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Letters and Politics
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Guest: Rafael A. Martínez is an assistant professor in the Southwest Borderlands Initiative at Arizona State University whose work focuses on immigrant rights, mixed-status families, and Latinx cultural and historical productions in the Southwest borderlands.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Guest: Richard Wolff is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a Visiting Professor at the New School in New York. He hosts the weekly program Economic Update and is the author of several books, including Understanding Capitalism.
The post Richard Wolff on the Economy After the Election appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Matthew D. Hockenos is the Harriet Johnson Toadvine ’56 Professor in 20th- Century History at Skidmore College. He is the author of A Church Divided: German Protestants Confront the Nazi Past, and his latest, Then They Came For Me: Martin Niemöller, the Pastor Who Defied the Nazis.
The post Martin Niemöller: Then They Came For Me appeared first on KPFA.
Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024 and its implications.
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From 11am-1pm PST, Mitch Jeserich hosts a 2-hour live national call-in show. All listeners are invited to share their experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
Call-in numbers: (510)848-4425 or (800)958-9008
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Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024.
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Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024.
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Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024.
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Host Mitch Jeserich in conversation with listeners about elections 2024.
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Guest: Paola Caridi is a journalist, historian, and the author of Hamas: From Resistance To Government (2nd edition, translated to English).
The post Hamas & Its Multiple Facets appeared first on KPFA.
Guests:
Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He has written several books on politics, democracy, fascism, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, and social change, most recently, he is the co-author with Yale Magrass of Who Owns Democracy? The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America.
Yale Magrass is a Chancellor Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. He is the author/co-author of many books, most co-authored with Charles Derber, his latest is Who Owns Democracy? The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America.
The post Is There a Deep State? appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author. He writes regularly for Haaretz with a focus on the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Most recently, he is the author of The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe. He has won a number of humanitarian awards for his work on the Israel/Palestine conflict including the Olaf Palme award in 2016 and in 2021, Israel’s top award for Journalism, the Sokolov Award.
The post Gideon Levy on Israel’s Assault on Gaza appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Corey Brettschneider is a professor of constitutional law and politics at Brown University. He is the author of The Oath and the Office and his latest, The Presidents and the People: Five Leaders Who Threatened Democracy and the Citizens Who Fought to Defend It.
The post When President John Adams Tried to Overthrow Democracy appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Barry C. Lynn is the executive director of the Open Market Institute, the author of Liberty from All Masters, and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. His latest article THE ANTITRUST REVOLUTION: Liberal Democracy’s last stand against Big Tech can be found here.
Featured image: Harper’s Magazine Cover Story, October, 2024
The post How Google Monopolized Almost Everything appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Zinga A. Fraser is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and Director of the Shirley Chisholm Project on Brooklyn Women’s Activism. She is the author of Shirley Chisholm in Her Own Words: Speeches and Writings.
The post Shirley Chisholm, A Revolutionary Thinker appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Nathan J. Robinson is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Current Affairs magazine. He is the author of Why You Should Be a Socialist, Responding to the Right, and his latest, The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World co-authored with Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus at MIT and Laureate Professor at the University of Arizona.
The post Nathan Robinson on The Elections and U.S. Foreign Policy appeared first on KPFA.
Part 1. Fascism, History, and Education
Guest: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including How Fascism Works; How Propaganda Works; and his latest, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.
Part 2. Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism
Guest: Cédric Durand is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Geneva and a member of the Centre d’économie Paris Nord. He is the author of Fictitious Capital: How Finance Appropriates Our Future, and his latest, How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy. He is a regular contributor to the online journal Contretemps and to Sidecar, the blog of the New Left Review.
The post Fascism, History, and Education. Then, Silicon Valley’s Techno-Feudalism appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Eric Schickler is the Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or co-author of several books, including Racial Realignment, Investigating the President, and Filibuster. His latest is Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era coauthored with Paul Pierson.
Guest: Paul Pierson is the John Gross Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative. He is the author or co-author of many books, including Winner-Take-All Politics, Let Them Eat Tweets and Politics in Time. His latest, Partisan Nation: The Dangerous New Logic of American Politics in a Nationalized Era coauthored with Eric Schickler.
The post Polarization in the US: Past and Present appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Nemonte Nenquimo is a leader of the Waorani people, cofounder of the Ceibo Alliance, and an internationally acclaimed activist. Born in the Amazon region of Ecuador in 1985, she is a winner of the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize and was named to TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020 list (lauded by Leonardo DiCaprio). She is the author of the book We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People co-authored with Mitch Anderson.
Guest: Mitch Anderson is the founder and executive director of Amazon Frontlines, which supports the struggles of Indigenous peoples to defend their rights to land, life, and cultural survival in the Amazon rainforest.
The post Waorani Leader Nemonte Nenquimo’s Fight to Save the Amazon Rainforest appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Benjamin Carter Hett is a Professor of History at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at City University of New York. He is the author of several books including, The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic.
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The post The Weimar Republic appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is the writer and host of the podcast This Land. She is a Peabody Award nominee and the recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, and the Women’s Media Center’s Exceptional Journalism Award. She is the author of the bookBy the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land. Rebecca Nagle is also the host of the podcast This Land.
The post How Native Nations Reclaimed Oklahoma appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.
His latest article “Escalation dominance” and the new nuclear threat: We face more than 1,000 Holocausts can be found on Salon.com
The post Norman Solomon on Gaza, the Middle East, the Media, and the Democratic Party appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Dr. Hatem Baziam is a Professor of Islamic law and theology at Zaytuna College. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books including Palestine: …it is Something Colonial and Erasing The Human: Collapse of The Postcolonial World and Refugee Immigration Crisis.
The post A Settler Colonial Project & the Meaning of the October 7 Attack appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Randol Contreras is an Associate Professor of Sociology, Media, and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on the intersection of history, social structure, and biography, which sheds light on how crime emerges and influences the behavior and meanings of people. He is the author of the award-winning book The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream; and his most recent, The Marvelous Ones: Drugs, Gang Violence, and Resistance in East Los Angeles.The post A History of Gang Wars in East Los Angeles appeared first on KPFA.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Guest: Helena Cobban is a writer and researcher on international affairs with a special interest in the Middle East. She is the author of several books including her latest “Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters” co-authored with Rami Khouri. Her writing can be found at Globalities.org.
The post Helena Cobban on the Escalation of the War in the Middle East: Israel, Lebanon, & Palestine appeared first on KPFA.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Guest: Martin Shaw is Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Sussex University and Research Professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals. He is the author of several books on Genocide and War including What is Genocide?
The post Genocide: Its History & Meaning appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Rena Steinzor is Edward M. Robertson Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey Law School. She is the author of Why Not Jail? (2014), The People’s Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public (2010), Mother Earth and Uncle Sam (2007); and her latest, American Apocalypse: The Six Far-Right Groups Waging War on Democracy (2024). She is a former president of the Center for Progressive Reform.
The post The Six Far-Right Groups Weakening American Democracy appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Karen J. Greenberg is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law. She is the author and editor of many books, including The Torture Papers; Subtle Tools; Rogue Justice; and her latest, Our Nation at Risk Election Integrity as a National Security Issue co-edited with Julian E. Zelizer. She is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an International Studies Fellow at New America, and a Visiting Fellow at the Soufan Center.
The post 2024 Election: Integrity as a National Security Issue appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Sonali Kolhatkar is an award-winning multimedia journalist and Senior Editor covering race, economy, and democracy at YES! Media. She is the host of YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated TV and radio program on Free Speech TV and Pacifica Radio. She is also the author of Rising Up, Bleeding Afghanistan, and her forthcoming Talking About Abolition will be released in 2025.
Her latest article on Yes! magazine The Complexity of Harris’ Historic Candidacy can be found here.
Sonali is also involved in the YES! Effort Progress 2025, a response that centers human and planetary needs—and uplifts the solutions that make them possible.
Photo by Lories Shaull on Wikimedia. Senator Harris at the 2019 Iowa Democrats Hall of Fame Celebration in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
The post The Complexities of Kamala Harris’ Candidacy appeared first on KPFA.
Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of a special 2-hour Democracy Now, broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Audio for the first hour of today’s Democracy Now can be found here.
Information about the topics covered on today’s Democracy Now can be found here.
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Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of a special 2-hour DemocracyNow!, broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Audio for the first hour can be found here.
Information about today’s show can be found here.
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Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of a special 2-hour DemocracyNow!, broadcasting from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Audio for the first hour can be found here.
Information about today’s show can be found here.
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Guest: Paul Cooper is a podcaster, a historian, and the author of Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline. He writes, produces, and hosts the Fall of Civilizations podcast which explores the collapse of different societies through history.
The post Paul Cooper of Fall Of Civilizations: In Conversation appeared first on KPFA.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Guests
Jeff Spinner-Halev is the Kenan Eminent Professor of Political Ethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of several books including his latest, Respect and Loathing in American Democracy: Polarization, Moralization, and the Undermining of Equality co-authored with Elizabeth Theiss-Morse.
Elizabeth Theiss-Morse is the Willa Cather Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her research focuses in the areas of American politics and political psychology. Her most recent book is Respect and Loathing in American Democracy, co-authored with political theorist Jeff Spinner-Halev.
The post Are Liberals Intolerant at Conservatives? appeared first on KPFA.
Part I. Causes and Consequences of Homelessness in California
Guest: Margot Kushel, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, She is the Director of the Principal Investigator of the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness (CASPEH).
Conducted by UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI), (CASPEH) is the largest representative study of homelessness in the United States since the mid-1990s. It provides a comprehensive look at the causes and consequences of homelessness in California and recommends policy changes to shape programs in response. #CAHomelessnessStudy
Part II. The Ineffectiveness of SF’s Homeless Policies
Guest: Christopher D. Cook is an author and award-winning investigative journalist based in San Francisco. He has covered the homelessness crisis in the last few years. His latest article in 48Hills is Mayor makes inhumane, ineffective sweeps a major part of her re-election campaign: Stealing people’s possessions and moving them around town solves nothing—but it makes for mayoral politics.
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash
The post Unraveling the Misinformation about Homelessness in California appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Assaf Kfoury is a mathematician, computer scientist, and political activist. An Arab American of Lebanese-Palestinian background who grew up in Beirut and Cairo. Currently, he is a Professor of Computer Science at Boston University. He recently wrote Hamas: From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe published by the International Union of Scientists.
He is editor of Inside Lebanon: Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam Chomsky and Carol Chomsky. He acted as translator for Noam Chomsky in their visits to the region, which included meetings with Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Photo: Fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah carried out a training exercise in South Lebanon in 2023. Tasnim News Agency on Wikimedia.
The post Crisis in the Middle East: Israel and the Axis of Resistance appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of several books including his latest, Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power (2020) and Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street’s Great Foreclosure Fraud (2016), which earned the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize. He won the Hillman Prize for excellence in magazine journalism in 2021. On Twitter @ddayen
The post The Political Record of Kamala Harris appeared first on KPFA.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Guest: Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). He is the author of several books, including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. Find his weekly commentary at Beat the Press.
Photo by Vladimir Solomianyi on Unsplash
The post Joe Biden’s Economy and Presidential Record appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. Her previous work includes Independence Lost, a finalist for the George Washington Prize, and The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. She is a co-author of Give Me Liberty! and coeditor of Interpreting a Continent: Voices from Colonial America. Her latest book is Native Nations: A Millennium in North America.
The post Ancient North American Cities and Why People Left Them appeared first on KPFA.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of Democracy Now, broadcasting from the RNC in Milwaukee.
The first hour can be found here.
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Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of Democracy Now, broadcasting from the RNC in Milwaukee.
The first hour can be found here.
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Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of Democracy Now, broadcasting from the RNC in Milwaukee.
The first hour can be found here.
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Today’s show is preempted by the second hour of Democracy Now, broadcasting from the RNC in Milwaukee.
The first hour can be found here.
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Guest: Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History at the University of Washington and the author of Menace to Empire: Anti-Colonial Solidarities and the Transpacific.
The post Anarchists & Communists In Asia’s Anti-Colonial Movements appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Zusha Elinson is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he covers America’s gun culture and industry. He is co-author of American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15, co-written with Cameron McWhirter.
The post A History of the AR-15 appeared first on KPFA.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Guest: Aaron S. Lecklider is Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and author of Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture.
The post Homosexuals & Communists in the First Half of the 20th Century appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Ryan Grim is The Intercept’s D.C. Bureau Chief and the host of the podcast Deconstructed. He authors the newsletter Bad News. He is the author of the books “This Is Your Country on Drugs” and “We’ve Got People;” and his latest The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution.
The post The Israeli Lobby & the Squad appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of the Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World.
The post An Age of Coexistence in Palestine appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Benjamin Balthaser is associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend. He is the author of Anti-Imperialism Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War, and Dedication, a personal history of growing up in a Jewish “red diaper” family. His forthcoming book from Verso, Citizens of the Whole World: The American Jewish Left and Cultures of Anti-Zionism, is due to be out this fall.
Photo: Bundposter1918, Wikimedia commons
The post A History of Jewish Anti-Zionism: From The Communist Party to The New Left appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Dr. Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States with broad interests in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women’s and Gender Studies. She is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society. She is the author of the book Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America. On Twitter (@keishablain), and on Instagram (@keishanblain).
The post Fannie Lou Hamer: A Life appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. The author of Pulitzer Prize–winning The Hemingses of Monticello and her latest, On Juneteenth.
Feature Photo by Oladimeji Odunsi on Unsplash
The post On Juneteenth: A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Robert Elder, professor of history at Baylor University. Author of the book Calhoun: American Heretic.
The post John C. Calhoun: Defender of Racial Slavery & White Democracy appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Nelson Lichtenstein is Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include State of the Union: A Century of American Labor, and his latest, A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism coauthored with Judith Stein (1940–2017).
The post Bill Clinton & the Transformation of American Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) writes the widely acclaimed Unpopular Front newsletter for Substack. He is the author of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.
The post The Rise of the Far-Right in the 1990s and Its Influence on Today’s Politics appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: DW Gibson is the author of several books including The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the Twenty-First Century, 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall, Not Working: People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today’s Changing Economy, and his latest, One Week To Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests
He serves as director of Art Omi: Writers in Ghent, New York, and he co-founded Sangam House, a writers’ residency in India, along with Arshia Sattar.
Photo credit: Steve Kaiser, Seattle, US – WTO protests 1999 on Wikipedia
The post Seattle, 1999: A History of the WTO Protests appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition which won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and her latest, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.
The post How The Republican Party Went From Anti-Slavery to Pro-Imperialism appeared first on KPFA.
Part I. The Road to Freedom
Guest: Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize–winning economist. He served as chief economist of the World Bank. Currently, he teaches at Columbia University and a Senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He is the author of several books including his latest, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.
Part II. Biden’s Move to Seal the Border
Guest: Todd Miller is an independent journalist and author of several books including Border Patrol Nation, Storming the Wall, Empire of Borders, and his latest Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders.Photo credit: Wikimedia commons
The post The Road to Freedom with Nobel Prize Economist Joseph Stiglitz. Then, Biden Closes the Border appeared first on KPFA.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Guest: Anthony D’Agostino is an Emeritus Professor of History at San Francisco State University. He is an expert on the history of the Russian Revolution and the Cold War and the author of several books including Soviet Succession Struggles: Kremlinology and the Russian Question from Lenin to Gorbachev published in 1988 and republished in 2024.
