Radio War Nerd

Guest: Volodymyr Ishchenko Recorded: March 5, 2024 We talk to Ukrainian writer/researcher Volodymyr Ishchenko about Ukraine's terminal condition in the post-Soviet era, the material conditions driving Ukraine towards the abyss, and how the war serves Russia's ruling class interests. Buy Volodymyr's

Guest: João Santos Recorded: May 11, 2022 April 25th was the 48th anniversary of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, when junior officers overthrew the crypto-fascist dictatorship, inadvertently setting off a popular leftist revolution. In part 1, we discuss the background to the revolution, and the ev

Guest: Christian Parenti, author, journalist & assoc. professor of economics, John Jay College Recorded: August 17, 2020 In a li'l change-up here from RWN's general rants against anti-populists, we talk to Christian Parenti about his new book "Radical Hamilton" about how war creates its own politica

Guest: Piero Gleijeses, author & professor Recorded: May 29, 2020 Thanks to our RWN subscribers, we discovered Piero Gleijeses and his must-read book, "Visions Of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991" . Prof. Gleijeses joins us to discuss the wars in

Recorded: January 26, 2020 BANGKOK— With the recent death of Oman's longtime ruler Sultan Qaboos, the War Nerd and Ames recover the little known history of Oman, British colonial rule, and the forgotten leftist Dhofar Revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. But first: At 08:18 Ames quickly reviews Sam Me

Recorded: July 30, 2019 The War Nerd tells the incredible epic & tragic story of The Liberator of South America, Simón Bolívar. . . At 1:52:00 — Ames tells the anti-epic, anti-tragic story of Ukrainian neofascist loonball Nadia Savchenko, hero of liberal western hacks — to illustrate how the electio