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Recorded: December 11, 2024 The War Nerd returns from the bowels of hell, otherwise known as "The Social Security Administration office on Alabama Street", to discuss some of the latest developments in coups, false flags, war defeats & forgotten nerds... (image: h/t Tom Parsons) Total time: 1:18:54Direct link to this episode's mp3 here * Subscribe to Radio War Nerd at patreon.c

Guest: Cyrus, MENA researcher*Guest co-host: AamerRecorded: December 6, 2024 We talk to friend of the show "Cyrus" about the two major recent events: the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire, and Assad's collapsing Syrian state. (Note: The War Nerd had to slip away on a dark mission before recording this episode. FOTS Aamer volunteered for duty as guest co-host.) Total time: 2:00:03Direc

Guest: Joshua LandisRecorded: December 2, 2024 We talk to Syria expert Joshua Landis about last week's surprise breakout of Syria's Turkish-backed rebels, led by Jolani's onetime Al Qaeda franchise HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham). Follow Joshua on Twitter. Previous RWN episodes with Joshua:-EP #118 — Turkey, Syrian Kurds & Afrin Invasion-EP #150 — Idlib & the Syria Endgame-E

Guest: Kelley Vlahos, Responsible StatecraftRecorded: November 24, 2024 We're joined by longtime friend of the show Kelley Vlahos for our quadrennial look at the New Boss's foreign policy. Spoiler: don't get yer hopes up. Check out Kelley's site Responsible Statecraft. Previous RWN with Kelley:*EP 36 — Gilded Deep State + "1979"*EP 58 — DC Reaction to Trump Shocker*EP 258 — S

Recorded: November 21, 2024 For once, the timing-gods delivered two major events hours BEFORE we recorded: ICC's arrest warrant for Bibi Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant; and, following a series of escalatory policies by Biden in Ukraine, noted "bluffer" "coward" Vladimir Putin responded by detonating an IRBM missile on Dnipro. First: We discuss atmospheric rivers & Maine CoonsAt 7:0

Guest: Sopo Japaridze Recorded: November 19, 2024 We're joined by Sopo Japaridze in Tbilisi to discuss Georgia's latest elections results and protests, and the precarity of neutrality amid American imperial decline. Check out Sopo's podcast Reimagining Soviet Georgia and her substack here. Read Sopo's latest in Jacobin, "In Georgia, Vote-Rigging Claims Leave Nation Deeply Split" Se

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