* March 27, 2003 DH on politics and economics of war * contributors to Implicating Empire, on war, globalization, fundamentalism, and legitimacy: Heather Gautney (co-editor), Pete Bratsis, Michael Hardt, Ellen Willis
* March 13, 2003 DH on why a show mostly not about war * Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer, authors of Dead Heat, on global warming * Mickey Z, editor of The Murdering of My Years, on how artists & activist make ends meet without selling out
* March 6, 2003 Ahmet Tonak on the political economy of Turkey & the war * Susie Bright, editor of The Best American Erotica 2003 [ignore promises at the top of the show that Ed Vulliamy would be on; he had quietly skipped off to DC to cover Bush's press conference]
They join:
* February 13, 2003 MARATHON SPECIAL: IF A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, WHAT MIGHT IT LOOK LIKE? Walden Bello on the World Social Forum (WSF) and rural development * Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and Fences and Windows, on how Argentines are taking governance and businesses into their own hands and the arrested adolescence of the globalization movement * Njoki Njehu, director of the U.S. 50 Years Is Enough campaign, on the global justice movement and peace
...and...
* Joseph Stiglitz on the IMF and the Wall St-Treasury axis * William Pepper on the state-sponsored assasination of Martin Luther King * Sara Roy on the Palestinian economy * Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, and Cynthia Enloe on the then-impending war with Iraq * Michael Hardt on Empire * Judith Levine on kids & sex * Christopher Hitchens on Orwell and his new political affiliations * Mark Hertsgaard on the U.S. image abroad * Ghada Karmi on her search for her Palestinian roots * Jonathan Nitzan on the Israeli economy * Alexandra Robbins on Skull & Bones