The tranche of shows Doug just posted are really top notch. The show with the Nomi Prins and Anatol Lieven interviews is stunningly intelligent radio
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#041118
If you ever liked their arguments, you'll love these interviews. Both of them are the top of their game. I was glad I had it on recording so I could rewind a couple of parts and listen again.
But the interview I want to go out of my way to recommend is the one hour interview with Christian Parenti on Afghanistan and Iraq:
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#041111
mainly because by this point there is a tendency even on the part of news addicts (and perhaps especially on the part of news addicts) to start skipping over grand one hour overview stories on these wars because we feel so saturated with information that it seems almost impossible that there is any large scale narrative we haven't heard before, especially when the first hand experience is already months old.
But Christian really does bring back something new. His discussion here with Doug is the first thing I've ever heard that presents a convincingly plausible picture of what makes the Iraqi resistance tick and what makes it a unity. And because it's an emotional unity -- which Christian pitch perfectly translates into terms an American can vividly understand -- I'm actually not sure it could be communicated in well in writing as well as it's done here in speech. It's exciting to listen to, and its full of Aha moments, when things that never made any damn sense seem suddenly perfectly intelligible.
It'll certainly make washing the dishes go faster!
Michael