August 28, 2003 return after vacation, blackout, and fundraising pre-emptions: Michael Albert on Parecon (participatory economics) * Christian Parenti on his visit to Iraq
it joins -------- July 31, 2003 Ken Sherrill of the Hunter College poli sci department, on the perils of nonpartisan elections * nurse-practitioner Helen Ruddy-Brachman on the perils of Medicare reform
July 24, 2003 labor law professor Marc Linder on work hours and the lack of pee breaks * Chris Carlsson on the bicycle anarcho-activists of Critical Mass
July 17, 2003 Faye Wattleton, director of the Center for the Advancement of women, on a poll of American women * Anatol Lieven on postwar Iraq * Michael Shifter of Inter-American Dialogue on Bush & Latin America
July 10, 2003 George Monbiot on global governance (and why the WTO isn't so evil) * author and ctivist Marta Russell on the UN conference on disability
July 3, 2003 Berkeley geographer Richard Walker on the geography of the boom and bust * DH on the mess we're in with some listener phone calls on the topic
June 19, 2003 Patrick Mason on the economics of racial discrimination * Isabel Cole on dissident Americans abroad (click here for the website) * Kim Schaffer on housing affordability
June 12, 2003 Michael Hudson, author of a report on the sleazy world of "subprime" finance
June 5, 2003 Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper, on Blair's political troubles * Hamid Dabashi on Iran
along with ----------
* Nina Revoyr on the history of Los Angeles, real and fictional * Bill Fletcher on war and peace * Slavoj Zizek on war, imperialism, and fantasy * 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