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latest content added September 14, 2004
LBO editor Doug Henwood does a radio show on WBAI, New York, covering economics and politics. It's on most Thursdays, 5-6 PM NYC time. WBAI is at 99.5 on the FM dial - and also, via RealPlayer, on the web. Here are some archived shows, as well as some individual interviews.
Note the dates of the shows are links. If you want to direct someone right to a specific show, copy that link.
A number of people have asked about the theme music. It's the Kronos Quartet performing "Wawshishijay (Our Beginning)," written by Obo Addy, from the album Pieces of Africa. I inherited it from Samori Marksman, the late and severely missed former program director of WBAI, who bequeathed me the time slot, and decided to keep the theme in his memory.
TECHNICAL NOTES The files are available in two flavors of MP3 - streaming and downloadable. (Streaming means you listen to it online in real time without transferring a file to your computer; downloadable means you transfer the file to your computer and listen offline. In either case, you'll need a program that can play MP3-format files.) Shows are also available in two levels of fidelity - high (close to FM radio quality), at 64kbps, and low (close to telephone quality), 16kbps. Streaming the hi-fi shows requires a broadband connection; low-fi should be within the capacity of a dailup. Downloading a low-fi version takes less than a third the time that the hi-fi version does.
Shows are about 56 minutes long; the 64kbps versions are around 26 megabytes, and the 16kbps versions, around 7 mb.
Thanks to Jordan Hayes of thinkbank.com for hosting the archives, and to Michael Pollak for adding the anchors.
For shows earlier than July 2003, click here.
FULL SHOWS
In some early cases, the original introductions to the shows were lost, and were re-recorded. Otherwise, the programs are as originally broadcast, without any editing, except to shorten the opening theme and to balance volume between segments.
| September 9, 2004 Anatol Lieven on the Beslan massacre and the Chechen crisis * DH on green GDP accounting in China & Bloomberg's smoking ban * Sylvia Allegretto of EPI on The State of Working America | ||||
| August 19, 2004 CEPR's Heather Boushey on next week's income & poverty numbers, and her own research on jobs & earnings * DH on green GDP accounting in China & Bloomberg's smoking ban * Dennis Loy Johnson, co-publisher at Melville House Publishing, on his own The Big Chill: The Great Unreported Story of the Bush Inaugration Protest, and also on two other MHP books, Mark Danner's on the Florida vote, and Renata Adler's on the Supreme Court decision that gave us Pres W | ||||
| August 12, 2004 Deborah James, director of the Venezuela Information Office, on Chavez and the August 15 referendum * Robert McChesney, author of The Problem of the Media and one of the founders of freepress.net, on the corporate media and alternatives to it | ||||
| August 5, 2004 Frank Newport, editor-in-chief of Gallup and author of Polling Matters, on the public opinion trade and the 2004 election polls * Tariq Ali, author most recently of Bush in Babylon, on the importance to the whole world of defeating Bush, and the maddening wrongness of the "no difference" position | ||||
| July 22, 2004 Judith Levine, author of Do You Remember Me? , on her father's Alzheimer's, and the social meanings of the disease * Ian Williams, author of Deserter!, on George W's military career | ||||
| July 15, 2004 Nomi Prins, investment banker turned journalist and t-shirt designer, on Martha's sentencing, Ken Lay's indictment, and sex discrimination on Wall Street * Charlie Komanoff, car-hater, on why we use so much oil, and how we could use less of it | ||||
| July 8, 2004 Lakshman Achuthan of the Economic Cycles Research Institute and co-author of Beating the Business Cycle, on cycles in general, this odd one specifically, and the likely slowdown by yearend * Norman Kelley, author of The Head Negro In Charge Syndrome on the crisis in black politics | ||||
| July 1, 2004 Phyllis Bennis, lead author of Paying the Price, on the human, economic, and environmental costs of the war on Iraq * Joe Garden, Mike Loew (both of The Onion), and Randy Ostrow, authors of Citizen You!, a manual of patriotic duty (some of the original audio was lost - details at the top of the show) | ||||
| June 24, 2004 Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire, on the state of the empire in the light of the Iraq war * Stonewall segment: Julie Abraham, professor of LGBT studies at Sarah Lawrence, on why she's no fan of same-sex marriage | ||||
| June 17, 2004 Jomo, the Malaysian economist, on the Asian economies and their recoveries from the 1997 crisis * Seth Kleinman of PFC Energy on the state of the oil market | ||||
