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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
On today’s show we speak with Math Bai author of All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid. He argues that the Hart affair in 1987 changed the way to do journalism as much as how the public sees its politicians.
On today’s show, guest host Shora Zamani interviews Peter Finn and Petra Couvée, about the Zhivago Affair, how the CIA smuggle russian copies of the Zhivago Affair in the USSR during the Cold War. They are the authors of The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book.
A talk about the documentary series The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick.
Alan Watts tried to bring eastern philosophy to the West thanks to his radio program Well Beyond the West aired on KPFA from 1953 to 1973. Today we hear excerpts of Well Beyond the West.
On today’s show, Mitch Jeserich talks to Naomi Klein about her one day at the UN summit on climate chamge when she sat at the table with all the CEOs of big companies. She is the author of the book Capitalism VS Climate Change.
On today’s show we speak of the Middle East: Reese Erlich foreign correspondant gives a speech on the situation in Syria and David Anders releases a documentary, Divided Irak on Al Jazeera US.
Today we address the question of the language of finance and how it can be used to hide what is going on with guest John Lanchester, author of the book: How to Speak Money.
Yesterday fifty people were arrested during Moral Monday March, among them was Cornel West. He gave a speech late last week at the Saint Mary’s College in California. Today we listen to excerpts of this speech and of Naomi Klein and Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz.
On today’s show we talk with Eduardo Lopez of the History of Latinos in America. He is one of the director of the documentary Harvest of Empire: An History of Latinos in America.
On today’s show we explore the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its consequences on how Ebola tackles these countries. Our guest is Dr. Gerald Horne professor of African American Studies at the University of Houston.
