Letters and Politics – December 27, 2012
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center on Economic and Policy Research. Alistair Smith, co-author of The Dictators Handbook.

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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center on Economic and Policy Research. Alistair Smith, co-author of The Dictators Handbook.
The West Virginia Mine Wars with David Corbin.
Andrew Feinstein on Letters & Politics.
John Nichols of the Nation Magazine on the latest developments on Capitol Hill. Troy Bickham on the War of 1812.
Tom Diaz of the Violence Prevention Center on the massacre in Connecticut. Heather Cox Richardson on the Massacre of Wounded Knee.
Beyond dancing around the forest in green tights, the legend of Robin Hood is based in an English radical tradition to reclaim the commons. Today we talked about that history with historian Paul Buehle. We also looked at a campaign calling for a so called Robin Hood tax to levied on financial transactions with Sarah … Continued