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Radio War Nerd EP #383 — Economic/Ukraine War Update, feat. Ben Aris

Guest: Ben Aris, founding editor BNE IntelliNews

Recorded: June 14, 2023

Ben Aris joins us for an update on the US-led economic ...

Radio War Nerd EP #382 — Brief History of Nukes, feat. Annibale

Guest: Annibale

Recorded: June 8, 2023

Last year, Conventional Wisdom had it that Putin might drop a nuke on Ukraine as Russia's military seemed to implode; this year, Conventional Wisdom says only dupes worry about Russian n...

Radio War Nerd EP #381 — Football Hooliganism: War By Other Means, feat. Aamer

Guest: Aamer 

Recorded: June 1, 2023

RWN favorite Aamer joins us for a brief & brutal history of football hooliganism, made intelligible to those of us who call it soccer.

2023-06-03 19:03:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Radio War Nerd EP #380 — Pancho Villa & The Punitive Expedition

Recorded: May 26, 2023

Every GOP contender for president in 2024 has a plan to invade Mexico upon taking office, and the good news is it's been done before so we don't have to guess how stupidly badly it will go. This episode the Nerd & Ames look back at Pancho Villa's raid on a small New Mexico town — a marketing & recr...

Radio War Nerd EP #379 — World of Wars: Bakhmut to Belfast

Recorded: May 23, 2023

We talk 108th Rochester Regiment Civil War reenactments, end of the endless Battle of Bakhmut, GUR-trained & US armed neo-Nazis invading Belgorod...and then some cheerful news for a change, this time out of Ireland...

*Civil War funday fotos

2023-05-26 13:33:28 +0000 UTC View Post

UNLOCKED: Radio War Nerd #297 [REPOST] — The US Civil War, Part 2: Bleeding Kansas

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 comes to you courtesy of our ...

Radio War Nerd EP #378 — The US Civil War, Part 14: The USCT (US Colored Troops)

Recorded: May 15, 2023

In this 14th installment of the War Nerd US Civil War series, we look at the (oftentimes frustrating) history of the North's belated willingness to let African-Americans fight for the Union, and some battles that the USCT participated in when they were finally allowed to fight. Spoiler: this EP has a rare uplifting e...

Radio War Nerd EP #377 — Cloak & Dumber: Spyfail, feat. James Bamford

Guest: James Bamford, author 

Recorded: May 9, 2023

We talk to national security investigative reporter James Bamford about US counterintelligence calamities over the past decade, with near apocaly...

Radio War Nerd EP #376 — Salammbô, pt. 2 + Who's Afraid of Pentagon Leaks?

Recorded: April 26, 2023

Part 2 of our look at Flaubert's gory war novel, Salammbô, plus a brief history of leaking secrets in the USA.

At 7:00 — we discuss part 2 of Salammbô, Carthage & Flaubert...

At 55:38 — we discuss leaks & leakers, from Jack Teixeira to Samuel Mori...

REPOST: Radio War Nerd #375 [UNLOCKED] — Sudan Crisis, feat. Joshua Craze

Guest: Joshua Craze, writer

Recorded: April 22, 2023

We're reposting our interview with 2023-04-30 18:28:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Radio War Nerd EP #375 — Sudan Crisis, feat. Joshua Craze

Guest: Joshua Craze, writer 

Recorded: April 22, 2023

We discuss the crisis in Sudan with writer-researcher 2023-04-26 00:52:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Radio War Nerd EP #374 — Understanding Putin, with Philip Short

Guest: Philip Short, 2023-04-21 20:05:07 +0000 UTC View Post

Radio War Nerd EP #373 — World of Wars: The Insulted & The Humiliated

Recorded: April 11, 2023

The War Nerd & Ames catch up on current war-related events: toothaches, border crossings, Taibbi's humiliating thrashings, peace outbreak in Yemen, US diplomacy fails, the never-ending Bakhmut battle & more...

Total time: 1:29:20

Direct 2023-04-14 15:12:28 +0000 UTC View Post

Radio War Nerd EP #372 — Iraq War 20th Anniversary, pt. 3: The Forever Warmongers

Recorded: March 28, 2023

In part 3 of our look back at the Iraq War, we name names & throw a few feckless rocks, because all the Iraq War perps are still with us, still warmongering away with lifetime tenure...

*Memories:

*Kenneth Pollack, the liberal interventionists' big brain bug (according to the New York Times...

Radio War Nerd EP #371 — Iraq War 20th Anniversary, pt. 2: Countdown To Lunacy

Recorded: March 24, 2023

The War Nerd & Ames recall the long loony lead-up to the Iraq War from their literary bunker in Moscow...

Total time: 1:27:49

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Radio War Nerd EP #370 — Iraq War 20th Anniversary, pt. 1: Abandoned Soldiers, feat. Seth Harp

Guest: Seth Harp, contributing editor Rolling Stone 

Recorded: March 22, 2023

On the 20th anniversary of the dumbest war in living memory, we talk to Iraq war veteran Seth Harp about ...

Radio War Nerd EP #369 — Georgia Protests & NGO Colonialism, feat. Sopo Japaridze

Guest: Sopo Japaridze, labor activist & 2023-03-12 03:28:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Radio War Nerd EP #368 — Salammbô & The Mercenary War, Part 1 (Prequel): The First Punic War

Recorded: February 19, 2023

Part one in our 2-part series on Flaubert's novel, Salammbô, on ancient Carthage during the Mercenary War, otherwise known as the Truceless War. In this prequel episode, we look at the background to the Mercenary War: Carthage's first disastrous war with Rome, the First Punic War.

Maps 2023-02-28 15:54:54 +0000 UTC View Post