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Jan 28 mins. And weirdly underreported. Jan 20 mins. Then we segue into Mediterranean Europe of the midth century, Ottoman expansion, and the battles in Cyprus, Malta, and the monumental Battle of Lepanto also: EP , which ended Ottoman hegemony over the Mediterranean Sea.

Jan 04 99 mins. Recorded: January 3, A special rushed-out episode to get out our first impressions of Trump's assassination of Iran's legendary Quds leader, Gen. Qasem Soleimani. Dec 31 mins. May Dec 30 mins. Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries led by Rohana Wijeweera, to today's Sinhalese nationalist parliamentarians and government kingmakers.

Map of Sri Lanka Total time: Direct link to this episode's mp3 here. Dec 19 mins. Read Matyszak's blog. Dec 15 mins. In this episode, Annibale tells us how, after suffering defeats to the Ottoman Empire, Venice managed to unite nearly all western European powers against it: the War of the League of Cambrai in the early 16th-c. Nov 30 mins. Once we grasp the Venetian system of power and rule, then. Nov 28 mins. Guest: "Annibale", legendary war nerd Recorded: November 24, Long before Venice became a mere tourist museum with canals, it was one of the most ruthless, enduring, efficient and innovative empires of the second millennium.

Growing up in the US public school system, we at Radio War Nerd naturally had no idea until recently. In part one, we learn about the rise of the Republic of Venice, its sacking of Constantinople, and its gory wars with rival Republic of Genoa.

Nov 20 mins. We discuss Bolivia, coups, North American leftist discourse, and the whole sordid history of the USA using Latin America as the Empire's Workshop — the title of Greg's remarkable book that everyone should read.

Nov 13 mins. Recorded: November 10, Mark Ames recovers the early history of neoliberalism in s Italy and s France. The War Nerd looks back at the period after the US Civil War known as "Reconstruction" as a form of warfare — a dirty war, with all the ingredients. Why is there so little historical grasp of the Reconstruction as another form of warfare? Why don't we even know the casualty figures — almost entirely freed African-Americans, killed by the South's dominant whites?

A big shout-out to Michael Harriot for his thread on Reconstruction-as-warfare. Buy it here! Oct 27 mins. At we talk to longtime Middle East correspondent and previous RWN guest Elijah Magnier to talk about the sorry state of foreign reporting, recent protests in Lebanon, the final resolution in the Syria War, and the not-gonna-happen Iran-Saudi-US war.

Check out Narin Briar's webpage. Follow Narin on Twitter. Oct 16 mins. Guest: Carl Zha, podcaster Recorded: October 11, First, the War Nerd and Ames discuss the grim news out of Rojava as Turkish tanks and their throat-slitter jihadi proxies roll into northern Syria. At — we're joined by Carl Zha for the second part of our series on Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire—a welcome relief from the grim news of the day.

This episode, what you've all been waiting for: The Mongols take the world. At the Nerd and Ames talk about the breaking news that morning about Trump's betrayal of Rojava to Turkey's military machine — it's been long-expected, but that doesn't make it any less sickening.

Recorded: September 27, First, we talk about the latest news out of Saudi Arabia—Bonesaw's ceasefire announcement, the first recognition that his forces lost to the Yemeni Houthi rebels. Sep 28 mins. Lucky for us, we're joined by Oxford U. Follow him on Twitter. Sep 25 mins.

Sep 13 mins. For some strange reason, Americans know more about historical crimes committed by our foreign adversaries than we do about the the appalling catalogue of crimes committed against America's own territorial colony: Puerto Rico.

Cornelius Rhoads, and Luis Munoz Marin. We had some sound issues this episode, so bear with us. Guest: Chika Oduah, journalist Recorded: August 19, We talk to Nigerian-American journalist Chika Oduah about her travels to Boko Haram's strongholds in Nigeria's far northeast, about the politics of Nigeria's north-south divide, and the lost history of the Biafra rebellion and its legacy.

Check out Chika's articles and blog at her web page. Follow Chika on Twitter. Aug 22 mins. Guests: James Dahl, "Cannon Dan," Meredith Avila Recorded: August 12, August 12, a date that will live in minor infamy, a day in which Radio War Nerd invaded Brooklyn with nuthin but a bag full of laptops, some hastily typed up notes, and enough anxiety to paralyze an army.

It was our first ever live podcast, and despite our worst fears, it turned out to be a blast. The format, roughly: -Introduction -Dr. To understand what's happening, Aditya tells us about Kashmir's historically separate and independent identity going back millennia, and brings us up to the present with India's popular far-right leader Modi and the RSS, a quasi-fascist grassroots paramilitary organization that serves as Modi's base.

