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Part I. Finding The Disappeared Children of the War in El Salvador  Guest:  Elizabeth Barnert is a pediatrician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles.  Her research, grounded in human rights and social action, examines children affected by violence, family separation, and incarceration. She is the author of the book Reunion: Finding the Disappeared Children of El Salvador. For more information about the DNA Family Reunification Project go to: DNA Family Reunification Project: Pro-Búsqueda’s History of Reuniting Families with Asociación Pro-Búsqueda de Niñas y Niños Desaparecidos (Organization in Search of Disappeared Children), an NGO in San Salvador that reunites families with children who were abducted or surrendered under duress during the Salvadoran Civil War.   Part II. The History Behind Black History Month Guest: Gerald Horn is John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of African American History at the University of Houston. He has published more than three dozen books, including The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, Jazz and Justice, and his latest, The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America, and The Bittersweet Science: racism, racketeering , and the political economy of boxing.   The post Finding the Disappeared Children of the War in El Salvador & The History Behind Black History Month appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Siddharth Kara is Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University, and a Senior Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.  He is the author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. The post From King Leopold II To Big Teach: The Plundering of The Congo & The Invention of Modern Day Slavery appeared first on KPFA.

  Guest: David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), the Director of Research at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and the author of numerous books including, Marx, Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Spaces of Global Capitalism, A Companion to Marx’s Capital, and his latest, A Companion to Marx’s Grundrisse. The post David Harvey on Karl Marx’s Grundrisse appeared first on KPFA.

I. German Rearmament  Guest: Stephen Milder is Assistant Professor of European Politics and Society at the University of Groningen and a Research Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich. He is the author of Greening Democracy: The Anti-Nuclear Movement in West Germany and Beyond, 1968-1983.   II. The History of Policing Powers Guest: Erwin Chemerinsky is the dean of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.  He is the author of many books including, Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights.   Photo Wikimedia: About 100,000 people protest against the use of nuclear power in Bonn, capital city of West Germany, 1979.   The post German Rearmament & The History of Policing Powers appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Jamie Kreiner is a professor of history at the University of Georgia. She is the author of several books including her latest, The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction.       The post Our Wandering Minds: A History of what Early Christian Monks Learned about Distraction  appeared first on KPFA.

  Guest: Benjamin T. Smith  is a professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick. He specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century politics, land, indigenous groups, Catholicism, journalism, violence and the war on drugs.  He is the author of several books including his latest, The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade.     The post How The US-Mexican Drug War Inflamed The Violence & Increased Profits appeared first on KPFA.

Part I. The Answer to The Debt Ceiling Standoff  Guest: James K. Galbraith is Professor of Government and Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a former staff economist for the House Banking Committee and a former executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress.  He is the author of Inequality: What Everyone Needs to Know (2016) and Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe (2016).   Part II. The Making of American Capitalism Guest: Edward E. Baptist is a professor of history at Cornell University. Author of the award-winning Creating an Old South and The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism.   Feature photo by Adam Nir on Unsplash   The post The Answer to the Debt-Ceiling Standoff & Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Frank Costigliola is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of The Kennan Diaries, Roosevelt’s Lost Alliances, and his latest, Kennan: A Life between Worlds. The post George Kennan: The Architect of the Cold War Who Opposed the War appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Nick Tabor is a freelance journalist. He is the author of Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created. The post A History of Africatown appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Glory Liu is a lecturer in social studies at Harvard University. She is the author of Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism.     The post How Adam Smith Became A Capitalist Icon appeared first on KPFA.