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Radio War Nerd EP #147* [REPOST] — "Destroying Yemen" & Gulf Clan Wars, with Isa Blumi (Patreon)

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2018-09-09 17:30:38
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2023-06

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Guest: Isa Blumi, author and professor 

Recorded August 28, 2018

By popular demand from our subscribers, we're reposting free for the public our important interview with Isa Blumi on the Yemen war's little-reported deep causes — political, financial, imperialist — and the high-stakes Gulf Clan politics driving the Yemen slaughter. Blumi explains the murky political and strategic rivalries between the major Gulf states — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and UAE — and how they've bankrolled American political clans and media figures to their advantage. Great deep dive analysis you won't hear anywhere else. 

This open free repost of RWN Episode 147 comes to you courtesy of our Radio War Nerd subscribers, who make our weekly podcast possible. Freedom isn't free, and neither is Radio War Nerd...Sign up here on the patreon page for the Radio War Nerd podcast, the newsletter, the RSS feed, and more... 

Buy Isa Blumi's book "Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us About The World".Follow Isa Blumi on Twitter 

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Jared

This interview was so good, I think I will listen to it a second time!

Anonymous

Thank you for making this public. If you seem to lose anything over it, tell us. (Also: I do want Blumi back to talk about things *not* related to the war on Yemen, including but not restricted to the Balkan Wars, and I wouldn't suggest making those free.)

Gary Alexander

Has anyone found the book Blumi recommended about the British imperial role in creating Sharia law?

Anonymous

Glad you guys made this an open post.

Anonymous
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<a href="https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo22340539.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo22340539.html</a>

Anonymous

An excellent guest, and interview. Not sure there's a podcast that compares.

Anonymous

This is really outstanding content.

Ian
>>15363360

Wikipedia says he worked for the Kosovar provisional government! He has to come talk about that!

Anonymous

<a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180102-uae-arranges-its-influence-in-yemens-hadhramout-province/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20180102-uae-arranges-its-influence-in-yemens-hadhramout-province/</a>

excellent minaret

I did live in Qatar for 9 years, and the only difference between the treatment of migrants is Qatar does 't have religious police. All the other horrid abuses you hear about in Saudi and the UAE are present there as well.

Anonymous

That was a really great episode, thanks for doing the good work

Anonymous

Please bring Isa back to talk about many other things. I like learning things that change my world view and this podcast did. Bought his most recent book, too.

excellent minaret

I wanted to mention that regarding the oft-cited case here of that famous Al Jazeera anchor calling for the genocide of Alawites; he is not Sunni, he's Syrian Druze. Faisal al-Qasim is his name, he along many other Druze are pro-opposition. Though I know him indirectly, I has assumed he was salafi due to the context in which he was discussed on this show (the sectarianism of AJ Arabic). AJ is often sectarian but sometimes show a break from Western press regarding the Syrian war. When that bus of Shi'i children was blown up by a jihadist, they devoted quite some time covering it live and getting into the nitty gritty of who could be behind it (most likely Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (Nusra), rather than just waving it away as some culprit-less tragedy.