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Guest: Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History at the University of Washington and the author of Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation, and most recently, Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State.  The post Anarchists & Communists In Asia’s Anti-Colonialist Movements appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Valerie Hansen is the Stanley Woodward Professor of History at Yale University, where she teaches Chinese and world history.  She is the author of The Silk Road: A New History and The Open Empire, her latest is The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World, and Globalization Began. The post The Origins of Globalization Including the Creation of Kievan Rus’ appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Christian Smith is an independent researcher based in Berlin and he is the author of the book Shakespeare’s Influence on Karl Marx: The Shakespearean Roots of Marxism. Photo: Canaletto on Wikimedia The post Marx & Shakespeare In Love: How Shakespeare Influenced Marx & What Marxism Says About Shakespeare appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Andrew Feinstein is Founding Director of Shadow World Investigations. He is the author of The Shadow World and After the Party and he was the writer for the 2016 documentary film also called The Shadow World. The post The Money and Guns Behind The War appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1. The Politics Behind Confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Guest: John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for The Nation and author of several books including Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis. Part 2. Sentencing Child Pornographers Guest: Alissa Ackerman is a professor of criminal justice at CSU Fullerton and a sex crimes expert. She is cohost of the podcast Beyond Fear and author of Healing from Sexual Violence: the Case for Vicarious Restorative Justice. The post The Politics Behind Confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson & Sentencing Child Pornographers appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Richard Wolff is a renown Marxist economist and host of Economic Update. He also teaches at the New School University and is the co-founder of Democracy At Work.   Photo credit: Richard Wolff at the People’s Forum, 2018. The post Richard Wolff on a New Era of Financial Warfare appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1. Another View of the War with Medea Benjamin. Guest: Medea Benjamin is an Anti-War activist and co-founder of Code Pink. She is the author of Drone Warfare (OR Books, 2012), Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection (OR Books, 2016), and, Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran (OR Books, June 11, 2021). Part 2. After The Revolution: Leon Trotsky Guest: Bertrand M. Patenaude author of the book Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary. He is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a lecturer in history and international relations at Stanford University author of the book Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary.  This interview first aired on KPFA in 2012 The post Anti-War Activist Medea Benjamin with Another View of the War appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Bill Weinberg is an award-winning 30-year veteran journalist in the fields of human rights, indigenous peoples, drug policy, ecology and war.  He is the author of Homage to Chiapas: The New Indigenous Struggles in Mexico (Verso Books, 2000), among other books.  He covers world affairs as he describes from a dissident-left point of view on his website and podcast  CounterVortex.org.  He was also a 20 year producer at Pacifica Radio Station WBAI in New York.   Photo by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash The post A Leftist Critique on the Anti-War Left Concerning Ukraine appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Dr. Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston.  His research has addressed issues of racism in a variety of relations involving labor, politics, civil rights, international relations and war. He is the author of several books including his latest, The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century. He has a piece at The Black Agenda Report called From Crisis to Catastrophe? What is to be Done in Eastern Europe? The post Another View on the War in Ukraine with Gerald Horne appeared first on KPFA.

Part 1. Two Views on YouTube Banning RT America Guest: Lee Camp hosted the program on RT America called Redacted Tonight.  He was laid off after RT America shut down on March 1st after it was dropped by numerous cable and satellite providers.  Spotify also stopped platforming his podcast.  He still has a YouTube page dedicated to his show called Moment of Clarity with Lee Camp.   Part 2: Another Perspective on YouTube Banning RT America Guest: Jessica González is the co-CEO of the media activist group Free Press.  She is also the co-founder of the campaign Change The Terms that has been advocating for RT’s removal from YouTube.   Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash The post Two Views on YouTube Banning RT America appeared first on KPFA.