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Stanislav Krapivnik: Russia's Anger Boils Over - EU-Russia War Coming?

Glenn Diesen speaks with Stanislav Krapivnik about the rapidly escalating conflict between Russia and NATO-backed Ukraine, including massive drone…
Glenn Diesen · 19 Jul 2026

Larry Johnson: Saudi Arabia Opens New Front in Iran War

Glenn Diesen interviews Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and former State Department counterterrorism official, about the ongoing US-Iran war and…
Glenn Diesen · 17 Jul 2026

Seyed M. Marandi: Plans for a U.S. Land Invasion of Iran; Yemen & Iran Enters the War?

Glenn Diesen interviews Seyed Marandi on the renewed US-Iran war, covering the collapse of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), Iran's military…
Glenn Diesen · 16 Jul 2026

Pepe Escobar: Yemen Joins the War, and the Entire Middle East Could Go Up in Flames

Glenn Diesen interviews journalist and political analyst Pepe Escobar about the rapidly escalating conflict across the Middle East, encompassing…
Glenn Diesen · 14 Jul 2026

Scott Ritter: Russia Is Winning the War - and Winning Decisively

Glenn Diesen interviews Scott Ritter, who has recently returned from visits to Russia and the special military operation zone. Ritter argues…
Glenn Diesen · 14 Jul 2026

Theodore Postol: Evidence of Patriot PAC-3's Near-Zero Interception Rate

Theodore Postol, a professor of science, technology, and national security at MIT and former Pentagon adviser, presents video-based analysis showing…
Glenn Diesen · 12 Jul 2026

Trita Parsi: Iran-Arab-Turkey Alignment After the War?

Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, examines the breakdown of the Memorandum of Understanding…
Glenn Diesen · 11 Jul 2026

Douglas Macgregor: Disastrous NATO Summit - Renewed War on Iran & Russia

Glenn Diesen interviews Colonel Douglas Macgregor — decorated combat veteran, author, and former adviser to the US Secretary of Defense — on the…
Glenn Diesen · 10 Jul 2026

Jeffrey Sachs: Disastrous NATO Summit: Toward Nuclear War with Russia

Glenn Diesen speaks with Professor Jeffrey Sachs about the NATO summit in Ankara, which Sachs characterizes as two days of incoherence driven by…
Glenn Diesen · 9 Jul 2026

Einar Tangen: China's Digital Currency & De-Dollarization

Glenn Diesen and Einar Tangen discuss China's approach to internationalizing the yuan and developing a digital currency — not as a bid for financial…
Glenn Diesen · 8 Jul 2026

Seyed M. Marandi: Iran Strikes Ships as the U.S. Tests Iran's Control Over the Strait of Hormuz

Glenn Diesen interviews Professor Seyed Marandi, a professor at Tehran University and former adviser to Iran's nuclear negotiation team, on the…
Glenn Diesen · 7 Jul 2026

Richard Wolff: Europe Does Not Matter for a Declining United States

Economist and Marxist scholar Richard Wolff joins Glenn Diesen's channel to argue that Europe's aggressive posture toward Russia is rooted not in…
Glenn Diesen · 6 Jul 2026

Steve Jermy: Warning! NATO Can't Win a War with Russia

Glenn Diesen hosts Steve Jermy, a retired Royal Navy Commodore who commanded warships in the Fifth Destroyer Squadron and Britain's Fleet Air Arm,…
Glenn Diesen · 5 Jul 2026

Larry Johnson: Bait & Switch - U.S. Efforts to Renegotiate the MoU with Iran

Glenn Diesen interviews Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and US State Department counterterrorism official, on the Fourth of July. Johnson argues…
Glenn Diesen · 5 Jul 2026

Stanislav Krapivnik: Will Russia Strike First as NATO Prepares for War?

Glenn Diesen interviews Stanislav Krapivnik, a Russia-born former US Army officer, about the evolving military situation in Ukraine and the broader…
Glenn Diesen · 4 Jul 2026

John Mearsheimer: The End of Russian Restraint & New U.S. Grand Strategy

Glenn Diesen interviews Professor John Mearsheimer across three major topics: the Russian missile strike on Kyiv, the outcome of the US-Iran war, and…
Glenn Diesen · 3 Jul 2026

Douglas Macgregor: Putin's New War Objective - Capturing All of Novorossiya

Glenn Diesen interviews Colonel Douglas Macgregor, decorated combat veteran, author, and former adviser to the US Secretary of Defense, about…
Glenn Diesen · 1 Jul 2026

