Radio War Nerd EP #82 — Macedonia Crisis w/Lily Lynch + Iceland Nerd w/Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson (Patreon)

Guests: Lily Lynch, editor Balkanist; Gunnar Hrafn Jónsson, MP Althing (Iceland parliament) 

Two guests this episode! First we talk to Lily Lynch in Zagreb, editor of The Balkanist about the recent crisis in Macedonia where protesters stormed parliament—and the tangled history of Macedonians, ethnic Albanians & their unfriendly neighbors...and a granular look at the local politics vs the western media's line that Macedonia's problems are the fault of "Russian meddling"...

Then we talk to Gunnar Hrafn Jonsson, one of the first guests  on Radio War Nerd—former Iceland Public Radio journalist , who has since been elected  to Iceland's parliament on the Pirate Party ticket...We talk about the latest chatter among Islamic State foreign jihadis, as well as Iceland's "Cod Wars" with Britain, the Iceland prime minister who hid in her house  from Dalai Lama monks, and Gunnar's visit to the local NATO base...

Total time: 2:10:07

Direct link  to this episode's mp3 here