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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

Stanislav Krapivnik: NATO-Russia Escalation - Another Big Step Toward Nuclear War

Glenn Diesen interviews Stanislav Krapivnik, a former US Army officer who returned to Donbas after his military service, about the escalating…
Glenn Diesen · 7 May 2026

Peter Schiff: Dollar Breaking Point - Debt & Energy Crisis

Glenn Diesen, host of the channel, interviews Peter Schiff, CEO of Euro Pacific Asset Management and host of The Peter Schiff Show. Schiff argues…
Glenn Diesen · 7 May 2026

Lawrence Wilkerson: Rogue State America - Decay of a Superpower

Glenn Diesen interviews Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson about the US military campaign against Iran, which Wilkerson describes as an objective failure…
Glenn Diesen · 6 May 2026

Chas Freeman: US-Israel Divorce, End of NATO & Sea Power

Glenn Diesen interviews Chas Freeman, former US Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of Defense, on the strategic implications of the US-Iran conflict…
Glenn Diesen · 6 May 2026

Yanis Varoufakis: Europe Entering a Century of Humiliation?

Glenn Diesen interviews Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister and founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25), about the…
Glenn Diesen · 5 May 2026

Seyed M. Marandi: Return to All-Out War - What Happens Now

Glenn Diesen speaks with Seyed Marandi the day after the United States attempted to force ships through the Strait of Hormuz, an operation Marandi…
Glenn Diesen · 5 May 2026

Scott Ritter: Iran War Reignites as U.S. Push to Reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Glenn Diesen speaks with Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector and former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, on May 4th, 2026, as the United…
Glenn Diesen · 4 May 2026

Jeffrey Sachs: Global Economic Meltdown & Destruction of Europe

Professor Jeffrey Sachs joins Glenn Diesen to argue that the accelerating fragmentation of the global economy is producing clear winners and losers.…
Glenn Diesen · 3 May 2026

Seyed M. Marandi: U.S. Attack On Iran Could Be Imminent

Seyed Marandi, professor at Tehran University and former adviser to Iran's nuclear negotiation team, warns that a renewed US military attack on Iran…
Glenn Diesen · 1 May 2026

Larry Johnson: U.S. Desperation Grows as Iran Is Winning

Glenn Diesen interviews Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and writer at Sonar 21, about the ongoing US-Iran conflict. Johnson argues that the US…
Glenn Diesen · 30 Apr 2026

Brian Berletic: U.S. Is Grooming Europe for War with Russia

Glenn Diesen and Brian Berletic argue that the United States has never intended to end the war in Ukraine — rather, it is executing a deliberate…
Glenn Diesen · 29 Apr 2026

Lawrence Wilkerson: Araghchi Meets Putin as Russia Goes All-In on Iran

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson joins Glenn Diesen to discuss Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi's meeting with Vladimir Putin, which Wilkerson reads as a…
Glenn Diesen · 28 Apr 2026

Alastair Crooke: Iran War Is Now a Global War for World Order

Glenn Diesen interviews Alastair Crooke, founder and director of Conflicts Forum and a veteran British diplomat and Middle East negotiator, on April…
Glenn Diesen · 27 Apr 2026

Richard Wolff: Petrodollar Decline Unravels the U.S. Empire

Professor Richard Wolff, a Marxist economist, joins Glenn Diesen to discuss the US economic campaign against Iran — dubbed "Economic Fury" by…
Glenn Diesen · 26 Apr 2026

Jeffrey Sachs: Trump's Defeat in Iran & Decline of the U.S. Empire

Glenn Diesen interviews Jeffrey Sachs on April 24th, 2026, discussing the long-term decline of Western hegemony and what the Iran war reveals about…
Glenn Diesen · 24 Apr 2026

Pepe Escobar: Connectivity Wars - The U.S. War on Multipolarity

Glenn Diesen interviews journalist and author Pepe Escobar, speaking from Southeast Asia, about what Escobar calls the "war of connectivity…
Glenn Diesen · 23 Apr 2026

John Mearsheimer: U.S. Expands Iran War & Divorces Europe

Glenn Diesen interviews Professor John Mearsheimer on April 22, 2026, covering the US-Iran war, the failure of American air power, and the strategic…
Glenn Diesen · 22 Apr 2026
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