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 – Oil & the South China Sea
Michael Klare is a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College and the author of the new book “The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources.” Conversation with renown Native American Poet and activist Joy Harjo.
Letters and Politics – The CIA Secret War in Laos
Guests: Channapha Khamvongsa, executive director of Legacies of War. Fred Branfman, who was working as an interpreter for the the U.S. government in Laos when in September 1969 thousands of refugees fled into the Laotian capital. He told their stories.
Letters and Politics – July 11, 2012
Exploring China & US economic interests in South East Asia with Ann Lee, professor of Finance at NYU and author of the book What the US Can Learn from China. Remembering US secret bombing of Laos with Tom Hayden.
Letters and Politics – July 10, 2012
Pratap Chatterjee of CorpWatch explains the Barclay’s banking scandal and LIBOR. Mexican historian and political analyst Lorenzo Meyer.