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I listen to Radio War Nerd to hear Will Menaker's foreign policy takes two weeks before he says them on Chapo. But for real I've been reading Dolan's stuff since high school and enjoy it. I have a mixed view on Ames as a person and a writer, but as a host he does a pretty good job.
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I love how the recommended buys on Dolan's Illiad translation include a Yakuza game and the Akira manga. The Anime Left lives on.
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Last episode was great. They're doing a pre-taped call in show which should be something
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Didn't finish the rest of the ep yet, but I teared up when Alex Zaichik described how the indigenous people in Peru poisoned by oil companies were talking about the resistance at Standing Rock
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Sep 26, 2017 02:21
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:all of Taibbi & Max Blumenthal's opinions are good and correct This Taibbi article is too down on Venezuela for it to be good or correct http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-on-goldman-sachs-bailing-out-nicolas-maduro-w484824
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"Relatively moderate rebels" is an amazing phrase Like, yeah, they're not literally calling themselves ISIS today
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I haven't listened to the YPG volunteer interview yet, but it'll have to be a clusterfuck to be worse than the NYT African correspondent episode.Pener Kropoopkin posted:Who gives a poo poo if this guy is a CHUD? The Hell of a Way to Die guys interviewed an actual factual Nazi, because Nate Bethea knew him from his deployment in Ukraine. Not everyone who fights in a warzone that you can interview is going to be a good person. Lol what episode. I'm surprised I haven't seen this on tankie twitter yet.
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Mar 5, 2018 03:01
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I've only listened to the first ep but the YPG volunteer interview was good. The guy's hatred of RT was funny though. He's literally fighting alongside a former British paratrooper who served in Northern Ireland, but RT is a step too far. The worst thing the interview is endorsing is Direct TV. Gonna unsubscribe over that.
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Mar 10, 2018 02:48
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Ames going through the reporting on the first alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria was wild. I found the Daily Mail article alleging that Assad was planning a chemical weapon attack on Israel with Novichok in 2012 just to prove to myself it was real. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2192809/Cornered-desperate-Assad-unleash-catastrophic-chemical-weapon-attack-Israel.html
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Apr 22, 2018 02:47
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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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The episode about war novels has Ames and Dolan talking about why they prefer Dostoyevsky over Tolstoy. I think they've done it other times too though.
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Aug 22, 2018 05:33
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It'd be interesting to compare the spread of evangelicalism in the Christian countries of the global South to the spread of Wahabism/Salafism in Muslim countries. Both movements have US backers, and seem to have targeted domestic progressive political and religious movements as their main enemies.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:What are some War Nerd adjacent podcasts? I know about moderate rebels and clash. Any other good ones? Loud & Clear on Sputnik has one host that's a communist and another that's a former CIA officer who was imprisoned for whistle blowing about the Bush torture program. It's two hours long daily, so I rarely listen to all of it, but for the headline story it tends to be pretty good. It's more focused on recent news than an in-depth history program. A lot of the common guests have been War Nerd, like Tim Shorrok and Max Blumenthal. It's a lot more on the tankie end of the spectrum, but if you're looking for a more consistent version of the "World of Wars" segment it's good. dinoputz posted:Media Roots with Abby & Robbie Martin is good, although they have some "light" truther sentiments between them, Robbie especiialy. Still completely worth your while, though, if you can separate the ice cream from the bullshit. Abby Martin's Empire Files hasn't been updating much recently because US sanctions on Venezuela cut off a lot of funding, but it's got some good stuff in there. http://theempirefiles.tv/
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The Somalia interview reminds me that it really feels like Voice of America and RFERL are the only US outlets that have reporters in conflict areas the US is involved in anymore. The U.S. Agency for Global Media (apparently they changed their name from the Broadcasting Board of Governors this summer) must be the only place hiring foreign corespondents. Foreign correspondents don't contribute enough to media companies' profits, but they're still important for propaganda.
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mila kunis posted:Asked this in dnd and no one seemed interested in answering in the Eastern Europe thread for some reason, so does anyone have a good resource for reading up on the extreme right/neo nazis entering the Ukrainian government, military and police? Here's some decent reporters that I follow on Ukraine. Christopher Miller at RFE/RL writes for a literal US propaganda network but seems to be pretty realistic when covering Ukraine, here's an article about C-14, the fascist street militia that gets government funds. https://www.rferl.org/a/ukrainian-militia-behind-brutal-romany-attacks-getting-state-funds/29290844.html Max Blumenthal got woke when he learned the Truth About Syria and has been critically covering the US role in Syria, Ukraine, and Nicaragua since then. He looks mostly at the US role in Ukraine. https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/04/07/the-us-is-arming-and-assisting-neo-nazis-in-ukraine-while-congress-debates-prohibition/ Electronic Intifada is about news related to the Palestinian struggle, but their coverage of Isreal's increasing ties to fascists in Europe touches on Ukraine occasionally. https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-arming-neo-nazis-ukraine/24876
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Also there was a new episode about the rise & fall of Sparta that might’ve slipped under your radar like it did mine. it’s an all time great. I feel like this guy is going to be on for every one of his books and I'm down for it
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Dec 29, 2018 00:17
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I've been thinking getting Chapo's Felix to talk about Battlefield 1 for a half hour would be a fun weird detour for an episode. That games probably going to be the defining media about WW1 for a lot of people in the US, so it actually makes some sense. He's got enough neuroses about masculinity to fit into Mark and John's conversations about that too. I didn't realize Mark would actually become a seduced by games, making my weird podcast fanfiction seem innocent. Also their discussion of the Syrian Kurds reminded me of a Syrian nationalist I saw last week victoriously tweeting that the Kurdish contras had reached an agreement with the SAA to hold off an invasion of the Turks and Arab contras. I sort of respect that guy's consistency in still sticking to the term for the YPG even after he sees them as allies.
