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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

Jeffrey Sachs: Germany Is Leading Europe Toward World War III

Jeffrey Sachs, professor and economist, joins Glenn Diesen to discuss his second open letter to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, arguing that Europe…
Glenn Diesen · 31 May 2026

Alastair Crooke: Iran War Resets the Geopolitics of the World

Glenn Diesen speaks with Alastair Crooke, former British diplomat and founder of Conflicts Forum, about how the Iran war is reshaping geopolitics far…
Glenn Diesen · 30 May 2026

Alex Krainer: Russia Attacks Romania? Ukrainian False Flag or Russian Warning Shot?

Glenn Diesen interviews Alex Krainer, a market analyst, author, and former hedge fund manager, to discuss a reported Russian drone strike on an…
Glenn Diesen · 30 May 2026

Michael Hudson: Energy Wars Strategy as the U.S. Economy Is No Longer Competitive

Glenn Diesen interviews economist Michael Hudson about the economic and geopolitical consequences of the US-Iran conflict and America's broader…
Glenn Diesen · 29 May 2026

Richard Wolff:The New Atlantic Hierarchy - Europe From Ally to Vassal

Richard Wolff, economist and professor, joins Glenn Diesen to discuss the structural transformation of the post-1945 world order. He argues that the…
Glenn Diesen · 27 May 2026

Ray McGovern: Russia Escalates With New Strategy?

Glenn Diesen interviews Ray McGovern, a CIA analyst of 27 years who chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the President's Daily Brief.…
Glenn Diesen · 27 May 2026

Pepe Escobar: The Russia-China Strategic Partnership Deepens

Pepe Escobar, journalist and author speaking from Shanghai, joins Glenn Diesen to analyze the joint declaration signed at the recent Putin-Xi summit…
Glenn Diesen · 26 May 2026

Lawrence Wilkerson: Failing to Adjust to a Multipolar World

Glenn Diesen speaks with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson about the United States' inability to adapt to a shifting global order. Wilkerson argues that the…
Glenn Diesen · 26 May 2026

Chas Freeman: Crisis in Israel & Iranian Nuclear Weapons

Former US Assistant Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chas Freeman joins Glenn Diesen to assess the state of the Middle East…
Glenn Diesen · 25 May 2026

Einar Tangen: China's Strategy for Managing U.S. Decline

Glenn Diesen hosts Einar Tangen for a wide-ranging discussion on China's strategic response to what both describe as the decline of US hegemony.…
Glenn Diesen · 24 May 2026

Brian Berletic: The New Great Game - War Against Iran, Russia & China

Glenn Diesen and Brian Berletic discuss what Berletic describes as a unified US grand strategy aimed at maintaining global primacy by weakening or…
Glenn Diesen · 24 May 2026

Jeffrey Sachs: The Baltic States Are Now the “Most Dangerous Place” in the World

Professor Jeffrey Sachs joins Glenn Diesen to discuss what Sachs describes as the most dangerous security situation on the planet — the Baltic front,…
Glenn Diesen · 23 May 2026

Seyed M. Marandi: Iran Closes Its Airspace as Negotiations Fail and the U.S. Prepares to Strike

Seyed Marandi, professor at Tehran University and former adviser to Iran's nuclear negotiation team, argues that Iran holds the stronger hand at the…
Glenn Diesen · 23 May 2026

Larry Johnson: Defeat in the Iran War Will End the U.S. Empire

Glenn Diesen speaks with Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and State Department counterterrorism official, about the ongoing ceasefire between the…
Glenn Diesen · 22 May 2026

Douglas Macgregor: NATO Attacked Russia; U.S. Being Pushed Out of the Middle East

Colonel Douglas Macgregor, former adviser to the US Secretary of Defense, joins Glenn Diesen to argue that the United States is strategically trapped…
Glenn Diesen · 21 May 2026

Dmitry Polyanskiy: Nuclear Retaliation No Longer Unthinkable

Glenn Diesen interviews Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Co-operation…
Glenn Diesen · 20 May 2026

