new LBO web and radio product

Newly added to the LBO website <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com>:

"An interview with Slavoj Zizek" - the Sage of Ljubljana on Iraq, 
Bush, Chomsky, fantasy

"'Action Will Be Taken': Left Anti-intellectualism and Its 
Discontents," by Liza Featherstone, Doug Henwood, and Christian 
Parenti (comments highly welcome!)

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Newly added to my radio archive 
<http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:

January 22, 2004 MARATHON SPECIAL Noam Chomsky on Bush, empire, and 
the facts * Barbara Ehrenreich on Global Woman * Naomi Klein on 
market fundamentalism in Iraq * Alexandra Robbins on John Kerry and 
Skull & Bones

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

they join
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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 neoliberalism and the economy of the 1990s

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

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
* Anatol Lieven on Iraq
* Lisa Jervis on feminism & pop culture
* 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
* Ursula Huws on the new world of work and why capitalism has avoided crisis
* Michael Albert on participatory economics (parecon)
* Michael Hudson, author of a report on the sleazy world of "subprime" finance
* Hamid Dabashi on Iran
* Marta Russell on the UN conference on disability
* William Pepper on the state-sponsored assassination 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
* Richard Burkholder of Gallup on polling Baghdad
* Walden Bello on the World Social Forum and alternative development models
* Christopher Hitchens on Orwell and his new political affiliations
* Ghada Karmi on her search for her Palestinian roots
* Jonathan Nitzan on the Israeli economy

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Doug Henwood
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