"Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005
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After a month's fundraising-induced hiatus...just added to the radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:
March 23, 2006 Judith Levine, author of Not Buying It, on giving up overconsumption for a year * Marie Trigona, author of this article, on worker-run businesses in Argentina (and check out her collective's new video site)
March 16, 2006 Ruy Teixera on Bush's dismal poll numbers * Christian Parenti on Afghanistan (with some additional material on Iraq and the contradictions of empire)
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February 9, 2006 Truncated fundraiser edition. About a third of the broadcast show was taken up with begging for money to support WBAI. Here's the substance minus the pleas: an interview with Robert Fitch on his book Solidarity for Sale, about the role of corruption in the sad decline of American unions.
February 2, 2006 Isaac Shapiro of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on the U.S. wealth distribution and on Bush fiscal policy * Steve Kretzman of Oil Change International on Bush's surreal comments on getting over our oil addiction
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
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George Galloway, pre-reality TV, 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 * Bethany Moreton on Wal-Mart & Ozark culture (and The Nation's amazing shift on chain stores) * Jagdish Bhatwati on globalization * Barbara Ehrenreich on middle class horrors * Heather Rogers on garbage & capitalism * Bill Fletcher on war and peace * Sarah Stillman on feminism at Yale * Leslie Harris on slavery in New York * Slavoj Zizek on war, imperialism, and fantasy * Naomi Klein on Argentina and the global justice movement * Susie Bright on sex and politics * Bruce Lawrence, editor of Messages to the World, on Osama's thoughts and prose * Matt Taibbi on covering the 2004 campaign, and the dismal state of American politics and media * Richard Gott on Hugo Chavez * Anatol Lieven (several times) on Iraq, Chechnya, US nationalism, and why the US must give up its empire * 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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