Scott Ritter: Europe Attacked Russia - Retaliation Is Now Unavoidable

Glenn Diesen speaks with Scott Ritter about the massive drone attacks on Moscow and St. Petersburg, which Ritter argues could not occur without full…
Glenn Diesen · 19 May 2026

Max Otte: Germany's Decline & the Civilizational Crisis of the West

Germany is accelerating toward political and economic collapse, with the AfD now the country's most popular party and Friedrich Merz having delivered…
Glenn Diesen · 19 May 2026

John Mearsheimer: Toward All-Out War With Both Russia & Iran

Professor John Mearsheimer joins Glenn Diesen to argue that both the Russia-Ukraine war and the US war with Iran are accelerating toward dangerous…
Glenn Diesen · 18 May 2026

Theodore Postol: Iran Can Now Build 10-20 Nuclear Weapons - U.S. Must Negotiate

Theodore Postol, professor of science, technology, and national security policy at MIT and former Pentagon adviser, presents his technical assessment…
Glenn Diesen · 17 May 2026

Seyed M. Marandi: Iran Ready With Overwhelming Retaliation

Glenn Diesen interviews Professor Seyed Marandi, a professor at Tehran University and former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team, on the…
Glenn Diesen · 16 May 2026

Alexander Mercouris: The Political Legitimacy Crisis Across Europe

Glenn Diesen interviews Alexander Mercouris, host of The Duran and the Alexander Mercouris podcast, about the widening political legitimacy crisis…
Glenn Diesen · 16 May 2026

Richard Wolff: Collapse - Iran Is the Graveyard of the U.S. Empire

Glenn Diesen hosts Professor Richard Wolff, a Marxist economist, to discuss the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing, the trajectory of the US and Chinese…
Glenn Diesen · 15 May 2026

Lawrence Wilkerson: Trump-Xi Meeting After U.S. Defeat in Iran

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to the US Secretary of State, argues that the Trump-Xi summit was choreographed and owned by China…
Glenn Diesen · 15 May 2026

George Beebe: Europe-Russia War as the U.S. Pulls Back?

Glenn Diesen, professor and host, speaks with George Beebe, former CIA director for Russia analysis and current director of grand strategy at the…
Glenn Diesen · 14 May 2026

Xu Qinduo: Trump-Xi Meeting - Economic War, Taiwan & Iran

Glenn Diesen speaks with Xu Qinduo on May 14th, 2026, as Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are meeting in Beijing. Xu describes the atmosphere as strongly…
Glenn Diesen · 14 May 2026

Mattias Desmet: The West's Descent Into Totalitarianism

Glenn Diesen interviews Mattias Desmet, professor of psychology at the University of Ghent and author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism, about…
Glenn Diesen · 13 May 2026

Chas Freeman: Trump Goes to Beijing After Historic Defeat in Iran

Glenn Diesen interviews Chas Freeman — former US Assistant Secretary of Defense, former Ambassador, and the interpreter for Richard Nixon's historic…
Glenn Diesen · 12 May 2026

Jeffrey Sachs: New European Military Bloc for War Against Russia

Glenn Diesen interviews Jeffrey Sachs on the collapse of post-Cold War security cooperation and the emergence of a new European military project that…
Glenn Diesen · 12 May 2026

Sergey Karaganov: How Russia Will Win the New World War

Glenn Diesen interviews Sergey Karaganov, Honorary Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy and one of Russia's most influential foreign…
Glenn Diesen · 10 May 2026

Seyed M. Marandi: Iran Rejects U.S. Deal - War Is Likely Imminent

Professor Seyed Marandi — a professor at Tehran University and former adviser to Iran's nuclear negotiation team — joins Glenn Diesen to discuss the…
Glenn Diesen · 9 May 2026

Larry Johnson: Iran War Creates a New Middle East

On approximately day 70 of the Iran conflict, former CIA analyst Johnson and host Glenn Diesen argue arguing that negotiations have been a fraud from…
Glenn Diesen · 8 May 2026

Alex Krainer: Ceasefire in the US-Iran War Is Over — Trump Is Trapped & Defeated

Glenn Diesen speaks with Alex Krainer, a market analyst, author, and former hedge fund manager, about the rapidly deteriorating US position in its…
Glenn Diesen · 8 May 2026
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