Wed, 31 December 2008
Charles Enderlin, author of The Lost Years and Jerusalem Bureau Chief of French TV network 2, says Hamas made a disastrous mistake in Gaza.
Direct download: 123108_Charles_Enderlin_Israel_Bureau_Chief_France_2.mp3
Category:Israel/Palestine -- posted at: 12:13pm EDT |
Tue, 30 December 2008
Charlie Cobb from AllAfrica.com says violence and dictatorship will continue to distort development in Guinea, Zimbabwe, Congo, Darfur and Somalia - and Barack Obama, despite his personal links to East Africa, may not be able to turn the tide.
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Tue, 30 December 2008
Mark Schneider, a former diplomat and vice president of the International Crisis Group, says Latin America will see economic hard times and growing drug violence in 2009.
Direct download: 123008_Mark_Schneider_on_Latin_America.mp3
Category:Foreign Policy -- posted at: 3:28pm EDT |
Tue, 30 December 2008
Investigative journalist Robert Dreyfuss, author of Devil's Game, discusses the prospects for peace in the region. |
Tue, 30 December 2008
Commentator Imran Anwar says the Gaza conflict is likely to spread, and that rising tensions between India and Pakistan makes U.S. diplomacy more needed than ever.
Direct download: 12_30_08_Interview_with_Imran_Anwar_Pakistani-American_commentator.mp3
Category:Foreign Policy -- posted at: 2:53pm EDT |
Mon, 8 December 2008
Direct download: 120808_Hero_of_Day_-_Alli_Lamhing.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 9:26pm EDT |
Mon, 8 December 2008
Detroit Free Press business columnist Daniel Howes says Chrysler is dead, GM is terminally sick, and Congress needs to act soon.
Direct download: 120808_Daniel_Howes_on_Auto_Industry.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 9:23pm EDT |
Mon, 8 December 2008
Prof. Robert Pollin of the University of Massachusetts explains how $100 billion spent on infrastructure could create 2 million jobs.
Direct download: 120808_Robert_Pollin_on_Infrastructure_Plan.mp3
Category:Jobs -- posted at: 9:04pm EDT |
Mon, 1 December 2008
Jdimytai "Jimmy" Damour, the security guard trampled to death at a suburban Wal-Mart, was trying to aid a pregnant woman.
Direct download: 120108_Hero_of_Day_-_Jdimytai_Damour.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 8:25pm EDT |
Mon, 1 December 2008
Miriam Pemberton of the Institute for Policy Studies says a vote by the Iraqi parliament signals a gradual end to the U.S. involvement in that country. |
Mon, 1 December 2008
Anuj Chopra from the Christian Science Monitor gave an exclusive report from Mumbai, India on the aftermath of the recent terror attacks. |
Thu, 27 November 2008
Joel Berg, author of All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America? is director of the NYC Coalition Against Hunger.
Direct download: 112708_Joel_Berg_on_Hunger.mp3
Category:Hunger & Nutrition -- posted at: 7:26pm EDT |
Wed, 26 November 2008
This civil rights attorney won a crushing settlement against a violent Ku Klux Klan organization, bankrupting the group.
Direct download: 112608_Hero_of_Day_-_Morris_Dees.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 6:17pm EDT |
Wed, 26 November 2008
Kate Hanni of FlyersRights.org talked about the need for a passenger's bill of rights. Her hotline number is (877) FLYERS6. |
Wed, 26 November 2008
Direct download: 112608_Doug_Turetsky_on_NYC_Budget.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 5:57pm EDT |
Tue, 25 November 2008
Direct download: 112508_Henry_Stern_on_NY_in_the_70s.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 8:36pm EDT |
Tue, 25 November 2008
Federal judge Block ruled that the United States government could not use ethnicity as justification for detaining two Egyptian-born men who were questioned for four hours after a cross-country flight in 2004.
Direct download: 112508_Hero_of_Day_-_Frederic_Block.mp3
Category:Hero of the Day -- posted at: 6:48pm EDT |
Tue, 25 November 2008
Direct download: 112508__Richard_Wolffe_on_Obama_Transition.mp3
Category:Election 2008 -- posted at: 6:32pm EDT |
Mon, 24 November 2008
Fred Burton, a security expert, explained why corporations and nations allow the piracy off the coast of Somalia.
