The shows are:
August 22, 2002 DH on Jack Grubman & the telecoms bubble * Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, editors, After the World Trade Center, talking about where those buildings came from and what might take their place
April 4, 2002 Greg Palast, author The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, on the Florida election scandal, the World Bank, and the journalism racket. * Norman Finkelstein, author of The Holocaust Industry and Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, on the most recent round of crisis.
The interview is with Michael Hardt from December 2000, before Empire became a phenom.
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There are now nine full shows and five individual interviews in the archive. Highlights include:
* Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel-prize-winning former chief economist of the World Bank, on the U.S. economy, maldevelopment, and why it might be a good idea to shut the IMF rather than try to reform it
* Judith Levine, author of Harmful to Minors, talking about kids, sex, and the national panic over their connections
* Gilberto Buenano, Vice Minister of Planning and Regional Development in the government of Venezuela, talks about the coup attempt against the Chavez government, and what they're trying to do that's so annoyed Washington and the local elite
* Bill Wolman and Anne Colamosca, talking about their book, The Great 401(k) Hoax - how the new pension system screws workers and lets employers off the hook
* Chris Kraus and Sylvere Lotringer, editors, Hatred of Capitalism, a collection of pieces, many of which first appeared in Semiotext(e), on economics, culture, and the hatred of capitalism, of which we're all a part.
* Michael Perelman (economist and author, Steal This Idea) on intellectual property rights
* Robert Brenner, author of The Boom and the Bubble, talking about boom and bust
* Gore Vidal, talking about war, civil liberties, and the popular taste for repression
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The files are streaming and downloadable .mp3s, at 48kbps.
Doug