"Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005
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Just added to the radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:
January 26, 2006 Stephenie Hendricks, author of Divine Destruction, on the anti-environmentalist Wise Use movement and the Christian right * Ron Arnold, Wise Use guru and a prime target of Hendricks' book, responds * Alex Gourevitch and Aziz Rana of the Against the War on Terror blog, on problems with both the WoT and its critics
January 19, 2006 Dan Lazare, author most recently of The Velvet Coup, on the Supreme Court and our dysfunctional "democracy" (partial rebroadcast of September 8 interview) * Dean Baker of the Center for Economic & Policy Research on the housing bubble.
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December 15, 2005 Leslie Harris, co-editor of Slavery in New York, on the peculiar institution in Gotham * bonus audio: classic WBAI clips from Julius Lester and Samori Marksman
December 8, 2005 Heather Boushey of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, on how women are not opting out of employment * Jonathan Tasini on his primary challenge to Sen. Hillary Clinton
December 1, 2005 Anatol Lieven on why decadent America must renounce its empire * Heather Rogers, author of Gone Tomorrow, on garbage and capitalism
November 17, 2005 Historian Bethany Moreton, contributor to Wal-Mart: The Face of 21st Century Capitalism, on the role of Ozark culture in the emergence of Wal-Mart (and The Nation's amazing switch on chain stores over the last 70 years) * Bruce Lawrence, editor of Messages to the World, a collection of Osama bin Laden's writings, on the ogre's thinking and prose style
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George Galloway on Iraq, imperialism, and the colonial mind * Michael Eric Dyson on black class tensions * David Roediger the whitening of "new immigrants" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries * Beverly Wright on New Orleans, the Delta, and the geographies of race and toxicity * Sam Gindin on the auto crisis and auto workers * Jagdish Bhatwati on globalization * Barbara Ehrenreich on middle class horrors * Bill Fletcher on war and peace * Sarah Stillman on feminism at Yale * 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 * Richard Gott on Hugo Chavez * Anatol Lieven on Iraq, Chechnya, US nationalism * Cynthia Enloe on masculinity in the Bush administration (and oil) * Joel Kovel, editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism, on the psychology and politics of Israel and Zionism * Laura Carlsen on the Zapatistas * Carlos Mejia, deserter from Iraq, on war, imperialism, dissent * Laura Flanders on Bushwomen * Gary Indiana on Arnie * 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 * Devah Pager on prison, race, and the job market * Robert Fatton on Haiti * Elizabeth Warren on bankruptcy * Chip Berlet on conspiracism * 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)
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