December 30, 2004 Leslie McCall, professor of sociology & women's studies at Rutgers, on inequality in the U.S.
December 23, 2004 Maya Rockeymoore of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, on Social Security privatization's risk to black Americans * Merrill Goozner, author of The $800 Million Pill, on the Vioxx recall and related matters
December 9, 2004 Bertha Lewis, co-chair of the Working Families Party, on their major role in raising the New York State minimum wage and lowering maximum drug sentences * Jamie Galbraith on the U.S. dollar and such
November 18, 2004 Nomi Prins, author of Other People's Money, on Wall Street & corporate American in the 1990s * Anatol LIeven, author of America Right or Wrong, on American nationalism
November 11, 2004 Christian Parenti, author of The Freedom: Shadows & Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, on his reporting in Afghanistan and Iraq
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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 * 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 * 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 * 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