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Part I. Biden Continues Supporting the War on Gaza Guest: Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University.  He is the author and coauthor of several such books, including The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy; and  The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy co-authored with John J. Mearsheimer. He is also a columnist at Foreign Policy. Part II. Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America Guest: Karen Cook Bell is a Professor of History at Bowie State University.  She is the University System of Maryland Wilson H. Elkins Endowed Professor. Her areas of specialization include slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, and women’s history. She is the author of several books including,  Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America. Running From Bondage received the Best Book Award from the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society; the Letitia Woods Brown Honorable Mention Award from the Association of Black Women Historians; and was a finalist for the Pauli Murray Prize for Best Book in African American Intellectual History from the African American Intellectual History Society.   Feature image: IDF soldiers preparing for ground activity in Gaza. Wikimedia   The post Biden’s Continued Support for the War on Gaza appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Gregg Mitman is the Vilas Research and William Coleman Professor of History, Medical History, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. An award-winning author and filmmaker, his recent films and books include The Land Beneath Our Feet;  Breathing Space: How Allergies Shape Our Lives and Landscapes; and his latest, Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia.   The post Liberia: From the American Colonization Society to Firestone appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti Guest: Jake Johnston is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., and the author of Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti. Part II. Poverty and Homelessness at Home  Guests: Tiny Lisa Gray Garcia (@povertyskola) is co-founder of Poor News Magazine. Leroy Moore, po’ poet, founder of Krip Hop Nation.     The post Haiti’s Disaster Capitalism & Poverty and Homelessness at Home appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Héctor Lindo-Fuentes is Professor Emeritus of History at Fordham University. He is the author of several books including Weak Foundations: The Economy of El Salvador in the Nineteenth Century 1821-1898;  Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador: The Insurrection of 1932, Roque Dalton, and the Politics of Historical Memory; and his most recent, co-authored with Erik Ching, Modernizing Minds in El Salvador: Education Reform and the Cold War, 1960-1980.  His latest book in Spanish is El Alborotador de Centroamérica: El Salvador Frente al Imperio.       The post A History of Authoritarianism in El Salvador appeared first on KPFA.

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 Nation is: The Only Way Trump Stays on the Ballot Is if the Supreme Court Rejects the Constitution.    Photo (c): Wikimedia  The post Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Trump’s State Ballot Eligibility appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. Immigration Politics of an Election Year Guest: Todd Miller is an independent journalist, border policy expert, and author of several books including Border Patrol Nation, Storming the Wall, Empire of Borders, and his latest Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders. Part II. A History of the War on Immigrants: The Border in 1990’s Guest: John Carlos Frey is an investigative reporter and documentary filmmaker. He is the author of is the author of the new book Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border.   Photo credit: Wikimedia The post A History of the War on Immigrants & the Immigration Politics of an Election Year appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Roger D Rapport is an award-winning author, filmmaker, and playwright.  He is the author of Searching for Patty Hearst.  You can find more at pattyhearst.com The post The Symbionese Liberation Army & The Kidnapping of Patty Hearst appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Mark A. Graber is the University System of Maryland Regents Professor at Maryland Carey Law. Professor Graber is a leading scholar on constitutional law and politics. He is the author of A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism (2013), Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (2006); and his latest, Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform after the Civil War.  The post Section 3 of the 14th Amendment & The Disqualification of a President appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1: Dismissal of the Palestine v. Biden case in Federal Court  Guest: Marc Van Der Hout is a practicing attorney and the founding member of Van Der Hout, LLP.  He is a Co-Counsel in the case Defense for Children International – Palestine v. Biden. The court denied the plaintiffs’ preliminary injunction motion and granted the government’s motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that it lacked jurisdiction over the administration’s conduct of foreign relations. While Dismissing Case on Jurisdictional Grounds, U.S. Judge “Implores” Biden Administration to Stop its “Unflagging Support” for Israel’s Ongoing Siege of the Palestinian People in Gaza (CCRJustice.org) The Case The lawsuit was filed in U.S. federal court against President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Austin for failure to prevent and complicity in the Israeli government’s unfolding genocide in Gaza.   Part 2. The Radical Origins of Black History Month Guest: Gerald Horne is Moores Professor of History & African American Studies at the University of Houston.  He is the author of more than three dozen books including White Supremacy Confronted: US Imperialism & Anticommunism vs the Liberation of Southern Africa from Rhodes to Mandela, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, and White Supremacy and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean.  His latest is The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering, and the political economy of boxing. The post Case of Genocide Complicity Against Biden Dismissed & Gerald Horne on the Radical Origins of Black History Month appeared first on KPFA.

Jefferson Cowie holds the James G. Stahlman chair in history at Vanderbilt University.  He is the author of several books, including Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class, and his latest, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, 2023). The post The Meaning of Freedom: A History of White Resistance to Federal Power appeared first on KPFA.