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2016 Programs
2016 Program Archive
May 9 - Situation in Syria; Fund Drive Interview with Katherine Newman
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Bassam Haddad, the director of the Middle East Studies Program at George Mason University, visiting professor at Georgetown University, founding editor of the Arab Studies Journal who also serves on the Editorial Committee of Middle East Report talks about the rebellions and the state of Syria. |
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FUND DRIVE INTERVIEW - Ian talks with Katherine S. Newman, co-author of Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged. |
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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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