Roundtable discussion on US policy towards Afghanistan with former Assistant Defense Secretary Lawrence Korb, former State Department official Matthew Hoh, peace activist Norman Solomon and NY Times Foreign Correspondent Carlotta Gall.
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.
Pacifica’s Mitch Jeserich speaks with Mario Martinez, creator of the Mind-Body Code.
In conversation with Rafia Zakaria about her new book The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan.
Letters and Politics – March 19, 2015
Dani McClain, journalist covering the Black Lives Matter movement. Tom Hayden, author of Listen Yankee: Why Cuba Matters
Elections in Israel and Sandip Roy’s novel
Today’s show is about Netanyahu winning the elections thanks to the other right wing parties in Israel. Mitch Jeserich speaks to Marsha B. Cohen specialist of foreign policies. Then, Mitch Jeserich interviews Sandip Roy indian journalist about his novel Don’t let him know. A novel about a family and its secret.
Letters and Politics – March 17, 2015
Benjamin E. Zeller, author of Heaven’s Gate: America’s UFO Religion.
Long time civil rights activist Colia Lafayette Clark extended interview with Mitch JJeserich
The History of Hair Removal
Rebecca Herzig is professor of women and gender studies at Bates College and the author of the book Plucked: A History of Hair Removal. About the book: From the clamshell razors and homemade lye depilatories used in colonial America to the diode lasers and prescription pharmaceuticals available today, Americans have used a staggering array of … Continued
Conservative Hardliners Against a US-Iran Deal and Italian Immigrants
On today’s Letters and Politics Mitch Jeserich talks to Marsha B. Cohen and Mohammad Sahimi, editor of the Iran News and Middle East Reports blog, about conservative hardliners of both sides against a US-Iran Deal. Then, an interview with Peter Vallone on how the Italian immigrants once discriminated against embraced the evolving notion of wideness.
Destruction of Ancient Artifacts in Iraq and Aztlan & Arcadia
Edmund Ghareeb, author of the Historical Dictionary of Iraq, on the destruction of the ancient monuments in Iraq. Roberto Ramon Sagarena, author of Aztlan and Arcadia: Religion, Ethnicity, and the Creation of Place.