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Doug Henwood's radio archives

latest content added February 1, 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.

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.) Initially, only 48kbps versions were posted, but many people don't have the bandwidth to handle it. So, as of September 2002, shows were also made available is 16kbps as well, which offers lower sound quality, but should be well within the capacity of most dialups. And starting with the November 14, 2002, show, hi-fi files are encoded at 64kbps (rather than 48kbps), for superior sound quality.

Shows are about 56 minutes long; the 64kbps versions are around 26 megabytes; 48kbps versions, around 20 megabytes; and the 16kbps versions, around 7 mb.

Thanks to Jordan Hayes of thinkbank.com for hosting the archives.

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.

January 22, 2004 MARATHON SPECIAL 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 stream (hi/low) download (hi/low). Ehrenreich stream (hi/low) download (hi/low). Klein stream (hi/low) download (hi/low). Robbins stream (hi/low) download (hi/low).
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 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. 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 ctivist 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
June 19, 2003 DH on economic news * Patrick Mason on the economics of racial discrimination * Isabel Cole on dissident Americans abroad (click here for the website) * Kim Schaffer on housing affordability
June 12, 2003 DH on economic news * Michael Hudson, author of a report on the sleazy world of "subprime" finance [ignore the promises of listener phone calls - they're not included in the archive versions]
June 5, 2003 DH on economic news * Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper, on Blair's political troubles * Hamid Dabashi on Iran
May 22, 2003 MARATHON SPECIAL MAKING THE CONNECTIONS 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 just the three interviews that accounted for almost all the show's content. Bill Fletcher, of United for Peace and Justice and the Trans-Africa Forum, on the connections between imperial war and domestic austerity and organizing agaisnt both * Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire, on Bush & Empire, and the global justice movement(s) * Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, on election 2004, the reconstruction of Iraq, and the media But if you've got the cash and the inclination, please visit the WBAI website and make a pledge.	Fletcher stream (hi/low) download (hi/low). Hardt stream (hi/low) download (hi/low). Palast stream (hi/low) download (hi/low).
May 8, 2003 DH on economic news * Howard Wachtel, author of Street of Dreams, on the history of Wall Street * Heather Boushey of the Center for Economic & Policy Research, on child care arrangements, and the general state of the job market
May 1, 2003 DH on economic news (more on jobs, confidence, Greenspan) * Nina Revoyr, on the social history of Los Angeles, its charms as a subject, and her novel Southland * Robin Hahnel, author of The ABCs of Political Economy, on mainstream theory, its faults, and a better way
April 24, 2003 DH on economic news (jobs, confidence, Greenspan) * Anatol Lieven on postwar Iraq and the gang of American provincials running it * Ruy Teixeira, public opinion expert at The Century Foundation and co-author of The Emerging Democratic Majority, on Bush's poll numbers
April 17, 2003 Cultural theorist and philosopher Slavoj Zizek on the Iraq war, American imperialism, the role of fantasy in politics, etc. Among his many books: Welcome to the Desert of the Real, The Plauge of Fantasies, Tarrying With the Negative,The Sublime Object of Ideology - and, for a sampler, The Zizek Reader.
April 10, 2003 Bill Fletcher, one of the principal organizers of United for Peace and Justice, in a return engagement on the antiwar movement after the war ends * Gilberto Buenaño, professor of planning and former minister in the Venezuelan government, on what's going on in that belaguered country * former investment banker (and LBO author) Nomi Prins on the contracting bonanza in Iraq
April 3, 2003 Bill Fletcher, one of the principal organizers of United for Peace and Justice, on the future of the antiwar movement * Raad AlKadiri of PFC Energy on Iraq & oil * Bathsheeba Crocker of CSIS on postwar Iraq (click here for a report she co-authored)
March 27, 2003 DH on politics and economics of war * contributors to Implicating Empire, on war, globalization, fundamentalism, and legitimacy: Heather Gautney (co-editor), Pete Bratsis, Michael Hardt, Ellen Willis
March 13, 2003 DH on why a show mostly not about war * Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer, authors of Dead Heat, on global warming * Mickey Z, editor of The Murdering of My Years, on how artists & activist make ends meet without selling out
March 6, 2003 Ahmet Tonak on the political economy of Turkey & the war * Susie Bright, editor of The Best American Erotica 2003 [ignore promises at the top of the show that Ed Vulliamy would be on; he had quietly skipped off to DC to cover Bush's press conference]
