Letters and Poltics – September 4, 2014
Raed Jarrar of the American Friends Services Committee, on Iraq. Jack Shuler, author of The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose.

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Raed Jarrar of the American Friends Services Committee, on Iraq. Jack Shuler, author of The Thirteenth Turn: A History of the Noose.
Conn Halinan, Foreign Policy in Focus, on Obama and ISIS and Ukraine. On Somalia with Abdti Samar, Professor & Chair Department of Geography, Environment & Society University of Minnesota.
Legal Scholar Erwin Chemerinsky on Supreme Court Ruling that effect policing. Community activists & policing roundtable with Ali Oakbaba, Kat Brooks, Leroy Moore and Andrea Prichett. Nick Adams of UC Berkeley on data concerning police, protesters and violence.
The Life & Times of Gavrilo Princip with Andrej Grubacic.
Jonathan Lyons, independent scholar and author of the book The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization. http://www.jonathanlyonsportfolio.com/
Darwin Bond Graham on the intertwined economies of Israel and Silicon Valley. Diana Preston on the first Anglo Afghan War.