Catherine Belton, a veteran reporter on Russia, joins us to discuss her latest book Putins People

0:08 – It’s likely the fed will raise interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point, which is the most severe hike since 1994, and this has wide ranging ramifications. We discuss the economy and how the interest rate hike will impact every-day people with Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood), an economic journalist and host of KPFA’s “Behind the News,” which airs Thursdays at Noon.

0:33 – Michael Mark Cohen (@LilBillHaywood), professor of African American Studies and American Studies at UC Berkeley joins us to discuss his book The Conspiracy of Capital: Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly. This interview originally aired in 2019.

1:08 – Catherine Belton (@CatherineBelton), is a reporter on Russia for the Washington Post, and from 2007 to 2013 was the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times. We discuss her book Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia, and Then Took on the West.

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