February 13, 2003 MARATHON SPECIAL IF A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE, WHAT MIGHT IT LOOK LIKE? 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 just the three interviews that accounted for almost all the show's content. Walden Bello on the World Social Forum (WSF) and rural development * Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and Fences and Windows, on how Argentines are taking governance and businesses into their own hands and the arrested adolescence of the globalization movement * Njoki Njehu, director of the U.S. 50 Years Is Enough campaign, on the global justice movement and peace But if you've got the cash and the inclination, please visit the WBAI website and make a pledge.	Bello stream (hi/low) download (hi/low). Klein stream (hi/low) download (hi/low). Njehu stream (hi/low) download (hi/low).
February 6, 2003 DH on big bond manager Bill Gross on the end of American hegemony * Ellen Frank (of Emmanuel College and Dollars & Sense) on Bush's capital-friendly tax plans * Lenni Brenner on his latest book, a collection of 51 documents on Zionist-fascist links
January 30, 2003 Joel Schalit, editor of The Anti-Capitalism Reader, on the theory and practice of radical agitation today * Christian Weller of the Economic Policy Institute, on the state of the U.S. economy and the historical pattern of postwar recessions
January 23, 2003 William Pepper, author of An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, on the assassination as a joint venture of the U.S. government and the mafia * listener phonecalls
January 9, 2003 Ellen Frank (of Emmanuel College and Dollars & Sense) and Max Sawicky (of EPI and Maxspeak.org) on the Bush tax package * journalist Tim Shorrock on the Korean crisis (apologies for the muddy sound quality for the first 4 minutes of the show)
December 19, 2002 Mark Hertsgaard, author of The Eagle's Shadow, on how the U.S. is seen abroad * Thomas Burke, author of Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights, on the litigation explosion
December 12, 2002 Sara Roy (contributor to The New Intifada) on the Palestinian economy * Geisa Maria Rocha on Brazil and the situation facing Lula (read her New Left Review article here)
December 5, 2002 Jonathan Nitzan, co-author of The Global Political Economy of Israel, talks about just that (and download the chapter [in Acrobat] on the weapondollar-petrodollar coalition here) * Ghada Karmi, author of In Search of Fatima, talks about her childhood in Palestine and exile in England
November 21, 2002 Alexandra Robbins, author of Secrets of the Tomb, an investigation into Yale's Skull & Bones, talks about the world's most famous secret society * Linda Greuen, ex-Wal-Mart worker turned union organizer, talks about the UFCW's National day of Action against the world's largest corporation * Amy Caiazza, director of the Institute for Women's Policy Resarch survey of the status of women in the 50 U.S. states, talks about the newly released reports
November 14, 2002 Ruy Teixeira, public opinion expert at The Century Foundation and co-author of The Emerging Democratic Majority on why that majority failed to emerge on November 5 * Bonnie Brower, of The City Project, on the dire budget situation in New York City
November 7, 2002 Christopher Hitchens, author of Why Orwell Matters, talks about his book, his bellicose turn, and what Orwell might think of the phrase "non-imperial occupation." Anatol Lieven talks about what Bush really wants in Iraq.
October 17, 2002 MARATHON SPECIAL: THE WORLD ACCORDING TO W 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 just the three interviews that accounted for almost all the show's content. But if you've got the cash and the inclination, please visit the WBAI website and make a pledge. These interviews were conducted in response to the mobilization against Iraq. Tariq Ali is a Pakistani-born, London-based political analyst and novelist whose most recent book is The Clash of Fundamentalisms (from Verso). Cynthia Enloe teaches in the government department of Clark University; her work that's most relevant to this interview is Maneuvers (from the Unviersity of California Press). And Noam Chomsky teaches linguistics at MIT; his most recent book is 9/11 (from Seven Stories Press). Ali and Chomsky put the impending war on Iraq in historical and strategic context - what Bush is after, how it relates to long-standing U.S. policies, relations between the U.S. and its allies, and what might be next on the agenda. Ali also talks about the gains by religious parties in the Pakistani elections, and Chomsky talks about the reasonably good prospects for an antiwar movement in a country that's "incomparably more civilized" than it was 40 years ago. Enloe offers a feminist analysis of the militarization of our society - what its symptoms are, how sometimes people out of uniform are more militarized than those wearing it, and ways to demobilize our minds and our culture. You can download or stream the whole show by clicking on one of the links to the right. For individual interviews, click appropriately. Complete set is about 1:15; individual interviews about 0:25. Ali stream (hi/low) download (hi/low). Chomsky stream (hi/low) download (hi/low). Enloe stream (hi/low) download (hi/low).
October 3, 2002 Linda Peeno, MD and former medical director of several managed care companies, where she was supposed to deny care to sick people to boost corporate profits * listener call-ins