The post A History of the Soviet Union and its Influence on the Global Left appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Keith O’Brien is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of Paradise Falls, Fly Girls, Outside Shot, and his latest, Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball.
The post Charlie Hustle and the Culture of Gambling in Professional Sports appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest, co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders, “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.”
His Latest piece in the Nation is:
Donald Trump Was Convicted Because of Democracy—Not in Spite of It
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Guest: Glory Liu is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.
The post How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon appeared first on KPFA.
Today’s Letters & Politics is preempted by a special KPFA broadcast:
Mitch Jeserich hosts a special 2-hour remembrance of former broadcaster Larry Bensky. This program airs live from 10am-noon and includes time for listeners to call in with memories of Larry.
KPFA call-in numbers: 510-848-4425, 800-958-9008
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Guest: Sudhir Hazareesingh is a British-Mauritian historian. He is a Fellow and Tutor in Politics at Balliol College, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written extensively about French intellectual and cultural history, among his books are The Legend of Napoleon, In the Shadow of the General and How the French Think. He won the Prix du Mémorial d’Ajaccio and the Prix de la Fondation Napoléon for the first of these, a Prix d’Histoire du Sénat for the second, and the Grand Prix du Livre d’Idées for the third. His latest book is Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture.
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The post The Making of a Haitian Revolutionary: From Toussaint Breda to Toussaint L’Ouverture appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York City. Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of the weekly national syndicated television and radio program Economic Update that airs weekly on KPFA.
The post KPFA Special: Richard Wolff on US-China Dynamics and the New Global Order appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Benjamin Balthaser is associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend. He is the author of Anti-Imperialism Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War, and Dedication, a personal history of growing up in a Jewish “red diaper” family. His forthcoming book from Verso, Citizens of the Whole World: The American Jewish Left and Cultures of Anti-Zionism, is due to be out this fall.
Image credit: Wikimedia
An elections poster of the General Jewish Labour Bund hung in Kiev, 1917. The note reads: “Where we live, there is our country!.” Bottom: “A democratic republic! Full national and political rights for Jews!”
The post KPFA Special – A History of Jewish Anti-Zionism: From The Communist Party to The New Left appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination and The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is the host of the podcast Myself with Others.
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Mitch Jeserich reads from Thoreau’s Essay Civil Disobedience.
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay “Civil Disobedience” (originally published as “Resistance to Civil Government”), an argument in favor of citizen disobedience against an unjust state.
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On Thoreau: Nature & Duty Pack $180Includes: The American Transcendentalists by Lawrence Buell andThe Daily Henry David Thoreau by Laura Dassow Walls– The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings Edited by the scholar Lawrence Buell $100– The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season Foreword by Laura Dassow Walls $100The post Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience & Why it Matters Today appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Amy Tan is the author of several novels, including The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter. She is a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club and is on the board of American Bird Conservancy. Her latest book is The Backyard Bird Chronicles.
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Guest: Gray Brechin has worked as a journalist and television producer and is coauthor of Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream; and Imperial San Francisco, With a New Preface: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin.
KPFA is offering today as a thank-you gift to you a 3 Books Pack: Techno-Road to Rebellion for $350The 3 books Pack Includes: – Imperial San Francisco, With a New Preface: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin $150– Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis $100– Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech $150The post KPFA Special – The Creation of Cities: Wealth, Inequality and Environmental Destruction appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and academic, a bestselling author, and the former finance minister of Greece. He is a co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025. His books include And the Weak Suffer What They Must? and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, and his latest, Technofeudalism: WHAT KILLED CAPITALISM.
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Guest: Brian Merchant is a journalist focusing on technology and the future of work. He is the author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, and his latest, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. He is also a founder of Terraform, Vice’s science fiction outlet.
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Guest: Ilan Pappe is Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of A History of Modern Palestine.
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Guest: Ilan Pappe is Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of A History of Modern Palestine.
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Guest: Benjamin Balthaser is an associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend. He is the author of Anti-Imperialism Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War, and Dedication, a personal history of growing up in a Jewish “red diaper” family. His forthcoming book from Verso, Citizens of the Whole World: The American Jewish Left and Cultures of Anti-Zionism, is due to be out this fall.
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Guest: Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has reported from more than 50 countries. He spent 15 years at The New York Times as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief and is the author of several books, including his latest The Greatest Evil Is War. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, The University of Toronto, and in the New Jersey prison system. He is the host of the show The Chris Hedges Report.
Statements Below from Maximilian Alvarez, Editor in Chief of the Real News Network and Chris Hedges, host of The Chris Hedges ReportStatement from Maximilian Alvarez, Editor in Chief of the Real News:I can’t speak to Chris’s reasons for doing so, or to the motivations of any outlet that accepted his version of events without bothering to ask me/TRNN about it, but in his public statements he is grossly misrepresenting the situation and our last conversation. Contrary to his original statement on Thursday, I never said, implied, or indicated in our final conversation that TRNN couldn’t continue being a production and copublishing partner of The Chris Hedges Report because I had some issue with Chris’s reporting on Gaza, Israel, Julian Assange, etc. That is completely false, and I’m glad to see that anyone who knows anything about me, TRNN, our team, and our reporting knows that we have covered these issues from a critical perspective long before Chris, and we will continue to do so. It’s unfortunate to see that Chris apparently cared so little about the rest of our team and the work we’ve been doing that he could convince himself that he was somehow the only person at TRNN covering these stories, which he was demonstrably not, and that we’re somehow moving away from that coverage, which we are not.
What actually happened and what I actually said is all there in the statement I put out on Friday: https://therealnews.com/update-on-the-status-of-the-chris-hedges-report-from-trnns-editor-in-chief. I had a witness in the room with me, TRNN’s Chief of Editorial Operations Kayla Rivara, who heard every word of my conversation with Chris on speakerphone and can corroborate everything I said in the statement.
As anyone who listens to Chris’s speeches and interviews knows, and as he has told me numerous times, he feels he has a moral duty to say what’s in his heart about Biden, Trump, the 2024 election, and how people should vote. And that is the one etched-in-stone rule for nonprofits, and the consequences of violating it pose severe, even mortal, risks to an organization like ours. And TRNN’s own longstanding editorial code of ethics prohibits us from campaigning, lobbying, or advocating for/against candidates for elected office in their professional capacity representing TRNN, or while using TRNN’s resources. Chris knows that. Our whole team knows that.
I made the same commitment to Chris a long time ago that I’ve made to all our journalists: I won’t censor them and their journalism. And I understand that he feels a moral obligation to address how he’s voting and/or how others should vote if and when the topic comes up, especially as the election gets closer. Even though Chris and I were trying to keep that separate from the show itself and his coverage for as long as possible, we acknowledged that the topic is going to inevitably come up in relationship to virtually any news story he covers and he’s gonna need to be free to say what’s in his heart. So I freed him to do that and offered to help him find a more suitable outlet to help him produce and copublish the show. Chris needs to be free from the constraints of a nonprofit to say what he needs to say throughout the election season and beyond. That’s what I told him, that’s what I reiterated in the statement. That’s it, plain and simple. Everything else is either rumor and speculation.
Lastly, as I made clear in the statement; I never “fired” Chris because he was never an employee (all his money comes from Substack and will continue to); I never “canceled” the show because it was never a TRNN-only show to cancel (that’s why all episodes are freely available on his Substack and the show will continue without us); and I never “censored” him (in fact, I released the show back to him so he wouldn’t feel like he had to censor what he wanted to say because the show would be copublished on a nonprofit news platform).
Statement from Chris Hedges, author and host of The Chris Hedges Report:There is less and less space for dissent. The courageous students in our universities show us this. There is less and less room to write the truth. I have clashed with institutions before, most notably The New York Times, where I was pushed out for denouncing the invasion of Iraq, and Truthdig, where, after I organized a strike of all but two of the staff to protest the ousting of Truthdig editor Bob Scheer by the site’s wealthy publisher, the strikers were fired. This act of defiance meant a nearly 50 percent drop in my income.
The principal funder of The Real News, T.M. Scruggs, once demanded Bob Scheer delete from Scheerpost a column I wrote defending the writer Alice Walker from charges of antisemitism. When Bob refused, Scruggs said he would no longer support Scheerpost, of which he was a major donor. His animus towards me, also apparently driven by my critiques of the Democratic Party and support for third party candidates, did not go away once RT, where I hosted a show, was shut down, my six years of archives were disappeared from YouTube, and I arranged to move to The Real News.
Although Max Alvarez at The Real News insists that the reason for canceling the show was that it jeopardized his nonprofit status, I find it hard to believe that Scruggs’ hostility towards me did not play a significant factor in his decision. Scruggs, according to Alvarez, has made it clear that if The Real News does anything, in his eyes, that contributes to the election of Donald Trump, he will pull the funding. This is an inverted way of saying, support Joe Biden and the Democrats. That such a stance is anathema to journalism is obvious.
I did not endorse Dennis Kucinich in the last show I did on The Real News, but he is running for Congress in Ohio as an independent, and is critical of the two ruling parties. I did not violate guidelines for nonprofits. Nevertheless, the episode with Kucinich was removed from the site, and immediately afterwards my program was terminated.
The model of wealthy people and corporations owning and funding news organizations does not work. The wealthy patrons who own sites such as Salon or Truthdig, or control sites such as The Real News, or the corporations that own news outlets such as CNN and MSNBC, too often interfere in ways that cripple honest inquiry and reporting.
As A.J. Liebling said, “Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.”
I am fortunate in having Substack, but most important, I am fortunate in the support of all of you. Without you, I could not do my work.
I will resurrect my show on an independent platform, although it will take a few weeks to set up.
You make all this possible. Thank you.
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Guest: Angela Garcia is an anthropologist and writer. She is the author of the book, The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande, and her latest, The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City’s Anexos.
The post Anexos: Addiction Treatment Centers in Mexico City and Beyond appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Robert Cohen is a Professor of history and social studies at New York University. He is the author of Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism and co-author with Sonia E. Murrow of Rethinking America’s Past: Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States in the Classroom and Beyond.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Guest: Gray Brechin has worked as a journalist and television producer and is coauthor of Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream; and Imperial San Francisco, With a New Preface: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin.
The post The Creation of Cities: Wealth, Inequality and Environmental Destruction appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Asaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli American journalist. He is a staff writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the author of the book, Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth.
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Guests:
Michael Isikoff is an award-winning Washington investigative journalist and the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story; Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War (with David Corn); and Russian Roulette (also with David Corn). His latest coauthored with Daniel Klaidman is Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election
Daniel Klaidman is an award-winning journalist and author. He is the author of Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency. He is the co-author with Michael Isikoff of Find Me the Votes: A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election.
The post An Investigative Look Behind Trump’s Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Steve Coll is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Dean Emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School. Previously he was president of the public policy institute New America, in Washington, DC. He is an editor at The Economist in London and the author of several books, including The Bin Ladens, Private Empire, Directorate S, and his latest, The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq.
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Guest: Hamilton Nolan is a veteran journalist who writes about labor and politics. He is the author of the book The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor. His work can be found at HamiltonNolan.com.
The post The Past, Present, and Future of the Labor Movement in America appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Dr Frank Tallis is a clinical psychologist and a writer. He is the author of several books including his latest, Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind.
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Guest: Angela C. Sutton is an Assistant research professor at Vanderbilt University, where she has taught Seapower in History, the Golden Age of Piracy, and Comparative Slavery. She is the author of Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution.
The post The Pirates That Halted The Slave Trade appeared first on KPFA.
Part I. Understanding Secretary Mayorkas’ Impeachment
Guest: Frank O. Bowman III is a law professor, legal historian, and former federal and state prosecutor. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, currently he is a Visiting Scholar at Colorado College.
His most recent book is High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump. His latest article is Immigration Is Not an “Invasion” under the Constitution.
Part II. The Dangerous Dynamic Between Israel and Iran
Guest: Stephen Zunes is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of “Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism”, and the co-author of “Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution.” He is currently serving as 2024 Torgny Segerstedt Visiting Research Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Guest: Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change; The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, and Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future; and her latest, H Is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z.
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Guest: Philip Maldari is a host and producer at KPFA Radio, currently he is the host of the Sunday Morning show.
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Guest: Jason De León is a professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies and director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also the executive director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a research, arts, and education collective that seeks to raise awareness about migration issues globally while also assisting families of missing migrants to reunite with their loved ones. He is the author of the award-winning book The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail, and his latest, Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling.
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Part I. Inflation and the Economy
Guest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at The New School University in New York. Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of the weekly national television and radio program Economic Update that airs on KPFA.
Part II. Haiti’s Disaster Capitalism
Guest: Jake Johnston is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and the author of Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti.
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Guest: Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), her work focuses on the Middle East, U.S. militarism, and UN issues. She serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. She is the author of several books including “Before & After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War on Terror,” “Challenging Empire,” and her latest, “Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer.”
The post U.S. Unconditional Support to Israel and the Imminent Assault on Rafah appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.”
His Latest piece in the Nation is:
More Than Half a Million Democratic Voters Have Told Biden: Save Gaza!
The campaign to use “uncommitted” primary votes to send a message to Biden has won two dozen delegates, and it keeps growing.
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Guest: Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University. He is the author of many books including Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic. His latest, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune.
The post The Sullivanians: Psychoanalysis, Marxism, & A Commune To Break The Traditional Family appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Daniel Ziblatt is a Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the co-author of How Democracies Die, and most lately, Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point, also co-authored with Steven Levitsky.
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Guest: Amitav Ghosh is the author of several bestselling books including, Ibis Trilogy, composed of Sea of Poppies (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize), River of Smoke, and Flood of Fire. His other novels include The Circle of Reason, which won the Prix Médicis étranger, and The Glass Palace. He is the author of many works of nonfiction, including The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable and The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis. Mr. Gosh has received two-lifetime achievement awards and five honorary doctorates. In 2018, Ghosh became the first English-language writer to win the Jnanpith Award, India’s highest literary honor. His latest is Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories.
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Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State.
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Guest: Kelsy Burke is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Obscene Obsession.
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Guest: Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate Professor of African American studies at Wayne state. and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace Research and Political Education Team. She is the c-editor, along with Jodi Dean, of the book ORGANIZE, FIGHT, WIN: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing.
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Guest: Shireen Al-Adeimi is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and assistant professor of language and literacy at Michigan State University’s College of Education.
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Guest: Katherine Corcoran is a former Associated Press bureau chief for Mexico and Central America and is currently co-coordinator of MasterLAB, an investigative editor training program in Mexico City. She is the author of In The Mouth Of The Wolf: A Murder, A Cover-up, and The True Cost Of Silencing The Press.
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Guest: Jeffrey Rosen is President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts We the People, a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. His latest book is, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America.The post The Pursuit of Happiness, The Founders, and America Today appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Mohamad Jebara is a scriptural philologist and prominent exegetist. A semanticist and historian of Semitic cultures, he has served as Chief Imam as well as headmaster of several Qur’anic and Arabic language academies. He is the author of Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait, and his latest, The Life of the Qur’an: From Eternal Roots to Enduring Legacy.