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Mark Ames and Max Blumenthal did an article about how that weird UK Integrity Initiative is doing some US based stuff. I guess that British guy who came to the US to work on the Bernie campaign came back to the states to say that posting is war. Also, Sebastian Gorka is involved for some reason. https://grayzoneproject.com/2019/01...rican-politics/ quote:Inside a modest-sized hotel conference room, the Adventium/Integrity event began with a speech by the Integrity Initiative’s Simon Bracey-Lane. Two years prior, Bracey-Lane appeared on the American political scene as a field worker for Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential primary run, earning media write-ups as the “Brit for Bernie.” Now, the young operator was back in the US as the advance man for a military-intelligence cut-out that specialized in smearing left-wing political figures like Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader widely regarded as the British version of Sanders.
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Dolan mentioning GRRM multiple times this episode only to say how much he sucks in comparison to Vance was hilarious.
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Jan 21, 2019 23:47
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tbf John Dolan is constantly dying https://twitter.com/TheWarNerd/status/1087135023533301764
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420 Gank Mid posted:Foreign Policy blobs are all bloodthirsty madmen. Like the one that wrote this tweet wants you to think this reflects poorly on Corbyn I saw this tweet a few days ago and then he had his Bellingcat affiliation listed in his bio. It's scrubbed now I guess It's still up at the Bellingcat site. https://www.bellingcat.com/author/magnitsky/
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Looking forward to the Blumenthal article he mentioned about how Western NGOs were basically running the infrastructure and social services that allowed the Syrian rebels to control territory. That still seems like an under-investigated part of the war in Syria.
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May 3, 2019 01:07
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the full article the guest wrote is wild. i hadn't seen the full ideology behind US backed color revolutions laid out like this before https://nonsite.org/article/change-agent-gene-sharps-neoliberal-nonviolence-part-one
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Not gonna lie, I'm enjoying the 100 Years War stuff but I'm having trouble keeping track of the characters and narrative. I'm reading Surveillance Valley by Yasha Levine right now and it's pretty good and a light read. Like Ames said in the last episode, it shares a lot of the same institutions and projects as the Gene Sharp stuff. I cracked up today reading about how US generals devoted a surveillance team to following Pigasus, the Yippies' pet pig they declared a presidential nominee.
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The cannon interview made me think I was listening to E1 during a couple moments. Getting drunk and trading a couple of revolvers for a cannon is a real life Branson bit.
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suck my woke dick posted:I mean, I'll be positively surprised if Europe doesn't build a wall and mine the Mediterranean beaches. Europe's current strategy is to outsource border control to their neighboring states. They basically pay for the Libyan Navy to control migrants. It really seems like the EU is weaponizing the Med in the same way the US does desert regions along the border, using the natural feature as a deadly deterrent.
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like many victors, the orcs forgot they won the first war. the alliance never forgot, and in many ways is still fighting it.
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John semi-bragging about outliving Brittany Murphy despite also having anemia was a classic dying Dolan moment. Moderate Rebels did a recent episode about Sudan I think War Nerd listeners would find interesting. They interview a father and son, the father being a leader of the Sudanese Communist Party. It gets into the geopolitical situation and they get pretty in depth about how different groups like the Muslim Brotherhood fit into the current protests there. There's some Marxist terminology used but it's pretty accessible. https://soundcloud.com/moderaterebels/uprising-sudan-ahmed-sidgi-kaballo
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This thread is giving me flashbacks to how for the SciFi and fascism ep a bunch of fans on the Facebook page told them that 40k tie in novels are the cutting edge of war fiction
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The story of the deaths of Deak and Lawrence freaked me out so I looked up Ames writing on both. Here's his Deak stuff https://pando.com/2014/10/26/the-biggest-cia-drug-money-scandal-you-never-read/ https://www.salon.com/test/2012/12/02/better_than_bourne_who_really_killed_nick_deak/ And the Lawrence post https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/08/mark-ames-tracy-lawrence-the-foreclosure-suicide-america-forgot.html
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I can see Dolan and Ames unconsciously avoiding a Spanish Civil War episode because it's almost guaranteed to start some fights online in their fan base. And they'd be boring 70 year old fights too.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:the complete 180 the public has taken on Soviet emigres really is breathtaking we gotta send back Yasha Levine
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Can't wait for Yasha to publish a piece about the Vietnamese-American exile assassination squad and then get death threats over it. Frontline and ProPublica did some reporting about those killings a few years ago and a depressing amount of the coverage of the reporting was about how parts of the community were offended by it.
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man some people are shameless https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1183164322257801216?s=20
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Finicums Wake posted:marcie smith, the interviewee from the gene sharp episode, recently published this in jacobin: Good. The more people on the Left who realize what Gene Sharp's project was the better.
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There was the guy Nicholas Cage starred in a movie about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98oxZOM_niU
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It's translated as Zinky Boys sometimes. It's also really heavy.
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There's a War Nerd community facebook page I want a Palmyra ep I also endorse a Belisarius ep
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