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Fiction, Reality and the Economic Meltdown

Airs at: Wed, 11/12/2008 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Per Fagereng interviews Charlie Stephens, a former Senior Policy Analyst with the Oregon Department of Energy, Mr. Stephens created Oregon’s Sustainable Building Tax Credit Program and is a leading expert on sustainable community development, energy efficiency strategi... Read more

The Decider

 Apropos of my post below, Obama is planning to review the plethora of onerous executive orders issued by President Bush: President-elect Barack Obama is poised to move swiftly to reverse actions that President Bush took using executive authority, and his transition team is... Read more

Back from the brink

 While I'm still processing the full import of Obama's win -- I'll blog about it more later -- one very, very encouraging item that's popped up is his intention to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. From Spencer Ackerman:   Less than a week after his election, and more than... Read more

End of the Republican era

 The always-excellent Sidney Blumenthal, writing in the Guardian: Today's election is poised to end the Republican era in American politics - an era that began in reaction to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the Vietnam war and the civil rights revolution, was pioneered by Ri... Read more

Njoki Njehu on Locus Focus

Airs at: Tue, 10/14/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Locus Focus
 Host Per Fagereng interviews Njoki Njehu from Africa Jubilee South about the current financial meltdown and bail-out, propagated by rich people at the expense of the entire world's poor. Read more

Joe & Abe - Oct 14

Airs at: Mon, 10/13/2008 at 5:00pm
 Hosts Abe Proctor and Joe Uris cuss and discuss the latest election news and coverage, including a run-down of the various Oregon Ballot Measures.  The cops are tracking your car's location with high tech cameras that log when and where your license plates appear.  Be awar... Read more

Good on yer, Krugman

 Continuing on a theme, congratulations to Paul Krugman of the New York Times for his Nobel prize in economics. For my money, Krugman for many years now has been the best columnist on the Times' op-ed page, and one of the best in the business, period. His liberalism comes i... Read more

More Talk Radio

Airs at: Sun, 10/12/2008 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  More Talk Radio
Guest host Dave Mazza talks with former New York Times investigative journalist David Cay Johnston about his latest book, "Free Lunch." Johnston's recent work explores the impacts of three decades of deregulation on the economy and how taxpayers are paying the cost for corp... Read more

Economics Expert Robin Hahnel on Dow Jones Drop

Airs at: Sun, 10/05/2008 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
Wall Street suffered through another volatile session today.The Dow Jones plunged as much as 800 points — the largest EVER one-day point drop — before recovering to close with a loss of three hundred seventy. The selling spree took the Dow below 10,000 points for the first ... Read more

Joe & Abe w/ Dr. Lawrence Krauss

Airs at: Mon, 10/06/2008 at 5:00pm
 Hosts Abe Proctor and Joe Uris talk Politics, Economics, and now, Atheism with guest Dr. Lawrence Krauss, internationally famous theoretical physicist and avowed Atheist.    Read more