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

October 5, 2006 George McGovern and William Polk, authors of Out of
Iraq, on how to accomplish that quickly. Most of this show, part of
WBAI’s fall marathon, was taken up with pleas for contributions; this
interview was the substantive content. If you like these shows, and
want to keep them coming, please pledge https://www.wbai.org/cart/
to WBAI.

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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

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

and

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 * 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 * Val
Moghadam on politics and gender relations in Iran * 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 * John Mueller on how the terrorism threat is vastly
overblown * 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 * 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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