Behind the News
12:00 PM (Noon) Pacific Time: Thursdays
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Behind the News with Doug Henwood – The economic impact of the health care sector – January 17, 2009 at 10:00am
After Doug Henwood's usual opening commentary on the economic news, Michael Lighty of the California Nurses Association joins Henwood to talk about the economic impact of the health care sector, and the effects of a transition to a single-payer system. In the second half-hour, economic journalists Nomi Prins and Max Fraad Wolff talk about the … Continued
Behind the News with Doug Henwood – January 10, 2009 at 10:00am
David Bacon, author of Illegal People, and Michelle Wucker, author of Lockout (and director of WPI) on immigration; Sara Roy on the horrors of Gaza.
Behind the News: The financial crisis and the Obama economic team. – November 29, 2008
Doug Henwood comments on the ongoing financial crisis and the new Obama economic team (like good enviros, they're into recycling!). Richard Seymour, author of The Liberal Defense of Murder, on liberalism and imperialism. Bill Ayers, Barack Obama's "terrorist pal," talks about revolution, social change, education, and what it felt like to be a problem.