KPFA - Letters and Politics

Guest: Robert Pollin is Distinguished Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is author of several books including his latest, Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet, co-authored with Noam Chomsky.   Photo by Giovanni Gagliardi on Unsplash The post Financial Warfare in a Neoliberal World appeared first on KPFA.

Guest:  William Dalrymple is a Scottish historian and award wining author of several books including,  In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal and, most recently, The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire.  The post The Corporate Origins of Colonialism appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Vijay Prashad is the Director of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research which describes itself as an international, movement-driven institution focused on stimulating intellectual debate that serves people’s aspirations.  He is also the author of such books as The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, and his latest, Washington Bullets.   Photo by Miha Rekar on Unsplash The post KPFA Special -Vijay Prashad: Another View on the War In Ukraine appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Yuliya Yurchenko is Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability Institute, University of Greenwich, UK.  She is author of the book, Ukraine and the Empire of Capital: from Marketisation to the Armed Conflict (2018) Pluto Press.   The post KPFA Special – Ukrainian Marxist Fighting For Her Home appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Tony Wood is a political and social historian most recently, of modern Latin America. His current work focuses on transnational radical debates on race, class, and nation in the 1920s and 1930s, tracing connections between Mexico, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. Wood is an specialist on Russia and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and is the author of Chechnya: The Case for Independence, and Russia without Putin: Money, Power and the Myths of the New Cold War. The post KPFA Special – A Recent History of Russia, Ukraine, and the West appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Adam Hochschild is the author of several books including, King Leopold’s Ghost, To End All Wars, and Spain In Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 among others. The post KPFA Special – A History of the Spanish Civil War, the Rise of Fascism in Spain, and the Infighting Among the Left appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is the author of several books including, Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment, Stalin: Passage to Revolution, and They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide. The post KPFA Special – Stalin: from Revolutionary to Authoritarian appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Ronald Grigor Suny is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Michigan and professor emeritus of political science and history at the University of Chicago. His many books include They Can Live in the Desert but Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide (Princeton); The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, Stalin: Passage to Revolution, and his latest, Stalinism and the Fate of the Soviet Experiment (Princeton).   The post KPFA Special – Kievan Rus To The Fall of The Soviet Union: A History of Ukraine appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Anthony D’Agostino, Professor of History at San Francisco State University, and author of The Rise of Global Powers: International Politics in the Era of the World Wars.   Thank you for Supporting KPFA! Donate Now The post KPFA Special – The Historical Meaning of The Current Russian Invasion of Ukraine appeared first on KPFA.

Guest: Bertrand M. Patenaude 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. The post KPFA Special – After The Revolution: Leon Trotsky appeared first on KPFA.