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BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood
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“Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show” Village Voice Best of NYC 2005
Just added to my radio archive
June 14, 2007 Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism, on the
psychopolitics of Zionism and the possibilites of a single-state
solution in Israel/Palestine * Christian Parenti on Afghanistan
it joins
June 7, 2007 ADOLPH REED on Obama, the toxic grip of foundations, and
how presidential campaigns are like running for Prince of the Fourth
Grade * ANATOL LIEVEN on Putin’s Russia and U.S.-Russian relations
May 31, 2007 RAJ NAYAK of the Brennan Center and RAJANI ADHIKARY of
the Restaurant Opportunities Center on restaurant work in NYC *
SAADIA TOOR and KOUROSH SHEMIRANI on how Western leftists should
think about the abuse of women and same-sexers in Iran and other
Muslim countries (and for Toor’s critique of Arundhati Roy et al, see
here)
May 3, 2007 JOEL SCHALIT on Israeli politics and the (weakening?)
hold of the Zionists in the U.S. * FIONA HARVEY, environment
correspondent of the Financial Times, and KEVIN SMITH, author of The
Carbon Neutral Myth, on carbon offsets: something promising, or a
dangerous racket?
April 26, 2007 RACHEL SHERMAN, author of Class Acts, on the
production of class and consciousness in luxury hotels * ELIZABETH
ECONOMY on China’s contribution to climate change * CHRISTIAN
PARENTI, guest editor of The Nation’s special issue on climate
change, on green power * Doug Henwood, contributor to that issue, on
elite attitudes
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)
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 * Dean Baker on the housing bust * 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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producer, Behind the News
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