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Letters and Politics
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Letters & Politics is a radio program that comes from KPFA.org in Berkeley. We turn the historical shows into videos and post them here.
David Duke and The Right Wing Populism of the 1990's
Guest: John Ganz writes the Unpopular Front newsletter for Substack. He is the author of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s.
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Shutting Down The WTO: Remembering Seattle 25 Years Later
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Guest: Dw Gibson is the author of One Week To Change The World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests.
How The Republican Party Went From Anti-Slavery to Pro-Imperialism
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Guest: Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.
Joseph Stiglitz vs Friedrich von Hayek: One Nobel Prize Winning Economist Takes On Another
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Guest: Joseph E. Stiglitz is a Nobel Prize-winning economist. He teaches at Columbia University and a Senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He is the author of several books, his latest is The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.
Anti-Democratic Rule In The United States: A History
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Guest: Ari Berman is the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center. He’s the author of Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People―and the Fight to Resist It.
Pete Rose & Pro Sports Embrace of Gambling
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Guest: Keith O’Brien is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of Paradise Falls, Fly Girls, Outside Shot, and his latest, Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball.
The Convicted Presidential Candidate: Eugene V Debs vs Donald J Trump
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Guest: John Nichols of The Nation
How Techno-Feudalism Killed Capitalism w/ Yanis Varoufakis
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Guest: Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and former finance minister of Greece. Currently, he is Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, and the Secretary-General of Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DEM25). He is the author of many books, including Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism, Adults in the Room, and his latest, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.
The Luddites: The First Revolt Against Big Tech
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Guest: Brian Merchant is a veteran technology reporter and author of Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech. Read his writings on-line at www.bloodinthemachine.com.
A History of Jewish Anti-Zionism: From The Communist Party to The New Left
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Guest: Benjamin Balthaser is 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 War, and Dedication, a personal history of growing up in a Jewish "red diaper" family. His forthcoming book from Verso, Citizens of the Whole World: The Ameri...
A History of Student Movements
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Guest: Robert Cohen is a professor of history and social studies at New York University. He is the author of Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism and Freedoms Orator: Mario Savio and The Radical Legacy of the 1960s.
The Mizrahi: From The Black Panthers to Likud
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Guest: Asaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli American journalist based in Los Angeles. He is a staff writer for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He is the author of Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth.
The U.S. & Iraq Before The Wars
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Guest: Steve Coll is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor at The Economist in London. He is the author of several books, including The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
The Life & Times of Sigmund Freud
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Guest: Dr. Frank Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist and author of Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna, and the Birth of the Modern Mind.
Jeserich doesn't seem to have the big picture that Trotsky was the one seeking communist expansion while USSR was inadvertently forced into Eastern Europe expansion as a result of North Atlantic - Churchill posturing in 1944 Moscow with Stalin. The two Pope Pious' inadvertently made 'Communist - Russia' the higher priority on the Christian Enemy List, than NAZIsm. And of course Hitler the Austrian crypto-Jew made the perfect puppet for the new rich industrialists like Henry Ford to the old Krupp Fam of WWI fame. Hitlers henchmen worked, and signed agreements with Zionist's in occupied Palestine as Hitler diverted attention to 'just' aquiring the Sudetanland.
The CIA has been sending back into Ukraine retrained 'Gladio Op' Bandera NAZIs since 1949.
Lets talk about the drunken war monger Winston Churchill and the deaths under his rule.
Jim Thorpe was the greatest athlete that ever lived. Past, present and future. No one will ever touch his accomplishments EVER!!
