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"Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005
Newly posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:
December 20, 2007 Charlie Komanoff on a radical reworking of Bloomberg's congestion pricing plan: soak cars for free transit * Adolph Reed on why he's sitting out this election
December 13, 2007 Tom Geoghegan, author of See You In Court, on how the right is responsible for litigiousness * Greg Grandin on the constitutional referendum in Venezuela and the state of Hugo Chavez
December 6, 2007 Peter Lavelle on Putin and the state of political play in Russia * Patrick Cockburn, correspondent for The Independent and author of The Occupation, on whether The Surge is really working
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November 15, 2007 Julia Isaacs on inequality (big) and economic mobility (not so big) in the U.S. * Kevin Gallagher, author of The Enclave Economy, on Mexico's crummy experience with foreign investment * Laura Agustín, author of Sex at the Margins, on migration, trafficking, desire, and fundamentalism
November 8, 2007 Devah Pager, author of Marked, talks about race and the stigma of a criminal record when applying for a job * Tariq Ali on Pakistan, Iraq, and Latin 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 * Sungur Savran on Turkey * David Roediger the whitening of "new immigrants" of the late 19th and early 20th centuries * Gilbert Achcar on Israel's defeat in Lebanon and the gathering defeat of the U.S. in Iraq * Charles Komanoff on carbon taxes * Beverly Wright on New Orleans, the Delta, and the geographies of race and toxicity * Audacia Ray on sex and the Internet * George McGovern and William Polk on exiting Iraq * Rachel Sherman on luxury hotels * 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) * Amiri Baraka on lots of stuff * Nicholas Stern on climate change * James Howard Kunstler on oil, waste, ugliness, death * Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler on Bitch * Jagdish Bhagwati on globalization * Val Moghadam on politics and gender relations in Iran * Hamid Dabashi on Iran * Robert Fitch on corruption and fragmentation in American unions * Barbara Ehrenreich on middle class horrors * Robert Frank on the rich * Heather Rogers on garbage & capitalism * Marie Trigona on worker-run businesses in Argentina * Bill Fletcher on war and peace * David Dunbar, co-editor of Debunking 9/11 Myths, on how the conspiracists are wrong Caitlin Zaloom on the anthropology of futures markets * Melissa Hope Ditmore et al on sex work * 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 * Dean Baker on the housing bust * Moazzam Begg, on his three years as an unwilling guest of the U.S. government in Gitmo and elsewhere * Matt Taibbi on covering the 2004 campaign, and the dismal state of American politics and media * Richard Gott on Hugo Chavez * Bart Jones on Hugu Chavez * Anatol Lieven (several times) on Iraq, Chechnya, Russia, US nationalism, and why the US must give up its empire * Katha Pollitt on feminism, politics, and the personal essay * Julia Sweig on Cuba * Ned Sublette on music and politics * Joel Kovel on Zionism * Robin Blackburn on pensions * 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 * Michelle Goldberg on the Christian right * Ken Sherrill on gay politics * Patrick Cockburn on Iraq * 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 * 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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