Radio War Nerd

Guest: Seth Ackerman Originally recorded: September 4, 2026 We're reposting FREE unlocked [we unlocked it October 1] our episode with politics writer Seth Ackerman and guest co-host Michael Pollak to discuss A Blueprint for a New Party, Ackerman's anatomy of America's authoritarian election and ball

Guest: Devin Thomas O'Shea Originally recorded: June 10, 2026 We're reposting FREE unlocked our episode with author Devin Thomas O'Shea joins us to discuss his wild new book, the Veiled Prophet, about the secret society that ran St. Louis from the end of Reconstruction until the end of the Civil Rig

Guests: Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick Originally recorded: August 5, 2026 We're reposting FREE unlocked our episode with Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, the authors of Israel's Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power, a new & timely book on the Israel Lobby and its malign influence on American poli

Guest: Adam Johnson, author & podcaster Originally recorded: July 15, 2026 We're reposting FREE unlocked our episode with Adam Johnson on his infuriating new book, How To Sell A Genocide, documenting how the most influential US media lied, contorted, censored and dehumanized all to run cover for Isr

Guest: TP Huang Originally recorded: May 14, 2026 We're reposting unlocked our discussion with TP Huang on China's military strategy and hardware, Taiwan, Thucydides Trap, the Hellscape Strategy and more... Subscribe to TP Huang's substack. Follow TP Huang on Twitter. Would you like to know more? Th

Guest: Aamer Originally recorded: March 18, 2026 We're reposting unlocked our discussion with Aamer on Bahrain, how the widely despised royal family is managing the US-Israel-Iran "situation", the videos of Bahrainis cheering on the Iranian missiles hitting US bases, Bahrain's relations with other G

Guest: "Cyrus", MENA researcher Originally recorded: March 12, 2026 We're reposting unlocked our discussion with Beirut-based researcher "Cyrus" on Hezbollah's return to battle, why Hezbollah entered the war against Israel at this time, Lebanon politics, Jolani's Syria, Iraq's pro-Iran militia group

Guest: Navid Zarinnal Originally recorded: January 21, 2026 We're reposting unlocked our interview with 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 we

Guest: Anya Parampil Originally recorded: January 8, 2026 We're reposting unlocked our interview with Anya Parampil about her personal impressions of Maduro and Delcy Rodriguez, Trump's kidnapping/coup, and America's long war on Venezuela's chavismo governments over the past 25 years, and her book C

Guest: Annibale Originally recorded: October 1, 2025 We're reposting unlocked the first in our multipart series on Operation Barbarossa with Annibale. Would you like to know more? This unlocked repost of RWN EP #552 comes to you courtesy of our Radio War Nerd subscribers, who make our podcast possib

Guests: Andreas Krieg + "Cyrus" Originally recorded: November 20, 2025 We're reposting unlocked our episode with Andreas Krieg and "Cyrus" on the United Arab Emirates rise to regional power and how it runs its maritime empire, plus the latest from Iraq's elections and the state of its democracy. Fir

Guest: Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone Originally recorded: October 16, 2025 We're reposting unlocked our episode with Max Blumenthal on the Gaze genocide + ceasefire, billionaire Zionist power-politics, the Israel Lobby & the American Right/Charlie Kirk, and more... Would you like to know more? This u

Guest: "Annibale" Originally recorded: March 29, 2019 We're reposting unlocked & free the first part in RWN celebrity-guest Annibale's 6-part series on the Hundred Years War. In part 1, Annibale helps us to understand the world of the Middle Ages, weeding out the Enlightenment-era myths that persist

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

Originally recorded: November 8, 2021 We're reposting unlocked & free part IV in the War Nerd US Civil War series, in which Dr. Dolan makes the case that Union Gen. George McClellan wasn't merely cautious or incompetent, but an ideologically-driven traitor managed by his top aide, the mysterious Tho

Guest: Jeff Stein, Washington Post Originally posted: April 25, 2025 We're reposting unlocked & free our episode with Jeff Stein of the Washington Post on Trump's trade wars and America's various economic wars on the rest of the world... Would you like to know more? This unlocked repost of RWN Episo

Guest: John Lechner, writer & researcher Originally posted March 11, 2025 We're reposting unlocked & free our episode on the Wagner mercenary group with John Lechner, author of the new book "Death Is Our Business: Russian Mercenaries and the New Era of Private Warfare". Would you like to know more?

Originally recorded: February 21, 2025 By popular demand from our RWN subscribers, we're reposting unlocked & free our episode on 3rd anniversary of the Ukraine War, and the context for the Trump Administration's hostility towards the Ukraine war cause... Would you like to know more? This unlocked r

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

Originally recorded December 6, 2024 Guests: "Cyrus" + guest co-host Aamer Many of our RWN subscribers asked us to repost free & unlocked for the public our episode with MENA-based researcher "Cyrus" and guest co-host Aamer, on the two major events of November-December: the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefir

Guest: Lily Lynch, journalist Recorded: January 23, 2024 Free unlocked repost of our talk with Belgrade-based reporter Lily Lynch on Balkan politics, NATO's secret crush on Serbia's "Putinist" president, unsolved murders & commando raids, NATO expansionism & CIA death-tweets... Would you like to kno

Guest: Anatol Lieven, author & journalist Originally recorded: June 25, 2023 Free unlocked repost of our emergency episode with Anatol Lieven on Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's failed Russian coup-slash-mutiny, Kremlin succession, class warfare in the trenches & the stalled Ukrainian counteroffensi

Originally recorded: September 23, 2021 Free unlocked repost of the second installment in the War Nerd US Civil War series: Bleeding Kansas, the southern slavers' dirty war in the Kansas territory, on the eve of the Civil War. Would you like to know more? This unlocked repost of RWN Episode #297 com

Guest: Ben Aris, editor BNE IntelliNews Originally recorded: July 13, 2022 We're reposting our interview with Ben Aris on the economic war side of the Ukraine war, plus our discussion on the Ethiopia wars — made possible by the mighty War Nerd Legion. First, we update the latest from Ethiopia's insu

Guest: Leonid Ragozin, journalist Originally recorded: November 29, 2021 Hysteria about an imminent Russia-Ukraine war—almost entirely manufactured from the bowels of certain DC/London thinktanks—has only worsened since we recorded this excellent, wide-ranging discussion with Riga-based journalist L

Guest: Annibale Originally recorded: April 26, 2018 In honor of the 75th anniversary of Italy Liberation Day from the Nazis, we're reposting open & unlocked this episode on the Italian Resistance Movement in World War II. We know all about the French Resistance in WWII, but nothing about the far lar

Guest: Annibale Originally recorded: March 10, 2020 By popular demand from Radio War Nerd subscribers, we're reposting open & unlocked this episode on the coronavirus emergency, with our popular RWN guest, Italian historian "Annibale", on what life is like under quarantine in his home in northern It