Crashing the War Party

By Kelley Vlahos and Daniel Larison

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From the team of Kelley Vlahos and Daniel Larison, subscribe today for straight talk about the latest headlines and politics, under-the-radar news, and interviews with newsmakers, politicians, journalists, and activists.

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Episode Date
Matt Petti on Western media manipulation in the Israel-Hamas conflict
Nov 24, 2023
Giorgio Cafiero: Expect 'horrific blowback' to US policy on US-Gaza
Nov 17, 2023
There was never a 'pivot' away from the Middle East. There should have been.
Nov 03, 2023
Adam Weinstein and the US Troops in Harm's Way in the Middle East
Oct 26, 2023
Gaza War: US policy in the Middle East has failed
Oct 18, 2023
Mike Brenes on the broken defense industry: you can't get ammo from a stone
Oct 13, 2023
Sumantra Maitra asks: Why can't we have a dormant NATO?
Oct 06, 2023
The libertarian split over Ukraine and more, from friends Kyle Anzalone & Connor Freeman
Sep 29, 2023
Michael Swaine warns against 'radical deterrence' in US-China policy
Sep 22, 2023
Sina Toossi: Washington's backward, non-productive, failing Iran policy
Sep 15, 2023
Matthew Hoh: Are we seeing a breach of the Ukraine War echo chamber?
Sep 08, 2023
Shackelford & Sanderson: Watching our military assistance in Africa go up in smoke
Sep 01, 2023
Lyle Goldstein: Not feeling great about being right on Ukraine
Aug 25, 2023
Eldar Mamedov: Not the deal of the century, but Iran prisoner swap is big news
Aug 18, 2023
James Carden: Saying the quiet part out loud about the Ukrainian counter-offensive
Aug 11, 2023
Julia Gledhill: The military industrial complex is getting away with virtual murder
Aug 04, 2023
Justin Logan: promising Ukraine what might just be the impossible
Jul 21, 2023
Nothing but the truth: A conversation with Col. Doug Macgregor on Ukraine
Jul 14, 2023
Biden's human rights hypocrisies, a conversation with Jon Hoffman
Jul 07, 2023
As the US rolls out the red carpet for India's Modi, Sarang Shidore reads between the lines
Jun 20, 2023
Uncle Sam has to let the European eaglets fly from the nest, a conversation with Stephen Wertheim
Jun 16, 2023
The War in Ukraine is a testament to American Hubris: Benjamin Schwarz and Chris Layne, discuss
Jun 02, 2023
Want to end US global hegemony? Start with the military bases
May 26, 2023
Branko Marcetic on Ukraine pressure cooker: how leaks show the real state of war
May 19, 2023
Arab leaders flip the script on Syria. Does the US get left behind? Josh Landis explains
May 12, 2023
What about that coming counteroffensive in Ukraine? We ask Anatol Lieven
May 05, 2023
Please Washington, don't do more in Africa — A conversation with Stephanie Savell
Apr 28, 2023
Justin Logan: We can't be 'Uncle Sucker' to Europe for much longer
Apr 21, 2023
American primacy is everything, everywhere, all at once: a convo with Dan DePetris
Apr 14, 2023
Daniel Davis asks: Why are there 900 US troops with targets on their backs still in Syria?
Mar 31, 2023
Is Diplomacy Breaking out all over the Middle East? A conversation with Annelle Sheline
Mar 24, 2023
Andrew Bacevich: the Tragedy of Iraq and death of American Exceptionalism
Mar 17, 2023
How far will America go to stay #1? A conversation with Chris Fettweis
Mar 10, 2023
Does Ron DeSantis have the juice — for peace? Bonnie Kristian discusses
Mar 03, 2023
War, War, Evermore: The Russian Invasion Anniversary, w/ Lyle Goldstein
Feb 24, 2023
A U.S. Marine turns against American Empire: A conversation with Lyle Jeremy Rubin
Feb 17, 2023
How to stop worrying and love the peace plan in Ukraine, w/ Miranda Priebe
Feb 10, 2023
Ethan Paul asks: Are we losing our minds over China?
Feb 02, 2023
Suzanne Loftus: Is the US blowing through its lines of escalation in Ukraine?