| June 10, 2004 DH on the demise of Reagan * Rick Perlstein, historian of conservatism and author of a bio of Goldwater, on the emergence of the right & the role of Ronnie * Ralph Nader, talking to the ruling class at the Council on Foreign Relations (20 minutes out of a one-hour appearance), about foreign policy, globalization, and his contribution to electing George Bush (full transcript at the CFR) | ||||
| May 20, 2004 Broadcast as a two-hour special, part of WBAI's fundraising marathon, a third of the show was taken up by begging for money, something web listeners wouldn't want to endure. Here are the three interviews that accounted for the show's content (listed in order of broadcast). Gary Younge, New York correspondent of The Guardian, on U.S. reactions to the torture photos, comparisons with British and other European imperialisms, and race in the U.S. vs. the UK * Cynthia Enloe of Clark University, famous for her feminist analyses of the military (see her book Maneuvers) talks about masculinity in the Bush administration, the oil industry, and military prisons * George Monbiot, author of Manifesto for a New World Order, on offshoring as reparations, the WTO, the limits of localism, and the democratization of global governance I you've got the cash and the inclination, please visit the WBAI website and make a pledge. | Younge | |||
| May 6, 2004 Heather Boushey talks about child care, in anticipation of Mother's Day * Merrill Goozner, author of The $800 Million Pill, talks about drug development, and why medicines are so damned expensive | ||||
| April 29, 2004 Sean Jacobs, one of the organizers of the Ten Years of Freedom film festival, talks about the festival and South African politics * Richard Burkholder, Gallup's director of international operations, talks about the firm's polling in Iraq * Aimee Liu, author of the novel Flash House, talks about the CIA in Asia and trafficking in women | ||||
| April 15, 2004 Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics at Columbia and author of In Defense of Globalization, talks about trade, capital flows, poverty, and development | ||||
| April 8, 2004 Chalmers Johnson, author of The Sorrows of Empire, talks first about the political economy of Japan (recovery for real? rightward move among the elite?) and then the evil effects of the U.S. empire on the outside world and on our democracy | ||||
| April 1, 2004 Carlos Mejia, who left his national guard unit in Iraq to protest the war, and who faces desertion charges, talks about the war and his prospects * In a return engagement, Robert Fatton, author of Haiti's Predatory Republic, talking about the social structure of Haiti and the forces behind Aristide's rise, fall, rise, and fall | ||||
| March 25, 2004 DH on outsourcing - as big a deal as they say? * Leo Panitch, co-editor of The Socialist Register 2004, on the American empire | ||||
| March 18, 2004 Luciana Castellina on Italian politics - government, parties, popular movements * Ruth O'Brien, editor of Voices from the Edge: Narratives About the Americans With Disabilities Act, on the ADA, the workplace, and the courts, and Leonard Kriegel, one of the contributors to the collection, on getting around NYC in a wheelchair | ||||
| March 11, 2004 Robert Fatton, author of Haiti's Predatory Republic, on the roots of Haiti's current predicament * Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper and author of Reclaim the State, on how popular movements can engage with state power without losing their innocence | ||||
| March 4, 2004 Corey Robin on the militarized worldview of the neocons (article available here) * Laura Flanders on her new book on the women of the Bush administration, Bushwomen | ||||
| February 26, 2004 Susie Bright on sex, politics, and her new book, Mommy's Little Girl * Frida Berrigan on who's making money from the war in Iraq (report available here * Mark Levitan on the crisis of employment in New York City (report available here) | ||||
| February 19, 2004 Sara Roy, senior research scholar at the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies, on the social crisis among Palestinians in the occupied territories and Israel's intentions behind building the wall * George Soros, speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations, on the Bush administration and the Bubble of American Supremacy * Christian Parenti on his January in Iraq, spent with the 82nd airborne and members of the resistance, which he wrote up in The Nation | ||||
| February 12, 2004 Keith Bradsher, author of High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV, on the ravages of that vehicle and the mindset of its buyers * Michael Mann, author of Incoherent Empire, on the Bush administration's lust for domination [apologies, but the first five minutes or so of the original broadcast were lost, so a shorter approximation of the intro was recorded after the fact] | ||||
