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BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood

“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:

August 3, 2006 Harold Meyerson on the disappointments of Change to
Win * Judith Kipper of the CFR on the Middle East wars, and a cramped
vision of a Palestinian state * Jonathan Nitzan on the political
economy of Israel, oil, and war
July 27, 2006 Joel Schalit on Israel’s motives for going to war *
Adolph Reed on Katrina, race, class
July 6, 2006 James Howard Kunstler on oil, waste, ugliness, death *
Katha Pollitt, author of Virginity or Death, on feminism and politics

June 29, 2006 Laura Rozen of Warandpiece and author of this Mother
Jones article on mysterious doings in Rome over Iran * David Feige,
author of Indefensible, on his career as a public defender and the
horrors of the criminal justice system

they join

June 22, 2006 Economist Julio Huato on immigration as well as the
Mexican presidential election * to observe Pride Week, Hunter poli
sci prof Ken Sherrill on same-sex marriage and other aspects of gay
politics (plus some lesbian bands, too!)

June 15, 2006 Gary Younge, Guardian correspondent and author of
Stranger in a Strange Land, on being a black Brit writing about the
USA * Michele Wucker, author of Lockdown, on immigration

June 8, 2006 Ned Sublette on music and politics (with plenty of
musical examples from New York, Cuba, New Orleans, and Texas)

June 1, 2006 Ervand Abrahamian on Iran * Michelle Goldberg on the
Christian right

and

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 * Beverly Wright on New Orleans, the Delta, and the
geographies of race and toxicity * 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) * Jagdish Bhagwati on
globalization * 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 * Sarah
Stillman on feminism at Yale * Leslie Harris on slavery in New York *
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 * Bruce Lawrence, editor
of Messages to the World, on Osama’s thoughts and prose * Judith
Levine on renouncing overconsumption * 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 *
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 * Laura Carlsen on the Zapatistas
* 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 * Jennifer Gordon on suburban sweatshops * Lisa Jervis on
feminism & pop culture * Joel Schalit on anti-Semitism * Devah Pager
on prison, race, and the job market * Robert Fatton on Haiti *
Elizabeth Warren on bankruptcy * 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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