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Guest: Ibrahim Aoude is a Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawaii-Manoa. He is the editor of the journal Arab Studies Quarterly (which was founded by Edward Said in 1979). Professor Aoude is an expert on Hawai‘i Political Economy and Middle East politics.
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Guest: Peter Shambrook is an independent scholar and historical consultant to the Balfour Project, which works to advance equal rights for all in Palestine/Israel. He is the author of French Imperialism in Syria, 1927–1936, and his latest, Policy of Deceit: Britain and Palestine, 1914-1939.
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Guest: Guest: Cat Bohannon is a researcher specialized in the evolution of narrative and cognition. She is the author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon.
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Guest: Tahrir Hamdi is a Professor of Decolonial Studies at Arab Open University, Jordan. She is the author of the book Imagining Palestine: Cultures of Exile and National Identity. She has published widely about resistance literature in several prestigious journals.
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Guest: Ruby Lal is a professor at Emory University, and the author of three books and numerous essays, op-eds, and literary pieces. She is the author of Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan, and her latest, Vagabond Princess: The Great Adventures of Gulbadan.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY_zSUlv0K0Guest: Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. Bartov is a historian of the Holocaust and is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on genocide. He is the author of numerous books, including Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples (2011) Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), and his latest, Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis.The post Linked Histories: The Holocaust & The Nakba appeared first on KPFA.
Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgameshis considered the oldest epic in the world and a masterpiece of literature.
Gilgamesh is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned.
Get the Ancient Tales Library $550. Includes:– Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell $100 – The Iliad (new translation by Emily Wilson) $200– The Odyssey by Homer: Translated by Emily Wilson $100 – The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam translated by Juan Cole $160– The Way of Chuang Tzu $100– Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection$100 The post KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part IV) appeared first on KPFA.
Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgameshis considered the oldest epic in the world and a masterpiece of literature.
Gilgamesh is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned.
Get the Ancient Tales Library $550. Includes:– Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell $100 – The Iliad (new translation by Emily Wilson) $200– The Odyssey by Homer: Translated by Emily Wilson $100 – The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam translated by Juan Cole $160– The Way of Chuang Tzu $100 – Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection $100 The post KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part III) appeared first on KPFA.
Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgameshis considered the oldest epic in the world and a masterpiece of literature.
Gilgamesh is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia, and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned.
Get the Ancient Tales Library $550. Includes:– Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell $100 – The Iliad (new translation by Emily Wilson) $200– The Odyssey by Homer: Translated by Emily Wilson $100 – The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam translated by Juan Cole $160– The Way of Chuang Tzu $100 – Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection $100 The post KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part II) appeared first on KPFA.
Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version.
Gilgameshis considered the oldest epic in the world and and a masterpieces of literature. It is the story of a historical king of Uruk in Babylonia, and his journey of self-discovery. Along the way, Gilgamesh discovers that friendship can bring peace to a whole city and that wisdom can be found only when the quest for it is abandoned.
Get the Ancient Tales Library $550. Includes:– Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell $100 – The Iliad (new translation by Emily Wilson) $200– The Odyssey by Homer: Translated by Emily Wilson $100 – The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam translated by Juan Cole $160– The Way of Chuang Tzu $100 – Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection $100 The post KPFA Special: Reading the Epic of Gilgamesh (Part I) appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Pat Thomas is a counterculture historian and archival music producer. He is the author of such books as Listen, Whitey!: The Sights & Sounds of Black Power 1965–1975, Did It! Jerry Rubin: An American Revolutionary; and his latest Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg.
KPFA Special Combo $450.
Includes:
“Allen Ginsberg Material Wealth” (Book and CD) by Pat Thomas Plus “Voices that Change the World” by the Pacifica Radio Archives.
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Guest: Emily Wilson who is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania and translator of both The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Mitch Jeserich reads from Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad.
Book Combo: Epic Verses 3-Pack $400 Contains:The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Translated by Juan Cole.The Iliad by Homer, Translated by Emily Wilson.The Odyssey by Homer, Translated by Emily Wilson.The post KPFA Special – Grief Turns to Rage: A Reading from The Iliad by Mitch Jeserich appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and early modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca.
Epic Verses Pack $320Contains:
The Iliad (new translation by Emily Wilson) andThe Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian by Juan Cole.– The Iliad (new translation by Emily Wilson)The Iliad is an epic poem that recounts the ten-year Trojan War and explores themes of pride, honor, and the human condition. Wilson’s Iliad gives us a complete Homer for our generation and the first ever English translation by a woman.
– The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian by Juan Cole The Rubaiyat is a manuscript of Persian verses attributed to Omar Khayyam, a 12th-century Persian mathematician and philosopher. The book contains pithy observations on complex subjects such as love, death, and the existence of God and an afterlife.
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Guest: Juan Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the translator of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian.
Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131) was a Persian astronomer and mathematician born in Nishapur in northeastern Iran who lived and worked at the courts of the Seljuk dynasty. Modern scholars agree that there is very little (if any) of the collected work of poetry know as the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam that can be certainly attributed to the historical figure. A tradition of attribution grew up in the centuries after Khayyam’s death which culminated in Edward Fitzgerald’s translation in the 19th Century.
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Guest: William Dalrymple is the author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire.
The Anti-Colonial Pack $475
Includes:A History of Modern Palestine by Ilan PappeThe Rebel’s Clinic by Adam ShatzThe Wretched of the Earth (60th Anniversary Edition) by Frantz FanonThe Anarchy by William DalrympleThe post KPFA Special – The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India Company appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination and The Rebels Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is the host of the podcast Myself with Others.To watch the Interview on Youtube click here Fanon Resistance Pack $220Includes:The biography of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz&Frantz Fanon’s landmark text “The Wretched of the Earth.” Fanon has been described as “the most influential anticolonial thinker of his time”. For decades, the life and works of Fanon have inspired national liberation movements and other freedom and political movements in Palestine, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and the United States.The post KPFA Special – The Life & Works of Frantz Fanon appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Ilan Pappe is the Director of the European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He has published many books on the Middle East and the Palestine Question including, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Modern Middle East, Ten Myths about Israel, and A History of Modern Palestine.
The post KPFA Special – Ilan Pappé on the History of the Palestinian Resistance appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Dr. Keisha N. Blain is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States with broad interests in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and Women’s and Gender Studies. She is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society. She is the author of the book Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America. On Twitter (@keishablain), and on Instagram (@keishanblain).
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Part I. Biden Continues Supporting the War on Gaza
Guest: Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University. He is the author and coauthor of several such books, including The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy; and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy co-authored with John J. Mearsheimer. He is also a columnist at Foreign Policy.
Part II. Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
Guest: Karen Cook Bell is a Professor of History at Bowie State University. She is the University System of Maryland Wilson H. Elkins Endowed Professor. Her areas of specialization include slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and women’s history. She is the author of several books including, Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America. Running From Bondage received the Best Book Award from the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society; the Letitia Woods Brown Honorable Mention Award from the Association of Black Women Historians; and was a finalist for the Pauli Murray Prize for Best Book in African American Intellectual History from the African American Intellectual History Society.
Feature image: IDF soldiers preparing for ground activity in Gaza. Wikimedia
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Guest: Gregg Mitman is the Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. An award-winning author and filmmaker, his recent films and books include The Land Beneath Our Feet; Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes; and his latest, Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia.
The post Liberia: From the American Colonization Society to Firestone appeared first on KPFA.
Part I. Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
Guest: Jake Johnston is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and the author of Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti.
Part II. Poverty and Homelessness at Home
Guests:
Tiny Lisa Gray Garcia (@povertyskola) is co-founder of Poor News Magazine.
Leroy Moore, po’ poet, founder of Krip Hop Nation.
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Guest: Héctor Lindo-Fuentes is Professor Emeritus of History at Fordham University. He is the author of several books including Weak Foundations: The Economy of El Salvador in the Nineteenth Century 1821-1898; Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory; and his most recent, co-authored with Erik Ching,Modernizing Minds in El Salvador: Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960-1980. His latest book in Spanish is El Alborotador de Centroamérica: El Salvador Frente al Imperio.
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Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.” His Latest piece in the Nation is: The Only Way Trump Stays on the Ballot Is if the Supreme Court Rejects the Constitution.
Photo (c): Wikimedia
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Part I. Immigration Politics of an Election Year
Guest: Todd Miller is an independent journalist, border policy expert, and author of several books including Border Patrol Nation, Storming the Wall, Empire of Borders, and his latest Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders.
Part II. A History of the War on Immigrants: The Border in 1990’s
Guest: John Carlos Frey is an investigative reporter and documentary filmmaker. He is the author of is the author of the new book Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border.
Photo credit: Wikimedia
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Guest: Roger D Rapport is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and playwright. He is the author of Searching for Patty Hearst. You can find more at pattyhearst.com
The post The Symbionese Liberation Army & The Kidnapping of Patty Hearst appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Mark A. Graber is the University System of Maryland Regents Professor at Maryland Carey Law. Professor Graber is a leading scholar on constitutional law and politics. He is the author of A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism (2013), Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (2006); and his latest, Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform after the Civil War.
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Part 1: Dismissal of the Palestine v. Biden case in Federal Court
Guest: Marc Van Der Hout is a practicing attorney and the founding member of Van Der Hout, LLP. He is a Co-Counsel in the case Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden.
The court denied the plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motion and granted the government’s motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that it lacked jurisdiction over the administration’s conduct of foreign relations.
While Dismissing Case on Jurisdictional Grounds, U.S. Judge “Implores” Biden Administration to Stop its “Unflagging Support” for Israel’s Ongoing Siege of the Palestinian People in Gaza (CCRJustice.org)The Case
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. federal court against President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Austin for failure to prevent and complicity in the Israeli government’s unfolding genocide in Gaza.
Part 2. The Radical Origins of Black History Month
Guest: Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History & African American Studies at the University of Houston. He is the author of more than three dozen books including White Supremacy Confronted: US Imperialism & Anticommunism vs the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, and White Supremacy and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean. His latest is The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering, and the political economy of boxing.
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Jefferson Cowie holds the James G. Stahlman chair in history at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of several books, including Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, and his latest, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, 2023).
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Genocide: Meaning & HistoryGuest: Barry Trachtenberg is the Michael H. and Deborah K. Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University, NC. He is the author of The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, The United States and the Nazi Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance (Perspectives on the Holocaust); and The Holocaust & the Exile of Yiddish A History of the Algemeyne Entsiklopedye.As an expert on Genocide, Professor Trachtenberg testified in support of the plaintiffs of the lawsuit Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Bidenseeking an emergency order to stop US military and diplomatic aid for the Israeli government’s genocidal assault on Gaza.To see the Federal Courts Recording of the Hearing on January 26, 2024 go to:Defense for Children International-Palestine v. Biden
Motion for Preliminary Injunctive Relief January 26, 2024The post Genocide: Meaning & History appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Marc Van Der Hout is Counsel in the case Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden. Mr. Van Der Hout is a practicing attorney and the founding member of Van Der Hout, LLP.
The Case
Palestinian human rights organizations, together with Palestinians in Gaza and the U.S., filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court against President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Austin for the U.S. officials’ failure to prevent and complicity in the Israeli government’s unfolding genocide against them, their families, and the 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza. The case was filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Van Der Hout LLP.
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Guest: Adam Shatz is the US editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is the author of Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination and The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is the host of the podcast Myself with Others.
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Part I. (LIVE) Protest at L3Harris in San Leandro, California. L3Harris is a local manufacturer responsible for developing weapons technology that has targeted medical workers and infrastructure in Gaza.
Guest: Dr. Jess Ghannam is a Professor of Psychiatry and Global Health at the University of California, San Francisco. He has worked in Gaza and the Middle East for over 25 years.
Protest at L3Harris
https://kpfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/VIDEO-2024-01-24-11-54-48.mp4Part II. Analysis of the Solidarity Movement with the People of Palestine
Guest: Lara Kiswani is the Executive Director of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC).
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Guests:
Nicholas F. Jacobs is a professor of government at Colby College. He is co-author of “What Happened to the Vital Center? Presidentialism, Populist Revolt, and the Fracturing of America” and his latest, “The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America” co-authored with Daniel M. Shea.
Daniel M. Shea is professor and chair of government at Colby College. He is the author of “Why Vote? Essential Questions About the Future of Elections in America” and “The Rural Voter” with Nicholas F. Jacobs.
The post New Hampshire Primary & the Rural Voter appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Shireen Al-Adeimi is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and assistant professor of language and literacy at Michigan State University’s College of Education.
Photo credit: Bab-el-Mandeb Strait on Wikimedia. The Bab-el-Mandeb, meaning “Gate of Tears” in Arabic, is a strait between Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula, Djibouti and Eritrea, north of Somalia, in the Horn of Africa, and connecting the Red Sea to the Guardafui Channel and Gulf of Aden. It is sometimes called the Mandab Strait in the English language.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, holds public hearings on the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by South Africa in the case South Africa v. Israel on 11 and 12 January 2024, at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the Court.
Guest: Almudena Bernabeu is a renowned international human rights lawyer. She is the co-founder and director of Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers. Ms Bernabeu has been involved in the investigation and prosecution of several cases and human rights violations in Latin America, the Middle East, and Europe, including the historic judgment of former president of Guatemala, Efrain Rios Montt, who in May 2013 was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity against the Ixil Maya people. He was sentenced to 80 years in prison.
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Guest: Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, is the author of several books including his latest, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation From the Persian.
The post The US Politics in the Middle East & The South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Ryan Grim is DC bureau chief for The Intercept, co-host of the show Counter Points and Deconstructed, and author of the books “We’ve Got People,” “This Is Your Country On Drugs,” and his latest, “The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution.”
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Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders, “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.”
His Latest piece in the Nation is:
Kevin McCarthy’s Final Act of Retribution Totally Screws Over the House GOP. With his exit from the House, the embittered former speaker leaves his caucus with a collapsed majority that may not be able to govern.
Photo (c): Wikimedia commons.
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Guest: James M. Scott is the author of several books including Rampage, Target Tokyo, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and his latest is Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb.
The post The Firebombing of Tokyo and the Road to the Atomic Bomb appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Farah Karim-Cooper is a professor of Shakespeare studies at King’s College London and Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe. She is the author of The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race.
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Guest: Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of the Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World.
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Guest: Greg King is an award-winning journalist and activist credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County, California. He is the author of The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods
The post The California Redwoods: A History of Plunder & Resistance appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Yunte Huang is a Guggenheim Fellow and a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History.
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Mae Ngai is the author of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics.
The post The Opium Wars, The Gold Rush and the Formation of Global Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity. He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End.
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Guest: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a renown scholar of indigenous and radical history and author of the award winning book An Indigenous People’s History of the United States. Her latest book is called Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.
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Guest: Phyllis Bennis is an expert on the Middle East, she directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. She’s a senior advisor to Jewish Voice for Peace and author of several books including her latest, Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer.
