Guest: Ben Aris, founding editor BNE IntelliNews
Recorded: June 14, 2023
Ben Aris joins us for an update on the US-led economic war on Russia, Russia's invasion, Ukraine's counteroffensive, and various outbreaks of war-related stupid.
Total time: 1:31:52
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 nukes. We talk to RWN favorite Annibale about the history & science of nukes so that you know whether you can sleep easy on those nuke fears, or fr...
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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.
Total time: 1:33:42
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 & recruiting event that went a li'l haywire — and what happened when Woodrow Wilson made another of his trademark disastrous decisions, sending the US mil...
2023-05-31 01:43:19 +0000 UTC View Post
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
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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.
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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 ending.
Previous episodes in the War Nerd US Civil War Series:
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 apocalyptic consequences, in the larger context of US ruling class incompetence & corruption, all captured in Bamford's new book 2023-05-12 00:12:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Morison, and how leaking state secrets to the US press only recently became a crime...
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Guest: Joshua Craze, writer
Recorded: April 22, 2023
We're reposting our interview with Joshua Craze, author of "2023-04-30 18:28:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Guest: Joshua Craze, writer
Recorded: April 22, 2023
We discuss the crisis in Sudan with writer-researcher Joshua Craze, author of "2023-04-26 00:52:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Guest: Philip Short, author
Recorded: April 18, 2023
We talk to celebrated biographer Philip Short (2023-04-21 20:05:07 +0000 UTC View Post
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
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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, George Packer, et al)
*Amb. McFaul, t...
2023-03-31 22:42:06 +0000 UTC View PostRecorded: 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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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 the lost history of how America's leaders and field commanders abandoned their soldiers to poor quality equipment that didn't work, worthless armor th...
2023-03-26 16:25:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Guest: Sopo Japaridze, labor activist & podcaster
Recorded: March 10, 2023
We talk to Georgia-based labor activist Sopo ...
2023-03-12 03:28:57 +0000 UTC View Post
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
*Carthage & Rome before First Punic War, 264 BC
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Guest: Ann Neumann, journalist
Recorded: February 17, 2023
We talk to Ann Neumann, one of the few journalists to report from Ethiopia on the ongoing war against Tigray, which has resulted in at least 600,000 civilian deaths, mostly in Tigray, as well as revenge atrocities in border regions south-southwest of Tigray.
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2023-02-23 21:14:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Guest: Seymour Hersh
Recorded: February 11, 2023
We talk to legendary Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh about his latest bombshell scoop: the United States, on President Biden's orders, blew up the Nord Stream pipelines that were foundational to Germany's export economy until last year.
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Guest: Ben Aris, founding editor BNE IntelliNews
Recorded: February 9, 2023
Friend of the show Ben Aris joins us from Berlin to update us on the G-7's economic war on Russia launched a year ago in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Total time: 1:29:12
Dir...
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Guest: John Griffiths, Totally Tanked podcast
Recorded: January 30, 2023
Tanks are all the rage in the Ukraine war, a very mid-20th-c. weapon for a very 20th-c. war. We talk to Totally Tanked's John Griffiths abou...
2023-01-31 21:47:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Guest: Andrew Cockburn, Harpers magazine
Recorded: January 26, 2023
We talk to Andrew Cockburn about the DoD's tragicomic budget as it nears the magical 1,000,000,000,000 mark, to the accompaniment of crickets from our media-political "watchdogs".
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Guest: Eileen Jones, Filmsuck co-host & writer
Recorded: January 13, 2023
We talk to OG friend of the show Eileen Jones about the good, bad & ugly — mostly bad & ugly — in Hollywood movies about the US Civil War. In true Hollywood ...
2023-01-18 23:09:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Guest: Jack Murphy, journalist & writer
Recorded: January 9, 2023
We talk to journalist & special forces veteran Jack Murphy about his monster scoop on NATO's CIA-run sleeper cells activated since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine to spread chaos inside Russia — and the problems Jack had getting his story published in a mainstream outlet.
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2023-01-11 00:49:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Recorded: December 20, 2022
The War Nerd & Ames look back on the year in wars that was 2022, and consider how a failed regime-change movement in Belarus influenced Putin's cockamamie Ukraine war plan.
Total time: 1:39:51
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Guest: Jonathan Katz, author & journalist
Recorded: December 15, 2022
We talk to Jonathan Katz about US Marines Gen. Smedley Butler's journey from the US Empire's lead "racketeer" in small wars and coups from China to the Caribbean, to anti-militarist hero an...
2022-12-23 14:37:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Guest: Joshua Landis, Director of Center for Middle East Studies
Recorded: December 9, 2022
The war in Ukraine has sucked all the west's attention away from other wars around the world, including the Syria war, which was once the star of the NAT...
2022-12-14 02:00:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Guest: Yasha Levine, journalist & author
Recorded: December 6, 2022
Friend of the show Yasha Levine joins us to discuss the big Twitter brouhaha, journalism in the age of oligarchy, former eXile colleague Matt Taibbi, and Yasha's doomed family trip to Russia on the eve of Putin's mobilization drive...
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Guest: Ryan Gingeras, historian & professor
In Part 2 of our interview with historian Ryan Gingeras on the final years of the Ottoman ...
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