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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…