Phyllis Bennis’ latest writings:
Foreign Policy in Focus
Some Facts for the Unconvinced: Why we Need a Gaza Ceasefire Now
In These TimesThe Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Demand for a Cease-Fire in Gaza
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Guest: James Risen is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Throughout his career, Risen’s explosive investigative reporting has triggered a series of political firestorms. Among his best-selling books are State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration; Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War; and his latest, The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy co-authored with Thomas Risen.
The post The Church Committee: Investigating Assassinations, Coups, and the Drugging of Americans appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Ilan Pappe is the Director of European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He has published many books on the Middle East and on the Palestine Question, including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Modern Middle East, Ten Myths about Israel, and A History of Modern Palestine.
The post An Update on the Oakland’s Menorah & A History of the Palestinian Resistance with Ilan Pappe appeared first on KPFA.
KPFA’s host Philip Maldari talks to John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine about the latest in Congress and Trump’s conspiracies.
John Nichols is also the author of several books including his latest, co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders, is It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. His writing can be found at the Nation.
Photo (c): Nation 150th in Seattle, 2015 – John Nichols
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Guest: Dr. Penny Rosenwasser is a white queer Ashkenazi Jewish educator and activist. She is the author most recently of the award-winning book “Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears.” She co-teaches a class on Antisemitism / Anti-Arabism with a Palestinian colleague at City College of San Francisco. She is a founding board member of Jewish Voice for Peace and helps lead racial justice work at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Oakland. She is also former KPFA radio host and producer!
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Guest: Joel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author or the editor of several books including Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel 1948-1965; The independent left in Israel, 1967-1993: Essays in memory of Noam Kaminer; The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry Culture: Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora; and A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa.
Photo (c): Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands/Tel Aviv- Diaspora Museum on Wikimedia Commons
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Guest: Timothy Brennan is the author of several books, including At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now; Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies; and Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation, and his latest, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said. Professor Brennan teaches in the humanities at the University of Minnesota.
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Guest: Ilan Pappe is the Director of European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He has published many books on the Middle East and on the Palestine Question including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Modern Middle East, Ten Myths about Israel, and A History of Modern Palestine.
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Guest: Max Dashu is the founder of Suppressed Histories Archives. Since 1970 Max Dashu has been researching and documenting women’s history on a global scale. She is the author of several books including her latest Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissa, and Titanides.
Ancient Tales Pack $350 (3 books and the L&P Digital Ancient History Collection)Support KPFA!!Get the Ancient Tales Pack: Women in Greek Mythography by Max Dashu, The Iliad & The Odyssey Translated by Emily Wilson, and the Letters & Politics Digital Ancient History Collection
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Guest: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the first woman who translated the ancient Greek epic story, the Odyssey by Homer, into English language.
The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. It is about how we find community, how we find who gets to be in a particular community, and what does it mean that some people belong and other people don’t belong. It’s a poem that resonates with current issues we have in our culture
KPFA is offering The Ancient War & Sorrow Pack $250With The Iliad and The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson Plus the Letters & Politics Ancient History Collection.
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Guest: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and early modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca.
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Guest: Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley. Professor Makdisi is the author of several books including, The Culture of Sectarianism, Artillery of Heaven, Faith Misplaced, and his latest, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World.
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Guest: Joel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author or the editor of several books including “Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel 1948-1965;” “The independent left in Israel, 1967-1993: Essays in memory of Noam Kaminer;” “The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry Culture: Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora;” and “A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa.”
Image credit: Arc_de_Triumph, Wikipedia commons
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Guest: Mitri Raheb is the President of Dar al-Kalima University College in Bethlehem as well as the president of the Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. He serves as the Senior Pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, Palestine. In 2015 he was awarded the Olof Palme Prize, along with Israeli journalist Gideon Levy. He is the author of many books, including The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire; Surviving Jewel: The Enduring Story of Christianity in the Middle East; The Politics of Persecution: Middle Eastern Christians in an Age of Empire; I Am a Palestinian Christian: God and Politics in the Holy Land: A Personal Testimony; and his latest, Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible.
The post A History of Zionism and Settler Colonialism (Part II) appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Benny Morris is a former journalist and a professor of history in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Photo (c): Jewish community in the Land of Israel under Mamluk and Ottoman rule, 1895. WikipediaThe post A History of Zionism and Settler Colonialism (Part I) appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Dr. Sultan Barakat is a Professor of Public Policy at Qatar Foundation’s Hamad Bin Khalifa University and an Honorary Professor at the University of York. Dr. Barakat has written extensively on issues of conflict resolution, humanitarian response, state building and post-conflict recovery and transition.
Professor Barakat founded the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and directed it between 2016 and 2022. Previously, he served as the Director of Research at the Brookings Institutions Doha Center. At the University of York, he founded and led the Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit between 1993 and 2019.
His book ‘After the Conflict: Reconstruction and Development in the Aftermath of War’, published by IB Tauris, was reprinted twice, in 2005 and 2010. He has also written books on the reconstruction of both Afghanistan and Iraq. His most recent book, ‘Understanding Influence: The Use of State building Research in British Policy’ was published by Ashgate in 2014.
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Guest: David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World, They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History), and his latest, Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe.
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Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State.
The post The Story of T’tc-Tsa and California Slavery appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell Professor in American History and Co-Director of the Center for Virtual History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of such books including, West of the Revolution (2014), Black, White, and Indian (2005), and A New Order of Things (1999). His most recent book, Unworthy Republic (2020), was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. He has developed several online projects, including the Invasion of America and, with Elizabeth Fenn, Pox Americana.
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Part 1: Aileen Alfandary’s Documentary on Spain’s Memory Law.
Photo (c): Aileen Alfandary. In The picture is Emilio Silva, founder of the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory. He’s holding the ring of his grandfather who was executed in 1936 by the forces of former dictator Francisco Franco.
Part 2: Nicolas Sanchez-Albornoz escaped Fascism three times in the 20th century. He is Professor Emeritus and former William Kenan Jr. Professor at New York University, Spanish and Latin American History and was the first director of the Cervantes Institute.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Our regularly scheduled programming is preempted from 6am to 9pm (PST) today for a special fundraiser.
During this one-day event, we air old and new broadcasts that demonstrate the richness of the Pacifica Radio Archives and how important it is that we ensure their preservation and accessibility.
We appreciate your understanding and support in contributing to the success of this important initiative.
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Guest: Angela C. Sutton is an Assistant research professor at Vanderbilt University, where she has taught Seapower in History, the Golden Age of Piracy, and Comparative Slavery. She is the author of Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Guest: Vijay Prashad, director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is the author of many books including The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World
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Part I. The WH Budget Request for the South Border
Guest: Todd Miller is an independent journalist and author of several books including Border Patrol Nation, Storming the Wall, Empire of Borders, and his latest Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders.
His writings have been published in The New York Times, Tom Dispatch, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Guernica, Al Jazeera English, and Counterpunch. His latest pieces are From the Gazan Laboratory to the World’s Borders: A Conversation with Jeff Halper; and The Bipartisan Border Machine: Biden Never Really Stopped Building the Wall.Part II. Trump’s Legal Cases
Guest: Caren Myers Morrison is associate professor of law at Georgia State University. She teaches Evidence and Criminal Procedure and served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York from 2001 to 2006, where she prosecuted international narcotics traffickers and organized crime.
Photo credit: Greg Bulla on Unsplash
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Part 1. Tacoma/Seattle Protestors Shutting Down Terminal To Delay US Vessel With military Aid Bound For Israel
Guest: Wassim Hage with the Arab Resource & Organizing Center joining us live from the protest at Tacoma, Washington.
Photo credit: Arab Resource and Organizing Center
Part 2. US Bases Military Bases the Middle East
Guest: David Vine is Professor of political anthropology at American University in Washington, DC. He is the author of the book The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State. His other books, about war and peace, are Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World and Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia.
The post Shutting Down Tacoma Port to Delay Military Aid to Israel & US Military Bases in the World appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect. He is the author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power. His latest piece in American Prospect is The Agonizing Drift Toward Cease-Fire.The post The U.S. Military Aid for Israel, No Humanitarian Assistance for Gaza & the Calls for a Ceasefire appeared first on KPFA.
Beth S. Wenger is the Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her most recent book is History Lessons: The Creation of American Jewish Heritage and her co-edited anthology (with Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet), titled Gender in Judaism and Islam: Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage.
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Guest: Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University. He is the author and coauthor of several books, including The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy, and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy co-authored with John J. Mearsheimer. Professor Walt is also a columnist at Foreign Policy.
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Guest: John Quigley is Professor emeritus of international law at Ohio State University. His many books include The Statehood of Palestine: International Law in the Middle East Conflict, The International Diplomacy of Israel’s Founders: Deception at the United Nations in the Quest for Palestine.
The post International Law in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict appeared first on KPFA.
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A lecture by Professor Ilan Pappé, Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter, UK on October 19th, 2023 at Berkeley Law, UC Berkeley Campus.
Special thanks to the Sponsors for providing the recording of the event:Center for Middle Eastern Studies, NorCal Sabeel, Department of History, Department of Ethnic Studies, Law Students for Justice in Palestine, Institute of International Studies, Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project
On Part I of this episode, host Mitch Jeserich gives an update on the latest in Congress.
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Guest: Ryan Grim is The Intercept’s D.C. Bureau Chief and the host of the podcast Deconstructed. He authors the newsletter Bad News. He is the author of the books “This Is Your Country on Drugs” and “We’ve Got People.” His third book, due out in late 2023, will be called “The Squad and the Final Act of a Political Revolution.”
Feature photo: Wikimedia Commons.The post Congress, Gaza, and the Calling for a Ceasefire appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Cat Bohannon is a researcher specialized in the evolution of narrative and cognition. She is the author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon.
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Guest: Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), her work focuses on the Middle East, U.S. militarism, and UN issues. She is the author of several books including Before & After: U.S. Foreign Policy and the War on Terror,Challenging Empire, and her latest, Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer.
The post The Geopolitics of the Israel/Palestine Conflict appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: J. C. Hallman is the author of several books including his latest, Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women’s Health.
The post The Founder of Modern Gynecology & The Enslaved Woman He Experimented On appeared first on KPFA.
Part I. The House Speakership Chaos
Guest: John Nichols is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine.
Part II. The History of Hamas
Guest: Zaki Chehab is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of ArabsToday.net. He is the author of the book Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement.
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Guest: Stuart Reid is an executive editor at Foreign Affairs magazine and the author of The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination.
The post The CIA Backed Assassination of Patrice Lumumba appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Hatem Bazian is a professor of Islamic law and theology at Zaytuna College. He is also a lecturer in the departments of Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Most lately, he is the author of Erasing The Human: Collapse of The Postcolonial World and Refugee Immigration Crisis.
The post The Palestine/Israel Conflict – The Media Coverage and the Backlash Across US appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Zusha Elinson is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he covers America’s gun culture and industry. He is the co-author with journalist Cameron McWhirter of the new book American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15.
The post A History of the AR-15 appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Stephen Zunes is Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. He is the author of “Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism”, and the co-author of “Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution.”
Photo by Mohammed Ibrahim on Unsplash
The post The Palestine / Israel Conflict: The Root Causes of the Occupation and the US Involvement appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Dr. Penny Rosenwasser is a white queer Ashkenazi Jewish educator and activist. She is the author most recently of the award-winning book “Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears.”
She co-teaches a class on Antisemitism / Anti-Arabism with a Palestinian colleague at City College of San Francisco.
She is a founding board member of Jewish Voice for Peace and helps lead racial justice work at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Oakland. She is also former KPFA radio host and producer!
The post The Palestine/Israel Conflict: Processing the Tragedy and Finding Justice appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Rashid Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies. He is author of several books including his most recent, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917- 2017.
Photo by Mohammed Ibrahim on Unsplash
The post The Palestine / Israeli Conflict: A History of Settler Colonialism & Resistance appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Heather Cox Richardson is a professor of history at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. She is the author of several books, including the award-winning How the South Won the Civil War and her latest, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.
She is also the author of the widely read newsletter Letters from an American which addresses history and current politics.
The post KPFA Special – Heather Cox Richardson on the State of Democracy in America appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity. He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of several books including, Misquoting Jesus, How Jesus Became God, The Triumph of Christianity, Heaven and Hell, and his latest, Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End.
The post KPFA Special – Live with Bart D. Ehrman on the Biblical Apocalypse appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Tim Redmond is a political and investigative reporter in San Francisco for more than 30 years now. He spent much of that time as executive editor of the Bay Guardian. He is the founder and editor of the independent news and culture website 48hills.
Photo credit: Dianne Feinstein in November 2014 – Wikimedia Commons
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Guest: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma in a tenant farming family. She has been active in the international Indigenous movement for more than 4 decades and is known for her lifelong commitment to national and international social justice issues. Dunbar-Ortiz is the winner of the 2017 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize, she is the author or editor of many books, including the iconic book An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, this year celebrating its 10th Anniversary with a special edition.
The post KPFA Special – Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on the History of Settler Colonialism appeared first on KPFA.
The Reconstruction Amendments and How They’ve Created Our Political World TodayGuest: Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. He is the author of several books including, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men; The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery which won the Pulitzer; and The Second Founding : How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
The post KPFA Special – Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part III appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. He is the author of several books including, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men; The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery which won the Pulitzer; and The Second Founding : How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
The post KPFA Special – Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part II appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. He is the author of several books including, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men; The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery which won the Pulitzer; and The Second Founding : How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
The post KPFA Special – Volatile Times: The Political History of the Civil War Part 1 – The 1850s appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Dr. Cornel West is a renowned philosopher, author, and activist who is running to be the U.S. Green Party Presidential Candidate. He is a professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Dr. West is known to be an outspoken advocate for social justice in the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Fannie Lou Hamer, and bell hooks.
The post Dr. Cornel West Takes Listener Calls About Presidential Run appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma. His books include The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire.
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Guest: Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, host of The Ralph Nader Radio Hour that broadcasts on the Pacifica Radio Network. He is the author of several books including his latest The Ralph Nader and Family Cookbook: Classic Recipes from Lebanon and Beyond.
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Guest: Nelson Lichtenstein is Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include State of the Union: A Century of American Labor, and his latest, A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism with Judith Stein (1940–2017) who was Distinguished Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
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Guest: Susan J. Wolfson is professor of English at Princeton University and author of On Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The First of a New Genus.
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The post Mary Wollstonecraft, The French Revolution and The Tyranny of Men appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: David S. Brown teaches history at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books including The Last American Aristocrat, Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography, and his latest, The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons The post The Presidency of Andrew Jackson: The Bank War, Indian Removal, Slavery & the Expansion of Democracy appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Chad L. Williams is the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of the award-winning book Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era and his latest, The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War. The post W.E.B. Du Bois’s Lost Book: The Great War and the Black Experience appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: James Risen is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Throughout his career, Risen’s explosive investigative reporting has triggered a series of political firestorms. Among his best-selling books are State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration; Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War; and his latest, The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy co-authored with Thomas Risen.
The post The Church Committee: Investigating Assassinations, Coups, and the Drugging of Americans appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Tanya Golash-Boza is the Executive Director of the University of California Washington Center and a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced. She is the author of Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap.
