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This is a thread for fans of the Radio War Nerd podcast, which most of you probably wouldn't know about unless you were big into Exiled magazine in the 90s or 2000s. Hosted by Mark Ames, and starring poet, professor, and lovable loser John Dolan - they do at least two episodes a month regarding a wide range of war-related topics & current events. Sometimes the focus is on wars of the past, wars of the present, or they will do high profile interviews with experts. Each episode is about 1 1/2 to 3 hours long, which is perfect for those nightmare commutes. https://www.patreon.com/radiowarnerd/posts Episodes are posted regularly through their Patreon, and you will have to actually patronize the War Nerd to gain access. They do throw up half-hour previews of every episode for non-subscribers, and some episodes are free to the public. The last episode posted up for free was an analysis of the Cold War espionage novel The Spike, and how it embodied & influenced the general paranoia behind the assumption that the Soviets were spreading disinformation. Even up to the point of believing that Western-backed atrocities like the Contras, were actually a KGB plot to make the CIA look bad. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-7630047 The newest episode posted today is on The Crimean War (circa 19th century), and is a merciful 2 hours long. There are of course other ways of gaining access to RWN episodes, but it involves having friends. Mark & John really do deserve your money, folks. THE PERFECT EPISODE  The Radio War Nerd Listening Guide (Greatest Hits) quote:https://www.patreon.com/posts/e-z-guide-to-war-57045191 Incomplete newsletter archive as of Sept 19, 2023: Grimson posted:I had an hour to kill so have my archive of the newsletters. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 16:53 on Sep 19, 2023 |
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consumed by normies posted:how is ames in it? im pretty mixed on him, he can be lovely but also is right a lot He doesn't have the same kind of editorial voice as a radio host that he does as a writer, if that's what you mean. I think he's mostly just mellowed out since the days of shooting amphetamines, now that he has a wife & a kid.
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Jan 17, 2017 03:49
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John Dolan is the real core of the show, and I guess the content could come off as edgy - but only in the sense that there is very little war analysis in popular media from a left wing perspective. It gets pretty grim a lot, but that's what wars are actually like.
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Jan 17, 2017 04:53
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Couple big updates from Radio War Nerd this week. A new episode was posted up yesterday on The Gambia. 2hrs https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-7858297 John & Mark talk about Trump's inauguration, and go into a bit of the history on The America First Committee. Then they talk a bit about Biafrans for Trump before getting into the meat of The Gambia. Mostly they talk about how Yahya Jammeh originally seized power during a coup in the 90s. But they also posted up a  FREE EPISODE 2 1/2hrshttps://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-7864421 This is John's interview with historian & author William Hogeland about the Whiskey Rebellion. Mostly about how Alexander Hamilton was a huge rear end in a top hat who smeared the rebels for posterity, and implemented martial law on Western Pennsylvania..
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Jan 25, 2017 04:14
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Exiled ruled when they got kicked out of Russia, because the first thing they started writing on was how Obama's America looked a lot like Russia in the 90s. Mark & Yasha were the first guys to break the Koch Brothers astroturfing story, and got no credit for it. It's a shame Taibbi is the only one who became famous.
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Jan 25, 2017 17:44
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Yossarian-22 posted:Isn't Ames a pedo who verbally abuses women? No.
