Philip Kraske

• Philip Kraske's website (http://www.philipkraske.com/kraske-fiction/)

• Author Page at Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/Philip-Kraske/e/B003ASPMAM)
  

"I was born in Detroit, lived my formative years in Ohio and Minnesota, and stayed in America long enough to get in the basic rituals of high school and college. I graduated from the U of Minnesota/Twin Cities with a B.A. in International Relations. I settled permanently in Madrid in the 80s and keep my bread buttered by teaching English courses on a freelance basis in Spanish companies.  I give an hour, maybe two, of class, then pack up my briefcase and leave behind my students clinched to their computer screens; I can never be too grateful to teaching.  I usually have just one or two classes in the morning, then sit down to write between the hours of 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. (the Spanish lunch hour), since at that time Spaniards are too busy raising company profits to ponder the mysteries of the verb Get. I also publish satirical verse – op-eds, really – about domestic and international politics, on my own and different progressive websites in the U.S. I used to write normal op-eds, but branched into this new form a few years ago and enjoy it much more."—Philip Kraske

Book

[Please be aware that this book contains "strong language" and material of a sexual nature.]

• A Legacy of Chains and Other Stories, via Amazon.co.uk (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Legacy-Chains-Other-Stories/dp/1927664179/)

• A Legacy of Chains and Other Stories, via Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Chains-Other-Stories/dp/1927664179/)

Items mentioned in / relevant to the interview

• TMR 226 : Philip Kraske : 11/9 and the Terrorist Who Loved Bonsai Trees

• Sydney H. Shanberg, "Why Has John McCain Blocked Info on MIAs?", The Nation (18 September 2008)

• "Missing in Action: Will We Ever Know the Truth Behind the Vietnam Live-POW Claims?", M-VETS, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University (2018)

• "US Baffled by Yeltsin's POW Disclosure", The Washington Post (1992)

• Vietnam War POW/MIA issue (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War_POW/MIA_issue)

• Robert Garwood (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Garwood)

• "Pentagon Releases Videos of Osama bin Laden", Associated Press YouTube channel (07 May 2011)

• Jacques Ellul, Propaganda : the Formation of Men's Attitudes, (1962)

• On the Stratfor "leak": "Was Osama Bin Laden Really Buried At Sea?", Huffington Post (06 March 2012)
  

 Acknowledgements

• Podcast theme music: Chillout Me by Antony Raijekov from Jazz U album (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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