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Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Robert Lehrman, who just wrote a cover piece for the Christian Science Monitor called The new age of algorithms: How it affects the way we live. But first, some House Republicans are threatening to shut down the government if the Affordable Care Act is not repealed. We’ll speak to Politico’s David Nather. An update on … Continued
Noam Chomsky on the recently released documents showing he was being watched by the CIA during the 1970s. Michael Lange on the Nat Turner Slave Revolt.
Guests: Journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous in Cairo and middle east scholar Hatem Bazian. Later in the show we speak to podcaster Dan Carlin about NSA surveillance.
Sylvia Allegretto, Labor Economist at UC Berkeley. Radley Balko, author of the book Rise of the Warrior Cop The Militirization of America’s Police Forces.
Elizabeth Goitein is co-director of the Liberty and National Security program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. Daniel Sheehan, constitutional lawyer who litigated cases concerning the Pentagon Papers.
Arjun Makhijani, president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, on the Fukushima radio active water contamination in the Pacific Ocean. Guardian columnist Gary Younge.
Analysis of Russian/US relations with Fred Weir, Moscow-based correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, and Anthony D’Agostino, Russian Scholar at San Francisco State University. Former Senator Mike Gravel
Richard Wolff on the political economy of a BART Strike. Robert McChesney on the sale of the Washington Post.
Fawaz Gerges on the US Embassy closures. Daniel Ellsberg reflects on Snowden & Manning.
