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Just added to my radio archive http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html:

September 28, 2006 Todd Tucker, research director of Public Citizen,
on the misuses of Chile as a neoliberal model * Sylvia Allegretto of
the Economic Policy Institute, co-author of the State of Working
America, in a return appearance to talk about U.S. inequality and
poverty in comparison to other countries

September 21, 2006 Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler, founding editors of
Bitch, on Bitchfest, the anthology of articles gathered from that
magazine * Nomi Prins, author of Jacked, on how the right-wing has
ripped us off

September 14, 2006 Tony Judt, professor of history at NYU, on wimpy
liberals * Moazzam Begg, author of Enemy Combatant, on his three
years as an unwilling guest of the U.S. government in Gitmo and
elsewhere

they join ——–=

September 7, 2006 David Dunbar, co-editor of Debunking 9/11 Myths, on
how the conspiracists are wrong * George Galloway comments briefly on
the same topic * Sylvia Allegretto of the Economic Policy Institute
on the State of Working America

August 31, 2006 Betsy Reed, editor of Unnatural Disaster: The Nation
on Hurricane Katrina, and Gary Younge, a contributor to that volume,
on the politics of the storm one year later * John Mueller on how the
terrorism threat is vastly overblown

August 17, 2006 Afshin Rattansi on Middle Eastern crises and
Britain’s Muslims * Val Moghadam on politics and gender relations in
Iran

August 10, 2006 Rasha Salti from Beirut on war, politics, and daily
life * Anne-christine d’Adesky, author of Moving Mountains and co- creator of the film Pills Profits Protest, on AIDS and the movement
around AIDS

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) * James Howard Kunstler on
oil, waste, ugliness, death * 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 *
Katha Pollitt, author of Virginity or Death, on feminism and politics
* Ned Sublette on music and politics * 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 * Michelle Goldberg on
the Christian right * Ken Sherrill on gay politics * 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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