Radio War Nerd, ex-The eXile
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🚨🚨NEW Radio @TheWarNerd up - one of my very favorite writers, Thomas Frank @thomasfrank_ on his bitterly hilarious and all too relevant new book, "The Creativity Con" - about the enduring ideology of "innovation" that's led us to today's culturally stagnant oligarchy.
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Israel admits it publicized its infiltration of Iran so the govt would arrest astronomical numbers of ppl. This is not only an admission of unlawful interference & armed attack but also of a deliberate effort to foster human rights violations in Iran ynetnews.com/article/sjkraj5…
prediction markets as the latest form of political propaganda intended to shape public opinion & create a false sense of inevitability
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Re-upping our 2-part series on Serbia's radical student movement, with Boris & Rey of @tenepod. The movement has much in common with *actual* populism (ie radical grassroots democracy), navigating a very fraught political-social landscape & recent history. xitter.cf/MarkAmesExiled/status/…
🚨🚨NEW @RadioWarNerd — our 2-part series on Serbia's anti-government protests, defying the usual protest politics of the post-Cold War era. In part 1, Boris & Rey of the great @tenepod give background via the career rise of post-nationalist dorktator Alexandar Vucic.
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Just got through telling @TheWarNerd that this year’s Raiders finally turned the corner. File it away with my Ukraine invasion prediction.
Ansarallah intelligence (like IRI intelligence) has been incredible ever since KSA bombed Sanaa in July. should be one of the clearest signals to the Saudis to end their war on Yemen asap, it could get many levels worse.
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WSJ confirms that Saudi officers were in charge of the operations at Al-Alam camp and that Saudi officers were killed in the strikes. They also confirm that Saudi officers have been killed/wounded in recent strikes in Aden.
Does anyone take this site seriously anymore for reliable reporting on oil flows from the Gulf? Maybe a better question is, why and how were we led to trust TankerTrackers for data on the deliberately opaque world of energy flows, shipping, etc
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Saudi military cargo planes arrived at Aden airport hours before the Yemeni armed forces targeted the Al-Nasr camp adjacent to the airport with three missiles.
Sanaa gave them time to move from the airport to the camp and have a cup of tea, then targeted them with three ballistic missiles so they would know very well that Yemen is the graveyard of invaders.
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link to our episode here:
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Radio War Nerd EP #644 — The Creativity Con, feat. Thomas Frank @thomasfrank_
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🚨 A secret US military installation called CAMP SIERRA was set up inside Britain's RAF Akrotiri base on Cyprus during the Gaza genocide
• The facility was operational by January 2024, just three months after Israel began its assault on Gaza
• CAMP SIERRA had 12 diesel-powered generators in January 2024, doubling to 24 by June
• US documents show orders for tens of thousands of gallons of diesel to keep the installation running
• American military personnel escorted contractors delivering fuel directly to the generators
• US Air Force used RAF Akrotiri for secret transfers of American weapons and special forces to Israel throughout the genocide
What was CAMP SIERRA for?
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🚨 A UK defence editor had information that UK Special Forces operating in Central America were involved in the US kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in Jan 2026
Article was never published after UK military's 'D-Notice' censorship body told the editor to spike it
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An IDF sniper just shot at me and my colleague Ali while we were working in Zowtar Al Gharabieh. We were clearly marked press and standing with a member of the Lebanese army.
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🚨🚨NEW Radio @TheWarNerd up - one of my very favorite writers, Thomas Frank @thomasfrank_ on his bitterly hilarious and all too relevant new book, "The Creativity Con" - about the enduring ideology of "innovation" that's led us to today's culturally stagnant oligarchy.
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A rather sensational @stranaua interview with fugitive Ukranian oligarch Vadym Novynsky, Akhmetov’s partner in Metinvest.
Novynsky claims it was him who organised Homel/Istanbul talks by liaising with Russian envoy Dmitry Kozak on Zelensky’s request. Zelensky later accused Novynsky of trying to coerce him into capitulation.
Novynsky claims Russia had three key demands to which Zelensky initially agreed, but later chose to walk out.
These included:
- removing the clause on NATO membership from the Ukrainian constitution
- special status for Crimea without Ukraine recognising it as a part of Russia for 30 years
- special status for the occupied part of Donbas (a third as opposed to 90% today) under Ukraine’s nominal sovereignty
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great discussion about the escalating war in Ethiopia.....although I still find inscrutable the flipped alliances and fundamental motivations of the different groups. Abiy and Tigray, sure, but the Fano? Eritrea (I guess its mainly defensive, against Abiy's threats?)
🚨🚨NEW Radio @TheWarNerd - We talk to Michael Woldemariam, expert on Horn of Africa wars & security, about Ethiopia's descent into internal and regional war, drawing in Eritrea, Sudan, UAE, Egypt, while fighting renewed insurgencies in Tigray, Amhara, Afar.
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BREAKING: Iran announces it struck 4 oil tankers simultaneously, which were conducting ship-to-ship oil transfers in the northern Persian Gulf last night, with all 4 burning.
Iran says 3 more vessels hit naval mines in the western part of the Strait of Hormuz the same night.
It is the first strike of the entire war on ship-to-ship transfers, which are how cargoes are moved without transiting under Iran's terms.
Thomas Frank on Obama’s zealous embrace of the Innovation grift, right as Clinton’s “Financial Innovations” were blowing up the global economy. xitter.cf/markamesexiled/status/…
🚨🚨NEW Radio @TheWarNerd up - one of my very favorite writers, Thomas Frank @thomasfrank_ on his bitterly hilarious and all too relevant new book, "The Creativity Con" - about the enduring ideology of "innovation" that's led us to today's culturally stagnant oligarchy.
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🚨🚨NEW Radio @TheWarNerd - We talk to Michael Woldemariam, expert on Horn of Africa wars & security, about Ethiopia's descent into internal and regional war, drawing in Eritrea, Sudan, UAE, Egypt, while fighting renewed insurgencies in Tigray, Amhara, Afar.
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