Dr. Levine may have excelled at his earlier biographical efforts, but he fell perilously short on Thaddeus Stevens. The key, that he apparently chose to ignore, is Stevens' mixed-partner for 25 years in Lancaster PA and Washington, DC., Lydia Hamilton Smith. Penn State Press published my biography of Mrs. Smith, An Uncommon Woma: The Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith in 2023. In it, I document the committed, loving, inspiring relationship the two maintained in the mid-19th century, in the face of vicious condemnation from white supremacists in the North and South. I sent a copy of my book with an extensive explanation of what my research shows to Dr. Levine, and he refused to accept it. (I'd be happy to send you one, too, in the interest of furthering the whole, true, inspiring story of these two great Americans.) In my book, I do share information I found revealing Stevens' inner life, including how deeply he loved and respected Lydia Hamilton Smith and his understandings of religion and morality. Thank you for your fine series. I would be happy to chat with you about this inspiring pair, or , debate Dr. Levine over his summary dismissal of Mrs. Smith in his biography of Stevens with: she was just his housekeeper, strictly a professional relationship. To deny her role in his life is to stunt the impact of the brave life they lived together, setting the example for what a color-blind society, embracing racial equality, could look like. Best, Mark Kelley, Ph.D. (kelleymark2@gmail.com)
terrible theology..a god that tortures people..or as i suspect, just made up by our fellow human to scare the sh*t out of the gullible and kids ..amen
It could have been so different if it were not for traitors bought off. The Khalsa had the EIC army at it's mercy. It could have been wiped out as an effective fighting force. How history would have changed.
. .. we are againsT Fascism
How can you write a book about something and still be so bad at talking about it?
📖📖State of Terror. How Terrorism Created Modern Israel /Comment le terrorisme a créé Israel, Thomas Suarez
📖📖Keith Whitelam, The Invention of ancient Israel : the silencing of the Palestinian history كيث وايتلام ،اختلاق إسرائيل القديمة : اسكات التاريخ الفلسطيني ،ترجمة سحر الهنيدي ،سلسلة عالم المعرفة
📖📖Shlomo SAND, The Invention of the Jewish People /Comment le peuple juif fut inventé 📖The Invention of the land of Israel /Comment la terre d'israël fut inventée
👉📖📖Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic cleansing of Palestine 📖Ten Myths about Israel /Les dix légendes structurantes d'israël 📖The Biggest Prison On Earth
This only shows the era of "Revolutions" (the US revolution 1776, French Revolution 1780s...) were NOT revolutions....they were internal squabbles, but did not emancipate people of color. The french revolution gets so much hype, voltaire etc....but Toussaint knew the truth!
Excellent, excellent overview of post-Civil War reconstruction era US polity, colonialism, racism, Native American genocide, class conflict, Supreme Court injustice, unregulated capitalism, and plantation economics extending to new annexed territories abroad. I studied in high school history in Sydney the US Civil War in enormous depth for an entire year in modern history. Always have been under-aware regarding the 1865 to 1910 period. Thank you to you both!
ZIONISM=N42ISM
In the thumbnail, Bart looks like he just created Hell and is very proud of himself.
Super good listen!
My goodness Mr Price communicates so well thankyou Sir!
The Russians are rightfully concerned about "National Security" being targeted by a criminal governmental system. They're not Granada or Lybia.
David Duke was never popular.
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it: and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged everyman according to his works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Your not just going to hell Bart, your not worried about hell alone people, eternal damnation is not in hell. It's much worse than that. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
It also speaks about this concept in the book of job. The future gospel written I believe more than 500 years after the book of isaiah uses the same words, in fact its the words of jesus. The book of isaiah proceed many things, like the birth of John the Baptist, the voice crying in the wilderness. Bart is a complete fraud. It also in the book of revelation specifically states that hell will be cast into the lake of fire. I don't think anyone here actually understands this. Then you sit and deny an eternal, all knowing, omniscient being, while being finite, unknowing, and singular in place. Something cannot happen out of nothing. There is a massive amount of physical evidence that you can pick up and hold in your hands today that proves the undeniable truth of the old and new testament. And there really is nothing that you can pick up and hold in your hands that states otherwise. Some people claim there is but they are just lying to you. The moabite stone, hezekiahs tunnel, abrahams alter, the Taylor inscription, the records of the God of the Israelites in ancient Egypt, Sodom and Gomorrah, the babylonian ration tablets, the silver scroll that is older than the dead sea scrolls which has written on it a part of the priestly benediction of the book of numbers. Christianity is the true religion of the jews what you see today is a fake religion created by wicked jews who departed from the lord. Who is the ancient of days, why does the son of man go to the ancient of days where he is given dominion over all the universe. All old testament. Who is melchizedek. None of you know what your talking about true Israelites believed in the holy trinity and always have, Jesus said before abraham was, I am. I heard all the bs, all the flood bs about gilgamesh and many others, all the bs from Irving finkel, who is clearly babbling idiot. Have you seen Joshua's alter, the tomb of Lazarus, Jacob's well, the tomb of jesus, the churches built by constantine. Have you heard of the praying man of fez. Again Bart is an idiot.
