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Letters and Politics
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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Hosted by Mitch Jeserich. Guest: Laura Wells was Green Party candidate for the 2010 Governor’s race in California. Rosa Clemente is a community organizer, independent journalist, and hip-hop activist. She was the vice presidential running mate of 2008 Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election.
The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash and the Assault on Democracy. And The Orange Trees of Marrakesh.
With Zachary Roth, national reporter with MSNBC author of the book “The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash and the Assault on Democracy.” About the book: In The Great Suppression, Roth unearths the deep historical roots of this anti-egalitarian worldview, and introduces us to its modern-day proponents: The GOP officials pushing to make it harder to cast a … Continued
With award-winning author, publisher and journalist Ethan Michaeli. His latest book “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America.” Michaeli was a copy editor and investigative reporter at The Defender from 1991 to 1996. About the book: Giving voice to the voiceless, the Chicago Defender condemned Jim Crow, catalyzed the Great Migration, and focused the electoral … Continued
With Leo Panitch, distinguish professor at York University, Canada. Author of several books among others “The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire” co-authored with Sam Gindin. Professor Panitch is co-editor of the Socialist Register, an annual survey of movements and ideas from the standpoint of the international independent new left. The 2016 issue is … Continued
With George Zarkadakis, Phd in Artificial Intelligence. He is the author of several novels and the forthcoming book In Own Image: Savior or Destroyer, The History and Future of Artificial Intelligence. About the book: In In Our Own Image, Zarkadakis traces AI’s origins in ancient myth, through literary classics such as Frankenstein, to today’s sci-fi blockbusters, and … Continued
With Paul Pierson, the John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Pierson’s teaching and research focuses on American politics and public policy, comparative political economy, and social theory. He is the author of many books, the most recent of which is American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget … Continued
The New War of ISIS, and the Marshall Islands Suing Nuclear Powers for Irresponsibility
With Paul Rogers, a professor in the department of peace studies at Bradford University, northern England. He is openDemocracy’s international security editor, and has been writing a weekly column on global security since 28 September 2001. His latest book is Irregular War: Isis and the New Threat from the Margin. About the book: If the rise … Continued
With David Cay Johnston, an investigative journalist, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. Since 2009 he has been a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer who teaches tax, property, and regulatory law of the ancient world at Syracuse University College of Law and the Whitman School of Management. He … Continued
With Christian Berle, Washington D.C. Republican delegate and former Log Cabin Republican Deputy Executive Director.