Media and cultural analyst and podcaster Bob Wright talks to us this week about his recent look at the Institute for the Study of War and its predominant role in mainstream coverage of the War in Ukraine. This Washington think tank, founded during the height of the Iraq War by Kimberly Kagan, specializes in maps and rigorous regional analysis, but hidden in the attic is a string of defense industry, Pentagon, and neoconservative connections. Wright puts them, and ISW's shaded reports on Russia-Ukraine, under the microscope. In the first segment, we talk about how the toughest sanctions in history have so far not had a major effect on Russia. Why?

More from Bob Wright at this Nonzero Newsletter on Substack: 

Propaganda, American Style, June 6

Biden's pan-American party faces RSVP problems, June 3

Ukraine speech code violated--McCarthyism ensues, April 29

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