The post Disinvestment In Cities, Crime, and the Persistence of the Racial Wealth Gap appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Dan Kovalikis the author of Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention & Resistance.
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Guest: Scott J. Shapiro is a professor of law and philosophy at Yale Law School and the director of the Yale Center for Law and Philosophy and its CyberSecurity Lab. He is the author of Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – September 4, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Farah Karim-Cooper is a professor of Shakespeare studies at King’s College London and Director of Education at Shakespeare’s Globe. She is the author of The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race. The post Shakespeare & Race appeared first on KPFA.
Part 1. Latin America Current Trends Guest: Miguel Tinker-Salas is Emeritus Professor of History and Chicana/o Latina/o Studies at Pomona College. He is an expert on the political and social issues of Latin America and the author of several books including, Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know; and The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela. Part 2. The Tenderloin tour upends ‘doom loop’ narrative Guest: Christopher D. Cook is an author and award-winning investigative journalist based in San Francisco. His latest piece in the 48 hills.com is Tenderloin tour upends ‘doom loop’ narrative. There’s a lot more to the neighborhood than the national media wants to report.
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Guest: Yunte Huang, a Guggenheim Fellow, has taught at Harvard and the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is a professor of English. He is the author of Inseparable, the Edgar Award–winning biography Charlie Chan, and his latest, Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History.
The post The Life & Times of Anna May Wong appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Nikhil Goyal is a sociologist and policymaker who served as senior policy advisor on education and children for Chairman Senator Bernie Sanders on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and Committee on the Budget. He is the author of the book Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty.
The post Poverty, Crime and Policy in America appeared first on KPFA.
Guests: Geoff Kabaservice is a historian of the Republican Party and the Director of Political Studies at the Niskanen Center. He is the author of Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party. John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. His latest book co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders, is It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. His latest pieces on the GOP campaign in The Nation are: Tonight’s GOP Debate Could Put the Final Nail in Ron DeSantis’s Political Coffin. Trump has trashed DeSantis for months. Yet the Florida governor apparently plans to defend Trump in the debate. Dumb move! Trump’s (Still) the One: Despite the Georgia indictments—and all his other legal troubles—Democrats are still going to have to beat him next November. The post Analysis of the First GOP Presidential Debate and Trump’s Absence appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Siddharth Kara is Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. The post From King Leopold II To Big Teach: The Plundering of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day Slavery appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Charisse Burden-Stelly is associate Professor of African American studies at Wayne state. and a member of the Black Alliance for Peace Research and Political Education Team. She is the c-editor, along with Jodi Dean, of the book Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing. The post How Black Women Shaped the Communist Party in America appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: John Kaag is the Donohue Professor of Ethics and the Arts at UMass Lowell and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. His books include Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are and Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (Princeton), and his latest, Henry at work: Thoreau on Making a Living, co-authored with Jonathan van Belle.
The post Capitalism & Alienation: The Economics of Henry David Thoreau appeared first on KPFA.
Guests: Douglas Frantz is a former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and shared a Pulitzer Prize as a foreign correspondent at The New York Times. After his career in journalism, he was chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, an assistant secretary of state in the Obama administration, and deputy secretary-general at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. He has written several nonfiction books with his wife, Catherine Collins, including Fallout and Celebration, U.S.A. His latest, co-authored with Catherine Collins is Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish. Catherine Collins is a former private investigator with specialty in international financial fraud. Previously, Catherine Collins was a reporter and foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and a contributor to The New York Times and Los Angeles Times. She has written several nonfiction books with her husband, Douglas Frantz, including The Man from Pakistan and Death on the Black Sea. Her latest, co-authored with Douglas Frantz is Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish.
The post Salmon Wars: How the Industrialization of Atlantic Salmon is Endangering our Health and Environment appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University. He is the author of many books including Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic. His latest, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune.
The post The Sullivanians: An Urban Commune appeared first on KPFA.
Part I. Racketeering Charges in the Trump’s Georgia Indictment Guest: Karen Greenberg is the director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law. Her most recent book is Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump, now out in paperback. Part 2. Birds and Evolution Guest: Jennifer Ackerman is a renown science and nature writer. She is the author of several books including, The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think, which was a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award; and her latest, What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds.
Feature image credit front page: Pix4Free.org The post Racketeering Charges in the Trump’s Georgia Indictment. Then, Birds & Evolution appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and professor of religion at Columbia University. He is the author of several books including his latest, A Darkly Radiant Vision: The Black Social Gospel in the Shadow of MLK.
The post The Black Social Gospel and the Roots of Social Justice appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Aaron S. Lecklider is Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and author of Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture.
The post Homosexuals & Communists in the First Half of the 20th Century appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Peter Gleick is an environmental scientist and expert on issues related to water and the environment. He is the co-founder of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and is the author of The Three Ages of Water: Prehistoric Past, Imperiled Present, and a Hope for the Future.
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Guest: Olga Baysha is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia and author of War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine. The post An Eastern Ukrainian’s Perspective of the War appeared first on KPFA.
Understanding the Electoral College in the Trump’s Indictment Guest: Robert M. Alexander is a professor of political science and founding director of the Institute for Civics and Public Policy at Ohio Northern University. He is the author of Representation and the Electoral College. Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash. Then, The Science and Enigma of the Owl Guest: Jennifer Ackerman is a science and nature writer. She is the author of The Bird Way, The Genius of Birds, and her latest, What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds. The post Understanding the Electoral College in the Trump’s Indictment & The Science and Enigma of the Owl appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Tom Mueller is the author of Extra Virginity about food fraud, Crisis of Conscience on whistleblowers and their enemies and his latest, How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine.
The post Health For-Profit: The Corporatization of Dialysis appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Hadar Aviram is a Professor of Law at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. She is the author of several books including her latest, Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole.
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. The post Third Trump’s Indictment: Efforts to Overturn his 2020 Presidential Election Loss appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Kathryn Cramer Brownell is associate professor of history at Purdue University and the author of Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life and her latest, 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News.
The post The History of Cable Television and Its Impact on Politics appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of many books including his latest, It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism, co written with Senator Bernie Sanders. His latest piece in the Nations is Sinéad O’Connor Always Knew That Black Lives Mattered. The singer, who died on Wednesday, made an unforgettable protest song about the police killings of Black people 30 years before the murder of George Floyd.
The post John Nichols: Analysis on the GOP and Democratic Presidential Candidacies appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Ralph Nader is a consumer advocate, lawyer, host of The Ralph Nader Radio Hour that broadcasts on the Pacifica Radio Network. He is the author of several books including his bestselling first book “Unsafe at Any Speed”, it was responsible for US auto safety standards shown to have saved 3.5 million lives over fifty years. Other of his books include: The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future (2012); To the Ramparts: How Bush and Obama Paved the Way for the Trump Presidency and Why It Isn’t Too Late to Reverse Course (2018); Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lies and Lawbreaking Betray All (2020, co-authored with Mark Green), How the Rats Re-formed the Congress (2020); and The Ralph Nader and Family Cookbook (2020).
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Guest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at The New School University in New York. Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at Work and host of the weekly national television and radio program Economic Update.
Image (C): Speak Out. The post KPFA Special – Richard Wolff on The Economy and the Current Political Landscape appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State.
The post KPFA Special – The Story of T’tc-Tsa and California Slavery appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Frank Costigliola is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Kennan Diaries, Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances, and his latest, Kennan: A Life between Worlds.
The post KPFA Special – George Kennan: The Architect of the Cold War Who Opposed the War appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Kelly Lytle Hernández is the Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. She is a 2019 MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and the author of the award-winning books Migra!, City of Inmates, and her latest, Bad Mexicans Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands winner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History.
The post KPFA Special – The Mexican Revolution and The Migrants Who Sparked it appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity. He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End.
The post KPFA Special – The Biblical Apocalypse & Its Real World Consequences appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Glory Liu is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism. The post KPFA Special – How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Jeff Goodell is the author of several books focusing on energy and environmental issues. He is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow and a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. His latest book is The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet.
The post How a Hotter Planet Affects Life appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: J. C. Hallman is the author of several books including his latest, Say Anarcha: A Young Woman, a Devious Surgeon, and the Harrowing Birth of Modern Women’s Health.
The post The Founder of Modern Gynecology & The Enslaved Woman He Experimented On appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and professor of religion at Columbia University. His previous books include The New Abolition, Breaking White Supremacy, Social Democracy in the Making, and American Democratic Socialism.
The post A History of Democratic Socialism in America appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Simon Johnson is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Sloan School at MIT, where he is also head of the Global Economics and Management group. Previously chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, he has worked on global economic crises and recoveries for thirty years. He is the author of several books and publications including his latest, Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity co-authored with Daron Acemoglu.
The post A History of How Technological Innovation Has Led to Inequality appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Francesca Lessa is a lecturer in Latin American studies and development University of Oxford. She is the author of Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay (2013) and The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America (2022). She is the honorary president of the Observatorio Luz Ibarburu (Uruguay). Foto credit: Entrevista Kissinger-Pinochet. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile, 1976 on Wikimedia. The post Operation Condor: A History of a Dirty War in Latin America appeared first on KPFA.
Part 1. Stephen Hawking and his Theory on the Origin of Time Guest: Thomas Hertog is an internationally renowned cosmologist who was for many years a close collaborator of the late Stephen Hawking. He is professor of theoretical physics at the University of Leuven, where he studies the quantum nature of the big bang. He is the author of On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory. Part 2. Raj Patel on The Ants & the Grasshopper Film Guest: Raj Patel Raj Patel is an award-winning author, filmmaker and academic. He is a research professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved, co-author of Inflamed, and co-director of The Ants & The Grasshopper now streaming online. The post Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory. Then, Raj Patel on The Ants & the Grasshopper Film appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Julia Flynn Siler is a New York Times best-selling author and journalist. She is the author of The White Devil’s Daughters: The Women Who Fought Against Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
The post A History of Slavery in San Francisco’s Chinatown and the Abolitionist Movement appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of One Person, No Vote; and her latest, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. The post The Second Amendment: How Slave Supporting Politicians Got Their Right to Quell Slave Revolts appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History and African American Studies at Yale University. He is the author of several books on Slavery and Abolition including, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.
The post The Intellectual Life of Frederick Douglas appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author and co-author of several books including his latest, A Legacy of Discrimination: The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative Action co-authored with Lee C. Bollinger.
photo (c): Anthony Quintano, 2022. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 The post A History of Discrimination and the Supreme Court Ruling Against Affirmative Action appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State.
The post The Story of T’tc-Tsa and California Slavery appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: David S. Brown teaches history at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books including The Last American Aristocrat, Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography, and his latest, The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson.
The post The Presidency of Andrew Jackson: The Bank War, Indian Removal, Slavery & the Expansion of Democracy appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and producer of Rising Up with Sonali, a weekly television and radio program that airs on Free Speech TV and on Pacifica Radio station affiliates around the United States. Winner of numerous awards, including Best TV Anchor and Best National Political Commentary from the LA Press Club, she is currently the Racial Justice editor at Yes! Magazine and a Writing Fellow with the Independent Media Institute and the Co-Director of the Afghan Women’s Mission. She is the author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice.
Presented by KPFA and the Berkeley Public Library
Sonali Kolhatkar in conversation with Cat Brooks Presented by KPFA and the Berkeley Public Library. WHEN: JUNE 28, 2023 @ 6:30 PM WHERE: NORTH BRANCH OF THE BERKELEY PUBLIC LIBRARY, 1170 THE ALAMEDA, BERKELEY CA 94707 The event is free to the public. No reservations required. The post A Conversation with Sonali Kolhatkar on Media, Race, and Justice appeared first on KPFA.
Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers. In January 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a maximum sentence of 115 years. Because of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering (which were committed by the same people who were later involved in the Watergate Scandal), all charges were dismissed against Mr. Ellsberg in May 1973. Mr. Ellsberg was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He was also known for having formulated an important example in decision theory, the Ellsberg paradox; for his extensive studies on nuclear weapons and nuclear policy; and for voicing support for WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden. Ellsberg was awarded the 2018 Olof Palme Prize for his “profound humanism and exceptional moral courage.”
Photo (C): Wikimedia/ Bern Gross. Daniel Ellsberg, speaking at a press conference in 1972, New York City by Gotfryd, Bernard. The post Honoring the Legacy and Memory of Daniel Ellsberg appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: James D. Tabor is a Biblical scholar, a retired Professor of Christian Origins and Ancient Judaism in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author and co-author of many books including, The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the Birth of Christianity; Paul and Jesus: How Paul Transformed the Gospel of Jesus; and Why Waco: Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America co-authored with Eugene V. Gallagher.
Resources: James D. Tabor youtube channel James D. Tabor Blog The post The Tragedy at Waco: 30 Years Later appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Greg King is an award-winning journalist and activist credited with spearheading the movement to protect Headwaters Forest, in Humboldt County, California. King initiated the “redwood wars” following the notorious 1985 takeover of the venerable Pacific Lumber Company by the Houston energy and real estate conglomerate Maxxam. Greg King has spent decades researching redwood logging and preservation efforts. He is the author of The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods.
The post The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: W. Caleb McDaniel is associate professor of history at Rice University in Houston. He won the Pulitzer price in History in 2020 for his book, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America.
The post Henrietta Wood: A Legacy of Slavery and Reparations in America appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Kit Heyam is a university lecturer, a queer history activist, and a trans awareness trainer and author of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender. The post Before We Were Trans: A 3,500 Year History appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.
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Part I: Trump’s Handling of Classified Documents Guest: Mel Goodman is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. He was an analyst at the CIA for 24 years. Part II: The Rising Ocean Guest: Christina Gerhardt is Associate Professor and Founder of the Environmental Humanities Initiative at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Permanent Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Sea Change: Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean. The post The Rising Oceans & Trump’s Handling of Classified Documents appeared first on KPFA.
Trump Federal Indictment & The History of the Espionage Act of 1917 Part I: Trump Indictment Guest: Mitch Perry is the senior political reporter for the Florida Phoenix. Part II: The History of the Espionage Act (Repeat) Guest: Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. The post Trump Federal Indictment & The History of the Espionage Act of 1917 appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: William A. Darity Jr. is Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics and founding director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. With A. Kirsten Mullen, he is author of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. Most recently, he is one of the editors of The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Increased Inequality in America. His latest is The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice co-authored with Kirsten Mullen. Guest: A. Kirsten Mullen is an independent scholar, folklorist and the founder of Artefactual, an arts consulting practice, and Carolina Circuit Writers, a literary consortium that brings expressive writers of color to the Carolinas. Her most recent book is From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century and The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice. The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice Edited by William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen, & Lucas Hubbard The post A History & The Case for Black Reparations appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Richard White is Margaret Byrne Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He is the author of Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University. The post Money, Power, & Murder: The Beginnings of Stanford University appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: James T. Costa is professor of biology and executive director of the Highlands Biological Station at Western Carolina University. He is the author of Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace. The post Radical By Nature:The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Geoffrey R. Stone is the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He is the author and co-author of several books including his latest A Legacy of Discrimination: The Essential Constitutionality of Affirmative Action co-authored with Lee C. Bollinger
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Guest: Kelsy Burke is an award-winning sociologist of religion, gender, sexuality, and politics in the United States. Her research has examined a wide range of topics, including debates over pornography, religious freedom laws and LGBT rights, evangelical women’s ministries, and the Christian sex advice industry. She is the author of Christians Under Covers: Evangelicals and Sexual Pleasure on the Internet, which won the American Sociological Association Section on Religion 2017 Distinguished Book Award. Her latest book is The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America’s Obscene Obsession. She is an Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska Lincoln.
