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crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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how did i forget that a white militia terrified a biracial family with the assistance of law enforcement by felling trees to create barricades to pin them down in the town from twilight because they had reports of antifa

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crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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AnimeIsTrash posted:

Bumping this thread as the latest episode was very good. Pener mentioned they might make it free, if they don't I can pm you the episode.

Which one is it? Max Blumenthal on Late-Stage Zionism?

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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i'm not American so I find your civil war far more boring and overcovered than RWN's other stuff.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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new ep about Assange :getin:

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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taking a break from reading the covid thread about the us government's failure to take the necessary large-scale measures needed to improve the situation because their institutions are populated with self-serving careerists whose sole goal is to accrue personal power and wealth at the cost of the populace to listen to the radio war nerd episode about the afghanistan government's failure to take the necessary large-scale measures needed to improve the situation because their institutions are populated with self-serving careerists whose sole goal is to accrue personal power and wealth at the cost of the populace

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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liz is a finance gal right? wanna hear her take on the recent chinese reforms in tech, education and real estate. i'd also be interested in brace's opinion. i vaguely remember him saying he was a maoist and would admit he was wrong about deng if china made big moves in getting capital under control.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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im only halfway through the carl zha taiwan part 1 and there's like 3 hours more lol.

it owns tho

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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Joementum posted:

By the way, Mark is on the latest TrueAnon doing a park 1 (of 2) series on Ukraine

these eps own

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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Desiderata posted:

Only just actually listened to Radio War Nerd, specifically the episodes on the Ukraine / Gas Pipelines.

In one episode I have learned way more than I got from the pages of histrionics in the D&D threads.

it's extremely good.

my friends think I'm a world politics genius for understanding that other countries and regions have internal concerns

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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hey ben aris is back on to talk economic war re: ukraine/russia

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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re: airfield explosions in crimea.

can't remember where i saw it, but i was under the impression that all HIMARS have their targeting go through the US? a lot of people seem to think sabotage is more likely.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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Ames saying 'Brian Train' over and over in the introduction to a guy who designs board games and then you hear him speak :roflolmao:

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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looking forward to the Chapo version of this episode in 10 years

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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oh my god

quote:

CW: Matt has people who follow his blogs and stuff like that. Felix has the people who try to riff with him in [Twitter] replies and end up becoming reactionaries a year later....

MC: So many supervillains have been created in Felix's replies, where people have just languished without a pity fave and then became reactionaries.

CW: Felix's un-faved replies are like the vat of acid that the Joker gets dropped into.

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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AnimeIsTrash posted:

hes part of the cia

yea Chronically Injured Adults

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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fabergay egg posted:

why would he get assassinated? he ran on plenty of things that they just didnt bother doing. if he won and tried to end the war they could just not do that, and he'd be distracted from it by the end of the week.

lol yeah. like he tried to pull out of afghanistan and the generals slow walked it until he got distracted by dress that reminded him of a party in the 80's that he was snubbed at

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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lol it's that andrew cockburn? i knew about her real name and how she grew up in high society

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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Cerebral Bore posted:

the actual objective of sanctions is to punish countries that don't act servile enough towards the west, hth

The ALAB episodes on sanctions were great

https://www.alabseries.com/episodes/episode-7-the-modern-day-siege

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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Honest Thief posted:

yeah i can sympathize with it a lot, because short of going on a all out war what else you do in the EU's position, esp after a early peace deal seems to have been blocked, which is something I thought Ben would reflect on but he just seems to gloss over

They could have told the uk and us to get hosed and take a third go at Minsk instead of being lil bitches

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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genericnick posted:

They should get Hersh on imo

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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imo change the title so people know they're interviewing hersh

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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fatelvis posted:

Yeah, but were they not saying earlier that cutting off gas to Europe would be a disaster for Europe.

I get that cutting off Russia's money could have the desired effect of their government collapsing. I just don't understand why he would think they would keep pumping the gas? Does anyone really think that Russia would give a poo poo about "look, we technically paid you, but the money is held in escrow and you can't have it because sanctions".

