Letters and Politics – July 24, 2012
We look at the life and times of Eugene Victor Debs who garnered almost a million votes while running for President, from his jail cell, in 1920. WIth Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – July 23, 2012
Dr Candace Falk, Director of the Emma Goldberg Papers, on the life and times of Emma Goldman.
Letters and Politics – July 20, 2012
Jim Pullen, KGNU reporter, on CO movie theater massacre. Greg Muttit, author of Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq.
Letters and Politics – July 19, 2012
David Vine on the Lilly-Pad military base strategy. Julie Flynn Siler, author of Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure.
Letters and Politics – July 17, 2012
Another in our series of conversations about the changing geo-political landscape in the Middle East and North Africa with Fawaz Gerges, Director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics and author of Obama and the Middle East: The End of America’s Moment?
Letters and Politics – Oil & the South China Sea
Michael Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author of the new book “The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources.” Conversation with renown Native American Poet and activist Joy Harjo.
Letters and Politics – The CIA Secret War in Laos
Guests: Channapha Khamvongsa, executive director of Legacies of War. Fred Branfman, who was working as an interpreter for the the U.S. government in Laos when in September 1969 thousands of refugees fled into the Laotian capital. He told their stories.
Letters and Politics – July 11, 2012
Exploring China & US economic interests in South East Asia with Ann Lee, professor of Finance at NYU and author of the book What the US Can Learn from China. Remembering US secret bombing of Laos with Tom Hayden.