Direct download: 112408_Fred_Burton_on_Somali_Pirates.mp3
Category:Foreign Policy -- posted at: 8:55pm EDT |
Mon, 24 November 2008
Philip Berg explained his lawsuit charging Obama is ineligible to serve as President. Click here for all documents in the case. |
Mon, 24 November 2008
Joe Lawless, author of Prosecutorial Misconduct, talked with us about the explosive case of female guards charged with raping several male inmates. |
Thu, 20 November 2008
The term limits fight leads Village Voice reporter Wayne Barrett to calls Mike Bloomberg the best mayor -- and the worst -- he can remember.
Direct download: 112008_Wayne_Barrett_takes_on_Mayor_Bloomberg_over_Term_Limits.mp3
Category:Election 2009 -- posted at: 2:51pm EDT |
Thu, 20 November 2008
Economist William Spriggs of Howard University gives some bad news about the coming recession.
Direct download: 112008_Williams_Spriggs_on_the_Economy.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 2:43pm EDT |
Thu, 20 November 2008
Author Bryan Mealer talks about his new book and his journeys into the heart of violence and war in Africa. |
Wed, 19 November 2008
Author Nomi Prins says a car industry bailout, like the money given to big banks, will only save jobs if we keep an eye on Congress and the CEOs.
Direct download: 11_19_08_Interview_with_Nomi_Prins__Should_auto_giants_get_bailed_out.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 1:30pm EDT |
Wed, 19 November 2008
Cornel West talked about his new book, politics, culture and philosophy.
Direct download: 111908_Cornel_West_full_interview.mp3
Category:Progressive Politics -- posted at: 1:24pm EDT |
Tue, 18 November 2008
Political consultant Robert Creamer gives us a peek inside the Obama transition as it plans the new administration's first cabinet choices.
Direct download: 111808_Robert_Creamer_on_the_Obama_Transition.mp3
Category:Election 2008 -- posted at: 12:44pm EDT |
Tue, 18 November 2008
Kim Bobo, author of Wage Theft in America, shows how wage theft takes billions from working people every year.
Direct download: 111808_Kim_Bobo_on_Wage_Theft.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 12:33pm EDT |
Mon, 17 November 2008
We talked with Michael Hirsch of Newsweek Magazine about who's up and who's down in the Obama cabinet rumor mill.
Direct download: 111708_Michael_Hirsh_on_the_Obama_Transition.mp3
Category:Foreign Policy -- posted at: 4:01pm EDT |
Mon, 17 November 2008
James Hughes, Dean of the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy gave a gloomy assessment of the duration and depth of the economic downturn.
Direct download: 111708_James_Hughes_of_Rutgers.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 3:56pm EDT |
Wed, 12 November 2008
We talked with investigative reporter and author Robert Dreyfuss about what Obama's foreign policy will look like.
Direct download: 111208_Robert_Dreyfuss_on_Obama_Foreign_Policy.mp3
Category:Foreign Policy -- posted at: 2:08pm EDT |
Wed, 12 November 2008
Here is the federal lawsuit filed to restore term limits in New York City government. We talked about it with Norman Siegel, one of the lawyers who filed the suit.
Direct download: 111208_Norman_Siegel_on_Term_Limits_Lawsuit.mp3
Category:Election 2009 -- posted at: 12:22pm EDT |
Tue, 11 November 2008
Talk-show legend Phil Donahue discusses his first-ever documentary, Body of War, that aired on the SUNDANCE cable channel. Go here to buy the DVD. |
Tue, 11 November 2008
We talked with Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington about ethically challenged lawmakers.
Direct download: 111108_Melanie_Sloan_on_Government_Corruption.mp3
Category:Government for Sale -- posted at: 11:21am EDT |
Tue, 11 November 2008
Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director of Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America, told us about a new website where veterans can share information and personal stories. |
Mon, 10 November 2008
We talked with Jonathan Mahler of the New York Times about how Obama can reverse the absues of power of the Bush administration.