Jiang Xueqin: Trump's World Order & Normalising Insanity

Jiang Xueqin, host of the YouTube channel Predictive History, joins Glenn Diesen to argue that the structural collapse of Pax Americana is not a…
Glenn Diesen · 1 Jul 2026

Alexander Mercouris: A New Putin? From Diplomacy to War

Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris examine whether Vladimir Putin has undergone a fundamental shift away from diplomacy and toward a war footing,…
Glenn Diesen · 30 Jun 2026

Chas Freeman: U.S. & Iran Resume War; Israel Attempts to Instigate Civil War in Lebanon

Glenn Diesen interviews Ambassador Chas Freeman about the rapid unraveling of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding, the resumption of military…
Glenn Diesen · 29 Jun 2026

Gilbert Doctorow: Kremlin Hawks Demand Escalation Against Ukraine & Retaliation Against Europe

Glenn Diesen speaks with Dr Gilbert Doctorow, author of the War Diaries volumes, about the situation inside Russia following years of NATO-backed…
Glenn Diesen · 28 Jun 2026

Larry Johnson: Putin Warns the West - Russia is Ready for War

Glenn Diesen hosts Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and writer at Sonar 21, for a wide-ranging discussion on Russia's changing strategic posture…
Glenn Diesen · 27 Jun 2026

Max Blumenthal: 'Iran Deal' Divides the U.S. & Triggers Panic in Israel

Max Blumenthal, editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, characterizes the memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran as a significant strategic…
Glenn Diesen · 24 Jun 2026

Ray McGovern: Putin Under Pressure to Retaliate Against NATO

Glenn Diesen interviews Ray McGovern, a 27-year CIA veteran who chaired national intelligence estimates and prepared the president's daily brief, on…
Glenn Diesen · 22 Jun 2026

Einar Tangen: Can China Resist the Temptation of Empire?

Glenn Diesen interviews Einar Tangen, senior fellow at the Taihe Institute in Beijing and the Center for International Governance Innovation, about…
Glenn Diesen · 21 Jun 2026

Yanis Varoufakis: U.S. Surrenders to Iran & Gulf States Must Adjust

Glenn Diesen interviews Yanis Varoufakis — economist, former Greek Finance Minister, and founder of DiEM25 — about the US-Iran memorandum of…
Glenn Diesen · 20 Jun 2026

Alastair Crooke: A New Middle East Is Born & NATO Attacks Moscow

Alastair Crooke, a veteran British diplomat and founder of the Conflicts Forum Substack, joins Glenn Diesen to cover two major developments: the…
Glenn Diesen · 19 Jun 2026

Stanislav Krapivnik: Russia's Offensive Gains Speed & Anger Boils Over in Moscow

Glenn Diesen speaks with Stanislav Krapivnik about the accelerating Russian offensive across multiple fronts in Ukraine, the targeting of civilian…
Glenn Diesen · 18 Jun 2026

Pepe Escobar: Iranian Victory & Rise of Greater Eurasia

Glenn Diesen interviews Pepe Escobar about the memorandum of understanding (MOU) being negotiated between the United States and Iran, drawing on…
Glenn Diesen · 18 Jun 2026

Richard Wolff: U.S. Defeat in Iran & End of the U.S Empire

Economist and professor Richard Wolff analyzes the US-Iran memorandum of understanding, which Wolff reads as a tactical retreat by a declining empire…
Glenn Diesen · 17 Jun 2026

George Beebe: NATO Expansionism, War & Narrative Traps

Glenn Diesen interviews George Beebe about NATO enlargement, the intellectual and institutional forces that shaped Western policy toward Russia after…
Glenn Diesen · 16 Jun 2026

Jeffrey Sachs: US-Iran Deal Reached - Peace or Tactical Pause?

Glenn Diesen interviews Professor Jeffrey Sachs on June 15th, the day a US-Iran ceasefire agreement was announced. Sachs describes the deal as…
Glenn Diesen · 15 Jun 2026

Seyed M. Marandi: Israel's Attack on Beirut Will Delay or Derail the US-Iran Deal

Glenn Diesen speaks with Seyed Marandi about the fragile state of US-Iran negotiations following Israel's attack on Beirut, which Marandi argues was…
Glenn Diesen · 14 Jun 2026

Trita Parsi: Iran War Ends Today? Threats of Deporting Trita Parsi

Glenn Diesen interviews Trita Parsi about the state of US-Iran ceasefire negotiations, recorded on June 13th, with the Pakistani Prime Minister…
Glenn Diesen · 13 Jun 2026

John Mearsheimer & Sergey Karaganov: Nuclear Strike on Europe to Restore Deterrence

Glenn Diesen hosts a discussion between Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Professor Sergey Karaganov, Honorary Chairman of…
Glenn Diesen · 13 Jun 2026

Larry Johnson: End of War? U.S. & Iran Close to a Deal?

