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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
In this episode we listen to an interview with David Cay Johnston, journalist and author of The Making of Donald Trump, about the great farce, criminal, and pop culture phenomenon that is Donald J. Trump. In the interview Johnston reveals Donald’s ties to the mob and more. As a part of our fundraising drive, we are … Continued
Our guest on this episode is Peter Linebaugh, an American Marxist historian who specializes in British history, Irish history, labor history, and the history of the colonial Atlantic. He is the author of the pamphlet Ned Ludd & Queen Mab: Machine-Breaking, Romanticism, and the Several Commons of 1811-12. As a part of our fundraising drive, we … Continued
With Eileen Markey, investigative journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice and America Magazine, among others. She is author of the new book: A Radical Faith: The Assassination of Sister Maura. About the book: The 1980 rape and murder of four American women – three of them Catholic nuns … Continued
with Bernadine Dohrn, former Professor of Law at Northwestern University and Bill Ayers, an American elementary education theorist and former Professor of Education at University of Illinois Chicago . They were both involved with the Weather Underground Organization, an American militant, radical left-wing organization founded on the Ann Arbor campus of the University of Michigan in 1969. The … Continued
with Nomi Prins, a journalist, and Senior Fellow at Demos. She has worked as a managing director at Goldman-Sachs and as a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns, as well as having worked as a senior strategist at Lehman Brothers and analyst at the Chase Manhattan Bank. and with Dr. Hatim Bazian, co-founder and Professor of Islamic Law … Continued
with Aviva Chomsky, Professor of History at Salem State University and author of the book A History of the Cuban Revolution. and Samuel Farber, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, and the author of the book Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered.
Mitch speaks with Steven Rosenfeld about the latest on recounting votes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Steven Rosenfeld covers national political issues for AlterNet, including America’s democracy and voting rights, campaigns and elections, and many social justice issues. He is the author of “Count My Vote: A Citizen’s Guide to Voting.”
with Rachel Jackson, researcher of radical Oklahoma history at the University of Oklahoma. The Green Corn Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in rural Oklahoma on August 2 and 3, 1917. The uprising was a reaction by radicalized European-Americans, tenant farmers, Seminoles, Muscogee Creeks and African-Americans to an attempt to enforce the Selective … Continued
With historian Ian Mortimer, author of the book Millenium From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand Years. Ian is a keen advocate of the public importance of history, at national level and in the community. About Millenium From Religion to Revolution In Millennium, bestselling historian Ian Mortimer takes the reader on a … Continued
With Arsalan Iftikhar, international human rights lawyer, and global media commentator. Arsalan is the founder of TheMuslimGuy.com and he also serves as senior editor for The Islamic Monthly magazine. He is author of the book SCAPEGOATS: How Islamophobia Helps Our Enemies & Threatens Our Freedoms. About the book: When a murderous psychopath goes on a … Continued
