[lbo-talk] Re: ipod as a path to learning about the world

Robert Naiman naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
Thu Jan 4 22:04:13 PST 2007


I accept that I'm an outlier, but here's a sampling of what's on my ipod:

Doug's show on WBAI. Which is fantastic.

FAIR's Counterspin. Which is fantastic.

Democracy Now. Which is often fantastic.

BBC's "World Today," which is often very very interesting.

NYT's front page. From which I often learn.

NYT world view with Calvin Sims. Which is often very interesting. For example, a very interesting piece on affirmative action in Brazil. An interesting piece on the failure of US reconstruction in Iraq, with their correspondent James Glanz, wherein it was argued that part of the story is that the US is just not that good at building stuff anymore, and that reconstruction suffered by freezing out the Europeans, who still know how to build stuff. And the Iraqis, who, from years of sanctions, know how to keep stuff running with duct tape and paper clips and chicken wire, which I didn't see anywhere else. Most recently, an interesting piece on rap in Cuba.

Chomsky. There is a web page of Chomsky MP3s.

Talks by Greg Wilpert on Venezuela, eg, "what does 21st century socialism mean in venezuela?"

CBC. Occasionally very interesting. Nice piece on "jazz diplomacy" during the Cold War.

And the Just Foreign Policy News Summary. :)

Like I said, I accept that I am an outlier, but I am way more knowledgeable about the world because of my ipod. :)



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