At — Ames tells the anti-epic, anti-tragic story of Ukrainian neofascist loonball Nadia Savchenko, hero of liberal western hacks — to illustrate how the election victory of Jewish comedian Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine represents a complete repudiation of the western-backed Maidan revolution.

Mark Your Calendars! Tickets and information here. Don't forget the new audiobook by the War Nerd's alter-ego John Dolan: "Pleasant Hell", the comic memoir read by the author himself. Jul 29 mins. Guest: Andrew Cockburn, Washington DC editor, Harpers magazine Recorded: July 24, The theme of this episode is Pentagon weapons procurements sleaze — the disconnect between alleged defense needs vs actual weapons purchases, from the Reagan Era through today.

Buy Andrew's books. Follow Andrew on Twitter. And don't forget the new audiobook by the War Nerd's alter-ego John Dolan: "Pleasant Hell", the comic memoir read by the author himself.

Jul 16 mins. Watch Kris's documentary film Under Our Skin. Buy Brendon's music at Thrill Jockey. Total time: Jul 11 mins. Guest: Joey L. We also talk about certain western hacks misreporting the Syria war, including a certain Roy Gutman. Buy Joey L. Check out his documentary "People of the Delta". Follow Joey L. Buy his music at Thrill Jockey. Buy Audra Wolfe's book "Freedom's Laboratory". Follow Audra on Twitter here. Jun 27 mins. Read Parenti's articles on climate change in Jacobin magazine.

Jun 26 mins. We learn there's a whole subculture of cannon buffs, and they can buy and sell these things with almost no regulations.

At — in response to reader requests to talk about "how to read media" the Nerd goes back through the Syria war and reporting on the Syria war, and lessons he learned about how to read media. Jun 15 mins. Guest: Pablo Ben, associate professor Recorded: June 13, "Peronismo" has dominated Argentina's politics for nearly 8 decades now.

Was he a fascist, according to popular received ideas in the US and elsewhere? Jun 02 mins. Hey War Nerd fans! Buy the new audiobook version of John Dolan's comic novel, "Pleasant Hell" - read by the author himself!

May 29 mins. Game of Thrones is kids' stuff compared to the real story May 28 mins. In reality, the war didn't really resolve itself for at least another couple of decades — in the showdown between the Kingdom of France and the once-mighty Duchy of Burgundy.

In this two-part finale, popular guest Annibale takes us through the lost history of the Burgundian Empire going back to the late Roman era, up to the period of the Hundred Years War, when Burgundy, allied with England, was perhaps Europe's wealthiest "state.

Episode is the second part in this final chapter of our Hundred Years War series. May 20 mins. Neocon Max Boot praises Sharp for being "indirectly responsible for more revolutions than anyone since Lenin or Mao"—revolutions that usually usher in pro-western liberal regimes.

And yet Gene Sharp, a leading theorist of nonviolence, has been a hero to the western Left, beyond criticism or reproach. Enter Marcie Smith, who has just published the first part in a deep investigation into Sharp's very deep and well-documented ties to the US national security state.

May 10 mins. After decades of getting stomped by the English invaders, the French — catalyzed by Joan of Arc's brief but incredible command — finally turn the war around and destroy the English armies, driving them out of Normandy, and finally, with the Battle of Castillon, driving the English out of Gascony in the south.

But although the war ends by most accounts in , it's not really over Total time: Direct link to this episode's mp3 here Hey War Nerd fans! Apr 24 mins. Guest: James Dahl, blogger Recorded: April 19, Sudan's forever ruler Omar al-Bashir was just overthrown after running the country for 30 years. We spoke to James Dahl from the war nerd community, a longtime horn of Africa enthusiast and blogger, to explain what's behind the mass uprisings, the complex history and politics of Sudan, and the Gulf states' colonial influence in Sudan.

And don't forget to buy the audiobook version of "Pleasant Hell" by John Dolan! Apr 19 mins. Apr 11 mins. This episode, Annibale takes us from the devastating Black Plague, which hit France hardest, wiping out roughly half of the population in a matter of a few years, and its effects on the Hundred Years War.

Recorded: March 29, First, the War Nerd and Ames discuss the long-anticipated collapse of the Russiagate conspiracy hysteria — and with it, whatever's left of the established media and political class's credibility. It's a giant silver platter gift for Trump 's campaign. But as Ames argues, it's more than just a question of narratives and credibility, as the last American freak-out over Russian "active measures" was used to justify a massive domestic spying and political harassment campaign.

