The purges start at Pacifica Radio and WBAI

Doug Henwood had one of the good shows at WBAI, so of course it had to go.

Henwood published his resignation letter

For the record, as they say, here’s what I just wrote to Tony Bates:

I really don’t want to do a show every other week on Saturday morning, and you probably [...]

Support “Behind the News” on WBAI — really!

Doug Henwood of Left Business Observer and WBAI’s excellent Behind the News needs your help today. It’s pledge time and his show could get bumped by the lunatics at the asylum. But not if there are lots of pledges.

Pledge today on his show.

Full details on his blog

Doug Henwood interview

From The Activist

Brooklyn-based Doug Henwood has been among the few articulate voices on what Perry Anderson likes to call “the vanquished left.” Doug has been publishing an irreplaceable newsletter, Left Business Observer, which examines politics and economics with a scientific rigor and without the moral exhortations or hyperbolic spasms of his contemporaries, since [...]

Why you should subscribe to Left Business Observer

Because, among many other reasons, great quotes like the following.

The party began in earnest in the aftermath of 9/11. Fed Pimpmaster General, Alan Greenspan, demonstrating his august judgment with respect to these matters, embarked on a plan of making free money available to a select few, with the only requirement that the few charge [...]

Ted Kennedy and transportation deregulation

According to just about everybody, Teddy Kennedy represented the “soul” of the Democratic party, which presumably refers to his long-professed concern the poor and the weak. Now that that soul is safely buried, the Dems can move on to the important stuff, like preserving Wall Street power and escalating the war in Afghanistan.

Left economist [...]

Doug Henwood interview by Christian Parenti

Henwood is an economist / author who regularly gets quoted on economic matters in Alan Ableson’s column in Barron’s and also runs the hard left LBO-Talk listserv.

Excerpts from the interview in The Brooklyn Rail.

Henwood: I didn’t expect a massive transformation from Obama. I knew he had a lot of support in Wall Street [...]

Will Obama do an austerity program?

Doug Henwood says there are just now a few signs that the economy may be recovering ever so slightly. But Obama will need to pay for the stimulus somehow, and that could get ugly.

I’ve been coming around to the idea that in their heart of hearts, Obama & Co. are planning an eventual austerity [...]

The economic crisis and the Left

Economist Doug Henwood writes about on the current economic crisis and what, if anything, the left can do out it in Gloomy, w/ a 15% chance of depression

He runs Left Business Observer, a left / socialist newsletter and listserv, has a show on WBAI, and is savvy enough about economics that he often gets [...]