And they shall go forth, and look upon the the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhoring unto all flesh. Old testament
Something can't happen out of nothing. So obviously there is a God. If you can't seem to understand that I don't know what to tell you maybe your a moron.
ua-cam.com/video/SNgYt4GZ9S8/v-deo.htmlsi=mOy3-koczfNR9oVN I bet he doesn't know this.
Hell predates the new testament, the apostles take the wordage from the prophetic books that they grew up reading and studying. Bart got caught up in contradictions in the gospels, he is a seed that fell by the way side.
Bart is an idiot
The six day war was won by Israel without the help of America - with no American military backing. The French were the military backers at the time and they stopped their support afterwards.
Unfortunately - he is not fully correct in his knowledge of Israel - and makes a few serious mistakes - for example - the serious story of who are the indigenous people of the land of Israel - and he makes the tragic mistake to ignore the fact that the Jews are the only indigenous people of the land. There never was a Palestinian people!
what happened in Banda in the past- similar with what happend in GAZA genocide
Nobel Prize in Economics remains as unimpressive as ever. I would expect more intellectual originality from a life insurance salesman. If you are going to talk about sophomoric and stale questions going back to antiquity (individual vs collective rights, etc) plus tired, stale historical anecdotes, at least anticipate that your audience made it through grade school. Used car salesman.
Wrong! The US created its own war on terrorism. There's no daylight between the US & Russia in relation to intent versus being left with no options.
The Pentagon: keeping the world safe for capital.
I hoped for a balanced perspective, but no.
The American south was just the next frontier in which to spread good Christian virtue. After that came the west, and after that, the rest. The north east white Anglo-Saxon protestant establishment has always ruled America. They have gone blue or at least purple in recent decades as their evangelical cousins in the south have gone the other way. But when the New England WASPs were Republicans they ruled America uncontested. Their latest conquest was spreading wasp colonization theory via DEI, which came out of the northeast.
Saudi Arabia ends petrodollar agreement, 9th June 2024.
“felt that way for eight years now”…… Brilliant!!! Thanks Mitch.
This is really good
Stepped down but still ruling behind the door
Sounds like a Gilbert and Sullivan may the punishment fit the crime
27 is a Taoist number as it is divisible by 9 so probably the Chinese decided on the number of books on the new testament . Just kidding but it makes as much sense as rest of the other theories..
I lived in Louisiana then...and remember the bumper sticker, "Vote for the *crook," it's important," 95% turnout in Black majority districts, and that a majority of white men voted for him (many denying it in exit polls. * Edwin Edwards, corrupt and eventually indicted and convicted of racketeering.
America was always aiming to be an empire. And liberalism has always been coincident with empire. Liberalism nothing but a ruling class dispute resolution method skinned with flowery language about rights for commoners that have never existed. It's amazing how little 'historians' know.
Great job
Very important and informative interview.
Very Unbalanced Edda Trouser wearing Heavy Drinker Heavy smoker 6/50 VERY HEAVY GAMBLER RUN WILD HAVE AFFAIRS SLUT
Stop lying! Niether the republcan party, nor the democratic party was anti-slavery. It was world opinion, and their wanting to become a respected nation state, that the north wanted slavery out of their colonies, but it was cessation threats, which set the war off.
what it really was is a more power factional of the ruling class wanted wages slavery because that is more efficient slavery so they destroyed the other faction
It may make more sense at this exact moment to ask how Dems went from people party to imperialist right wingers.
Yeah but that won't give you as much opportunity to talk about white men and genocide. Count how many times the guest says "genocide" or "genocidal."
That would be what would happen on a less controlled-messaging venue, like KPFA of earlier times. Most of the guests here are selling an establishment (faux-left) narrative.
Another excellent and informative interview, , Mitch. Great guest, great show.