October 14, 2004 Sebastian Mallaby, author of The World's Banker, on James Wolfensohn and the institution he heads, The World Bank * Patrick McCully of the International Rivers Network responds to Mallaby's claims about IRN and NGOs in general
October 7, 2004 Njoki Njehu of the 50 Years is Enough campaign on the World Bank/IMF meeting and the state of the global justice movement * Corey Robin, author of Fear, on the political uses of anxiety
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September 30, 2004 Seth Kleinman of PFC Energy on $50 oil and the production peak a decade or two in the future * DH on presidential economics and an early version of a piece on Gallup's Republican bias (available on the LBO website) * Glen Ford of The Black Commentator on the importance of beating Bush even though the Dems are awful
September 23, 2004 Michael Hardt, co-author with Antonio Negri of Multitude, on their follow-up to the international smash hit Empire
September 16, 2004 Mark Levitan of the Community Service Society on poverty in New York City * Carol Brightman, author of Total Insecurity, on war, empire, and the myth of American omnipotence
September 9, 2004 Anatol Lieven on the Beslan massacre and the Chechen crisis * DH on green GDP accounting in China & Bloomberg's smoking ban * Sylvia Allegretto of EPI on The State of Working America
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* Chalmers Johnson on the U.S. empire * Jagdish Bhatwati on globalization * Bill Fletcher on war and peace * Slavoj Zizek on war, imperialism, and fantasy * Naomi Klein on Argentina and the arrested political development of the global justice movement * Ralph Nader, at the Council on Foreign Relations, on foreign policy * Susie Bright on sex and politics * Richard Burkholder of Gallup on that firm's Iraq polls * Anatol Lieven on Iraq * Frank Newport of Gallup on polling * Cynthia Enloe on masculinity in the Bush administration (and oil) * Laura Flanders on Bushwomen * Carlos Mejia, deserter from Iraq * Norman Kelley on the crisis in black politics * Joseph Stiglitz on the IMF and the Wall St-Treasury axis * Lisa Jervis on feminism & pop culture * Nina Revoyr on the history of Los Angeles, real and fictional * Joel Schalit on anti-Semitism * Robert Fatton on Haiti * Gary Younge on a foreign journalist's view of the U.S. * Ursula Huws on work and why capitalism has avoided crisis * Michael Albert on participatory economics (parecon) * Marta Russell on the UN conference on disability * Corey Robin on the neocons * Sara Roy on the Palestinian economy * Christian Parenti on Iraq and surveillance * Michael Hardt on Empire (several times, the last June 2004) * 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
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