KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Bart D. Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity.  He is a Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End. The post The Biblical Apocalypse & Its Real World Consequences appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a renown scholar of indigenous and radical history and author of the award winning book An Indigenous People’s History of the United States. Her latest book is called Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion. The post A History of Settler Colonialism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Phyllis Bennis is an expert on the Middle East, she directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. She’s a senior advisor to Jewish Voice for Peace and author of several  books including her latest, Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer.  Phyllis Bennis’ latest writings:  Foreign Policy in Focus Some Facts for the Unconvinced: Why we Need a Gaza Ceasefire Now In These Times The Christmas Truce of 1914 and the Demand for a Cease-Fire in Gaza   Photo (c): Wikipedia commons The post On Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism with Phyllis Bennis appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: James Risen is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Throughout his career, Risen’s explosive investigative reporting has triggered a series of political firestorms. Among his best-selling books are State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration; Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War; and his latest, The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys―and One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy co-authored with Thomas Risen.   The post The Church Committee: Investigating Assassinations, Coups, and the Drugging of Americans appeared first on KPFA.

Guest:  Ilan Pappe is the Director of European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He has published many books on the Middle East and on the Palestine Question, including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Modern Middle East, Ten Myths about Israel, and A History of Modern Palestine.   The post An Update on the Oakland’s Menorah & A History of the Palestinian Resistance with Ilan Pappe appeared first on KPFA.

KPFA’s host Philip Maldari talks to John Nichols, national affairs correspondent for The Nation magazine about the latest in Congress and Trump’s conspiracies. John Nichols is also the author of several books including his latest, co-written with Senator Bernie Sanders, is It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism. His writing can be found at the Nation.     Photo (c): Nation 150th in Seattle, 2015 – John Nichols The post Trump’s Conspiracy Theories And an Update on Congress with John Nichols appeared first on KPFA.

Guest:  Dr. Penny Rosenwasser is a white queer Ashkenazi Jewish educator and activist. She is the author most recently of the  award-winning book “Hope into Practice: Jewish Women Choosing Justice Despite Our Fears.”  She co-teaches a class on Antisemitism / Anti-Arabism with a Palestinian colleague at City College of San Francisco.  She is a founding board member of Jewish Voice for Peace and helps lead racial justice work at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Oakland.  She is also former KPFA radio host and producer!   The post KPFA Special – Oakland’s Menorah and Xenophobia in America: Antisemitism and Anti-Arabism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Joel Beinin is Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author or the editor of several books including Was the Red Flag Flying There? Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel 1948-1965; The independent left in Israel, 1967-1993: Essays in memory of Noam Kaminer; The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry Culture: Politics, and the Formation of a Modern Diaspora; and A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa.   Photo (c): Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands/Tel Aviv- Diaspora Museum on Wikimedia Commons     The post KPFA Special – A History of the The Jewish Diaspora appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Timothy Brennan is the author of several books, including At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now; Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies; and Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation, and his latest, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said.  Professor Brennan teaches in the humanities at the University of Minnesota. The post KPFA Special – Edward Said: A Life appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ilan Pappe is the Director of European Center of Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. He has published many books on the Middle East and on the Palestine Question including The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, The Modern Middle East, Ten Myths about Israel, and  A History of Modern Palestine. The post KPFA Special – A History of Palestinian Resistance with Ilan Pappe appeared first on KPFA.