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"Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005
Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:
September 13, 2007 BART JONES, author of Hugo!: The Hugo Chavez Story from Mud Hut to Perpetual Revolution, on Chavez and his 21st century socialism * ERVAND ABRAHAMIAN on Iranian politics
September 6, 2007 JAMES PARROTT of the Fiscal Policy Institute on The State of Working New York * DESMOND LACHMAN of AEI on why Wall Street needs a bailout
August 30, 2007 ARLOC SHERMAN & LEIGHTON KU of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on the Census income, poverty, and health insurance figures for 2006 * NIKITRA BAILEY & SARAH LUDWIG on how subprime scamsters have been conning people out of their houses
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August 16, 2007 SUNGUR SAVRAN on Turkey * DEAN BAKER on the housing bust
August 9, 2007 PETER SPIEGELMAN, editor of Wall Street Noir, and Lawrence Light, one of the contributors, on finance & crime fiction * Andrew Beveridge on women earning more than men in NYC, and other demographic curiosities (like who can afford all that luxury housing)
July 5, 2007 AUDACIA RAY, author of Naked on the Internet, on women, the net, and sex * LEN RODBERG rebuts the attacks on Michael Moore's tremendous movie, SiCKO
June 28, 2007 ROBERT FRANK, author of Richistan, on today's neo- Gilded Age rich * CAMILO MEJIA, author of Road from ar Ramadi, on the army, Iraq, and deserting from the army in Iraq
June 14, 2007 Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism, on the psychopolitics of Zionism and the possibilites of a single-state solution in Israel/Palestine * Christian Parenti on Afghanistan
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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 * 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 * 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 * Anatol Lieven (several times) on Iraq, Chechnya, Russia, 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 * 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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