Letters and Politics [KPFA 94.1 FM, Berkeley CA - kpfa.org]

Letters and Politics for February 4th 2014

Letters and Politics for February 3rd 2014

Nick Turse, author of Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam. Jane Gleeson White, The History of book keeping.

Letters and Politics for January 29th 2014

LBJ's State of the Union Address 50 years ago with Sasha Abramsky, author of the book "The American Way of Poverty." And Pacifica Radio Archives' The Ballad of Pete Seeger.

Letters and Politics for January 27th 2014

We speak to Russian scholar Stephen Cohen, professor emeritus at New York University & Princeton University, about the political crisis in the Ukraine and its geo-political implications. Columbia University Neuroscientist Carl Hart, author of High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery.

The legal history of Roe v Wade with Jessica Mason Pieklo, adjunct professor of law and legal analyst with RH Reality Check. Sports report with Samori Benjamin.

Shahid Buttar of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on President's NSA reforms. Darwin BondGraham and Ali Winston on the surveillance program the Domain Awareness Center in the California City of Oakland.

Letters and Politics for January 20th 2014

Craig Aaron, President of Free Press. Matthew Heberger, Research Associate with the Water Program at the Pacific Institute in Oakland.

Laleh Khalili, author of the book Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies

Economist Richard Wolff on Marxism and the economic trends of 2013 and 2014.

William Gould, former Chair of the National Labor Relations Board, on the Supreme Court hearing of the case NLRB Vs. Noel Canning Hugh Wilford, author of America's Great Game, on the history of the CIA in the Middle East.

Matthew Fox, former Catholic priest and author of Letters to Pope Francis. Edwidge Danticat, author of Claire of the Sea Light.