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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:
April 19, 2007 NICHOLAS STERN, lead author of the 700-page Stern
Review, talks more concisely about the economics of climate change
(highlights from a panel held at Columbia University, April 11, 2007,
organized by the Committee on Global Thought)
it joins
April 12, 2007 HAMID DABASHI, professor in the Middle Eastern studies
department at Columbia and author of Iran: A People Interrupted, on
the history of that complex, consequential country
April 5, 2007 PETER EISNER, co-author of The Italian Letter, on how
the Bush administration used a forged letter to push the war in Iraq
* JULIA VITULLO-MARTIN on eminent domain and Columbia University’s
push into Harlem
March 29, 2007 MARK LEVITAN on work and poverty in New York * DEAN
BAKER on the housing bust
March 22, 2007 MICHAEL YATES, author of Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate,
on his travels across the U.S., and their daily evidence of
polarization and environmental ruin * CHRIS FOX of Ceres, on
Investors and Business for US Climate Action, a $4 trillion consortium
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)
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 * Gilbert Achcar on Israel’s defeat in Lebanon and the
gathering defeat of the U.S. in Iraq * Charles Komanoff on carbon
taxes * 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) * Amiri Baraka on lots of stuff * 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)
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April 22nd, 2007 at 4:53 am
Robin Blackburn on pensions
There is an interest site with great reference information call Know Your Pension. The site address is www.knowyourpension.org
Hope this proves useful for some.