Jiang Xueqin: Breaking Point - Why the West Is Falling Apart
Glenn Diesen speaks with Jiang Xueqin about the multiple indicators of imperial decline visible across the United States and Europe. Jiang, speaking…
Stanislav Krapivnik: Russia's Ukraine Strategy & Preparations for War with Europe
Glenn Diesen speaks with Stanislav Krapivnik about Russia's strategic escalation in the Ukraine conflict, focusing on the closure of Ukraine's Black…
Karin Kneissl: Energy Wars & the Collapse of Europe
Karin Kneissl, former Austrian Foreign Minister and current head of the Gorki think tank, joins Glenn Diesen to discuss energy wars, the collapse of…
Seyed M. Marandi: Iran-Oman Hormuz Deal Almost Reached & the Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan Defence Pact
Seyed Marandi, professor at Tehran University and former adviser to Iran's nuclear negotiation team, joins Glenn Diesen to analyse rapidly developing…
Matthew Blackburn: The Plan to Pressure Russia Has a Huge Flaw
Glenn Diesen interviews Matthew Blackburn, a political analyst who publishes in The National Interest and Responsible Statecraft, about the…
George Beebe: The Peace Plan with Russia the West Ignores
Glenn Diesen interviews George Beebe about why the current US-mediated peace process in Ukraine has stalled and what a more comprehensive approach…
Seyed M. Marandi: Morocco Invades Spain? The U.S. Disciplines Its Proxies
Glenn Diesen interviews Seyed Marandi about a coordinated crossing of 50,000–60,000 Moroccans into the Spanish territory of Ceuta in North Africa,…
Douglas Macgregor: Iran Became the Graveyard of the U.S. Empire & Israel
Colonel Douglas Macgregor, decorated combat veteran and former adviser to the US Secretary of Defense, speaks with Glenn Diesen about what he…
Alex Krainer: Energy Wars, Dollar Endgame & Banking Crisis
Glenn Diesen speaks with Alex Krainer about the centrality of energy resources to imperial wars over the past 120 years, arguing that control of oil…
Alastair Crooke: Yemen's Red Sea Siege as a New Front in Iran War
Glenn Diesen interviews Alastair Crooke, former British diplomat and founder of Conflicts Forum, about the rapidly expanding regional conflict…
Joe Kent: Iran Trap, U.S. Ground Invasion & Israeli Deception
Glenn Diesen interviews Joe Kent, who resigned as director of the National Counterterrorism Center in March 2026 over his opposition to the US war…
Max Otte: Germany's Economic Suicide Under U.S. Hegemony
Glenn Diesen speaks with Professor Max Otte — economist, financial analyst, bestselling author, and former German presidential candidate — about…
Michael Hudson: The U.S. Plan to Revive Geoeconomic Dominance
Glenn Diesen interviews economist Michael Hudson about what Hudson describes as a coherent US strategy to reassert geoeconomic dominance through…
Ian Proud: Anti-Russian Sanctions Do Not Work - How the Ukraine War Ends
Ian Proud argues that Western sanctions against Russia have comprehensively failed their stated purpose of compelling Russia to change its behaviour…
Press Freedom Threatened as U.S. Government Seizes Max Blumenthal's Devices
Glenn Diesen speaks with Max Blumenthal, editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, following Blumenthal's reporting trip to Iran, where he covered what he…
Sean Foo: Iran War Is Destroying the U.S. Dollar & AI Buildout
Glenn Diesen interviews Sean Foo about the geoeconomic dimensions of the US conflict with Iran, focusing on how the war is accelerating the decline…
Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Imperial Strategy - Destroy Russia, Iran & China
Professor Jeffrey Sachs joins Glenn Diesen to argue that a continuous, bipartisan US imperial strategy stretching back 35 years, rooted in the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…