Radio War Nerd EP156—Nasser & Arab Left-Nationalism

Recorded November 8, 2018 The War Nerd looks back at Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's leader from the mid-1950s until his death in 1970, to try to understand who this fascinating, likable and unjustly forgotten figure really was—and to understand what happened to Arab secular-left nationalism, which Nasser once represented. Indeed, Nasser's brand of modernizing, secular-left nationalism was once seen as the inevitable future of the Middle East. That made Nasser a hero to Arabs across MENA, and a lot of serious enemies in the West . . . Afterwards, Ames and the War Nerd discuss surprising new realignments between Damascus and the Gulf monarchies minus Qatar . . . Amnesty's appalling report attacking Houthis just as the Saudis and UAE stepped up their massacres of Yemeni civilians . . . and a new article by Ames exposing collaboration between Bellingcat/neocons and a leading online ISIS recruiter . . . Reading: "Nasser: The Last Arab" by Said Aburish "ShamiWitness: How Bellingcat & Neocons Collaborated with the Most Influential ISIS Propagandist on Twitter" by Mark Ames