https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L18NjaGfs5o&t=23s Guest: Dr. Keisha N. Blain [1] is an award-winning historian of the 20th century United States with broad  interests in African American History, the modern African Diaspora, and  Women’s and Gender Studies. She is an Associate Professor of History at the University of  Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society.  She is the author of the book Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America [2]. On Twitter (@keishablain), and on Instagram (@keishanblain). [1] http://keishablain.com/ [2] http://www.beacon.org/Until-I-Am-Free-P1725.aspx

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Fannie Lou Hamer: A Life

Guest: Carola Dietze is Professor for Modern History (Chair) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany.  She is the author of  the book, The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States.

A History of Terrorism: The Assassination of an Emperor, a Tsar and a Slave Master

Part I. The U.S. Media Coverage of the Ukraine-Russia Crisis Guest: Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” and  "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State" (just published in a new edition as a free e-book at MadeLoveGotWar.org).  He was a Bernie Sanders delegate from California to the 2016 and 2020 Democratic National Conventions. Part II. The Ancient Forms of Government & The the Creation of the U.S. Constitution Guest: Thomas E. Ricks is a journalist and author who specializes in the military and national security issues. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as part of teams from the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. He is the author of the latest book, First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country. 

The U.S. Media Coverage of the Ukraine-Russia Crisis & The Creation of the U.S. Constitution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OId-VgNefIA Guest: Joshua Myers [1]is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University.  He is the author of We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 [2](2019) and his latest, Cedric Robinson: The Time of the Black Radical Tradition [3](2021), as well as the editor of A Gathering Together: Literary Journal. [4] [1] https://www.joshmmyers.com/ [2] https://nyupress.org/9781479811755/we-are-worth-fighting-for/ [3] https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=cedric-robinson-the-time-of-the-black-radical-tradition--9781509537914 [4] https://www.joshmmyers.com/a-gathering-together

Cedric Robinson and the Black Radical Tradition

Guest: Peter Richardson is a writer who has written critically acclaimed books about the Grateful Dead, the iconic rock band; Ramparts magazine, the legendary San Francisco muckraker; and Carey McWilliams, the radical author, journalist, and editor of The Nation magazine. His latest book is Savage Journey: Hunter S. Thompson and the Weird Road to Gonzo [1].   [1] https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520304925/savage-journey

Hunter S. Thompson: from New Journalist to Gonzo Journalism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbJ2sDDTTCc 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. Photo: Emmett Till, 13-years-old, on Christmas Day, 1954. Photograph taken by Mamie Till Bradley on Wikipedia

Gerald Horne on the Militant Origins of Black History Month

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTjLGLNOF0c Part I. Guest: Chris Hedges is the former Middle East bureau chief of the New York Times, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a columnist at ScheerPost [1].  He is the author of several books, including America: The Farewell Tour [2], American Fascists [3] and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning [4].  His latest piece Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," [5]a century later can be found here [6]. Part II:  The rural-urban divide overtaking the national conversation: The Nebraska Political Landscape  Guest: Ross Benes is the award-winning author of several books, his latest is Rural Rebellion: How Nebraska Became a Republican Stronghold [7]. He is a contributor to the Nation magazine.   Photo credit: Geoffrey Barker - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=114486259     [1] https://scheerpost.com/category/chris-hedges/ [2] https://bookshop.org/a/2464/9781501152689 [3] https://bookshop.org/a/2464/9780743284462 [4] https://bookshop.org/a/2464/9781610393591 [5] https://www.salon.com/2022/02/01/heeding-the-lessons-of-james-joyces-ulysses-a-century-later/ [6] https://www.salon.com/writer/chris_hedges [7] https://kansaspress.ku.edu/978-0-7006-3045-5.html

Chris Hedges on James Joyce’s “Ulysses”

Guest: Edward H. Miller is associate teaching professor at Northeastern University.  He is the author of Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy [1] (2015), and his latest,  A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism [2] (2022).   [1] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo19197692.html [2] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo123795778.html