Glenn Diesen hosts Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst, to discuss the emerging US-Iran negotiations and whether a genuine peace deal is within…
Glenn Diesen · 12 Jun 2026

Henry Tillman: Russia's Arctic Corridor Transforms Global Geopolitics

Henry Tillman, who brings three decades of Arctic experience and was a co-author of the foundational 2018 "Polar Silk Road" paper, joins Glenn Diesen…
Glenn Diesen · 11 Jun 2026

Patrick Henningsen: How a U.S. Defeat Makes Iran a World Power

Patrick Henningsen argues that the United States has no genuine intention of reaching a negotiated settlement with Iran, Russia, or in Gaza, and that…
Glenn Diesen · 10 Jun 2026

Warwick Powell: U.S. Wars on Iran & Russia Leave China Stronger

Warwick Powell, adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology and senior fellow at the Taihe Institute, examines the strategic…
Glenn Diesen · 10 Jun 2026

Douglas Macgregor: New World - Israel Dying, NATO Dead & U.S. Defeated by Iran

Glenn Diesen speaks with Colonel Douglas Macgregor about what Macgregor describes as a fundamental collapse of American global primacy across…
Glenn Diesen · 9 Jun 2026

Dimitri Lascaris: Inside the US-Israeli War Against Iran & Lebanon

Glenn Diesen interviews Dimitri Lascaris, a lawyer-turned-journalist who has reported from the ground in both Iran and Lebanon. Lascaris describes…
Glenn Diesen · 9 Jun 2026

Lawrence Wilkerson: Israel Bet Everything on War With Iran-and Lost

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson argues that Israel has already lost its long-running strategic bet on confronting Iran, regardless of any further military…
Glenn Diesen · 8 Jun 2026

Seyed M. Marandi: Iran-Israel Strikes, Trump Humiliated & Yemen Restricts Red Sea Access

Glenn Diesen speaks with Seyed Marandi from Tehran on a day of active missile exchanges between Iran and Israel, with Marandi reporting that Iranian…
Glenn Diesen · 8 Jun 2026

Chas Freeman: The Greater Israel Project Is Collapsing

Glenn Diesen interviews Chas Freeman, former US Assistant Secretary of Defense and former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, on the trajectory of the…
Glenn Diesen · 6 Jun 2026

Seyed M. Marandi: Hormuz Toll, Strike On Kuwait, Israel Decline & Iranian Nuclear Bomb?

Professor Seyed Marandi — a professor at Tehran University and former adviser to Iran's nuclear negotiation team — joins Glenn Diesen to assess the…
Glenn Diesen · 5 Jun 2026

Sean Foo: Chip War Escalates, China Sells U.S. Treasuries & the AI Bubble Begins to Crack

Sean Foo, a market analyst specialising in China and global markets, joins Glenn Diesen to break down the accelerating US-China economic decoupling.…
Glenn Diesen · 4 Jun 2026

Marta Havryshko: Zelensky Pays Tribute to Nazi Leaders

Glenn Diesen interviews Marta Havryshko, a Ukrainian historian and scholar of Holocaust studies and Ukrainian nationalism currently based in the…
Glenn Diesen · 3 Jun 2026

Stanislav Krapivnik: Kiev Attacked, Frontlines Fall & Belarus Enters War?

Glenn Diesen interviews Stanislav Krapivnik on the state of the Ukraine war as of June 2026, covering Russian strikes on Kyiv, front-line…
Glenn Diesen · 2 Jun 2026

Larry Johnson: Iran Abandons Talks & Threatens to Retaliate Against Israel

Former CIA analyst and State Department counterterrorism official Larry Johnson joins the program to assess the sudden collapse of US-Iran…
Glenn Diesen · 1 Jun 2026

Jiang Xueqin: U.S. Trapped In Iran, Europe's War Against Russia & a Grand Bargain With China

Jiang Xueqin, host of the YouTube channel Predictive History, joins Glenn Diesen to discuss the cascading consequences of the US-Iran war, arguing…
Glenn Diesen · 1 Jun 2026
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