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Guests: Nihal El Aasar and Aamer Recorded: November 12, 2024 We're joined by friend of the show Aamer and guest Nihal El Aaser to discuss how Israel's Gaza genocide is impacting the Arab masses and Arab states, focusing on Egypt and Bahrain. *Read Nihal's article "Left-wing Melancholia:The Arab political subject" in ParaPraxis magaine. Total time: 1:15:02 Direct link to this episod

Guest: William Hogeland, author Recorded: November 6, 2024 Forget the 2024 election: RWN brings you the entire history of American politics in one election episode, with friend o' the show William Hogeland talking about his brilliant revisionist history of unlikely liberal hero, Alexander Hamilton. Buy William's new book The Hamilton Scheme: An Epic Tale of Money and Power in the A

Guest: Ryan Grim, Drop Site News Recorded: October 29, 2024 Ryan Grim joins us from the Swamp to discuss the upcoming US election to decide which coastal warlord will threaten the planet for the next 4 years, Israel's expanding rampage & genocide, and Ryan's new media outlet Drop Site News... Check out Ryan's new media outlet Drop Site News. Follow Ryan on twitter. Listen to RW

Guest: Peter Korotaev, Events In Ukraine Recorded: October 25, 2024 Friend of the Show Peter Korotaev joins us again to discuss the many-layered shitshow that is Ukraine's military and politics — everything unreported in the famously free West, but widely reported among Ukrainians, to Ukrainians — to help us understand why the war is going from worse to worser. Listen to our pr

Guest: Cyrus, MENA researcher Recorded: October 21, 2024 We're joined by RWN guest "Cyrus" from Beirut, to talk about Israel's sectarian war strategy in Lebanon, Nasrallah's legacy, profound changes taking place in the Arab and Muslim world that have so far gone little reported, and Cyrus's own recent travels through Iraq and Jordan... Check out RWN EP #233 with Cyrus on the Arab S

Guest: Carolyn Willekes Recorded: October 15, 2024 The domestication of horses transformed warfare for several millennia up to the 20th-c. We talk to author Carolyn Willekes about all things-horses & ancient warfare, from dumb chariots to mounted archers... Buy Carolyn's book, The Horse in the Ancient World From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome Total time: 1:29:25 Direct link to th

Guest: Aamer Recorded: October 8, 2024 We're joined by friend of the show Aamer to provide some counterpoint to our recent bummer-ep with Joshua Landis [EP #473] on takeaways and lessons of Israel's ongoing rampage. But first, we get on update on Canada's most venerable Nazis, and we do rhetorical analysis of former eXile editor Matt Taibbi's big Gaza-dodge. Check out more RWN epis

Guests: Brendan James & Noah Kulwin, Blowback The co-hosts of the always-brilliant Blowback show join us again to talk about their newest series on America's Cambodia War, which lasted longer than the Vietnam War it grew out of, produced some of the grotesquely evil leaders in history (along with Pol Pot), exposed dark cleavages in both the communist and US-led worlds, and woul

Recorded: October 2, 2024 Emergency episode update on Israel's now-regional war: Iranian missile strikes on Israeli air bases and cities, deadly Israeli battles with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, plus a brief word on the fall of Vuhledar... *Table of Iran's missile arsenal Total time: 1:04:55 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.com/radio

Guest: Joshua Landis Recorded: September 29, 2024 We talk to Joshua Landis about his 5 Takeaways from Israel's Killing of Nasrallah... Follow Joshua on Twitter. Check out our previous RWN episodes with Joshua:-EP #118 — Turkey, Syrian Kurds & Afrin Invasion-EP #150 — Idlib & the Syria Endgame-EP #358 — Syria War Update Music interlude by Brendon Anderegg. Check out mu