At — we're joined by popular Radio War Nerd guest "Annibale" to walk us through the Hundred Years War — roughly , depending on who you ask — one of the most catastrophic wars in history that depopulated entire swathes of Europe. To help us understand this war, Annibale first helps us to understand the world of the Middle Ages, weeding out the Enlightenment-era myths that persist through today. We learn about local economies, societies, politics, and military technologies and tactics of the time, and how they began to change with the war.

Mar 29 mins. It remains an all too obscure war, one that this show has discussed in the past and that the War Nerd has written about. This episode, we're joined by one of the very few English-language historians of that war, Thomas Whigham, who wrote a fantastic two-volume history of the war that we discuss in this episode. UAE despot proposed to Pompeo assassinating Taliban peace negotiators. Mar 20 mins. At the Nerd and Ames are joined by guest Joe Costello, who recently returned from a months-long stint in Lagos as a campaign advisor to opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar, who just lost the presidential election to Muhammadu Buhari.

Joe takes us through his own career in democratic politics, starting with Ted Kennedy's insurgent campaign against Jimmy Carter in , through Jerry Brown's campaign, the death of his old friend Pat Caddell, and discusses all the ways democratic politics are failing around the globe.

Download Joe's latest work "The Politics of Technology". Follow Joe on Twitter. Mar 13 mins. One of the most intriguing was Paris Review editor John Train, who later pioneered the use of arming western-backed jihadis in Afghanistan with video cameras and training them to film—or stage, if they had to—Russian atrocities for propaganda use in the West.

Check out Joel's personal website including links to his articles. Follow Joel on Twitter. Guest: Carl Zha, podcaster Recorded: February 23, It's the 40th anniversary of the Sino-Vietnamese War, a brief and bloody war between two Communist neighbors that was little understood in the West, and has largely been forgotten since.

The War Nerd invites one of our favorite guests back to the show to tell us what happened in that war, and give us all the crucial context to understand why China invaded. Follow Carl Zha on Twitter and Facebook. Recorded February 18, One Reagan Era zombie returns to power, another returns to the grave.

The War Nerd and Ames first look at Elliott Abrams, Trump's recently-appointed Venezuela regime-change viceroy, and the El Mozote massacre that Abrams ran cover for nearly 4 decades ago. Feb 10 mins. Guest: TheseLongWars, Karachi-based blogger Recorded February 7, Balochistan is Pakistan's largest province in terms of area size—and its smallest in terms of population.

It's also Pakistan's poorest province, though rich in resources like natural gas—and the Balochi people have long-standing grievances against Pakistan's dominant Punjabis. This translates into no fewer than 5 Balochi insurgencies since Pakistan's independence in Follow TheseLongWars on Twitter, read his blog. Ivan Katchanovski, professor of political science at U. Ottawa Recorded: January 30, As Trump's regime-change operation in Venezuela gathers momentum, we take a look at the sort of "false flag" operations in the past that have triggered interventions and regime-change.

From the Mukden Incident in , a Japanese Imperial Army false flag train bombing used as the pretext for Japan's invasion of Manchuria — to the mysterious sniper killings precipitating the US-backed coup against Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, false flags do really happen, even if the concept has been flogged to death by professional paranoiacs like Alex Jones.

For this episode, we talk to Dr. Ivan Katchanovski, the Ukrainian born scholar who has been analyzing inconsistencies in the Maidan massacre in Ukraine, when 49 people were killed in events leading up to Yanukovych's overthrow.

Read Dr Katchanovski's reports on the Maidan massacre; buy his books here and here; follow him on Facebook and Twitter. The War Nerd recovers from a molar infection in Buenos Aires just in time to discuss the Venezuela crisis with Argentine journalist Ignacio Portes RWN EP 22 - "War of the Triple Alliance" , who has written some great analyses in the past of where Chavez's political left-populism went right, and how the economics of chavismo — particularly the currency controls — created much of the mess they're in today.

We also discuss two decades of US hostility towards Venezuela, from both the White House and the major press — and what to expect if the regime-change operation succeeds in overthrowing Maduro. Read Ignacio Portes' articles at nswfcorp and NakedCapitalism. Follow Ignacio Portes on Twitter. Recorded: January 15, The War Nerd takes a break from the grim realities of real-life wars, to talk about two of his favorite SFF authors: the under-appreciated Jack Vance, and the more justly rewarded Gene Wolfe.

Jan 11 mins. At Ames talks about the recent scandal over the British intelligence-backed Integrity Initiative's covert propaganda operation using friendly media figures to target westerners critical of the new Cold War hysteria, including UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn. New revelations about Integrity Initiative show that the operation has already moved in the US, and one of its hired speakers has already attacked both the War Nerd and Ames, as well as having smeared previous RWN guests Rania Khalek and Max Blumenthal.