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Jan 26, 2017 02:21
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cargo cult posted:mind expanding on this? By the late Bush era, American politics was basically being directed by a tiny minority of super rich interests. The Koch Brothers were buying up influence in the Republican Party, and through their libertarian think tank network, Rupert Murdoch was heavily influencing cable news with Fox News while buying up other publications, and the media in general was concentrated into fewer and fewer hands thanks to Clinton's deregulation of the FCC. America looked like Russia in the sense that a tiny minority of billionaire cliques effectively ran the country and set the tone for political discourse, and now a billionaire's clique literally runs the White House. All of this was coupled with the slow but sure institutional decay of government agencies, and the decreased tax burden on the rich & corporations - even to the point that several companies were effectively paying negative tax rates. Russia's decline was rapid and immediate thanks to Yeltsin and Chubais's shock doctrine, and if anybody is going to bring shock doctrine to the United States now it's Donald Trump. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 06:37 on Jan 26, 2017 |
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Jan 26, 2017 06:33
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Helsing posted:A sad state of affairs that this excellent podcast drops off the first page with less than a page worth of commentary. I didn't want to update this thread until they make more episodes free, because it's hard to promote them otherwise - but I may as well post about this new ep I guess. Spime Wrangler posted:the story about lister and wiess on the bus in the latest episode is Right before Exiled Online shut down, and Mark, John, and Yasha started working for NSFW Corp (RIP) they launched the S.H.A.M.E. Project to expose all of these hacks. http://shameproject.com/ It hasn't been updated in a few years, but Yasha was talking on Twitter about revitalizing it after the Rania Khalek interview was posted. There's even a profile for Chapo Trap House sweetheart Megan McArdle. --- So the 69th episode (nice) with Lebanese-American journalist Rania Khalek went up and it's really loving good. 22 Minute Preview of Episode 69Khalek talks about the war in Syria and how it's affected the Druze community, and members of her family who are Syrian Druze. How Charles Lister and Michael Weiss tried to get her and several other journalists killed, by signalling the bus they were taking to Aleppo to the Jihadist rebels, because they're on Gulf State payrolls. Conditions in state occupied areas compared to rebel occupied areas. Western media's intent to completely ignore war crimes committed by rebels, and scho on and scho on... The full episode is 2 1/2 hours and after speaking with Rania, John & Mark talk more about Syria and other war news. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 22:38 on Feb 1, 2017 |
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Feb 1, 2017 22:33
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Sheeit I didn't know she had a podcast. https://shadowproof.com/category/dissenter/unauthorized-disclosure/ Throwing another one on my iTunes pile I guess.
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Feb 1, 2017 22:51
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I really hope they make the Sci-Fi & Fascism episode free some time, because it's by far the most interesting episode for non-war buffs. https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-7585924 quote:The War Nerd and David Forbes have an intense inside-sci-fi-nerd discussion about how sci-fi became dominated by far-right politics and narratives, Heinlein, Philip K Dick, and the newer wave of sci-fi writers breaking out of the traditional molds . . . It's incredibly insightful on sci-fi as a genre, as well as the fascist sensibilities of the American white middle class which has roots going back to the late 50s. If you're curious about the show, this one episode is well worth 10 bux if you just want to sample and cancel the subscription.
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Feb 1, 2017 23:00
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Spime Wrangler posted:That is a good one, also the earlier episode with Forbes, talkin about the civil war. They got sidetracked right before Forbes was gonna go in-depth on Guns of The South, and they never got back to it in the Sci-Fi episode. 
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Feb 2, 2017 00:43
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We could probably defeat Iran in a conventional war, but it would be the most costly war in terms of American casualties since Vietnam. Plus occupying it would be like trying to occupy Afghanistan with an even bigger population than Iraq. It'd be an absolute shitshow, and completely undermine the image of invincibility the US military has built up over decades by picking on weak countries. Mark Ames was also interviewed recently by Abby Martin for The Empire Files. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Aajppo5Zk He talks about Russia in the 90s, and how the United States helped Yeltsin ruin the country. At the end he warns that Trump is actually in the perfect position to push for conflict with Russia, because why would a Russian puppet do that?
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Feb 13, 2017 03:57
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Mark Ames is a pedophile 
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Feb 13, 2017 10:12
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Yossarian-22 posted:I think he's right tho Vincent van Goatse is both.
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Feb 13, 2017 10:28
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Fidel Cuckstro posted:https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/831267537216208896 Pierre Omidyar. I think The Intercept is better than most other pubs, but it's still ultimately an extension of a creepy billionaire's interests.
