Radio War Nerd

Guest: Andrew Hart Recorded: January 28, 2026 We talk to longtime friend of the RWN community & Minnesota native Andrew Hart about personal impressions of life under federal occupation. Total time: 45:06 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Buy & review John Dolan's new book, They Should Have Be

Guest: Navid Zarinnal Recorded: January 21, 2026 We talk to Iranian-American researcher Navid Zarinnal in Tehran about Iran's protests, US imperialism, who supports & opposes the IRI government, and life inside Iran compared to how it's portrayed in the western media. Subscribe to Navid's podcast Th

Recorded: January 17, 2026 We discuss the timeline of Iran's protests that broke out on December 28th, why the Mossad and US openly boasted of their role, and the Empire's grim plans for a shattered Iran. Images *Mossad account, December 29, 2025 *More Israeli boasting *Iran displays some of the ten

Guests: Boris Mamlëz and Rey Katula, The Empire Never Ended Recorded: November 11, 2025 In part 2 of our series on the Serbian protest movement (part 1 here), the good folks from The Empire Never Ended podcast describe what triggered the protests, how they organized and developed, and the many ridic

Guest: Jacob Bacharach, writer Recorded: May 2, 2024 This episode we do something a bit different: instead of discussing kinetic wars, we interview writer & university administrator Jacob Bacharach about power — real power, financial and structural power — in elite US universities & campuses, a key

Guest: Vincent Bevins, writer Recorded: October 1, 2023 We're joined by previous RWN guest Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book, "If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade & The Missing Revolution" — about the 2010s, the decade that began in what looked like mass people power, and ended worse than befor

Recorded: January 28, 2021 We take a break from historical war stories to make some sense of the miserable present tense: war & repression in Ethiopia's Tigray province; Team Biden & imperial stagnation; and the recent unrest in Russia over Alexei Navalny's arrest. Total time: 1:35:04 Direct link to

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