[lbo-talk] new radio product

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jul 29 12:07:21 PDT 2009


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Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:

July 23, 2009 Ervand Abrahamian on the Iranian elections and their aftermath * Michael Thomas, author of Love and Money, on money and love (and Goldman Sachs)

July 16, 2009 Katha Pollitt on her new book of poetry, The Mind–Body Problem * Len Rodberg of PNHP and Queens College on the awfulness of health care reform, DC-style

July 9, 2009 Matthew Lasar, author of Uneasy Listening, on Pacifica governance (all Pacifica producers were required to do a 15-minute segment on the network elections) * Sam Gindin, now of York University and formerly of the Canadian Auto Workers, on the crisis in auto (more in this piece) * Matt Taibbi, author of this hit piece, on the crafty bloodsuckers at Goldman Sachs

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July 2, 2009 Leo Panitch, author of this cover story inForeign Policy, on why the bourgeoisie is interested in Marx (and, of course, why they should be) * Jackson Lears, author of Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America, 1877-1920, on American regeneration (mainly through violence) after the Civil War

June 25, 2009 Alyssa Katz, author of Our Lot, on the homeownership fetish and the housing bubble/bust * Liza Featherstone (author of this article, and, it should be disclosed, wife/beloved of the host) and Adolph Reed on the burdens of college tuition and how the problem can be solved by making it free

June 18, 2009 Dan Fleshler, author of Transforming America's Israel Lobby, on the exaggerated power of the lobby and what can be done about it * Hamid Dabashi of Columbia University on the Iranian election and its aftermath

June 11, 2009 Alfredo Corchado, Mexico bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News, on Mexican drug gangs on both sides of the border * Justin Fox, author of The Myth of the Rational Market, on the loopy notion of market efficiency and its toxic political effects

June 6, 2009 (KPFA version) Steffie Woolhandler on the (very high) contribution of medical costs to personal bankruptcy (article here) * Bethany Moreton, author of To Serve God and Wal-Mart, on Christian free enterprise and the Behemoth of Bentonville

May 30, 2009 (KPFA only) Daniel Geary, author Radical Ambition, on the life and thought of C. Wright Mills * Claudia Goldin on the labor market penalty suffered by women who have a kid

May 23, 2009 (KPFA only) Vijay Prashad of Trinity College on the Indian elections * David Skeel of the University of Pennsylvania Law School on how bankruptcy (rather than trillion dollar checks) could be used to deal with the financial crisis

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