May 22, 2003 Bill Fletcher, of United for Peace and Justice and the Trans-Africa Forum, on the connections between imperial war and domestic austerity and organizing agaisnt both * Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire, on Bush & Empire, and the global justice movement(s) * Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, on election 2004, the reconstruction of Iraq, and the media
May 8, 2003 DH on economic news * Howard Wachtel, author of Street of Dreams, on the history of Wall Street * Heather Boushey of the Center for Economic & Policy Research, on child care arrangements, and the general state of the job market
They join:
May 1, 2003 DH on economic news (more on jobs, confidence, Greenspan) * Nina Revoyr, on the social history of Los Angeles, its charms as a subject, and her novel Southland * Robin Hahnel, author of The ABCs of Political Economy, on mainstream theory, its faults, and a better way
April 17, 2003 Cultural theorist and philosopher Slavoj Zizek on the Iraq war, American imperialism, the role of fantasy in politics, etc.
April 10, 2003 Bill Fletcher, one of the principal organizers of United for Peace and Justice, in a return engagement on the antiwar movement after the war ends * Gilberto Buenaño, professor of planning and former minister in the Venezuelan government, on what's going on in that belaguered country * former investment banker (and LBO author) Nomi Prins on the contracting bonanza in Iraq
* April 3, 2003 Bill Fletcher, one of the principal organizers of United for Peace and Justice, on the future of the antiwar movement * Raad AlKadiri of PFC Energy on Iraq & oil * Bathsheeba Crocker of CSIS on postwar Iraq
...and...
* Susie Bright on sex and politics * Joseph Stiglitz on the IMF and the Wall St-Treasury axis * Naomi Klein on Argentina and the arrested political development of the global justice movement * 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 * Walden Bello on the World Social Forum and alternative development models * 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
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