September 19, 2002 Campus Watch, the right-wing Zionist "rat on your professor" scheme * Eyal Weizman, one of the organizers of a banned exibit, The Politics of Israeli Architecture, and Dan Monk, author, The Architecture of Occupation, on how Israeli domination of Palestinians is manifested in the built environment * Hamid Dabashi, professor of Iranian studies at Columbia (and one of the targets of Campus Watch), on internal Iranian politics, what it's like belonging to the axis of evil, and the effects of a war on Iraq
September 12, 2002 Mohau Pheko looks back at the World Summit for Sustainable Development and forward with the movement that was energized by protesting it * two pundits from the hyperestablishment Council on Foreign Relations, Rachel Bronson and David Phillips, sing intellectual backup to Bush's war beat
September 5, 2002 political economist Sungur Savran reports from Instanbul on the state of Turkey * Heather Boushey, co-author of The State of Working America, on the material welfare of the U.S. population
August 29, 2002 Patrick Bond and Dennis Brutus report from Johannesburg on the World Summit for Sustainable Development, and the huge and repressed protests against it * Marc Linder, radical scholar of labor law at the University of Iowa, on U.S. wage and hour law and practice [because of a technical glitch, the hi-fi version isn't available]
August 22, 2002 DH on Jack Grubman & the telecoms bubble * Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin, editors, After the World Trade Center, talking about where those buildings came from and what might take their place
August 15, 2002 DH on economic news ­ Fed holds fire, manufacturing sags * Joseph Stiglitz, co-winner 2001 Nobel Prize in economics; professor of economics, Columbia University; former chief economist, World Bank; author, Globalization and Its Discontents, on the U.S. economy, the effects of the stock market scandals, and how the IMF really works. In this interview, Stiglitz, who'd previously called for the reform of the IMF, says he's changing his mind, and it might well be time to scrap it and start all over. Click here for just that passage.
August 1, 2002 DH on economic news ­ at the cusp of a vicious cycle? * Ruy Teixeira (The Century Foundation, co-author, The Emerging Democratic Majority) on the impact of the scandals and bear market on public opinion * Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire, on the book's reception and the impact of the Bush regime on his and Toni Negri's thinking
July 25, 2002 DH on the bear market * Ken Silverstein on the idiocy of hydrocarbon-based explanations for the war in Afghanistan * Ron Hayduk and Ben Shepard, editors of From ACT-UP to the WTO, on political activism today
July 18, 2002 DH on economic and scandal news * Pratap Chatterjee (freelance investigative journalist) on Cheney, Halliburton, and Brown and Root * Heather Boushey (Economic Policy Institute) on life after welfare
July 11, 2002 DH on scandals * Charles Komanoff (economist and energy analyst) on the proposal to put tolls on the East River bridges in New York City * Steffie Woolhandler (physician, author, prominent member of Physicians for a National Health Program) on U.S. health care finance: public money, private control * Michael Perelman (economist and author, Steal This Idea) on intellectual property rights
June 13, 2002 Robert Brenner, author of The Boom and the Bubble , talking about the 1990s boom, the subsequent bust, and the prognosis for the U.S. and world economies. And Gilberto Buenaño, Vice Minister of Planning and Regional Development in the government of Venezuela, talks about the coup attempt against the Chavez government, and what they're trying to do that's so annoyed Washington and the local elite.
May 30, 2002 Bill Wolman and Anne Colamosca, talking about their book, The Great 401(k) Hoax ­ how the new pension system screws workers and lets employers off the hook. Judith Levine, author of Harmful to Minors , talks about kids, sex, and the national panic over their connections.
April 4, 2002 Greg Palast, authorThe Best Democracy Money Can Buy , on the Florida election scandal, the World Bank, and the journalism racket. * Norman Finkelstein, author of The Holocaust Industry and Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, on the most recent round of crisis.

INDIVIDUAL INTERVIEWS (all 48kbps files except as noted)

Ashraf Ghani (October 4, 2001, 18:20; hi-fi file is 64kbps and 8.5 mb; low-fi is 16kbps and 2.2 mb ). Ghani is an anthropologist who'd taught at Johns Hopkins and consulted with the World Bank; he is now the finance minister of Afghanistan. He talks about Afghan society on the eve of the war.

GORE VIDAL
streaming	downloadable
part 1 (14:20)	part 1 (4.9 mb)
part 2 (9:55)	part 2 (3.4 mb)
part 3 (8:54)	part 3 (3.0 mb)
transcript

Michael Zweig (June 7, 2002, 29:25, 10.2 mb) Zweig teaches economics at SUNY­Stony Brook and is the author of The Working Class Majority: America's Best-Kept Secret. He was the lead organizer of a conference held at Stony Brook in June 2002 called "How Class Works." In this interview, he talks about class in the U.S., and its relation to other categories like race and gender.

TRANSCRIPT ONLY

Kathie Sarachild and Amy Coenen of the Redstockings (January 24, 2002) on the organization, feminism, and its relation to health care.

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