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A daily News and Politics podcast featuring Mitch Jeserich
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KPFA - Letters and Politics

KPFA.org - KPFA 94.1 Berkeley, CA

KPFA - Letters and Politics

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KPFA - Letters and Politics

KPFA.org - KPFA 94.1 Berkeley, CA

KPFA - Letters and Politics

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Guest: Amy Tan is the author of several novels, including The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter’s Daughter.  She is a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the film version of The Joy Luck Club and is on the board of American Bird Conservancy.  Her
Guest: Gray Brechin has worked as a journalist and television producer and is coauthor of Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream; and Imperial San Francisco, With a New Preface: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin.KPFA is offering to
Guest: Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and academic, a bestselling author, and the former finance minister of Greece. He is a co-founder of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025.  His books include And the Weak Suffer What They Must? and Talk
Guest: Brian Merchant is a journalist focusing on technology and the future of work.  He is the author of The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone, and his latest, Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech.  He
Guest: Ilan Pappe is Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter, UK.  He is the author of A History of Modern Palestine.The post Ilan Pappe on A History of Palestinian Resistance app
Guest:  Benjamin Balthaser is an associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend. He is the author of Anti-Imperialism Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold W
Guest: Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has reported from more than 50 countries. He spent 15 years at The New York Times as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief and is the author of several books, including his lates
Guest: Angela Garcia is an anthropologist and writer. She is the author of the book, The Pastoral Clinic: Addiction and Dispossession Along the Rio Grande, and her latest, The Way That Leads Among the Lost: Life, Death, and Hope in Mexico City’
Guest: Robert Cohen is a Professor of history and social studies at New York University.  He is the author of several books including, Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism and co-author with S
A look at burning political issues and debates and their historical context within the US and worldwide, hosted by Mitch Jeserich.The post Letters and Politics – May 1, 2024 appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Gray Brechin has worked as a journalist and television producer and is coauthor of Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California Dream; and Imperial San Francisco, With a New Preface: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin.The post The Creatio
Guest: Asaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli American journalist.  He is a staff writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the author of the book, Israel’s Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth.The post The Mizrah
Guests:Michael Isikoff is an award-winning Washington investigative journalist and the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter’s Story; Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq Wa
Guest: Steve Coll is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Dean Emeritus of the Columbia Journalism School. Previously he was president of the public policy institute New America,  in Washington, DC.  He is an editor at The Economist in London a
Guest: Hamilton Nolan is a veteran journalist who writes about labor and politics.  He is the author of the book The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor. His work can be found at HamiltonNolan.com.The post The Pas
Guest: Dr Frank Tallis is a clinical psychologist and a writer.  He is the author of several books including his latest, Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Discovery of the Modern Mind.The post The Life & Times of Sigmund Freud appeared f
Guest: Angela C. Sutton is an Assistant research professor at Vanderbilt University, where she has taught Seapower in History, the Golden Age of Piracy, and Comparative Slavery. She is the author of Pirates of the Slave Trade: The Battle of Ca
Part I. Understanding Secretary Mayorkas’ ImpeachmentGuest: Frank O. Bowman III is a law professor, legal historian, and former federal and state prosecutor.  He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri, currently he
Guest: Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change; The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, and Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future; and her latest, H Is for Hop
Guest:  Philip Maldari is a host and producer at KPFA Radio, currently he is the host of the Sunday Morning show.The post Special – KPFA’s 75th Anniversary appeared first on KPFA.
Guest: Jason De León is a professor of Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies and director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles.  He is also the executive director of the Undocumented Migration Projec
Part I. Inflation and the EconomyGuest: Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at The New School University in New York.  Richard Wolff is the founder of Democracy at W
Guest: Phyllis Bennis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), her work focuses on the Middle East, U.S. militarism, and UN issues.  She serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace.  She is
Guest: John Nichols is the national affairs correspondent for The Nation Magazine. He is the author of several books including his latest co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism.” His Latest piece in the Na
Guest: Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University. He is the author of many books including Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia
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