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I haven't gotten one in a while. The last War Nerd Newsletter was sent out April 17th. If you've got Discord I can send you the rss feed.
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I kinda worry about John because it seems like he's sick all the time.
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May 9, 2018 23:28
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I do not, but thanks! Good to know I’m not just not getting it for some stupid error on patreon’s end or something.
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May 9, 2018 23:29
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Thug Lessons posted:I kinda worry about John because it seems like he's sick all the time. It's also been over a week since the last episode. I'd put it down to him being busy trying to promote the Iliad book.
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May 10, 2018 00:13
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:It's also been over a week since the last episode. I'd put it down to him being busy trying to promote the Iliad book. Yeah, plus we got two full episodes in 3 days last week. I'm assuming they did that since they knew they might be taking a short break due to the Iliad-related poo poo.
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May 10, 2018 02:43
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Thug Lessons posted:I kinda worry about John because it seems like he's sick all the time. He's seemed in much better health lately. As a native Californian, winter is rough on him.
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May 10, 2018 03:14
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Still, all that travelling has got to be rough on an immune system that was already sickly.
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May 10, 2018 03:15
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If it comes down to it Catherine Dolan can carry him around everywhere in a cart like Subutai
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May 10, 2018 09:19
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I know 99% of people who read this thread have already listened to it, but the new episode might make you want to kill yourself.
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May 12, 2018 18:13
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in which way? like the tragedy of the entire situation and/or the description on how starving your enemy plays out?
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May 12, 2018 19:27
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It's just the worst way to die imaginable, and we're doing it to infants.
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May 13, 2018 03:31
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We talk8ng abortion m8s?
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May 13, 2018 03:44
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paul_soccer10 posted:We talk8ng abortion m8s? the late term abortion diet
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May 13, 2018 04:32
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that island sounded cool
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May 13, 2018 13:44
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so i subscribed to the patreon now how do i get this poo poo on my phone?
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May 14, 2018 00:21
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Darkman Fanpage posted:so i subscribed to the patreon now how do i get this poo poo on my phone? download the patreon app to your phone lol If you've got discord I can give you the rss link. They only give it out in the subscriber newsletter but it's been a month since the last one. e: full disclosure - I really do have the patreon app on my phone and never mess with rss
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May 14, 2018 02:36
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i'll contact you on the dbhq discord
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May 14, 2018 02:54
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Part of what makes the War Nerd great is the coverage of topics that rarely get discussed elsewhere, often with really interesting guests. Episodes I would particularly recommend to someone who is working through the show's backlog would be 29 (the Nagorno-Karabakh war, an interesting incident from the break up of the USSR), 40 (the Ethiopia-Eritrea War), anything with Karl Zha, and especially episdoe 76 where they interview the late Robert Parry, a very important American investigate journalist who helped break some of the biggest stories of the 1980s on Reagan's dirty war in south America. The Joshua Landis interview in episode 118 was a really interesting Afrin-centric episode on Syria and 117 on the bizarre history of the MEK in Iran is worth a listen.
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May 14, 2018 04:49
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The Mujahideen E Khalk episode is absolutely insane, and a great listen.
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May 14, 2018 05:30
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The Sci-Fi and fascism episode is a classic, though I'm sure its been recommended before.
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May 14, 2018 05:33
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Helsing posted:and especially episode 76 where they interview the late Robert Parry, a very important American investigate journalist who helped break some of the biggest stories of the 1980s on Reagan's dirty war in south America. This one is particularly great, but of all the War Nerd episodes this probably left me the most depressed. Parry did fantastic journalism and seemed to just get hosed over at every opportunity...
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May 14, 2018 13:01
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Helsing posted:Part of what makes the War Nerd great is the coverage of topics that rarely get discussed elsewhere, often with really interesting guests. Episodes I would particularly recommend to someone who is working through the show's backlog would be 29 (the Nagorno-Karabakh war, an interesting incident from the break up of the USSR), 40 (the Ethiopia-Eritrea War), anything with Karl Zha, and especially episdoe 76 where they interview the late Robert Parry, a very important American investigate journalist who helped break some of the biggest stories of the 1980s on Reagan's dirty war in south America. The Joshua Landis interview in episode 118 was a really interesting Afrin-centric episode on Syria and 117 on the bizarre history of the MEK in Iran is worth a listen. shout out to the podcast for having the only covering I heard about the Iraqi communist party months before they even formed a coalition with al-sadr
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May 15, 2018 01:45
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Darkman Fanpage posted:so i subscribed to the patreon now how do i get this poo poo on my phone? Download podcast addict and you can basically subscribe to a zillion podcast rss feeds that you'll never listen to, with a really great interface at that. Plus the download process is super easy. For RWN though you'll need to input the rss link
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May 15, 2018 04:30
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I'd also like to chime in and recommend the Sinn Fein "Bullets to Ballots" Strategy (#75) episode and the Good Friday Agreement episode (#122), since they give a really comprehensive and educational overview of something that people allude to, but I didn't know the details of.