Maybe I misunderstood what he was getting at.

yeah i stopped listening at this point. i really enjoyed ben's previous appearances when i knew nothing but now i'm re-examining his insight when he thinks that russia would just keep pumping gas without getting paid because CONTRACT LAW.

russia was supposed to be paid in western currencies but since their foreign reserves were seized they demanded the europeans pay into an account in their banks that would convert to rubles (which is how they kept the currency value up).

they were trolling the germans for months by not accepting repaired turbines for nordstream 1 because they'd be breaking sanctions. :roflolmao:

why do these dumbass lib euro journalists think russia would accept terms dictated by america's little bitches. does the interview get better? otherwise i'm skipping it for the hersh interview

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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Phone posted:

what an absolute ball buster lmao

5/5 interview

lmao, even with hearing about how it was, i wasn't prepared for the Hersh

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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happy valentine's day i got you seymour hershey's kisses

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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kneelbeforezog posted:

What are some of yalls favorite episodes so I can make a curated list? \

the episode with the blowback boys is good.

i also like the episodes about the NED

carl zha taiwan eps

assange ep with that icelandic guy bjohnhangsons nde4462whghfiaeg

at the time, i thought the eps about ukraine and pipelines with ben aris were really good, but his recent appearance makes me question how accurate it was

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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wat

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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Jonah Galtberg posted:

his assessment of the oil and gas sanctions was that they would have been far more effective if they had been instituted before the russians had had time to find alternative export markets. this is self-evidently true. his additional comment that they would have been effective enough to cause widespread protests, bring down putin, etc etc is a lot more arguable, but is obviously secondary to the central point. it's extremely goony to miss that and to get fixated on such a minor part of the whole.

didn't read

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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hersh on democracy now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4BuMaGlKp0

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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only partially related, but im lollin' at this sy hersh interview in contrast to ames

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ev4cMILOXc

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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Not So Fast posted:

I increasingly feel like the only reason Seymour Hersh was a hardass in RWN was because of how star-eyed Ames was.

"I'm doing this interview as a favour" *proceeds to give an interview to every other non-MSM source

yea i agree. i feel like you need to keep him on a tight leash, even if it turns contentious. i think rania khalek did a good job too tho it had the vibe of a favoured granddaughter being told stories by an old curmudgeon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blDRGHGXn0U

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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Dreylad posted:

which ep is this? I'm behind!

Radio War Nerd EP 373– World of Wars: The Insulted & The Humiliated

quote:

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 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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i say swears online posted:

oh dear. age really creeps up on you, mark. staring at the departure board i accidentally mistook 'khartoum' for 'restroom' and now katherine has joined the janjaweed

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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Guest: Annibale Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's longest serving leader since Mussolini, just died, and we'll be damned if we're not going to get rwn favorite Annibale's take on Berlusconi's life & place in contemporary Italian politics & history, from Berlusconi's mysterious rise to riches coinciding with his unexplained role in the notorious P2 Lodge (think Gladio), to his transformation from Socialist Party patronage to reanimator of the Italian far-right...

RWN'S ITALY’S YEARS OF LEAD SERIES WITH ANNIBALE: EP #134: Post-War Italy: Prequel to Years of Lead EP #135: Years Of Lead, Part 1 EP #136: Years Of Lead, Part 2: Red Brigades & Aldo Moro EP #139: Years Of Lead, Part 3: Ustica, Bologna Massacre & the Radical Implosion EP #264: The 1970 Borghese Coup, Part One EP #265: The 1970 Borghese Coup, Part Two Total time: 1:21:57

:gizz:

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Guess it's the end of an era. Now John will have to talk about trapping himself in his own bathroom.

e: they really needed a guest who could've drawn the link between NAFO and Gamergate.

We should get some kind of thread title change to reflect such a momentous world event

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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Pener Kropoopkin posted:

It would've been more dignified if he had killed himself.

Also, it feels good to have never particularly cared to follow Taibbi because I never had the time for it, but I'll pretend it's because I could tell he was sus. :smug:

wow lowtax, more dignified than award winning journalist matt tiabbi

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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lol isn't 300 literally in-universe propaganda

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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there was the tall about Russia not really wanting to take bakhmut and how Wagner were just meant to draw in Ukrainian troops to be killed.

prigozhin supposedly went and took it against orders because he didn't like being bait or something

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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Peggotty posted:

People who say that are usually unabashed fans of creating ethnostates by massive ethnic cleansing. They usually like the destruction of Yugoslavia too.

lol yeah. the Ukraine/Russia conflict really brought out some sickos

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crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

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the Gabon election observer stories were great :allears:

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