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Guest: Michio Kaku is a professor of physics at the City University of New York, cofounder of string field theory, and the author of several widely acclaimed science books, including Hyperspace, Beyond Einstein, Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future, and his latest, Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything.
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Part 1. The Debt Ceiling Deal Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of the book Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for those who Caused the Crisis. His latest piece in The Nation is The Revolutionary Fight to “Begin the World Over Again” Did Not End in 1776. Part 2. The Rediscovery of America Guest: Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, where he is the faculty coordinator for the Yale Group for the Study of Native America. He is the author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West and his latest, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History.
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Guest: David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World, They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History), and his latest, Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe.
The post Jim Thorpe: From Boarding School to Champion appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Naomi Oreskes is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is the co-author of The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us To Loathe Government and Love The Free Market.
The post KPFA Special – How Big Business Linked Capitalism to Democracy appeared first on KPFA.
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura (1863—1919)–scholar, well-known art critic, and curator of the Chinese and Japanese art collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts–devoted his life to the preservation and reawakening of traditional Japanese culture.
Tea was first used as a medicine and an alchemical elixir by the ancient Chinese Taoists, who praised its spiritual powers. Buddhist monks made drinking tea part of a tradition honoring the founder of Zen; this ritual was later refined in the performance of the Japanese tea ceremony as a meditative practice. The Book of Teadescribes the rich aesthetic of Asian culture through the history, philosophy, and practice of brewing and drinking tea.
The post KPFA Special – The Book of Tea, Multiculturalism, and a Response to the Western Military Domination of Asia (Part III) appeared first on KPFA.
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura (1863—1919)–scholar, well-known art critic, and curator of the Chinese and Japanese art collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts–devoted his life to the preservation and reawakening of traditional Japanese culture.
Tea was first used as a medicine and an alchemical elixir by the ancient Chinese Taoists, who praised its spiritual powers. Buddhist monks made drinking tea part of a tradition honoring the founder of Zen; this ritual was later refined in the performance of the Japanese tea ceremony as a meditative practice. The Book of Teadescribes the rich aesthetic of Asian culture through the history, philosophy, and practice of brewing and drinking tea.
The post KPFA Special – The Book of Tea, Multiculturalism, and a Response to the Western Military Domination of Asia (Part II) appeared first on KPFA.
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura (1863—1919)–scholar, well-known art critic, and curator of the Chinese and Japanese art collection at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts–devoted his life to the preservation and reawakening of traditional Japanese culture.
Tea was first used as a medicine and an alchemical elixir by the ancient Chinese Taoists, who praised its spiritual powers. Buddhist monks made drinking tea part of a tradition honoring the founder of Zen; this ritual was later refined in the performance of the Japanese tea ceremony as a meditative practice. The Book of Teadescribes the rich aesthetic of Asian culture through the history, philosophy, and practice of brewing and drinking tea.
The post KPFA Special – The Book of Tea, Multiculturalism, and a Response to the Western Military Domination of Asia (Part I) appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Violet Moller is a historian and writer who specializes in intellectual history. She is the author of the book The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found.
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Host Mitch Jeserich tells the story of the oldest democracy we have account of, how it started and evolved 500 thousand years ago in ancient Athens.
KPFA is offering a limited edition of The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone
In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today.
The post KPFA Special – A History of the Athenian Democracy (Part 3): Decline and Fall of the Empire appeared first on KPFA.
Host Mitch Jeserich tells the story of the oldest democracy we have account of, how it started and evolved 500 thousand years ago in ancient Athens.
KPFA is offering The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone (limited edition)
In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today.
The post KPFA Special – A History of the Athenian Democracy (Part 2): Demagogues, Tyrants, and the People appeared first on KPFA.
Host Mitch Jeserich tells the story of the oldest democracy we have account of, how it started and evolved 500 thousand years ago in ancient Athens.
KPFA is offering a limited edition of The Trial of Socrates by I.F. Stone
In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today.
The post KPFA Special – A History of the Athenian Democracy (Part 1): The Tyrannicide appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity. He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of several books, including his latest Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End.
The post Fund Drive Special – On the Biblical Apocalypse: From the Christian Zionism to Waco Texas appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Edward J. Watts holds the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis Endowed Chair and is a professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author and editor of several prize-winning books includingMortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny.
The post Fund Drive Special – Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire Series (Part 2) appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Edward J. Watts holds the Alkiviadis Vassiliadis endowed Chair and is professor of history at the University of California, San Diego. The author and editor of several prize-winning books, includingMortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny.
The post Fund Drive Special – Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire Series (Part 1) appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science at Harvard University. Her books include, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, and her latest with historian of science and technology Erik Conway, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.
The post The Century Long PR Campaign Linking Capitalism to Democracy appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and the author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials, Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History, and his latest, Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World.
The post Palo Alto: A History of California, Innovation & Exploitation appeared first on KPFA.
Part I. Life and Death of Homosexuals under the Nazi Regime
Guest: David Fernbach is a freelance writer, editor and translator. His publications and translations include the three-volume edition of Karl Marx’s Political Writings, The Spiral Path: a gay contribution to human survival, and The Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps.
The Men With the Pink Triangle appeared first in 1980 by Gay Men’s Press in which David Fernbach also participated in the publication and translation of the book. The book is a revolutionary work, and still one of the very few memoirs by a gay victim of Nazism. Written by Heinz Heger, a pseudonym used by Josef Kohout (1917-1994).
Part II. Indigenous Justice in Early America
Guest: Nicole Eustace is professor of history at New York University. She is author of Pulitzer-Prize winning Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America (2021).
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Guest: Frank Costigliola is the author of Kennan: A Life between Worlds. He is also a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut.
The post George Kennan: The Cold War Architect Who Opposed The War appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Peter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University in Macomb and a research associate in the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of the award-winning Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area and Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia. He coedited Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW. He is the founder and codirector of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919 Commemoration Project. His latest book is Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly.
The post The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly: Ben Fletcher appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Joan Biskupicis a journalist, lawyer, and author. She has covered the Supreme Court since 1989. Currently she is CNN’s senior Supreme Court analyst and is the author of several books including biographies on John Roberts, Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, and Sonia Sotomayor. Her latest is Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences.
The post Inside the Supreme Court’s Ruling to Overturn Roe v Wade appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Clara E. Mattei is assistant professor of economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She is the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism.
The post The Invention of Austerity and the Road to Fascism appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Elizabeth Williamson is a feature writer for the New York Times and is the author of Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
The post The Sandy Hook Massacre & Conspiracy Theories appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Timothy Egan is a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and the author of many books, his latest is A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them.
Photo(c): WikimediaCommons. Euskara: A Ku Klux Klan gathering in Muncie Indiana in 1922.
The post The Rise & Fall of the KKK in the 1920’s appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Susan J. Wolfson is professor of English at Princeton University. She is an expert on the British Romantic era, her books include A Greeting of the Spirit (2022), Romantic Shades and Shadows (2018), and Reading John Keats(2015), as well as annotated editions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (2012), Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (2014), and her latest, On Mary Wollstonecraft‘s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
The post Mary Wollstonecraft, The French Revolution and the Tyranny of Men appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Glory Liu is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.
The post How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Beverly Gage is professor of history at Yale. She is the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror, and her latest, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.
G-Man is Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy and Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
The post J. Edgar Hoover: From Progressive Icon To Villain appeared first on KPFA.
Guest 1: Alan Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School. He is the author of several books including, Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law.
Guest 2: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of the book Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for those who Caused the Crisis.
The post Is The Government Unconstitutionally Targeting Trump and His Supporters? appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Chad L. Williams is the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University. He is the author of the award-winning book Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era and his latest, The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War.
The post W.E.B. Du Bois’s Lost Book: The Great War and the Black Experience appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Frank Smyth (@SmythFrank) is an independent, award-winning investigative journalist specializing in armed conflicts, organized crime and human rights overseas, and on the gun movement and its influence at home. He is a former arms trafficking investigator for Human Rights Watch breaking the role of France in arming Rwanda before its genocide and has testified to Congress and member states of several multilateral organizations. He is founder and CEO of the leading U.S.-based hostile environments training firm (DJS.com) and the author of the book The NRA: The Unauthorized History.
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Part 1. Stephen Hawking and his Theory on the Origin of Time
Guest: Thomas Hertog is an internationally renowned cosmologist who was for many years a close collaborator of the late Stephen Hawking. He is professor of theoretical physics at the University of Leuven, where he studies the quantum nature of the big bang. He is the author of On the Origin of Time: Stephen Hawking’s Final Theory.
Part 2. Raj Patel on The Ants & the Grasshopper Film
Guest: Raj Patel Raj Patel is an award-winning author, filmmaker and academic. He is a research professor in the Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved, co-author of Inflamed, and co-director of The Ants & The Grasshopper now streaming online.
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Guest: Kelly Lytle Hernándezisthe Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and the director of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA. She is a 2019 MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient and the author of the award-winning books Migra!, City of Inmates, and her latest, Bad Mexicans Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands winner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History.
The post The Mexican Revolution and The Migrants Who Sparked it appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science at Harvard University. Her books include, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, and her latest with historian of science and technology Erik Conway, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market.
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Part I. Trump Indictment: Legal Aspects
Guest: Hadar Aviramis a Professor of Law at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, where she co-directs the Hastings Institute for Criminal Justice and publishes the California Correctional Crisis blog. Her latest book is Yesterday’s Monsters: The Manson Family Cases and the Illusion of Parole.
Part II. American Catholic Bishops and The Far Right
Guest: Mary Jo McConahay is a prominent journalist that covers the Catholic church. She is the author of several books including, The Tango War: The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II, Maya Roads, One Woman’s Journey Among the People of the Rainforest, and her latest, Playing God: American Catholic Bishops and The Far Right.
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Guest: Daniela Cammack is Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. Her research and teaching focus on the history of democracy and constitutionalism. She is currently working on a book on ancient Greek democracy.
Photo (c): Nineteenth-century painting by Philipp Foltz depicting the Athenian politician Pericles delivering his famous funeral oration in front of the Assembly.
The post Democracy Came From Class Struggle: A Story of Classical Athens appeared first on KPFA.
Guests:Geoffrey Kabaservice (@RuleandRuin) is a historian of the Republican Party and the Director of Political Studies at the Niskanen Center and the author of a number of books, including Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party.
Jeet Heer (@heerjeet) is a national affairs correspondent for The Nation and host of the weekly Nation podcast, The Time of Monsters. He also writes the monthly column Morbid Symptoms. He is the author of In Love with Art: Francoise Mouly’s Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman and Sweet Lechery: Reviews, Essays and Profiles. His latest piece in the Nation is Trump’s Indictment Will Dominate the 2024 Election: The GOP’s defense of the former president means the election will be a referendum on the rule of law. The post Trump Indictment: Potential Political Consequences appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Kevin Gosztola is cofounder and managing editor of Shadowproof, an independent news outlet focused on systemic abuses of power in business and government, and the curator of The Dissenter newsletter. Kevin Gosztola also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, “Unauthorized Disclosure.” He is the author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange.
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Guest: Jeff Sharlet is the Frederick Sessions Beebe ’35 Professor in the Art of Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the New York Times best-selling author or editor of eight books, including The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, adapted into a Netflix documentary series, and This Brilliant Darkness. His reporting on LGBTIQ+ rights around the world has received the National Magazine Award, the Molly Ivins Prize, and Outright International’s Outspoken Award. His writing and photography have appeared in many publications, including Vanity Fair, for which he is a contributing editor; the New York Times Magazine; GQ; Esquire; Harper’s; and VQR, for which he is an editor at large. His latest book is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War.
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Part I. Pegasus: A Spyware that Threatens Privacy and Democracy.
Guest: Sandrine Rigaud is a French investigative journalist. She is an editor of
Forbidden Stories. She is the co-author of Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy.
Part 2. The Implications of Indicting a Former President or a Presidential Candidate
Guest: Karen Greenberg is director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. She is an expert on national security and the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days and, most recently, Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State.
The post Pegasus: A Spyware that Threatens Privacy and Democracy. Then, The Implications of Indicting a Former President appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity. He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of several books including, Misquoting Jesus,How Jesus Became God, The Triumph of Christianity, Heaven and Hell,and his latest, Armageddon:What the Bible Really Says about the End.
The post On the Biblical Apocalypse: From the Christian Zionism to Waco Texas appeared first on KPFA.
Part I. The Trump Campaign’s Collusion With Israel
Guest: James Bamford is a best-selling author, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, award-winning investigative producer, and winner of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. His latest book is Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence (published in January this year). This investigation has been adapted into the article “The Trump Campaign’s Collusion With Israel” that appears in the latest edition of The Nation magazine (April 3/10, 2023).
Part II. Nixon and the Anti-War Movement
A new film that tells the little-known story of a dramatic showdown between a protest movement and a president
Guest: Stephen Talbot is TV documentary producer, reporter, writer, and longtime contributor to the Public Broadcasting Service and the series Frontline. His new film The Movement and the “Madman” tells the little-known story of a dramatic showdown between a protest movement and a president. The film premiers on the PBS series AMERICAN EXPERIENCE on Tuesday, March 28.
Photo: The Movement and The Madman website
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Guest: David Waldstreicher is a Professor of history at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification (2009); Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery and the American Revolution (2004); In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes: The Making of American Nationalism, 1776-1820 (1997), and his latest, The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence.
The post Phillis Wheatley – A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Mel Gurtov is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University. He previously was on the staff of the RAND Corporation, where he was co-author of the Pentagon Papers. He is the author of 30 books on China, US foreign policy, and international affairs, most recently America in Retreat: Foreign Policy under Donald Trump, Engaging Adversaries: Peacemaking and Diplomacy in the Human Interest, and his latest, Engaging China: Rebuilding Sino-American Relations.
The post A History of China, Russia, and U.S. the Relations appeared first on KPFA.
Part I. 20th Anniversary of the U.S. Occupation of Iraq and its Legacy
Guest: Andrew Bacevich is president and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. A graduate of West Point and Princeton, he is also professor emeritus of history and international relations at Boston University. Among his many books are The New American Militarism, The Limits of Power, America’s War for the Greater Middle East, After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed, and most recently, On Shedding an Obsolete Past Bidding Farewell to the American Century.
Part II. Debunking the Conservative Arguments of the Right.
Guest: Nathan J. Robinson is the editor of Current Affairs. He is the author of Why You Should Be A Socialist, and his latest, Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments.
Photo credit: An Iraqi woman yells at U.S. Army soldier in the West Rashid district of Baghdad, Iraq, June 26, 2007. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tierney Nowland) www.army.mil on Flickr.