To give this domestic spy scandal story some context, Ames recovers the history of the CIA's illegal domestic spy operation, MH-CHAOS, which began targeting Ramparts magazine and eventually expanded to spying on and disrupting hundreds of thousands of antiwar Americans. The program ended when Seymour Hersh exposed it in , leading to the creation of the Church Committee. Recorded: December 29, We always knew the betrayal would come, and here it is: Trump announces US withdrawal from Syria war, and DC neocon crocodile tears started flowing for Rojava Kurds, and blue state liberals are now the outraged militarists they once pretended at least to oppose.

We also review Michael Weiss's weird twitter meltdown, described by Ames as a "a neocon Finnegans Wake". Dec 21 mins. Lot of surprises and myths debunked. Sparta was essentially a proto-fascist slave state that ruled through terror and cult indoctrination, and eventually decayed into collapse due to the oldest reason of all: Inequality, the concentration of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands.

Dec 14 mins. Recorded: December 11, Guest: Dr. Christopher Phelps, associate professor U. The War Nerd talks to intellectual historian Christopher Phelps about the original meaning of "Populism" in the United States at the end of the 19th C. Qatari emir wisely avoids GCC summit. Qatar has played soft-power propaganda game brilliantly, gotten away with murder. Check out his articles in The Nationand Jacobin.

Dec 09 mins. In episode , guest Carl Zha offered up a deep forensic analysis that both confirmed reports of large-scale re-education camps and repression, and also debunked the more hyperbolic and hysterical propaganda exploiting an already dire enough situation. This episode, the War Nerd talks to a recent visitor to Xinjiang, "Vadim Mikhailov" a pseudonym to protect the author , who reported his personal experiences in a recent article, "A Week in Xinjiang's Absolute Surveillance State". Dec 01 mins.

More interesting than the one-sided sumo match is the larger political and military background leading up to the Kerch Strait kerfuffle. Also: no discussion would be complete without a close reading of perhaps the dumbest Atlantic Council warmongering article ever, which is saying a lot.

At we talk to Rowan Wernham and Yasha Levine about their new documentary feature "Pistachio Wars" about the murky Beverly Hills pistachio billionaires sucking California's water supply dry and profiting off Iran war tensions.

Pledge to the Pistachio Wars kickstarter campaign by clicking here. Maruf and Joseph take us back through Somali history, explaining how clan structure works in an otherwise homogenous society, how Somalia had traditionally been one of the most stable regions in Africa, who the Islamic Courts were, and how the key figures who founded the radical Al Qaeda offshoot, Al-Shabaab, played a very long game that started during the Afghanistan mujahideen war against the Soviet Union in the late s. Follow Harun Maruf on Twitter.

Follow Dan Joseph on Twitter. Recorded November 15, To mark the th anniversary of the War To End All Wars, the War Nerd and Ames discuss the American military's biggest contribution to the Entente victory: the Meuse-Argonne offensive, launched in the last six weeks of the war. Turns it this was the largest and deadliest battle in US military history — 26, killed, nearly , wounded — featuring the most epic traffic jams in American history see photo above , led by a gaggle of psychopathic dumb-as-nails US officers.

Despite professing to love war so much, hardly any Americans even know about their military's biggest battle ever. And for good reason, as we learn. It did not go very well. And all that death and embarrassment didn't even matter much anyway—the Meuse-Argonne wasn't all that important compared to the Entente's other major battlefronts during the Hundred Days Offensive that ended the war.

Afterwards at — the War Nerd briefly talks about World War One poetry, the dividing moment between pro-war verse and the sort of antiwar verse that's been the rule ever since. Also, Afghanistan going from awful to awfuler. Nov 09 mins. Recorded November 8, The War Nerd looks back at Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's leader from the mids until his death in , to try to understand who this fascinating, likable and unjustly forgotten figure really was—and to understand what happened to Arab secular-left nationalism, which Nasser once represented.

Indeed, Nasser's brand of modernizing, secular-left nationalism was once seen as the inevitable future of the Middle East. Afterwards, Ames and the War Nerd discuss surprising new realignments between Damascus and the Gulf monarchies minus Qatar. Amnesty's appalling report attacking Houthis just as the Saudis and UAE stepped up their massacres of Yemeni civilians.

Recorded: October 29, We're nearing the th anniversary of the end of World War I, so the War Nerd decided to cover the most important front s least covered — the Ottoman Empire's many fronts, from the Mediterranean to the Caucasus, Palestine and present-day Iraq.

