro-Israel information war since October 7 has unleashed a wave of censorship and cancel culture unlike anything we've ever seen. Thanks to reporters Lee Fang & Jack Poulson, we get a rare look into how the infowar sausage is made—the p

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

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

Guest: Moss Robeson, researcher Recorded: July 12, 2023 Vilnius hosted two wartime summits this past week: the NATO summit, which resulted in a big franchise-expansion victory for Washington, but ended in humiliation for Zelensky; and a few days earlier, the Vilnius NAFO summit, where NATO's troll a

Guest: Seth Harp, investigative reporter Recorded: May 2, 2022 We talk to investigative reporter Seth Harp, who just returned from a 5-week reporting stint in Ukraine for Harpers magazine on the International Legion, the tightly controlled media environment in wartorn Ukraine. Read Seth's article on

Recorded: February 23, 2021 We look at the latest developments in the New Cold Wars fronts: the Russian Front, where Amnesty International de-listed jailed opposition activist Alexey Navalny from its hallowed "prisoner of conscience" pantheon; and the China Front, where an Evangelical loon named Dr.

Guest: Thomas Frank, author Recorded: July 21, 2020 Author Thomas Frank talks about his new book "The People, No" — on the whole sordid & infuriating history of elitist anti-populists, from the 1890s through today's Democracy Scare. Buy Thomas Frank's book "The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Po

Guest: Patrick Cockburn, author & Middle East correspondent for The Independent (UK) Recorded: July 8, 2020 BELFAST—After a harrowing escape from the looneyland of pandemic America, the War Nerd awakens in Northern Ireland to talk to roving war correspondent & previous RWN guest Patrick Cockburn abo

Guest: Matt Kennard, journalist & co-founder Declassified UK Recorded: March 4, 2020 Since we started this show 4-1/2 years ago, over and over we've been asking in disbelief, "What happened to the Guardian?" This episode we talk to one of the best investigative journalists working today who answered

Guest: Audra Wolfe, writer & historian Recorded: June 28, 2019 On this show we've looked at the Cold War from many angles: counterinsurgencies, propaganda campaigns, Italy's Years of Lead, highbrow culture wars — and in this episode, science historian Audra Wolfe tells us the little-known story abou

Guest: Joel Whitney, author Recorded: February 27, 2019 The War Nerd talks to author Joel Whitney about his new book "Finks: How The CIA Tricked The World's Best Writers" which exposes how deeply American spies meddled in and weaponized highbrow culture and magazine culture in the Cold War — with a

Guest: Carl Zha, podcaster Recorded September 14, 2018 To make sense of the alarming reports coming out of China about mass oppression of Uyghurs and millions forced into reeducation camps in the western Xinjiang province, the War Nerd talks to Carl Zha, who walks us through the little-reported hist

Guest: Stephen Kinzer, author & Senior Fellow Recorded September 7, 2018 The Spanish-American War was a crummy war by all standards, including most books about that war. Thankfully, Stephen Kinzer wrote a great book about that lousy war: "The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain and the Birth o

Guest: Max Blumenthal, journalist and author *Originally posted October 12, 2016 Reposting the War Nerd's interview with Max Blumenthal, one of the most fearless journalists in the world today...We discuss his experiences in 51 Day War in Gaza, and his recent exposés on Syria's White Helmets — the g