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Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of the book Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for those who Caused the Crisis.
His latest piece in The Nation is:
Bankers Lobbied for Deregulation, Congress Capitulated, and Now Banks Are Collapsing. The Silicon Valley Bank collapse doesn’t require a bailout. It requires stronger bank oversight and the repeal of the 2018.
Photo credit: Tracy O. /Flickr on Wikimedia Commons
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Letters & Politics brings extended excerpts from the Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files that took place on Thursday, March 9 2023.
Witnesses:
- Matt Taibbi, Journalist – testimony
- Michael Shellenberger, Author, Co-founder of the Breakthrough Institute and the California Peace Coalition – testimony
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Part I. The Meaning of the Collapse of SVB and Signature Banks
Guest: Richard Wolff is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at the New School in New York. He is the host of the weekly program, Economic Update, which is produced by Democracy at Work, which he co-founded.
Part II. Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press
Guest: Samantha Barbas is a Professor of Law at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of several books on media history and law. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award. Her latest book is Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan.
The post Richard Wolff on The Meaning of the Collapse of SVB and Signature Banks. Then, Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press appeared first on KPFA.
How Congress Works & When It Doesn’t
Guest: Dr. Maya Kornberg is a political scientist and fellow in the Elections and Government Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law and author of Inside Congressional Committees: Function and Dysfunction in the Legislative Process.
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Guest: Emily Wilson is a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the first woman who translated the ancient Greek epic story, The Odyssey by Homer, into the English language.
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Guest: V (formerly Eve Ensler) is a Tony Award–winning playwright, author, performer, and activist. Her international phenomenon The Vagina Monologues has been published in 48 languages and performed in more than 140 countries. She is the founder of V-Day, the global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, and One Billion Rising, the largest global mass action to end gender-based violence in over 200 countries. She is a co-founder of the City of Joy, a revolutionary center for women survivors of violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, along with Christine Schuler Deschryver and 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege.
V is the author of books such as The Apology, I Am an Emotional Creature, In the Body of the World, and her latest,Reckoning.
The post V (formerly Eve Ensler) on Writing, Memory, and the Power of an Apology appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Judy Heumann (1947- 2023) was a pioneering disability rights activist and international advisory on disability, on the history of the disability rights movement.
Judy was a founding member of the Berkeley Center for Independent Living which was the first grassroots center in the United States and helped to launch the Independent Living Movement both nationally and globally. In 1983, Judy co-founded the World Institute on Disability (WID) with Ed Roberts and Joan Leon, as one of the first global disability rights organizations founded and continually led by people with disabilities that works to fully integrate people with disabilities into the communities around them via research, policy, and consulting efforts.
Photo credit: Judith Heumann website, & ACLU.
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Guest: Margaret Cerullo is a professor of Sociology and Feminist Studies at Hampshire College and a member of the Colectivo Relámpago/Lightning Collective which put together the book Zapatista Stories for Dreaming An-Other World by Subcomandante Marcos.
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Guest: Charisse Burden-Stelly is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science at Carleton College. She is the author, with Gerald Horne, of W. E. B. Du Bois: A Life in American History. Her latest with Jodi Dean is Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing.
Photo credit: Charisse Burden-Stelly’s website
The post KPFA Fund Drive Special – How Black Women Shaped the Communist Party in America appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History at UCLA. He is the author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.
The post KPFA Special – Robin D.G. Kelley: A History of Black Radicalism appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning author and foreign correspondent. He is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. He is the author of many books including, Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.
On the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (February 24, 2022), he wrote the piece Putin & Zelensky: Sinners and saints who fit our historic narrative. Think about why the West wants to invoke WWII and the Cold War here, and then ask whether it’s been productive. You can click here to find it.
Photo credit: rawpixel.com / Sergeant Matt Hecht
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Guest: Kim Kelly is an independent journalist, author, and organizer. She has been a regular labor columnist for Teen Voguesince 2018. She is the author of Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor.
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Guest: Deborah G. Plant is an African American and Africana Studies Independent Scholar, Writer, and Literary Critic specializing in the life and works of Zora Neale Hurston. She is editor of Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston and the author of Alice Walker: A Woman for Our Times, a philosophical biography.
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Guest: Andrew D. Turner is a senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute, his work focuses on ancient Mesoamerican material culture, religion, and symbolism. He is the editor of Códice Maya de Mexico; Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas.
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Guest: Caleb McDaniel, author of Henrietta Wood: A Legacy of Slavery and Reparations in America.
The post Henrietta Wood & The Case for Reparations appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Jeffrey C. Stewart, Professor of Black Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize in Biography for his book The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke.
The post Alain Locke & and the Harlem Renaissance appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Kidada E. Williams is Professor of History at Wayne State University. I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction. She is the host of the podcast Seizing Freedom.
The post Hope & Terror In The Time of Reconstruction appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and the author of Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials,Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History, and his latest,Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World.
The post Palo Alto: A History of California, Innovation & Exploitation appeared first on KPFA.
Part: 1 How Politicians and The Media Are Driving Us Apart
Guest: Morris P. Fiorina, the Wendt Family Professor at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Part 2: The Women Who Escaped From Slavery
Guest: Karen Cook Bell is Associate Professor of History at Bowie State University. She is the author of Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia, which won the Georgia Board of Regents Excellence in Research Award. Her latest is Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
The post Letters and Politics – February 8, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Guests: Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham are co-authors of The Riders Come Out At Night.
Ali Winston is an independent reporter covering criminal justice, privacy, and surveillance. His work has been rewarded with several awards, including the George Polk Award for local reporting in 2017.
Darwin BondGraham is News Editor at The Oaklandside. He was the co-recipient of the George Polk Award for local reporting in 2017
The post A History of Policing & The Challenges of Reform appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Caroline Moorehead is a historian and biographer. She is the author of several books including her latest Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
The post Mussolini’s Daughter & The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism appeared first on KPFA.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
The post Letters and Politics – February 2, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Siddharth Kara is Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.
The post From King Leopold II To Big Teach: The Plundering of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day Slavery appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), the Director of Research at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and the author of numerous books including, Marx, Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Spaces of Global Capitalism, A Companion to Marx’s Capital, and his latest, A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse.
The post A History of Marx’s Grundrisse appeared first on KPFA.
I. German Rearmament
Guest: Stephen Milder is Assistant Professor of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen and a Research Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. He is the author of Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement in West Germany and Beyond, 1968-1983.
II. The History of Policing Powers
Guest: Erwin Chemerinsky is the dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. He is the author of many books including, Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights.
Photo Wikimedia: About 100,000 people protest against the use of nuclear power in Bonn, capital city of West Germany, 1979.
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Guest: Jamie Kreiner is professor of history at the University of Georgia. She is the author of several books including her latest, The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction.
The post Our Wandering Minds: A History of what Early Christian Monks Learned about Distraction appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Benjamin T. Smith is a professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick. He specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century politics, land, indigenous groups, Catholicism, journalism, violence and the war on drugs. He is the author of several books including his latest, The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade.
The post How The US-Mexican Drug War Inflamed The Violence & Increased Profits appeared first on KPFA.
Part I. The Answer to The Debt Ceiling
Guest: James K. Galbraith is Professor of Government and Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a former staff economist for the House Banking Committee and a former executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. He is the author of Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know (2016) and Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (2016).
Part II. The Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist is a professor of history at Cornell University. Author of the award-winning Creating an Old South and The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.
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Guest: Frank Costigliola is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Kennan Diaries, Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances, and his latest, Kennan: A Life between Worlds.
The post George Kennan: The Architect of the Cold War Who Opposed the War appeared first on KPFA.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Guest: Philip Short has written several definitive biographies including Mao: A Life and Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare. He latest biography is called Putin.
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Guest: Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of eighteen books that range across the fields of ethics, social theory, theology, philosophy, politics, and history. His most recent book is Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
The post Letters and Politics – January 12, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Daniel Akst is the author of War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance.
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Part I. Mickey Huff is professor of social science and history at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area and the author of Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and Critical Media Literacy. He is also the director of Project Censored and the co-editor of the Project’s yearbook, including most recently State of the Free Press 2023: The News That Didn’t Make the News.
Part II. Nicole Eustace is professor of history at New York University. She is the author 1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism; Passion Is the Gale: Emotion, Power, and the Coming of the American Revolution; and her latest Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America.
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Guest: Beverly Gage is professor of American history at Yale. She is the author of The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror, and her latest, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.
The post J. Edgar Hoover: From Progressive Icon To Villain appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Bradley Onishi is a scholar of religion and co-host of the Straight White American Jesus podcast. He teaches at the University of San Francisco. He is the author of Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—And What Comes Next.
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Part 1: The History of the Speaker
Guest: Steven S. Smith is the Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Washington University. He is the author of such books as Politics over Process: Partisan Conflict and Post-Passage Processes in the U.S. Congress and The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate.
Part 2:Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations
Guest:Robin Waterfield is a British classical scholar, translator, and editor, specializing in Ancient Greek who has tranlator of the recently published Meditations: The Annotated Edition.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
The post Letters and Politics – January 3, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Rebecca Wragg Sykes is an archaeologist, author and Honorary Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool. Her new book, KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Artwon the 2021 PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize for history; awarded Book of the Year by Current Archaeology; selected as one of 2021’s 100 Notable Books by The New York Times. She is co-founder of the influential TrowelBlazers project, highlighting women in archaeology and the earth sciences.
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Guest: Margaret Burnham set out in 2007 to travel the country to investigate approximately a thousand unsolved racially motivated murders between 1930 and 1954. She has written a book about it called By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners. She and her assistants have also created an on-line archive dedicated to identifying, classifying, and providing factual information and documentation about anti-Black killings in the mid-century South at www.crrjarchive.org
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Guest: Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize journalist with the Atlantic and author of An Immense World: How Animals Senses Reveal The Hidden Realms Around Us.
The post The Diversity of Perception in the Animal Kingdom and How Humans Force Creatures Into an Alien World appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Joanna Scutts is the author of Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism.
The post Heterodoxy: The Secret Club That Sparked The Feminist Movement appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Violet Moller is a historian and writer who specializes in intellectual history. She is the author of the book The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found.
The post How the Islamic Empires Saved the Classical World appeared first on KPFA.
| Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of several books including Misquoting Jesus, How Jesus Became God, and his latest, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World. | |
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Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition
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Guest: Robert Kanigel, author of Hearing Homer’s Song: The Brief Life and Big Idea of Milman Parry.
The post Milman Parry: The Man Who Killed Homer appeared first on KPFA.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
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Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgameshis considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.
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Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgameshis considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.
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Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgameshis considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.
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Host Mitch Jeserich reads excerpts from Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh: A New Version. Gilgameshis considered one of the masterpieces of world literature.
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Guest: Nick Pyenson is a paleontologist, he is the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth’s Most Awesome Creatures.
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A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
The post Letters and Politics – December 7, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Laura Dassow Walls is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life, and her latest, The Daily Henry David Thoreau: A Year of Quotes from the Man Who Lived in Season.
Feature image: Benjamin D. Maxham- Thoreau -Restored on Wikipedia
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Part I. Reflecting on the significance of the occupation of the Church of the Holy Cross (1982) in London to protest “police illegality and racism” against sex workers.
Guest: Selma James is founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign and author of Hookers in the House of the Lord and The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, and Sex, Race, and Class. Selma James was the first spokesperson for the English Collective of Prostitutes.
Part II. A History of Railroad Labor Disputes and Government Intervention
Guest: Joseph A McCartin is a Professor of History at Georgetown University and the Executive Director of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. His books include Labor’s Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and The Origins of Modern American Labor Relations 1912-1921, and Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America, the book won the 2012 Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics. Professor McCartin is one of the historians who have signed a Letter to President Biden in Support of the Railway Workers.
Feature image: ECP Church Occupation 1982 – Copyright Crossroads AV Collective.
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Part 1. Remembering Disability Rights Icon Hale Zukas. Hale Zukas was a member of the Rolling Quads at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founder of the first Center for Independent Living (CIL) in Berkeley. He was active in working for accessible streets and public transit, and in the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Guest: Judith E. Heumann is an International Disability Rights Advocate. She is the author of Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist. She co-founded the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley California and the World Institute on Disability in Oakland California. Part 2. The Abolitionist’s Journal: Memories of an American Antislavery Family Guest: James D. Richardson is a former senior writer with The Sacramento Bee and a retired Episcopal priest. He is the author of Willie Brown: A Biography.
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Guest: Ahmed White teaches labor and criminal law at the University of Colorado Boulder and is author of Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers. The post The Rise & Fall of The Wobblies: America’s Most Radical Union appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Nathan Robinson is the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine. He is the author of many books including his latest American Monstrosity. Donald Trump: How We Got Him. How We Stop Him and his upcoming, Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments. The post Nathan Robinson on The Grotesquery of the American Political System appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History at the University of Washington and the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, and most recently, Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State. The post Anarchists & Communists In Asia’s Anti-Colonialist Movements appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Southern California. And is author of several novels and non-fiction books including his latest, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present. The post A Counter Narrative of Native American History appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Damien Lewis is an award-winning writer who spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster, and conflict zones for the BBC and other global news organizations. He is the bestselling author of more than twenty books, many of which are being adapted into films or television series; his latest is Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy. The post Josephine Baker: Anti-Fascist Spy appeared first on KPFA.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – November 22, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Part I. Nancy Pelosi’s Meteoric Rise from SF Politics Guest: Tim Redmond is long-time San Francisco political and investigative reporter, former executive editor of the SF Bay Guardian and founder of 48hills.org. Part 2. An Homage to KPFA’s Host and Producer Jennifer Stone Guest: Laura Prives is KPFA Fund drive Manager, former Program Director, and Jennifer Stone’s Producer. Jennifer Stone was born in Tucson, Arizona in December, 1933. She received her B.A. in theatre arts from Mills College in 1955 and her M.A. in creative writing from San Francisco State in 1975. She authored books such as Over By the Cave and Mind Over Media. Stone’s radio show Stone’s Throw was produced and broadcasted weekly on KPFA Pacifica Radio. The show provided cultural, political, and social justice commentary on diverse current topics. The post Nancy Pelosi’s Meteoric Rise from SF Politics & An Homage to KPFA’s Iconic Monologist Jennifer Stone appeared first on KPFA.
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich. The post Letters and Politics – November 17, 2022 appeared first on KPFA.
Part I. A Modern History of Disinformation: From the Tobacco Industry to Climate Climate Change. Guest: Naomi Oreskes is Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. She is a leading voice on the role of science in society, the reality of anthropogenic climate change, and the role of disinformation in blocking climate action. She is the author of many books including the best-selling, Merchants of Doubt, The Collapse of Western Civilization, Why Trust Science?, Science on a Mission, and her upcoming, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loath Government and Love the Free Market, which will be published in February 2023. Part II. Conversations with Birds Guest: Priyanka Kumar is the author of Conversations with Birds. She is a recipient of the Aldo & Estella Leopold Writing Residency, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, a New Mexico/New Visions Governor’s Award, a Canada Council for the Arts Grant, an Ontario Arts Council Literary Award, and an Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Fellowship.