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May 15, 2018 13:23
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Isn't the rss link in the rewards email or whatever patreon sends out when you subscribe?
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May 15, 2018 16:54
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How Darwinian posted:This one is particularly great, but of all the War Nerd episodes this probably left me the most depressed. Parry did fantastic journalism and seemed to just get hosed over at every opportunity... Parry seems to mark the transition point from oppositional journalism to the US taking control of major news places as propaganda outlets especially re: foreign policy. Pretty funny that the ""liberal"" new york times was taking marching orders from Reagan's government.
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May 16, 2018 02:26
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If you send them a note on the Patreon for a copy of the last newsletter, they'll send it to you.
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May 16, 2018 02:38
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Mark Ames has repeatedly alluded to the Church committee as a sort of 'American Perestroika', and talks about that brief post-Watergate moment when journalists seemed like public heroes and some of them actually prided themselves on being independent minded and tough enough to dig deep into the establishment's dirty secrets. The Parry episode is about as close as we've gotten to a deep dig into that topic and how after that brief moment it all came crashing down. I thought it was especially interesting how Parry discussed the way that senior editors in the media were very actively supportive of the Reagan administration and its efforts to instill a new sense of optimistic patriotism in a heavily demoralized population. I hope they get around to do an episode on the cultural turn in the late 70s / early 80s where it seems like there was a significant elite consensus about the need to reign in the excesses of the 1970s. There are plenty of discussions in both the academic and popular press about the economic backlash (the destruction of unions, the transition to a 'lean' or 'neoliberal' state, etc) but there hasn't been nearly as much attention paid to the cultural side of things (at least so far as I am aware). I guess that Episode 51 on the Red Scare, and specifically on the novel 'The Spike', also covers some of this ground.
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May 16, 2018 02:57
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Mark Ames has also talked about how Americans pretty much didn't want to know about what was revealed by the Church committee and did their best to forget about it.
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May 16, 2018 03:02
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A while back I sent them an e-mail requesting the newsletter back catalogue (which they'd offered new subs) and around 4am the next morning my phone went off about 50 times as each newsletter was sent individually.
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May 16, 2018 04:25
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snoremac posted:A while back I sent them an e-mail requesting the newsletter back catalogue (which they'd offered new subs) and around 4am the next morning my phone went off about 50 times as each newsletter was sent individually. lmao
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May 16, 2018 04:33
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I'm listening to old episodes and in episode 32 they read and make fun of some crappy articles from 2004 that talk about Iraqi shias not supporting Moqtada Sadr lol
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May 19, 2018 05:59
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Is there a free War Nerd podcast? Or is everything on the subscriber stream?
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May 19, 2018 12:57
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Everything is subscription but they’ve unlocked a bunch of episodes for free. Basically anything reposted on their Patreon.
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May 19, 2018 13:01
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Cheers He just posted this on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thewarnerd/status/997818142482227201?s=21 As an Australian I am severely tempted to subscribe anyway just to listen to this
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May 19, 2018 13:42
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Brown Paper Bag posted:Cheers Here's a taste: https://pando.com/2015/05/03/the-war-nerd-escape-from-east-timor-part-one/ https://pando.com/2015/05/13/the-war-nerd-escape-from-east-timor-part-two/
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May 19, 2018 17:08
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Helsing posted:Part of what makes the War Nerd great is the coverage of topics that rarely get discussed elsewhere, often with really interesting guests. Episodes I would particularly recommend to someone who is working through the show's backlog would be 29 (the Nagorno-Karabakh war, an interesting incident from the break up of the USSR), 40 (the Ethiopia-Eritrea War), anything with Karl Zha, and especially episdoe 76 where they interview the late Robert Parry, a very important American investigate journalist who helped break some of the biggest stories of the 1980s on Reagan's dirty war in south America. The Joshua Landis interview in episode 118 was a really interesting Afrin-centric episode on Syria and 117 on the bizarre history of the MEK in Iran is worth a listen. I'd also recommend Episode 56: The Sikh Empire, and any of the episodes with William Hogeland (63, 85, 91) who is a great historian about early post-independence America. As a non-American I learned a lot.
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May 19, 2018 19:43
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Brown Paper Bag posted:
Trigger warning: the Australian government aren't the good guys in this story, though John does take pains to separate them from Australian people.
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May 19, 2018 22:01
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Dreylad posted:I'd also recommend Episode 56: The Sikh Empire, and any of the episodes with William Hogeland (63, 85, 91) who is a great historian about early post-independence America. As a non-American I learned a lot. As an American, I also learned a lot from the Hogeland episodes. Fascinating stuff.
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May 19, 2018 22:42
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I emailed John and he got back to me saying there’s a newsletter going out tomorrow, in case you’ve been waiting on that.
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May 22, 2018 00:23
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