Jan 27, 2023
War was always a racket and Ukraine is no different. A convo w/ Bill Hartung
Jan 20, 2023
What would a progressive world order look like? Michael Brenes weighs in
Jan 13, 2023
Ben Friedman: The world will survive if the U.S. stops stationing its troops everywhere
Jan 06, 2023
Dude, where's my war powers? Annelle Sheline on the big Yemen vote disappointment
Dec 23, 2022
Countdown to doom? Scott Horton on 2022, a year of war and great power calamity
Dec 16, 2022
Nicolai Petro and what Greek tragedy has to do with ending the war in Ukraine
Dec 09, 2022
Chris Coyne: It takes Illiberal people to run a US-led Liberal World Order
Dec 02, 2022
Republicans in the House! What does the new majority mean? Jim Antle breaks it down
Nov 18, 2022
Rumble in Washington: the impact of the midterms on foreign policy, w/ Erik Sperling
Nov 11, 2022
David Hendrickson on what John Quincy Adams would think about the US-led 'global order'
Nov 04, 2022
Who needs friends when you got quasi-allies? A conversation with Natalie Armbruster
Oct 28, 2022
Kim Jong Un: Big baby, big problem, or both? Doug Bandow on a failed US policy
Oct 21, 2022
Jon Hoffman says he is shocked! Shocked! That Saudi Arabia is a fickle friend
Oct 14, 2022
Surprise: Americans and the Washington blob see foreign policy a bit differently
Oct 07, 2022
Ted Carpenter: The media is an unreliable watchdog and a handmaiden of war
Sep 30, 2022
Dave DeCamp, anti-war news wrangler, the wartime edition
Sep 23, 2022
Is progressive foreign policy really in crisis? A chat w/ Stephen Wertheim
Sep 16, 2022
Are we asking for war in the Pacific? A conversation with Lyle Goldstein
Sep 09, 2022
When you're investing in Empire and don't even know it, w/ Daniel Bessner
Sep 02, 2022
Adam Weinstein: Stop trying to put Afghanistan in the rearview
Aug 26, 2022
Sorry America, China and Russia aren't going anywhere soon — a conversation with Ali Wyne
Aug 19, 2022
"Why do they hate us?" John Tirman on the dueling myths keeping Iran and the US from getting together
Aug 12, 2022
A militarized America is not my America: A conversation with Monica Duffy Toft
Aug 05, 2022
Will "autocracies vs. democracies" extend to our economic world order? w/ Marcus Stanley
Jul 22, 2022
US secret proxy wars across the globe and why you don't know about them, w/ Nick Turse
Jul 15, 2022
Three ways the Ukraine War could end but may not, with Rajan Menon
Jul 08, 2022
Why Southeast Asia is not easily bullied or bossed by the West, w/ Sebastian Strangio
Jul 01, 2022
Now that we need Venezuelan oil, what should the US do? w/ William Neuman
Jun 24, 2022
If you can't see the propaganda it doesn't mean it's not there, w/ Bob Wright
Jun 17, 2022
Do petrostates rule the world? A conversation with Emma Ashford
Jun 10, 2022
Does NATO really need Finland and Sweden? With Justin Logan
Jun 03, 2022
Are Americans truly on board with Washington's Ukraine war strategy? An interview with Dan Caldwell
May 20, 2022
Lifting the veil on Biden's Ukraine-Russia war advisors, with James Carden
May 13, 2022
We're not all that: US ego and our credibility obsession, with Chris Fettweis
May 06, 2022
Senator Rand Paul says the quiet part out loud on Putin, Ukraine, and NATO
Apr 29, 2022
The Ukraine war and impending commodities "super cycle" w/ Amir Handjani
Apr 22, 2022
Is the U.S. headed for a crisis with Iran? w/ Sina Azodi
Apr 15, 2022
Friend or frenemy? Mitchell Plitnick discusses Middle East posturing on Russia-Ukraine
Apr 01, 2022
Kelsey Atherton on the fog of war and discerning science from sci-fi in Ukraine
Mar 25, 2022
Don't fear the mob: why keeping up war skepticism is healthy, with Ben Friedman
Mar 18, 2022
Warning from the recent past: Don't make Ukraine another Afghanistan, w/ Matthew Hoh
Mar 11, 2022
Biden's 'democracies v. autocracies' is put to the test, fails miserably, w/ Sara Leah Whitson
Mar 04, 2022
US-Russia in crisis: What next after Putin's bald move in Eastern Ukraine?