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Feb 14, 2017 02:42
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Scent of Worf posted:Just finished this ep. That was really good. Any other specific eps I should check out? All of them. I'm looking through the backlog to see which ones were especially noteworthy. A lot of them get dated because the early episodes were a lot more topical, and only an hour long. Episode 10 is interesting, because that was the episode when War Nerd commented on Amnesty International's report about YPG/J ethnic cleansing of Arab villages, and AI wrote back saying they weren't doing any of that. Episode 14 was around the time of the Oregon Militia standoff, so they did a bit about the Mormons' history of warfare with Midwest Protestants & the Federal government. Episode 18 was the Patrick Cockburn interview on the rise of ISIS. Episode 20 was the Tim Shorrock interview on Korea, and the history of conflict with the North. As I'm writing this I'm realizing that my War Nerd fandom is gonna lead me into recommending too much so I'm gonna try and recommend the essentials. I'm just going to bold all the key words. Episode 30 was the Opium Wars episode. Episode 39 is about the Cold War counterinsurgencies around the world, with a special feature on Eduard Lansdale - the CIA sociopath who was the inspiration for The Quiet American. Episode 44: the Nukes episode with physicist Dr. Sunil Sanais. It was recommended earlier ITT and it's a good one. Episode 47: the North Carolina Civil War episode with David Forbes (prequel to the Sci-Fi & Fascism ep). Episode 48: I know I'm recommending too much anyway, but this is a top-tier episode about The Italian Front of WW1, and poet, national hero, and raging rear end in a top hat Gabriele d'Annunzio. Episode 49: is the second Patrick Cockburn interview. Pretty much everything past this point has been definitely worth listening too, but I'd especially highlight episode 56: The Sikhs. And of course, Episode 64: The Sci-Fi & Fascism episode is the god tier.
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Feb 14, 2017 02:53
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snoremac posted:If you join the Patreon do you get access to War Nerd's previous newsletters? Doesn't seem like it. I checked the newsletters and there's no link to an archive, and I've checked the patreon and there's no links there. Comrade Merf posted:I've only some of his stuff quite a few years ago but if I remember correctly War Nerd believes that the USA using aircraft carriers as one of the primary ways we enforce our military dominion wherever we please is doomed to failure not by socieo-econimic or political means but that aircraft carriers are in fact just giant extremely vulnerable money and manpower traps that can be easily neutralized by just about anyone using whatever form of equipment they have available. Which is a really weird stance when you consider that the United States use aircraft carriers to put aircraft where they need them and that they don't just sit a few feet off the coast of whatever their operational target is and always have sizable escort groups. The United States hasn't fought a country with a real navy since World War 2. CAGs are completely untested against an enemy with large numbers of anti-ship missiles and/or a decent submarine fleet, like the Iranians, Chinese, or North Koreans have. Hypothetically all they're good for is projecting power against third rate powers who can't defend themselves against the air or the sea.
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Feb 14, 2017 13:53
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zeal posted:he's been mad salty towards greenwald ever since the snowden leaks made greenwald the internationally famous investigative journalist while he continues to labor in relative obscurity at his own tech billionaire-owned operation It's because Greenwald is a libertarian.
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Feb 14, 2017 19:25
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I like the work the Intercept does, and Greenwald has been doing good reporting on Brazil and the United States lately, but that doesn't mean I have to trust them.
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Feb 16, 2017 02:29
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Got a reply back from the man himself on the newsletter backlogs.quote:Gary Brecher They're thinking about it. 
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Feb 17, 2017 15:56
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Exiled was one of the few places that flagrantly danced on Breitbart's grave when his heart exploded, and I'll always love them for it.quote:http://exiledonline.com/mark-ames-1-andrew-breitbart-0-exiled-editor-does-dirty-chicken-dance-on-breitbarts-grave/
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Feb 28, 2017 06:53
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Sephyr posted:I really enjoy these podcasts. Long-time fan of the Exile here. I actually got to have some exchanges with Ames (was a source for some stuff he wanted to do regarding Brazil that never panned out) Taibbi (by complete accident, as he was looking into going to the hospital I was working at for his back problems, because traveling overseas to be treated at a high-end hospital is way less expensive than doing some procedures in the US thanks to hosed-up healthcare) and Dolan. You worked at Pando? Incidentally, I checked out the BBC documentary that Mark & John recommended in the Bosnia episode, and it's really drat good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_PzsfXbyAw It's six parts and 4 1/2 hours long, but it's definitely worth watching. I had to keep taking breaks from it because the entire affair was all too stupid. Vulgar nationalisms undid a working multi-ethnic state, and everyone who tried to prevent it ended up being sidelined as traitors.
