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.
Alice Ollstein, FSRN Capitol Hill Correspondent, on the week ahead in Congress. Democratic Representative Barbara Lee on the “fiscal cliff.” Philip Dray on the first African American Congressional Members and Reconstruction.
Legal analysis of the UN’s recognition of Palestine as a non member observer state with long time PLO legal adviser Francis Boyle.
Analyzing the expiring tax cuts involved in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations. Our guest is David Cay Johston, Pulitzer Prize winning business journalist and author of the book The Fine Print.
The record of Susan Rice with Vijay Prashad, author of such books as Arab Spring, Libyan Winter, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and the Karma of Brown Folks. Former Black Panther Party Captain Aaron Dixon, author of the memoir My People Are Rising.
-Looking at the lame duck session of Congress with Alice Ollstein of FSRN. -What happens to Defense spending if a budget deal is not reached? We asked Rebecca Griffin of Peace Action West. -Stanley Aronowitz, author of Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills and the Making of Political Intellectuals.
The History of Hamas with journalist Zaki Chehab, author of Inside Hamas. Also, we talked to former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy.
