new radio product

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've just added new material to my radio archive
<http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>. The Huws interview
(October 2) is one of the best I've ever done (not because of my
interviewing skills, but because she's so good). The shows are:

October 16, 2003 MARATHON SPECIAL Special program for the WBAI
quarterly fundraising marathon. Hugh Hamilton, host of Talkback,
interviews Doug Henwood about his new book, After the New Economy
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1565847709/leftbusinessobseA/>.
Includes some begging, alas (some was edited out). Program length:
1:39

October 9, 2003 Loretta Napoleoni, author of Modern Jihad, on Saudi
Arabia and the finance of the jihadists * Bernard Henri-Levy, author
of Who Killed Daniel Pearl?, on the murder of the WSJ reporter, and
the culpability of Pakistan in jihadism

October 2, 2003 Ursula Huws, author of The Making of a Cybertariat,
on work in the electronic age, domestic labor, offshoring, etc. * Ana
Malinow, a doc in Houston affiliated with Physicians for a National
Health Program, on the uninsured

they join
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September 25, 2003 stop whining about the corporate media and support
excellent independent publications! Tom Frank, editor of The Baffler,
on Boob Jubilee, a collection of essays from the journal * Lisa
Jervis, co-editor of Bitch, on the magazine, feminism, and pop culture

September 18, 2003 Larry Siedentop of Oxford on EU enlargement and
Sweden's rejection of the euro * Anatol Lieven on Iraq and Afghanistan

September 11, 2003 9/11 show, sorta: Ruy Teixeira on George Bush's
poll numbers two years after the WTC went down * Nicole Speulda of
the Pew Center on foreign attitudes towards the U.S. * Leslie
Kauffman of UFPJ on Cancun and the state of activism today

September 4, 2003 Yale prof Michael Denning on the strike against the
university (ignore promise of Laura Smith at beginning of show - she
didn't answer her phone) * Heather Boushey on the disappearance of
the jobs that ex-welfare recipients were supposed to fill * Sharon
Beder, author of Power Play, on the worldwide privatization and
deregulation of electricity

along with
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* Nina Revoyr on the history of Los Angeles, real and fictional
* Bill Fletcher on war and peace
* Slavoj Zizek on war, imperialism, and fantasy
* Susie Bright on sex and politics
* Faye Wattleton on a poll of American women
* Joseph Stiglitz on the IMF and the Wall St-Treasury axis
* Naomi Klein on Argentina and the arrested political development of
the global justice movement
* Michael Albert on participatory economics (parecon)
* Michael Hudson, author of a report on the sleazy world of "subprime" finance
* Patrick Mason on the economics of racial discrimination
* Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper, on Blair's political troubles
* Hamid Dabashi on Iran
* Marta Russell on the UN conference on disability
* William Pepper on the state-sponsored assasination of Martin Luther King
* Sara Roy on the Palestinian economy
* Christian Parenti on his visit to Baghdad
* Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, and Cynthia Enloe on the then-impending
war with Iraq
* Michael Hardt on Empire
* Judith Levine on kids & sex
* Walden Bello on the World Social Forum and alternative development models
* Christopher Hitchens on Orwell and his new political affiliations
* Mark Hertsgaard on the U.S. image abroad
* Ghada Karmi on her search for her Palestinian roots
* Jonathan Nitzan on the Israeli economy
* Alexandra Robbins on Skull & Bones

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