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Feb 28, 2017 19:59
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FREE EPISODE https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-8280857 The Rania Khalek episode was reposted free to the public. It's a great interview about the current state of the war in Syria, and how it's affected the Druze community in particular. They also talked about how Michael Weiss tried to get her and all the other journalists going to Aleppo killed.
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Mar 1, 2017 19:08
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Will's given credit to John Dolan before.Scent of Worf posted:I had actually watched that Yugoslavia documentary years ago but didn't really get it because I was completely ignorant about that area of the world. The latest episode helped put a lot of that conflict into perspective and I'm actually gonna rewatch that doc soon I knew the Croats were dickheads before, but I didn't know that they briefly betrayed Bosnian Muslims and were putting them in concentration camps.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:10
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MaxxBot posted:Somehow I spent 4 years on Twitter without encountering the unironic pro-Wahhabist/Salafist "left," I really wish I could have kept that streak going. They're all terminally stupid.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:53
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"I'm not here to educate you" is the most obvious tell on the internet.
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Mar 2, 2017 03:49
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The War Nerd elite get a first taste.  They're promising to get it published in public, or else it doesn't really count.
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Mar 2, 2017 09:23
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I have to set aside some time so I can pay full attention to the Robert Parry episode, because I'm not retaining everything but what I do makes me insanely mad.
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Mar 22, 2017 23:35
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Spime Wrangler posted:Seriously nuts. I'm glad ames and dolan covered a lot of the broad strokes before because it's making the whole picture much clearer when Parry lays it out. Nixon makes so much more sense now. I appreciate them confirming what I thought, that LBJ kept Nixon's ratfucking of the peace negotiations under wraps because he thought America couldn't handle it. https://www.patreon.com/posts/preview-radio-ep-8532778 They just posted up a 24-minute preview, which is the first part of the Parry interview. They talk about how he investigated & broke the Iran-Contra story, and go a bit into how journalism began compromising itself in the 80s.
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Mar 23, 2017 01:14
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"Radio War Nerd EP #77—Britain's Collusion With Reactionary Islamism " I can't get enough perfidiouis Albion bashing
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Mar 28, 2017 23:34
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Saying it's subscriber only isn't entirely accurate. It's all on Patreon, but they do repost some episodes for free to non-patrons.
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Mar 29, 2017 19:05
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Ames treated prostitutes with more humanity than you treat your tenants.
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Apr 2, 2017 02:02
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Bip Roberts posted:Lol yeah lemme just dial up some rando probably-now-long-murdered lithuanian whore. Way to prove his point I guess.
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Apr 2, 2017 21:35
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Yeah I can tell you really care about it.
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Apr 2, 2017 21:59
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Apr 4, 2017 07:34
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THE ENTIRE ROBERT PARRY INTERVIEW WAS POSTED FOR FREE https://www.patreon.com/posts/radio-war-nerd-8732460 must-listen podcastin here
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Apr 7, 2017 19:22
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Yossarian-22 posted:Pener, do you have any clear memory of which RWN episodes are essentially repeats? I feel like I hear a lot of the same points in different episodes (e.g., Russian bombing campaign working despite Western media reactions, ISIS being young hotheaded jocks who have no lives/empathy, etc.). There's no way to tell, because the news segments are going to retread some old material. It'd be nice if they timestamped the segments for each episode.
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Apr 11, 2017 01:29
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Eschatos posted:Is there a podcast feed for this somewhere that I can plug into iTunes? Got a long car trip coming up and it would be nice to not have to gently caress around with Safari at 70 mph. The RSS feed is embedded in the newsletters. If you haven't gotten a newsletter yet, send me a pm.
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Apr 14, 2017 23:30
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Before he became heir apparent, Bashar was an unassuming nerd who founded Syria's first computer society, and put a lot of effort into bringing the internet to Syria. I remember back when they started cracking down on the protesters, the speculation was that his mother was brow-beating him into unleashing the thugs and state police. His father certainly wouldn't have tolerated all that riff raff.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:so i hope he someday does get caught and watches his family die before dying horribly himself and tossed into a pit somewhere. Ah, the fantasies of a well adjusted individual.
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