Direct download: 111008_Jonathan_Mahler_on_the_imperial_Bush_presidency.mp3
Category:Election 2008 -- posted at: 3:53pm EDT |
Mon, 10 November 2008
We talked with Lawrence Norden of the Brennan Center about what went right and what went wrong on Election Day.
Direct download: 111008_Lawrence_Norden_on_voting_rights.mp3
Category:Voting Rights -- posted at: 3:42pm EDT |
Thu, 6 November 2008
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Tue, 28 October 2008
Direct download: 102808_Brian_Katulis_on_foreign_affairs.mp3
Category:Foreign Policy -- posted at: 2:02pm EDT |
Tue, 28 October 2008
Vicki Been, Executive Director of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, talked with Errol about the local impact of the foreclosure crisis. |
Mon, 27 October 2008
Civil rights attorney and candidate for Public Advocate Norman Siegel outlined the legal case that he and other supporters of term limits plan to make against Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council.
Direct download: 102708_Norman_Siegel_on_Term_Limits.mp3
Category:Election 2009 -- posted at: 11:20am EDT |
Mon, 27 October 2008
You wouldn't know it from the presidential debate, but the nuclear threat is alive and well, with thousands of weapons subject to deliberate or accidental firing. Errol talked with Joe Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund, a peace organization, about what the next administration must do to make us safer.
Direct download: 102708_Joe_Cirincione_on_nuclear_disarmament.mp3
Category:National Security -- posted at: 11:10am EDT |
Mon, 27 October 2008
Neal Rosenstein of the New York Public Interest Research Group talks with Errol about why the group gave the Board of Elections an "F" grade for purging thousands of voter registrations in possible violation of the law.
Direct download: 102708_Neal_Rosenstein_on_voter_purges.mp3
Category:Voting Rights -- posted at: 10:58am EDT |
Thu, 23 October 2008
Broadcasting from Kingsborough Community College, we took a moment to talk with Comptroller Bill Thompson about his effort to block Mayor Bloomberg on the issue of term limits. |
Thu, 16 October 2008
We talked with Eleanor Clift of Newsweek about the final debate between John McCain and Barack Obama.
Direct download: 101608_Eleanor_Clift_reviews_presidential_debate.mp3
Category:Election 2008 -- posted at: 1:09pm EDT |
Thu, 16 October 2008
We talked with James Bamford, author of The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/1 to the Eavesdropping on America. Click here to buy it.
Direct download: 101608_James_Bamford_on_National_Security.mp3
Category:National Security -- posted at: 11:05am EDT |
Wed, 15 October 2008
Direct download: 101508_Clarence_Page_on_the_final_presidential_debate.mp3
Category:Election 2008 -- posted at: 11:15pm EDT |
Wed, 15 October 2008
Author Robert Kuttner joined us to talk about Obama's Challenge, his book that argues the economic crisis gives Barack Obama the opportunity to be a great president.
Direct download: Robert_Kuttner_on_how_to_fix_the_economy.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 10:58pm EDT |
Tue, 14 October 2008
An estimated 30,000 people are held in custody every day, a result of our nation's tough post-9/11 immigration and border policies. Edward Alden, author of The Closing of the American Border, joined us to talk about it.
Direct download: 101408_Edward_Alden_on_Closing_of_American_Border.mp3
Category:Immigration/Border Security -- posted at: 10:35pm EDT |
Tue, 14 October 2008
We talked with Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General, about women's reproductive health issues and why America needs a new approach to health and sex education.
Direct download: 101408_Joycelyn_Elders_on_Womens_Reproductive_Health.mp3
Category:Health Care -- posted at: 10:27pm EDT |
Tue, 14 October 2008
A day after markets rallied, we talked with Jack Gage of Forbes Magazine about whether the bailout is working.
Direct download: 101408_Jack_Gage_on_economic_crisis.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 10:20pm EDT |
Mon, 13 October 2008
One of the leaders battling against Mayor Bloomberg's attempt to eliminate term limits is City Councilwoman Letitia James, who joined us.
Direct download: 101308_Tish_James_on_Term_Limits.mp3
Category:Election 2009 -- posted at: 8:00pm EDT |
Mon, 13 October 2008
We talked with Michael Isikoff, Newsweek Investigative Correspondent, about the Palin report. He wrote about it here.
