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2011 Program Archive
May 8 - Food Crisis, Commodity Market and Wall Street; Fund Drive Interview with William Cohan and John Quiggins
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Frederick Kaufman, a professor of English and Journalism at College of State Island and at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, and a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine discusses his article from Foreign Policy, How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis. |
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FUND DRIVE INTERVIEW - Ian talks with William Cohan, author of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World. |
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FUND DRIVE INTERVIEW - Ian talks with John Quiggins, author of Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us. |
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May 5 - State of war in Afghanistan; Cinco de Mayo Program - Fund Drive Interview with Molly Molloy and Charles Bowden
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Tom Hayden, who is a founding member of Students for a Democratic Society, former California Congressperson, and the founder and director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Culver City talks about the war in Afghanistan. |
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FUND DRIVE INTERVIEW - Ian talks with Molly Molloy and Charles Bowden, author of El Sicario: The Autobiography of a Mexican Assasin. |
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May 4 - President Obama decision against releasing photos of Osama bin Ladin's body; Fund Drive Interview with Gary Taubes
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Aziz Huq, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who previously litigated national security cases at the Brennan Center for Justice and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reacts to Osama bin Laden photos not being released to the public. |
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FUND DRIVE INTERVIEW - Ian talks with Gary Taubes, author of Why We Get Fat: And What To Do About It. |
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May 3 - Elections in Canada; Fund Drive Interview with Robert McChesney
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Henry Mintzberg, a Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGillUniversity in Montreal discusses the potential change in Canada's social democracy. |
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FUND DRIVE INTERVIEW - Ian talks with Robert McChesney, author of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It. |
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May 2 - Perspectives on the Death of Osama bin Laden
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Former CIA officer Robert Baer offers an alternative to the White House story on bin Laden's death. |
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Christine Fair assesses the current situatiion in Pakistan. |
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Leslie Gelb offers his analysis of Pakistan as an erstwhile US ally. |
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Molly Kinder discusses the failure of billions of dollars in US aid to effect substantial change. |
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