Oct 26 mins. Later in our interview, Brian explains how the "impeachment" removal of Brazil's center-left president Dilma Rousseff was actually a coup not dissimilar from previous Brazil military coups, and how the key weapon in this coup, Brazil's "Operation Car Wash" corruption investigation, got a lot of help from the usual suspects in Washington DC.

Read Brian Mier's work at BrasilWire. Follow BrasilWire on Twitter. Abrahms also talks to us about his early career beginnings in the Washington DC think-tank world in the leadup to the Iraq War, and the lessons he learned from watching them get everything wrong without ever paying a price for being wrong. We also discuss some of Max's controversial articles on the Syrian war, Syrian refugees, and all the comfortably-employed pundits who got ISIS disastrously wrong. Great, wide-ranging interview.

And follow MaxAbrams on Twitter. Oct 13 mins. After the break, Ames and the War Nerd discuss the much-romanticized, highly infuriating Paris Commune that briefly appeared in the political vacuum of defeated France.

Turns out there's not much to romanticize—just a gruesome turkey shoot by an extremely vengeful French ruling class and defeated officer corps. There's not much to see today, but thankfully we have the perfect guest to walk us through that disastrous campaign in all its tragi-gory resonance: historian Philip Matyszak, author of an excellent, fun book, "Expedition to Disaster: The Athenian Mission to Sicily BC". Sep 27 mins. At the Nerd and Ames discuss other war news around the world: Erdogan's media propagandists.

Israel's idiotic downing of Russian spy plane; separatist terror attack in Khuzestan, Iran, and attribution snafus. Trump regime's Raytheon lobbyist decides Yemen weapons policy. Saudi Arabia plans to expel millions of Egyptian workers. Islamist rebels in northeast Mozambique linking up with Al Shabab? Sep 19 mins. Guest: Carl Zha, podcaster Recorded September 14, To make sense of the alarming reports coming out of China about mass oppression of Uyghurs and millions forced into reeducation camps in the western Xinjiang province, the War Nerd talks to Carl Zha, who walks us through the little-reported history of the region, and helps us sort out today's myths from the truth.

Teddy Roosevelt's gang would be considered fascist psychopaths today, and Twain said as much at the time. But the real lost story is the savage Philippines Insurgency that followed the war, and the incredible debates in the US between imperialists and anti-imperialists that took place at the time.

Spoiler alert: The imperialists won. At the War Nerd and Ames discuss current war news: Battle for Idlib means more insane western propaganda about Idlib and the Al Qaeda "rebels" who control the province.

Trump regime claims Assad regime preparing chemical weapons attacks on Idlib, with backing from Putin regime. Simon Tisdall strikes again! Britain charges two scary Russian flatheads with Skripal poisoning. Intense and grey. Serious and grey. Dark and grey. I blush. I gasp. He gasps. I blush some a lot of. I gasp some a lot of. I bite my lip. He gasps plenty a lot of. Still a lot of dyspneal. The end. Search for year-old teen in Que. Saskatoon After a rocky morning for parents, Sask. COVID vaccine booking 'up and going again'.

Saskatoon Nordic spa plan put on ice by city council. Winnipeg Hiring nurses, repairing relationships, a new homelessness strategy: Throne speech outlines priorities for Manitoba.

Rally to support Wet'suwet'en held in downtown Calgary. Ontario to extend emergency orders under Reopening Ontario Act. Walmart pulls children's toy that swears and sings in Polish about doing cocaine off its website.

Ottawa Police Services Board approves smaller budget increase. Vancouver 'I'm not going to abandon them': Neighbours lift each other up with more rain on the way. Atmospheric rivers overlooked by B. Concerns over contaminated floodwater, decaying animals from Sumas Prairie. Wind, rainfall warnings issued for Vancouver Island. Man presumed dead in B. Atlantic Emergency alert issued for N.

Western N. Northern Ontario Seven people displaced after a Sudbury fire Tuesday night. Kitchener Ontario mother pleads guilty in death of 3-year-old son swept into Grand River. Police investigate vehicle break-ins in Erin.

Canada Storm hitting Atlantic Canada 'very similar' to what struck B. How a B. Horses stranded by B. World Judge orders pro-Trump attorneys who brought frivolous election fraud case to pay defendants they sued. No babies in Parliament: U.

Child is 6th death in Waukesha parade crash; suspect charged. Sweden's parliament approves first female prime minister. A new republic is born: Barbados celebrates ditching Queen as head of state. Health New report on contentious breast cancer screening study divides researchers. Wearable device a potential lifesaver for opioid overdoses: study. Politics PM Trudeau vows to 'deliver results' on platform commitments in speech from the throne. Conservatives say virtual Commons proceedings allow government to dodge scrutiny.

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