September 11, 2003 9/11 show, sorta: Ruy Teixeira on George Bush's poll numbers two years after the WTC went down * Nicole Speulda of the Pew Center on foreign attitudes towards the U.S. * Leslie Kauffman of UFPJ on Cancun and the state of activism today
September 4, 2003 Yale prof Michael Denning on the strike against the university (ignore promise of Laura Smith at beginning of show - she didn't answer her phone) * Heather Boushey on the disappearance of the jobs that ex-welfare recipients were supposed to fill * Sharon Beder, author of Power Play, on the worldwide privatization and deregulation of electricity
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August 28, 2003 return after vacation, blackout, and fundraising pre-emptions: Michael Albert on Parecon (participatory economics) * Christian Parenti on his visit to Iraq
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
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* 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 * Michael Hudson, author of a report on the sleazy world of "subprime" finance * Patrick Mason on the economics of racial discrimination * Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper, on Blair's political troubles * Hamid Dabashi on Iran * 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