Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:
July 7, 2005 Laura Carlsen of IRC (and frequent Counterpunch contributor) on the Zapatista's new tack * Bill Fletcher of TransAfrica on Bush and aid and Africa in the world (and a bit about the AFL-CIO)
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June 30, 2005 Devah Pager, a sociologist at Princeton, reports on experiments showing a white ex-con has an easier time in the job market than a black who's never done time * Jonathan Tasini, keeper of the Working Life blog, on the possible split in the AFL-CIO
June 23, 2005 Michael Eric Dyson, author of Is Bill Cosby Right?, on class tensions among black Americans * Christian Parenti on Bolivia and the state of the empire
June 9, 2005 Moustafa Bayoumi on the misunderstood, misnamed "cedar revolution" in Lebanon (which he wrote about in the LRB) * Joel Kovel, editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism, on the psychology and politics of Israel and Zionism
May 19, 2005 MARATHON SPECIAL: rock & roll sociologist Donna Gaines and "Athena" on the campaign to save CBGBs * Biju Mathew, author of Taxi!, and Rizwan Raja, on organizing cabbies in NYC
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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 global justice movement * Susie Bright on sex and politics * Matt Taibbi on covering the 2004 campaign, and the dismal state of American politics and media * Anatol Lieven on Iraq, Chechnya, US nationalism * Cynthia Enloe on masculinity in the Bush administration (and oil) * Carlos Mejia, deserter from Iraq, on war, imperialism, dissent * Laura Flanders on Bushwomen * Steve Fraser on the cultural/political history of Wall Street * Jennifer Washburn on the corporate university * $pread magazine staffers on sex work * Norman Kelley on the crisis in black politics * Joseph Stiglitz on the IMF and the Wall St-Treasury axis * Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin, authors of Citizen Girl and The Nanny Diaries, on gender, work, and the satiric novel * Jennifer Gordon on suburban sweatshops * Lisa Jervis on feminism & pop culture * Joel Schalit on anti-Semitism * Robert Fatton on Haiti * Elizabeth Warren on bankruptcy * Gary Younge on a foreign journalist's view of the U.S. * Simon Head on Wal-Mart * Ursula Huws on work and why capitalism has avoided crisis * Michael Albert on participatory economics (parecon) * Marta Russell on the UN conference on disability * Sara Roy on the Palestinian economy * Michael Hardt on Empire (several times) * Walden Bello on the World Social Forum and alternative development models
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