"Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005
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Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:
October 5, 2006 George McGovern and William Polk, authors of Out of Iraq, on how to accomplish that quickly. Most of this show, part of WBAI's fall marathon, was taken up with pleas for contributions; this interview was the substantive content. If you like these shows, and want to keep them coming, please pledge <https://www.wbai.org/cart/> to WBAI.
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September 28, 2006 Todd Tucker, research director of Public Citizen, on the misuses of Chile as a neoliberal model * Sylvia Allegretto of the Economic Policy Institute, co-author of the State of Working America, in a return appearance to talk about U.S. inequality and poverty in comparison to other countries
September 21, 2006 Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler, founding editors of Bitch, on Bitchfest, the anthology of articles gathered from that magazine * Nomi Prins, author of Jacked, on how the right-wing has ripped us off
September 14, 2006 Tony Judt, professor of history at NYU, on wimpy liberals * Moazzam Begg, author of Enemy Combatant, on his three years as an unwilling guest of the U.S. government in Gitmo and elsewhere
September 7, 2006 David Dunbar, co-editor of Debunking 9/11 Myths, on how the conspiracists are wrong * George Galloway comments briefly on the same topic * Sylvia Allegretto of the Economic Policy Institute on the State of Working America
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Rasha Salti from Beirut on war, politics, and daily life * 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) * James Howard Kunstler on oil, waste, ugliness, death * Jagdish Bhagwati on globalization * Val Moghadam on politics and gender relations in Iran * Robert Fitch on corruption and fragmentation in American unions * Barbara Ehrenreich on middle class horrors * Heather Rogers on garbage & capitalism * Marie Trigona on worker-run businesses in Argentina * 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 * Douglas Massey in Mexican immigration * Naomi Klein on Argentina and the global justice movement * Susie Bright on sex and politics * John Mueller on how the terrorism threat is vastly overblown * Bruce Lawrence, editor of Messages to the World, on Osama's thoughts and prose * Judith Levine on renouncing overconsumption * 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 * Katha Pollitt, author of Virginity or Death, on feminism and politics * Ned Sublette on music and politics * 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 * Michelle Goldberg on the Christian right * Ken Sherrill on gay politics * Andrew Ross on his year spent with the IT crowd in China * Stephenie Hendrics vs Ron Arnold on Wise Use * 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 * 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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