The shows are:
September 12, 2002 Mohau Pheko looks back at the World Summit for Sustainable Development and forward with the movement that was energized by protesting it * two pundits from the hyperestablishment Council on Foreign Relations, Rachel Bronson and David Phillips, sing intellectual backup to Bush's war beat
September 5, 2002 political economist Sungur Savran reports from Instanbul on the state of Turkey * Heather Boushey, co-author of The State of Working America, on the material welfare of the U.S. population
August 29, 2002 Patrick Bond and Dennis Brutus report from Johannesburg on the World Summit for Sustainable Development, and the huge and repressed protests against it * Marc Linder, radical scholar of labor law at the University of Iowa, on U.S. wage and hour law and practice
NOW IN LOW BANDWIDTH! Files are available in two flavors of MP3 - streaming and downloadable. Initially, only 48kbps versions were posted, but many people don't have the bandwidth to handle it. So, new shows will also be available is 16kbps as well, which offers lower sound quality, but should be well within the capacity of most dialups. Low-fi versions of older shows will be added in coming weeks.
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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
* Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire, in two interviews, one from 2000 and one from 2002.
* 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
* Sharon Zukin and Michael Sorkin, talking about where the World Trade Center came from and what might take its place
* 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