Direct download: 101308_Michael_Isikoff_on_Palin_Ethics_Ruling.mp3
Category:Election 2008 -- posted at: 7:52pm EDT |
Wed, 8 October 2008
Direct download: 100808_Bob_Herbert_on_the_race_for_president.mp3
Category:Election 2008 -- posted at: 7:15pm EDT |
Wed, 8 October 2008
We talked about the economic crisis with David Cay Johnston, author of Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill).
Direct download: 100808_David_Johnston_on_the_economic_crisis.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 7:08pm EDT |
Wed, 8 October 2008
Stacey Artandi, the founder of SheZoom.com, talked about a poll asking who voters would choose in a presidential face-off between Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton.
Direct download: 100808_Stacey_Artandi_on_womens_vote.mp3
Category:Election 2008 -- posted at: 6:53pm EDT |
Tue, 7 October 2008
Political commentator and author John Avlon, author of Independent Nation, joined us for a preview of the second presidential debate.
Direct download: 100708_John_Avlon_on_Presidential_Race.mp3
Category:Election 2008 -- posted at: 9:38pm EDT |
Tue, 7 October 2008
Fresh from a televised clash with a right-wing talk show host, Robert Kuttner joined us to talk about how a potential Barack Obama presidency might bring America through the economic crisis.
Direct download: 100708_Robert_Kuttner_on_the_economic_crisis.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 1:49pm EDT |
Tue, 7 October 2008
We talked with Jeff Chester, author of Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy, available here. Jeff is Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy.
Direct download: 100708_Jeff_Chester_on_digital_democracy.mp3
Category:technology/Web -- posted at: 11:47am EDT |
Mon, 6 October 2008
Prof. James K. Galbraith gave a skeptical appraisal of the federal bailout and explained why suddenly cutting government spending will only make things worse.
Direct download: 100608_James_Galbraith_on_the_economic_crisis.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 10:58am EDT |
Mon, 6 October 2008
Myrna PĂ©rez of the Brennan Center at NYU Law school, the author of a study on voter purges, explained how millions have been removed from the voter rolls, many illegally. To get the full report or an executive summary, click here.
Direct download: 100608_Myrna_Perez_on_Voter_Purges.mp3
Category:Voting Rights -- posted at: 8:50am EDT |
Thu, 2 October 2008
We talked with Paul Jacobs of Citizens in Charge, who once ran U.S. Term Limits, about Mayor Bloomberg's attack on the city's term limits law.
Direct download: 100208_Paul_Jacobs_on_Term_Limits.mp3
Category:Election 2009 -- posted at: 4:09pm EDT |
Thu, 2 October 2008
For a look at the strategies Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Sarah Palin will be using in tonight's high-stakes debate, we turned to Emmy-award winning journalist and executive speech coach Steve Adubato.
Direct download: 100208_Steve_Adubato_previews_VP_debate.mp3
Category:Election 2008 -- posted at: 3:43pm EDT |
Thu, 2 October 2008
Bob Gangi, president of the Correctional Association of New York, talked about his efforts to register thousands of ex-prisoners who may not know they have the right to vote.
Direct download: 100208_Bob_Gangi_on_inmate_voting_and_Drop_the_Rock_event.mp3
Category:Voting Rights -- posted at: 3:28pm EDT |
Wed, 1 October 2008
Rounding out our look at the bailout, Congressman Charlie Rangel of Harlem described the debate and vote - and says spending $700 billion shouldn't stop the next president and Congress from investing in education, infrastructure and other basic needs.
Direct download: 100108_Charlie_Rangel_on_the_bailout.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 2:50pm EDT |
Wed, 1 October 2008
Jim Horney, Director of Federal Fiscal Policy at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, says the middle class and small businesses face "extreme hardship" if the bailout bill fails -- and that the true cost of the bill could be less than half of the $700 billion the politicians say they need.
Direct download: 100108_Jim_Horney_says_bailout_may_not_cost_so_much.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 2:44pm EDT |
Wed, 1 October 2008
Today's look at the economics of the bailout began with Ross Eisenbrey of the Economic Policy Institute explaining why the bailout is needed.
