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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
An update on TPP Negotiations with Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of the Citizens Trade Campaign. The United States along with the government of the Philippines has been conducting its ‘War on Terrorism’ in the Southern Philippino Island of Mindanau over the past decade and a half. We’ll talk about resistance movements with Amirah Ali Lidasan, Filipino Muslim … Continued
A spokesman for the Afghan president confirmed on Wednesday that Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed figurehead of the Taliban, has been dead for two years. With Nazif Shahrani, Professor of Anthropology, Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University. Then, talking about the First Amendment of the Constitution with Burt Neubourne, author of Madiscon’s Music: On … Continued
Ever since Bernie Sanders was confronted by Black Lives Matter protesters he has been talking about police violence and racial inequality in speeches. We talk to John Nichols about the current Presidential Campaign landscape. John Nichols is a political blogger and Washington Correspondent for the Nation Magazine. And Robert Roper, journalist and author of Nabokov in America: … Continued
With Ted Marmor, Yale Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management and Political Science. He researches and writes about welfare state politics, policy, and programs in North America and Western Europe. He is author of the book The Politics of Medicare, and co-author of America’s Misunderstood Welfare State. And Pat Blanchfield, journalist and author of the blog … Continued
Turkey says it’s intensifying its campaign against the Islamic State but the recipients of the attacks have been Kurdish independence fighters who are leading the war on the ground against ISIS. Meanwhile the United States is left trying to play both sides. We’ll talk about this complicated and deadly dynamic with regional security analyst Gareth Jenkins. … Continued
Remembering Don Joyce and his art with Peter Conheim, a member of the band Negativland and Over the Edge. Don Joyce was a preeminent innovator in the medium of radio and dedicated to his show which began on KPFA in 1981. This quote excerpted from an email from Don about Over the Edge pretty much sums … Continued
Robert Burgdorf, original author of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Professor Emeritus at the David A. Clarke School of Law. And Beth Shapiro, associate professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and author of the book How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction. About the book: … Continued
“And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support.” In 1969 Richard Nixon called on the large majority of people in a country or group who do not express their opinions (and who he assumed were conservatives). Donald Trump recently rallied “the silent majority” at a campaign stop in Arizona. … Continued
Long-time political activist Ajamu Baraka on Sandra Bland’s arrest and death; Bernie Sanders; and Black Lives Matter. Last night the Texas Department of Public Safety released video of Sandra Bland’s arrest from a dashboard camera. And Christian Hageseth, author of the book Big Weed: An Entrepreneur’s High-Stakes Adventures in the Budding Legal Marijuana Business. About the … Continued
Last week reportedly 100,000 people in Japan protested against their government’s move to change article 9 of their constitution, otherwise known as the Peace Clause. We’ll be in conversation about the debate over article 9, it’s history, and Japan’s Imperial past. With Xiaoqing Diana Chen-Lin, Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest.
