"Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005
Back after fundraising hiatus. Just added to my radio archive <http:// www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:
May 31, 2007 RAJ NAYAK of the Brennan Center and RAJANI ADHIKARY of the Restaurant Opportunities Center on restaurant work in NYC * SAADIA TOOR and KOUROSH SHEMIRANI on how Western leftists should think about the abuse of women and same-sexers in Iran and other Muslim countries (and for Toor's critique of Arundhati Roy et al, see here)
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May 3, 2007 JOEL SCHALIT on Israeli politics and the (weakening?) hold of the Zionists in the U.S. * FIONA HARVEY, environment correspondent of the Financial Times, and KEVIN SMITH, author of The Carbon Neutral Myth, on carbon offsets: something promising, or a dangerous racket?
April 26, 2007 RACHEL SHERMAN, author of Class Acts, on the production of class and consciousness in luxury hotels * ELIZABETH ECONOMY on China's contribution to climate change * CHRISTIAN PARENTI, guest editor of The Nation's special issue on climate change, on green power * Doug Henwood, contributor to that issue, on elite attitudes
April 19, 2007 NICHOLAS STERN, lead author of the 700-page Stern Review, talks more concisely about the economics of climate change (highlights from a panel held at Columbia University, April 11, 2007, organized by the Committee on Global Thought)
April 12, 2007 HAMID DABASHI, professor in the Middle Eastern studies department at Columbia and author of Iran: A People Interrupted, on the history of that complex, consequential country
April 5, 2007 PETER EISNER, co-author of The Italian Letter, on how the Bush administration used a forged letter to push the war in Iraq * JULIA VITULLO-MARTIN on eminent domain and Columbia University's push into Harlem
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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 * 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 * George McGovern and William Polk on exiting Iraq * 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 * 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 * 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 * Sarah Stillman on feminism at Yale * Leslie Harris on slavery in New York * 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 * 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 * Julia Sweig on Cuba * Ned Sublette on music and politics * 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 * 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 * 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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