Direct download: 100108_Ross_Eisenbrey_on_bailout.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 2:23pm EDT |
Tue, 30 September 2008
Greg Palast has a new website with everything you need to know about guarding your right to vote. Download his guide here. Another website, Election Protection, is here.
Direct download: 093008_Greg_Palast_says_steal_your_vote_back.mp3
Category:Voting Rights -- posted at: 5:35pm EDT |
Tue, 30 September 2008
Assemblyman Michael Benjamin explains why a group of Bronx politicians are trying to depose Democratic Party chairman Jose Rivera -- and why a controversial vote now leaves the borough with two men claiming to be boss of the Bronx: Rivera and Assemblyman Carl Heastie.
Direct download: 093008_Michael_Benjamin_on_Bronx_power_struggle.mp3
Category:Bronx -- posted at: 1:44pm EDT |
Mon, 29 September 2008
Chicago Tribune and syndicated columnist Clarence Page joined us to talk about presidential politics and the Sarah Palin phenomenon.
Direct download: 092908_Clarence_Page_on_politics.mp3
Category:Election 2008 -- posted at: 11:51am EDT |
Mon, 29 September 2008
The world body is still in session, and Howard LaFranchi of the Christian Science Monitor walked us through the central question being debated there: what to do about world poverty.
Direct download: 092908_Howard_LaFranchi_on_the_UN.mp3
Category:United Nations -- posted at: 11:43am EDT |
Mon, 29 September 2008
On the day of a key congressional vote, we talked with David Arkush of Public Citizen's Congress Watch about the politics of the bailout.
Direct download: 092908_David_Arkush_on_financial_bailout.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 11:34am EDT |
Sun, 28 September 2008
Miriam Pemberton, author of a "A Unified Security Budget for the United States, FY 2009" explained why we need to shift money from the military budget to other areas, such as diplomacy and direct humanitarian aid, that in the long run will make the nation safer.
Direct download: 092508_Miriam_Pemberton_on_national_security.mp3
Category:National Security -- posted at: 4:50am EDT |
Sun, 28 September 2008
Award-winning producer/director Roger Weisberg talked with us about his new film, Critical Condition, that tells the stories of four uninsured families dealing with grave health problems. The show will air next Tuesday at 9 pm on Channel 13 WNET/PBS.
Direct download: 092508_Roger_Weisberg_on_Critical_Condition.mp3
Category:Health Care -- posted at: 4:37am EDT |
Sun, 28 September 2008
My Thursday column in the Daily News is about the horrific gun violence at the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway and the effort to save a community center scheduled to close next Tuesday. We talked with Eric Dennis, who works with young people at the center. |
Sun, 28 September 2008
Richard Wolffe, Senior White House Correspondent for Newsweek, talked about the bailout, Friday's presidential debate, and the fact the firm of McCain's campaign manager, lobbyist Rick Davis, was receiving $15,000 a month from Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage agency, as recently as last month -- even though McCain said earlier this week that Davis had severed those ties years ago. Read more here.
Direct download: 092408_Richard_Wolffe_on_politics.mp3
Category:Election 2008 -- posted at: 3:52am EDT |
Sun, 28 September 2008
We spoke to Nomi Prins, Senior Fellow at the progressive public policy organization Demos, an ex-investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. She has a short article about the bailout here and a great timeline of the crisis here.
Direct download: 092408_Nomi_Prins_on_Wall_Street_Bailout.mp3
Category:economic crisis -- posted at: 3:38am EDT |
Sun, 28 September 2008
We talked to David Fischer, Project Director for Workforce Development and Social Policy at the Center for an Urban Future about how federal cuts to job training programs have cost New York City $50 million since 2001. Download the report here.
Direct download: 092408_David_Fischer_on_Job_Training_Cuts.mp3
Category:Jobs -- posted at: 3:09am EDT |
Wed, 20 August 2008
Filmmaker Leslie Carde's documentary, America Betrayed, explains how mismanagement of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet led to the flooding of New Orleans.
Direct download: Leslie_Carde_on_New_Orleans_08_20_09.mp3
Category:Government for Sale -- posted at: 6:20am EDT |