The Roots of American Conservatism: Robert Welch & the John Birch Society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo34-B5EXYw Guest: Rt. Rev. Marc Handley Andrus [1] is the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California [2]. Prior to his election as Bishop of California, Rev. Andrus served as Bishop Suffragan in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.  His leadership has focused on key issues related to peace and justice, including immigration reform, civil rights for LBGTQ+ persons, health care, and climate change.  He is the author of Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr. [3] (Parallax, 2021). Featured image: Thich Nhat Hanh Foundation [1] https://www.diocal.org/bishop-marc [2] https://www.diocal.org/ [3] https://www.parallax.org/product/brothers-in-the-beloved-community/

The Buddhist and The Christian: When Thich Nhat Hanh Met Martin Luther King Jr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B5XpMlp1oE Guest: Katrina Vanden Heuvel is editorial director and publisher of The Nation and a columnist for The Washington Post.  She is the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama, and co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev’s Reformers.  Her latest piece in the Nation is The Exit From the Ukraine Crisis That’s Hiding in Plain Sight: A 2015 agreement between Russia and Ukraine can provide the best chance at a lasting peace. [1] Feature photo: Wikimedia [1] https://www.thenation.com/article/world/the-exit-from-the-ukraine-crisis-thats-hiding-in-plain-sight/

Katrina Vanden Heuvel on the Ukrainian/Russia/NATO Crisis

Guest: Mickey Huff is the director of Project Censored [1], founded in 1976, and the president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation.  Since 2009, he has coedited the annual volume of the Censored book series. His most recent books include United States of Distraction: [2] Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (and what we can do about it), co-authored with Nolan Higdon (2019) and Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2021 [3], co-edited with Andy Lee Roth (2020).  He is also the host of KPFA Pacifica Radio weekly show Project Censored [4]. [1] https://www.projectcensored.org/ [2] http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100388060 [3] https://www.project-censored.org/shop/p/project-censored-2021-state-of-the-free-press [4] https://kpfa.org/program/project-censored/

Project Censored’s State of the Free Press

Guest: Maureen Ferran is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Viral Researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology. New York State.  Her latest article, CORBEVAX, a new patent-free COVID-19 vaccine, could be a pandemic game changer globally  [1]can be found in the Conversation. Photo by Daniel Schludi [2] on Unsplash [3] [1] https://theconversation.com/corbevax-a-new-patent-free-covid-19-vaccine-could-be-a-pandemic-game-changer-globally-174672 [2] https://unsplash.com/@schluditsch?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText [3] https://unsplash.com/s/photos/covid-vaccine?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText

Omicron: Subvariant BA.2 & CORBEVAX

Part I.  The Russia-Ukraine Crisis and the West  Guest: Mel Goodman [1] is a national security and intelligence expert.  He is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC, and an adjunct professor of international relations at Johns Hopkins University.   Part II. The Politics of Justice Breyer's Retirement Guest: Ruth Conniff is Editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner and Editor-at-Large of the Progressive Magazine.   Photo by Israel Palacio on Unsplash [1] https://melvingoodman.com/

Russia-Ukraine, NATO and the U.S. & The Politics of Justice Breyer’s Retirement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRGjWn5v58E Guest: Marc Morris is a historian and broadcaster specializing in the Middle Ages. He is the author of A Great and Terrible King, King John, The Norman Conquest, and his latest, The Anglo-Saxons: The Making of England: 410-1066.

The Anglo-Saxons & The Making of England

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyqb7AwAcP4&t=2s Guest: Rebecca Wragg Sykes [1] is an archaeologist, author and Honorary Fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.  Her new book, KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art [2]  won the 2021 PEN Hessell-Tiltman prize for history; awarded Book of the Year by Current Archaeology; selected as one of 2021's 100 Notable Books by The New York Times.  She is co-founder of the influential TrowelBlazers [3] project, highlighting women in archaeology and the earth sciences. [1] https://www.rebeccawraggsykes.com/ [2] https://www.rebeccawraggsykes.com/book [3] https://trowelblazers.com/

The Neanderthal: Love, Art & Culture

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