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Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:
March 7, 2009 (KPFA version) Rob Weissman (author of this report) on Wall Street's political contributions & the disastrous dereg agenda they bought * James Horney of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on Obama's budget
February 28, 2009 (KPFA only) Jeff Madrick on The Crisis * David Himmelstein on Obama's health plans and the awfulness of the Massachusetts model
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February 21, 2009 (KPFA only) Pratap Chatterjee, author ofHalliburton's Army, on how Pentagon contracting makes it easier to go to war * Susie Bright, editor of X: The Erotic Treasury, on sex and politics
January 29, 2009 James Howard Kunstler, author most recently of World Made By Hand, on the decline of oil-based civilization, the horrors of suburbia, and the sickness of tattooing * Jeffrey Perry, biographer of Hubert Harrison, on the forgotten black radical who should be remembered
January 22, 2009 Stephen Mihm, author of A Nation of Counterfeiters, on the giant role of fakery and fraud in American financial history * Sean Jacobs (his blog is here) on South Africa and the ANC's fall from grace
January 15, 2009 Michael Lighty of the California Nurses Association on the economic impact of health care and a wished-for transition to single-payer * Nomi Prins and Max Fraad Wolff on the economic crisis
January 10, 2009 David Bacon, author of Illegal People, and Michelle Wucker, author ofLockout (and director of WPI) on immigration * Sara Roy on the horrors of Gaza (KPFA version, includes commentary on December employment)
December 11, 2008 Charlie Komanoff on a plan to make NYC transit nearly free (by soaking cars) * Yanis Varoufakis on the Greek riots and Greek neoliberalism (This show was patched together from a two- hour WBAI fundraiser. Please contribute.) December 4, 2008 Preston Smith on "racial democracy" vs. social democracy, in 1940s Chicago and Obama's America * Anthony D'Costa on the Mumbai bombings and Indian neoliberalism
November 27, 2008 Richard Seymour, keeper of the Lenin's Tomb blog and author of The Liberal Defense of Murder, on liberal imperialism * Bill Ayers, author of Fugitive Days and Barack Obama's old pal, on revolution, education, and social change
November 20, 2008 Dan La Botz (author of this article) on the crisis in the auto industry - and the UAW * Reihan Salam, co-author of Grand New Party, great hope of the right, on the conservative movement's future
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