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Guest: Dr. Clarence Lusane is an author, activist, scholar, and journalist. He is a Professor and former Chairman of Howard University’s Department of Political Science. He is the author of several books, including The Black History of the White House and his latest, Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and democracy.
The post Harriet Tubman vs. Andrew Jackson: The History and Future of the Twenty Dollar Bill and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Colia Lafayette Clark (July 21,1940 – November 4, 2022), was a committed Pan Africanist, she spent a lifetime in activist work in the areas of civil rights, human rights, women’s rights, workers rights and rights for the homeless and youth. She was the Green Party’s candidate for the United States Senate in New York in 2010 and 2012. She was a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and played a key role establishing equal voting rights in Selma, Alabama. She was also an organizer with the Birmingham campaign, as well as throughout Mississippi. She was chair of Grandmothers for the Release of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Clark was born in rural Hinds county Mississippi and spent most of her childhood years in Jackson, Mississippi. Each fall until her late teens, Clark’s family migrated to the Mississippi Delta for cotton picking season. She was born into a land owning clan, but her young father and mother secured a share cropper contract with a local white farmer. The family was an activist family with her father and maternal grandfather working on projects with the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in the neighboring county of Copiah.
The post A Civil Rights Warrior of the 1960s: The Legacy of Colia Lafayette Clark appeared first on KPFA.
Part 1: How The Midterm Will Effect Congress
Guest: Matt Laslo, Capitol Hill Correspondent who has been covering the election for Wired and The Raw Story.
Part 2: Florida Goes Deep Red
Guest: Mitch Perry is the Senior Reporter for the Florida Phoenix where he’s based in the Tampa Bay area.
Photo by visuals on Unsplash
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Part 1: Election Integrity Guest: Steven Rosenfeld is a senior writing fellow and the editor and chief correspondent of Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is a national political reporter focusing on democracy issues. He is the author of The Georgia Way: How to Win Elections Part 2: Young Voters Guest: Marisa Moraza, senior campaign strategist with Power California. https://powercalifornia.org/ The post Talking About Election Integrity & Young Voters appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Peter Fritzsche, professor of history at the University of Illinois and author of the book Hitler’s First Hundred Days: When Germans Embraced the Third Reich. [Rebroadcast] The post How to Dismantle a Republic: The Fall of the Weimar Republic appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Nomi Prins is an economist, journalist, author, and former Wall Street executive. She is the author of many books including her latest Permanent Distortion: How the Financial Markets Abandoned the Real Economy Forever. The post Nomi Prins: How The Financial Markets Abandoned The Economy appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Geoffrey Kabaservice (@RuleandRuin) is a historian of the Republican Party and the Director of Political Studies at the Niskanen Center and the author of a number of books, including Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, from Eisenhower to the Tea Party.
The post The 1994 Midterm Election & The Rise of Partisan Warfare appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Jason Scott Smith is Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, where he teaches courses on modern American history, the Great Depression, and the history of infrastructure. He is the author of Building New Deal Liberalism and A Concise History of the New Deal.
The post The 1934 Midterm Election’s Transformative Influence on the New Deal Landscape appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: James N. Green is the Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History and the author or co-author of several books on History of Brazil and Latin America, including his latest Brazil: Five Centuries of Change. He is the Director of the Opening the Archives Project, the National Co-Coordinator of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil, and the President of the Board of Directors of the Washington Brazil Office.
Photo credit: Wikimedia commons. The post Brazil: Militarism, the Far-Right, and the Return of the Left with Lula appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Bess Williamson is Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is the author of Accessible America: A History of Disability and Design.
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Guest: Richard Becker is the Western Region Coordinator of the ANSWER – Act Now to Stop War & End Racism – Coalition, and the author of Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire, and The Myth of Democracy and the Rule of the Banks. He is also co-author of several books Storming the Gates: How the Russian Revolution Changed the World, Revolution Manifesto: Understanding Marx and Lenin’s Theory of Revolution. Feature photo: Noah Brooks on Wikimedia The post Left Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Richard Becker appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Margaret A. Burnham is the founding director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University (crrj.org), she has been a staffer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a civil rights lawyer, a defense attorney, and a judge. Professor Burnham was nominated by President Biden and confirmed by the US Senate to serve on the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board. She is the author of the book By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners.
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Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of the book Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for those who Caused the Crisis. His latest piece in The Nation is Attorneys General Elections Take Center Stage Post-Roe: AG races across the country will determine whether local prosecutors are encouraged to bring charges in abortion cases or forced to comply with pre-Roe bans. The post A Preview of the 2022 Midterm Elections with John Nichols appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Zakhar Popovych is a member of the Left Opposition in Ukraine. Photo credit: Wikimedia commons The post Left Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Ukrainian Opposition Leader Zakhar Popovych appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Katrina Vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation and a columnist for The Washington Post. She is the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers. She wrote in the Nation the piece The Cuban Missile Crisis Was 60 Years Ago, but It’s Urgently Relevant Today: That pivotal moment proves that de-escalation and diplomacy can prevail.
Photo credit: Katrina vanden Heuvel on Wikimedia And Antiterrorist Operation in Eastern Ukraine on Flickr The post Left Perspectives on the War in Ukraine: A Conversation with Katrina vanden Heuvel appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Katherine Corcoran is a former Associated Press bureau chief for Mexico and Central America and is currently co-coordinator of MasterLAB, an investigative editor training program in Mexico City. She is the author of In The Mouth Of The Wolf: A Murder, A Cover-up, and The True Cost Of Silencing The Press. The post The Murder of Regina Martina Perez appeared first on KPFA.
Part I. Ukraine and the U.S. Military Budget Guest: William Hartung is an expert on national security/foreign policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. His work focuses on the arms industry and U.S. military budget. He is the author of Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex (2011). Part II. The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century Guest: Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, and Associate Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of award-winning books on African American history, including The Sword and the Shield and Stokely: A Life. His latest is The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century (2022).
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Guest: Serhii Plokhy is Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. He is the author of several books including, Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2021) and most recently, Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (2022).
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Guest: Peter Kuznick is a professor of history and director of the award-winning Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. He has written extensively about science and politics, nuclear history, and Cold War culture. He is the author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America (2019); the co-author of Rethinking the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Akira Kimura; Rethinking Cold War Culture (2010) with James Gilbert; and of The Untold History of the United States with Oliver Stone (2012). Photo by Yves Alarie on Unsplash The post A History of Nuclear War with Peter Kuznick appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Kai Bird is an award-winning historian and journalist. Executive Director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography, he is the acclaimed author of biographies of John J. McCloy and of McGeorge and William Bundy. He won the Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (co-authored with Martin J. Sherwin). His work includes critical writings on the Vietnam War, Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, the Cold War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the CIA. He is a contributing editor for the Nation, his latest piece can be found here Not Even Nuclear War Will Stop the Fighting in Ukraine: Kyiv deserves our economic support and military aid, but not American troops or nuclear ambiguity.
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Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written or edited thirty-three books, including Misquoting Jesus, How Jesus Became God, The Triumph of Christianity, and Heaven and Hell. The post KPFA Special – Bart Ehrman on Early Christian Texts & The Making of Hell appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: William Dalrymple is the author of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire. The post KPFA Special – The Corporate Origins of Colonialism: The East India Company appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist and political activist and institute professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and laureate professor of linguistics and chair in the program in environment and social justice at the University of Arizona. He, along with Vijay Prashad, is the author The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of US Power. The post KPFA Special – A Brief History of U.S. Imperialism with Noam Chomsky appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of a number of books including The New Abolition, Breaking White Supremacy, Economy, Difference, Empire, Social Democracy in the Making: Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism; and his latest, American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory.
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Guest: Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer, producer, and scholar of religions. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zealot, and editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. His latest book is An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville.
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Guest: Reza Aslan is an internationally acclaimed writer, producer, and scholar of religions. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Zealot, and editor of Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East. His latest book is An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville.
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Guest: Laura Dassow Walls, author of the book Henry David Thoreau: A Life, a biography of the naturalist, inventor and activist. He left behind a monumental legacy in addition to his essay Civil Disobedience, a paean to human freedom. Two hundred years after his birth, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity.
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Guest: Laura Dassow Walls, author of the book Henry David Thoreau: A Life, a biography of the naturalist, inventor and activist. He left behind a monumental legacy in addition to his essay Civil Disobedience, a paean to human freedom. Two hundred years after his birth, Walls restores Henry David Thoreau to us in all his profound, inspiring complexity.
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Guest: Robert Ovetz is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at San José State University, US. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921, and the editor of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle. His latest book is We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few.
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Guest: Robert Ovetz is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at San José State University, US. He is the author of When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921, and the editor of Workers’ Inquiry and Global Class Struggle. His latest book is We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few.
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Guest: Adam Hochschild is the author of eleven books, including the contemporary classics King Leopold’s Ghost and To End All Wars (both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Spain in Our Hearts (a New York Times bestseller), and Bury the Chains (a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA Literary Award). His latest is AMERICAN MIDNIGHT: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis.
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Guest: Adam Hochschild is the author of eleven books, including the contemporary classics King Leopold’s Ghost and To End All Wars (both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award), Spain in Our Hearts (a New York Times bestseller), and Bury the Chains (a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and PEN USA Literary Award). His latest is AMERICAN MIDNIGHT: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis.
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Guest: Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece, the co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement), and the author of several books including The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy, Adults In the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment, Talking To My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism, and his latest, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present.
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Guest: Yanis Varoufakis is the former finance minister of Greece, the co-founder of DiEM25 (Democracy in Europe Movement), and the author of several books including The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy, Adults In the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment, Talking To My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism, and his latest, Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present.
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Guest: Damien Lewis is an award-winning writer who spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster, and conflict zones for the BBC and other global news organizations. He is the bestselling author of more than twenty books, many of which are being adapted into films or television series; his latest is Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy.
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Guest: Damien Lewis is an award-winning writer who spent twenty years reporting from war, disaster, and conflict zones for the BBC and other global news organizations. He is the bestselling author of more than twenty books, many of which are being adapted into films or television series; his latest is Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy.
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Guest: Chris Hedges was a war correspondent for two decades in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, fifteen of them with The New York Times, where he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of many books, including War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, and his latest, The Greatest Evil is War. He writes a column every Monday for ScheerPost and has a show, The Chris Hedges Report, on The Real News. You can find him at chrishedges.substack.com.
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Guest: Chris Hedges was a war correspondent for two decades in Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, fifteen of them with The New York Times, where he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of many books, including War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, and his latest, The Greatest Evil is War. He writes a column every Monday for ScheerPost and has a show, The Chris Hedges Report, on The Real News. You can find him at chrishedges.substack.com.
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Guest: James M. Scott is the author of several books including Rampage, Target Tokyo, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and his latest is Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb.
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Guest: James M. Scott is the author of several books including Rampage, Target Tokyo, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and his latest is Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb.
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Guest: Talya Husbands-Hankin is an activist working at Wood St. encampment and the founder of Love and Justice in the Streets. Special thanks to reporters Lucy Kang from Making Contact and Ellie Prickett-Morgan from KPFA News Department for providing their work. Photo credit: Eviction at the Wood Street encampment on Monday, September 12, 2022 by Talya Husbands-Hankin. The post The Eviction of an Encampment appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Talya Husbands-Hankin is an activist working at Wood St. encampment and the founder of Love and Justice in the Streets. Special thanks to reporters Lucy Kang from Making Contact and Ellie Prickett-Morgan from KPFA News Department for providing their work. Photo credit: Eviction at the Wood Street encampment on Monday, September 12, 2022 by Talya Husbands-Hankin. The post The Eviction of an Encampment appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Catherine Ceniza Choy is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Empire of Care and Global Families and the co-editor of the anthology Gendering the Trans-Pacific World. And her latest Asian American Histories of the United States.
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Guest: Catherine Ceniza Choy is professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Empire of Care and Global Families and the co-editor of the anthology Gendering the Trans-Pacific World. And her latest Asian American Histories of the United States.
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Guest: Kit Heyam is a university lecturer, a queer history activist, and a trans awareness trainer and author of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender. The post Before We Were Trans: A 3,500 Year History appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Kit Heyam is a university lecturer, a queer history activist, and a trans awareness trainer and author of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender. The post Before We Were Trans: A 3,500 Year History appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Joseph Crespino, the Jimmy Carter professor of history at Emory University and author of Atticus Finch The Biography: Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American Icon. The post The 2 Sides of Atticus Finch appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Joseph Crespino, the Jimmy Carter professor of history at Emory University and author of Atticus Finch The Biography: Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American Icon. The post The 2 Sides of Atticus Finch appeared first on KPFA.
Combating Anti-Asian Hate Guest: Annie Lee, Director of Policy for Chinese for Affirmative Action and member of The Stop AAPI Hate Coalition. A Conversation on Originalism Guest: Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and author of the forthcoming book Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism. The post Combating Anti-Asian Hate & A Conversation on Originalism appeared first on KPFA.
Combating Anti-Asian Hate Guest: Annie Lee, Director of Policy for Chinese for Affirmative Action and member of The Stop AAPI Hate Coalition. A Conversation on Originalism Guest: Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and author of the forthcoming book Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism. The post Combating Anti-Asian Hate & A Conversation on Originalism appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Dipo Faloyin (@DipoFaloyin) is a senior editor at VICE, where he focuses on race, culture, and identity around the world. He is the author of the book Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent. The post Dipo Faloyin on The Diversity of Africa appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Dipo Faloyin (@DipoFaloyin) is a senior editor at VICE, where he focuses on race, culture, and identity around the world. He is the author of the book Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent. The post Dipo Faloyin on The Diversity of Africa appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: M. Leona Godin is a writer, performer, and educator who is blind. She is the author of the book There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times; Playboy; O, The Oprah Magazine; and Catapult, where she writes the column “A Blind Writer’s Notebook.” She was a 2019 Logan Nonfiction Fellow and has written and produced two theatrical productions: The Star of Happiness, based on Helen Keller’s time performing in vaudeville, and The Spectator and the Blind Man, about the invention of braille. Aromatica Poetica is her online magazine dedicated to the Arts & Sciences of Smell & taste. The post A History of Blindness: From Homer to Hellen Keller to Ray Charles appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: M. Leona Godin is a writer, performer, and educator who is blind. She is the author of the book There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times; Playboy; O, The Oprah Magazine; and Catapult, where she writes the column “A Blind Writer’s Notebook.” She was a 2019 Logan Nonfiction Fellow and has written and produced two theatrical productions: The Star of Happiness, based on Helen Keller’s time performing in vaudeville, and The Spectator and the Blind Man, about the invention of braille. Aromatica Poetica is her online magazine dedicated to the Arts & Sciences of Smell & taste. The post A History of Blindness: From Homer to Hellen Keller to Ray Charles appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Robert Ovetz discusses his new book, When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921, and covers insurrectionary labor history from the Great Upheaval to the Redneck War. [Rebroadcast] The post An Insurrectionist History of US Labor appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Robert Ovetz discusses his new book, When Workers Shot Back: Class Conflict from 1877 to 1921, and covers insurrectionary labor history from the Great Upheaval to the Redneck War. [Rebroadcast] The post An Insurrectionist History of US Labor appeared first on KPFA.