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"Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005
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Newly/recently posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:
April 24, 2008 Tony Hendra, editor in chief of My Wall Street Journal, on the parody of the Murdochized daily * Kevin Phillips, author of Bad Money, on the gloomy future of the USA
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April 10, 2008 Aaron Woolf, director, and Ian Cheney, born-again farmer, on their movie King Corn, and the grotesqueries of big agribiz * Anatol Lieven on NATO expansion, Russia, McCain, etc.
April 3, 2008 Patrick Cockburn, author of Muqtada, on the Mahdi Army, its leader, and Iraqi politics * Miriam Greenberg, author of Branding New York, on the reinvention of NYC as the neoliberal city
March 27, 2008 Jerry Lembcke on conspiracism * John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group of mutual funds, on the credit crisis and the money management business as a "giant scam" * Dean Baker on the housing bust, and an exchange with DH on whether Northern Rock is a model of anything but disaster
March 20, 2008 Jim Ledbetter on the collection of Marx's journalism that he edited * Nomi Prins on Bear Stearns
March 13, 2008 Adolfo Gilly on Latin America and his revolutionary pessimism * NYU's Elayne Tobin on the political economy of celebrity (like, who's making money off Britney?)
March 6, 2008 Joseph Stiglitz, co-author of The Three Trillion Dollar War, on the costs of the invasion of Iraq - and the gloomy prospects for the U.S. economy
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Patrick Cockburn on The Surge * 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 * Glen Ford on the awfulness of Obama * 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 * Thomas Schaller on ignoring the South * Charles Komanoff on carbon taxes * Beverly Wright on New Orleans, the Delta, and the geographies of race and toxicity * Tom Geoghegan on how the right is responsible for all that litigation * 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 * Laura Agustín on sex and "trafficking" * 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
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