Monday, January 31, 2011

A Play, Onwards!

Wallace Shawn, an OBIE Award-winning playwright, writer, and star of stage and screen, talks about his life in the theatre and the relationship between art and politics.



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Saturday, January 29, 2011

The Empire Bowl

Robert Lipsyte, an acclaimed sports writer and novelist, discusses the Super Bowl, the all-volunteer army, and what American football reveals about our country and its people.


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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Military-Industrial Cutbacks?

Retired US Army colonel Andrew Bacevich, a professor of history and international relations at Boston University, discusses proposed defense cuts and whether or not they will parlay into a reduction in the total national security budget.

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Monday, January 24, 2011

The Corruption Game

Juan Cole, a professor of history and director of the Center for South Asian Studies at the University of Michigan, talks about US government backing of corrupt dictatorships around the world.

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Oil and Vinegar

Michael Klare, a professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College, discusses the economic and political ramifications of looming commodities shortages.

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

US Versus Them?

Ira Chernus, a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, talks about the power of myth and the potential for a progressive message of "us with them" as opposed to "us versus them."

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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

O Sister, Where Art Thou?

Author, photographer and women's rights activist Ann Jones talks about her experience as an aid worker and institutionalized gender inequality throughout the world.

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

A Complex Situation

William Hartung, director of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation and an expert on weapons proliferation and military spending, describes the state of the current military-industrial complex. He also talks about how companies like Lockheed Martin have exceeded what Eisenhower envisioned when he coined the phrase.

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Friday, January 7, 2011

Way Off Base

Nick Turse, an award-winning journalist, author, Harvard fellow and frequent TomDispatch contributor, talks about his effort to find the true number of foreign bases the US operates, and whether that number is likely to go up or down.

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Forced Out

Bill Astore, history professor and retired lieutenant colonel for the USAF, dissects the fallacy in describing the US military as the greatest force in the world, and why our current imperial policies are unsustainable.

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