Feb 23, 2022
The US finds its new monster to destroy: post-Soviet Russia, with Ted Carpenter
Feb 18, 2022
Ending the longest war in U.S. history — the Korean War, with Jess Lee
Feb 11, 2022
Let's talk about those Iran Sanctions w/ Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
Feb 04, 2022
Are we the only sane ones in the house? w/ Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman
Jan 28, 2022
Did NATO start the fire? Joshua Shifrinson on the US-Russia crisis
Jan 21, 2022
US 'Counterterrorism strategy' is failure by another name, w/ Elizabeth Shackelford
Jan 14, 2022
America's pied piper act is falling flat in the Asia Pacific, with Sarang Shidore
Jan 07, 2022
Robert Wright joins the party, rings out a year of the Blob
Dec 17, 2021
Are we really ready for war with Russia? Lyle Goldstein crashes in with a bit of reality
Dec 10, 2021
Stephanie Savell and how post-9/11 US counterterrorism assistance is further destabilizing Africa
Dec 03, 2021
Peter Van Buren, those Syria strikes, and the cindered remains of our moral authority
Nov 19, 2021
Chris Preble says the U.S. is no longer "the indispensable" — so what now?
Nov 12, 2021
The E-Ring gang that couldn't shoot straight, with Col. Doug Macgregor
Nov 05, 2021
Breaking Washington's nasty war habit, w/ (Ret.) Lt. Col. Daniel Davis
Oct 29, 2021
Anatol Lieven, from Russia with Love
Oct 22, 2021
The Iran Nuclear Deal is Dying a Slow Death, w/ Assal Rad
Oct 15, 2021
Journalist Andrew Cockburn on power and profit and the primordial ooze of American war
Oct 08, 2021
Have we normalized war by making it more humane? (Ft. Samuel Moyn)
Oct 01, 2021
U.S. presidents and their love for killer drones (Ft. ACLU's Hina Shamsi)
Sep 24, 2021
Lies and Betrayal: Can the U.S. military survive the last 20 years?
Sep 17, 2021
How 9/11 Brought the Tyranny Home, with Chris Coyne and Abigail Hall
Sep 10, 2021
Spencer Ackerman talks about America's 20-year "Reign of Terror" after 9/11
Sep 03, 2021
The biggest Afghanistan whistleblower is still in jail: Kevin Gosztola on the persecution of Julian Assange
Aug 27, 2021
Who will be held accountable for the 20-year failed enterprise in Afghanistan? An interview w/ Richard Hanania
Aug 20, 2021
When the backlash means you're doing something right. An interview with Emma Ashford
Aug 13, 2021
Mythology, militarism, and collective amnesia: America’s culture of war, with Mary Dudziak
Aug 06, 2021
Is Saudi Arabia a friend or foe? An interview with Annelle Sheline
Jul 30, 2021
America: the (Un) Exceptional? Sam Goldman on the future of our nation-state
Jul 23, 2021
Ron Paul crashes our party, schools us on Washington's endless wars
Jul 16, 2021
Paying to play in Washington: winners, losers and suckers
Jul 09, 2021
The trillion-dollar plane that can't fly: Dan Grazier on the F-35 fighter
Jul 02, 2021
Greg Brew and why the CIA toppled Iran's government in 1953
Jun 25, 2021
Would we go to war for Ukraine or is Biden just blustering?
Jun 18, 2021
We believe: the government knows more about UFOs than it let on
Jun 07, 2021
A change in the wind in US-Israel policy in Washington?
Jun 04, 2021
Are we still in the Yemen War or not? A conversation with Kate Kizer
May 28, 2021
Samson vs. Goliath: Eli Clifton's battle against the Washington Blob
May 21, 2021
Afghanistan: graveyard of empires, pundits and profiteers
May 14, 2021
Biden's tango in the Middle East, from Iran to Yemen and back, featuring Trita Parsi
May 07, 2021
The Elites had their chance: foreign policy in a post-Trump world w/ Brad Polumbo
Apr 28, 2021
We weren't invited but we are crashing the Beltway's love affair with war -- won't you join us?
Apr 28, 2021
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