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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Part 1. Two Views on YouTube Banning RT America Guest: Lee Camp hosted the program on RT America called Redacted Tonight. He was laid off after RT America shut down on March 1st after it was dropped by numerous cable and satellite providers. Spotify also stopped platforming his podcast. He still has a YouTube page dedicated to his show … Continued
Guest: Robert Pollin is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is author of several books including his latest, Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet, co-authored with Noam Chomsky. Photo by Giovanni Gagliardi on Unsplash
Guest: William Dalrymple is a Scottish historian and award wining author of several books including, In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal and, most recently, The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire.
Guest: Vijay Prashad is the Director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research which describes itself as an international, movement-driven institution focused on stimulating intellectual debate that serves people’s aspirations. He is also the author of such books as The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of … Continued
Guest: Yuliya Yurchenko is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability Institute, University of Greenwich, UK. She is author of the book, Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: from Marketisation to the Armed Conflict (2018) Pluto Press.
Guest: Tony Wood is a political and social historian most recently, of modern Latin America. His current work focuses on transnational radical debates on race, class, and nation in the 1920s and 1930s, tracing connections between Mexico, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. Wood is an specialist on Russia and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, … Continued
Guest: Adam Hochschild is the author of several books including, King Leopold’s Ghost, To End All Wars, and Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 among others.
Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books including, Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment, Stalin: Passage to Revolution, and They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: … Continued
Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and professor emeritus of political science and history at the University of Chicago. His many books include They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide (Princeton); The Soviet Experiment: … Continued
Guest: Anthony D’Agostino, Professor of History at San Francisco State University, and author of The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars. Thank you for Supporting KPFA! Donate Now
