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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

Douglas Macgregor: No Peace - U.S. Prepares for 'Total War' Against Iran

Glenn Diesen speaks with Colonel Douglas Macgregor, decorated combat veteran, author, and former adviser to the US Secretary of Defense, recorded on…
Glenn Diesen · 21 Apr 2026

Jack Matlock: How NATO Expansionism Broke European Security

Glenn Diesen interviews Jack Matlock, the former US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, who played a central role in negotiating the end of the Cold War…
Glenn Diesen · 19 Apr 2026

Chas Freeman: Diplomacy Fails - Strait of Hormuz Shut Down Again

Glenn Diesen interviews Chas Freeman — former US Assistant Secretary of Defense, former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, and one of the interpreters…
Glenn Diesen · 18 Apr 2026

Scott Ritter: Russia Threatens Strike on Finland & Baltic States

Glenn Diesen interviews Scott Ritter about two major developments: Russia's explicit threats to strike European facilities producing drones used to…
Glenn Diesen · 17 Apr 2026

Daniel Davis: Breaking News - Iran Reopens the Strait of Hormuz

Glenn Diesen interviews Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Davis, a four-times combat veteran and host of the Daniel Davis Deep Dive YouTube channel, about…
Glenn Diesen · 17 Apr 2026

Larry Johnson: Trump's Naval Blockade & Ceasefire Collapse

Glenn Diesen interviews Larry Johnson on April 15, 2026, covering the US naval blockade of Iranian ports, the state of the ceasefire, and the wider…
Glenn Diesen · 15 Apr 2026

Jiang Xueqin: The Iran War & the Battle for the Petrodollar

Glenn Diesen interviews Jiang Xueqin, host of the YouTube channel Predictive History, on the ongoing US-Iran war and its relationship to the…
Glenn Diesen · 13 Apr 2026
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