Letters and Politics – September 24, 2013
Zahra Billoo, executive director of CAIR-SF, on CAIR’s new report Legislating Fear.
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 – Al Shabab and the geopolitics of the Horn of Africa
Today we’ll be in conversation about Al Shabab and the geopolitical dynamics of the Horn of Africa with Abdi Samatar, President of the African Studies Association of North America.
Letters and Politics – The Fed & Quantitative Easing
Guests include Guardian’s financial correspondent Dominic Rushe and economist Max Fraad Wolff, instructor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University. We also speak to Leroy Moore and police abuse and people with disabilities.
Letters and Politics – The War on Poverty & WWI
Stephen Pimpare, author of the book A People’s History of Poverty in America. Sean McMeekin, author of the new book July 1914: Countdown to War.
Letters and Politics – Subprime Execs 5 Years Later
Daniel Wagner, investigative financial reporter with The Center for Public Integrity. David Graeber.
Letters and Politics – September 16, 2013
Sabrina Saddiqui, Capitol Hill Correspondent for the Huffington Post. Ken Jacobs, Chair of UC Berkeley Labor Center. Josh Blackman, author of Unprecedented.
Letters and Politics – September 12, 2013
Frederick Taylor The Downfall of Money
Letters and Politics – Digital Footprints & Big Data
Today we’ll be in conversation about all this with Oxford University Internet Ptofessor Viktor Mayer-Schonberger and the Economists’ Kenneth Cukier. They have co-written a book called Big Data. But first we’ll have reaction from President Obama’s adress from last night with Vijay Vijay Prashad <https://www.facebook.com/vijay.prashad.5?directed_target_id=0>, the Edward Said chair at American University in Beirut
Letters and Politics – Andrew Bacevich
Andrew Bacevich, author of “Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country.”