| January 22, 2004 Broadcast as a three-hour special, part of WBAI's fundraising marathon. a third of the show was taken up by begging for money, something web listeners wouldn't want to endure. Here are just the four interviews that accounted for almost all the show's content. Noam Chomsky, author most recently of Hegemony or Surival, on Bush & Empire, andwhether the facts are enough * Barbara Ehrenreich, co-editor of Global Woman, on the reception of Nickel and Dimed and the feminization of imperialism * Naomi Klein, author of No Logo, on the economic transformation of Iraq and the global peace movment and the occupation * Alexandra Robbins, author of Secrets of the Tomb, an investigation into Yale's Skull & Bones, on the possibility of a Bones vs. Bones election (both Bush & Kerry are members) [opens with an excerpt from her full November 2002 interview (see below)] I you've got the cash and the inclination, please visit the WBAI website and make a pledge. | Chomsky Ehrenreich | |||
| January 15, 2004 Archi Piyati of Human Rights First (formerly LCHR) on the barbaric U.S. treatment of refugees * Satya Gabriel on the Chinese economy | ||||
| January 8, 2004 Anthony D'Costa on the Indian economy * Anatol Lieven on Afghanistan's new constitution * Joan Roelofs, author of Foundations and Public Policy, on foundations' influence on politics and culture | ||||
| December 18, 2003 Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, on the Central America Free Trade Agreement * Simon Head, author of The New Ruthless Economy, on working in the era of surveillance, restructuring, and speedup | ||||
| December 11, 2003 Steffie Woolhandler of Physicians for a National Health Program on the Medicare reform bill * Robert Pollin, author of Countours of Descent, on the 1990s boom and after | ||||
| December 4, 2003 Psephologist Ruy Teixeira on Bush's poll numbers * Michael Dawson, author of The Consumer Trap, on marketing | ||||
| November 27, 2003 Thanksgiving Bigotry & Discrimination Special: Joel Schalit, author of Jerusalem Calling, on the Counterpunch collection, The Politics of Anti-Semitism * Patrick Mason on the economics of race (rebroadcast of June 19, 2003, interview) | ||||
| November 13, 2003 Tim McCarthy & John McMillan, editors of The Radical Reader, on the history of American radicalism * Christian Parenti, author of The Soft Cage, on surveillance in America from slavery to the Patriot Act | ||||
| November 6, 2003 Richard Burkholder, directior of international polling for Gallup, on that firm's survey of Baghdad: how do Iraqis feel about the war, occupation, their future * Ivo Daalder, author of America Unbound, on the Bush administration's foreign policy revolution | ||||
| October 16, 2003 Special program for the WBAI quarterly fundraising marathon. Hugh Hamilton, host of Talkback, interviews Doug Henwood about his new book, After the New Economy. Includes some begging, alas (some was edited out). Please contribute here and mention where you heard the show. Program length: 1:39 (64kbps file is 45 megs; 16kpbs, 11 megs.) | ||||
| 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 uninusred | ||||
| 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 (apologies for the missing opening and the poor audio quality of the first 10 minutes of this show) | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| August 28, 2003 return after vacation, blackout, and fundraising pre-emptions: Michael Albert on Parecon (participatory economics) * Christian Parenti on his visit to Iraq | ||||
| July 31, 2003 Ken Sherrill of the Hunter College poli sci department, on the perils of nonpartisan elections * nurse-practitioner Helen Ruddy-Brachman on the perils of Medicare reform | ||||
| July 24, 2003 labor law professor Marc Linder on work hours and the lack of pee breaks * Chris Carlsson on the bicycle anarcho-activists of Critical Mass | ||||
| July 17, 2003 DH on economic news * Faye Wattleton, director of the Center for the Advancement of women, on a poll of American women * Anatol Lieven on postwar Iraq * Michael Shifter of Inter-American Dialogue on Bush & Latin America | ||||
| July 10, 2003 DH on economic news * George Monbiot on global governance * author and activist Marta Russell on the UN conference on disability | ||||
| July 3, 2003 DH on economic news * Berkeley geographer Richard Walker on the geography of the boom and bust * DH on the mess we're in with some listener phone calls on the topic | ||||
For shows earlier than July 2003, click here.
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