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Recently added to my radio archive http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html:
March 15, 2007 Doug Henwood on the American ruling class today,
whoever that is * Ian Bone, author of Bash the Rich, on anarchy in
the UK (not the debased Sex Pistols kind, either)
March 1, 2007 Evelyn McDonnell, author of Mamarama, on music and
motherhood * Omar Lizardo (paper here) on how globalization is not
homogenizing culture
they join
February 15, 2007 Eric Klinenberg, author of Fighting For Air, on the
new media landscape and fighting back against it * Steve Duncombe,
author of Dream, on fantasy in politics, and how “progressives”
should learn to work with it
January 11, 2007 Steffie Woolhandler on Schwarzenegger’s fraudulent
health scheme * Amiri Baraka, author of Tales of the Out & the Gone,
on Newark, being a Marxist in the U.S., and the ambiguous, complex
value of bourgeois art (concludes with excerpts from this 1978
program at Naropa, with Baraka reading “Against Bourgeois Art,”
intro’d by a choked-up Allen Ginsberg)
January 4, 2007 Gilbert Achcar on Israel’s defeat in Lebanon and the
gathering defeat of the U.S. in Iraq * Charles Komanoff on carbon taxes
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 * George McGovern and William Polk
on exiting Iraq * 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 * Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler on Bitch * Jagdish
Bhagwati on globalization * Val Moghadam on politics and gender
relations in Iran * Hamid Dabashi on 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 * David Dunbar, co-editor of Debunking 9/11 Myths,
on how the conspiracists are wrong * Sarah Stillman on feminism at
Yale * Leslie Harris on slavery in New York * Caitlin Zaloom on the
anthropology of futures markets * Melissa Hope Ditmore et al on sex
work * 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 * Moazzam
Begg, on his three years as an unwilling guest of the U.S. government
in Gitmo and elsewhere * 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 * Julia Sweig
on Cuba * Ned Sublette on music and politics * Robin Blackburn on
pensions * 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 * Michelle Goldberg on
the Christian right * Ken Sherrill on gay politics * Patrick Cockburn
on Iraq * 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 * 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)
Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 38 Greene St - 4th fl. New York NY 10013-2505 USA dhenwood@panix.com http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com +1-212-219-0010
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March 20th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Think you’ve heard the last word on Christian Zionism? Then of course you wouldn’t want to Google “Powered by Christ Ministries” and scroll down to “Roots of (Warlike) Christian Zionism,” would you? Lou