Podcast for February 6, 2010

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Our guests were:

  • Moshe Adler teaches economics at Columbia University and at the Center for Labor Studies at Empire State College. Moshe is the author of “Economics For The Rest Of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal (The New Press).
  • Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Harvard Law School, is co-founder of the nonprofit Change Congress. This week, Lawrence posted The Nation article, “How to Get Our Democracy Back: If You Want Change, You Have to Change Congress.”
  • Glen Ford, executive editor of the Black Agenda Report. Glen discussed a recent speech he gave to the Black is Back Coalitionentitled, “Black Realities and Delusion in the Age of Obama.” Wel also touched on Glen’s article, “Obama Sec’y of Education Says Katrina ‘the Best Thing to Happen’ to Education in New Orleans,” and we talked Haiti.
  • Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. He is also the author of “Tinderbox: US Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism” (Common Courage Press) and co-author (with Jacob Mundy) of the forthcoming “Western Sahara: Nationalism, Conflict, and International Accountability” (Syracuse University Press). His most recent articles include, “Obama’s State of the Union,” “Obama’s Human Rights Record a Disappointment,” and “Yemen: The Latest U.S. Battleground.”
  • Greg Grandin teaches history at New York University. He is the author of “Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, The United States and The Rise of the New Imperialism” (Metropolitan) and, most recently, “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City,” (Henry Holt) which was a 2009 National Book Award finalist. His article in The Nation, “Muscling Latin America,” is on newsstands now.

    • Elvis DeMorrow told us what’s rumbling around in the ‘Konspiracy Korner’, and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.

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