Sasha Lilley born 1975 is an English-born radio host, writer and journalist based in

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Career

Lilley is the editor of ''Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult'', published by PM Press. Lilley is a contributor to the Turbulence Collective's ''What Would it Mean to Win?'', a collection of debates about the direction of the

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, published by PM Press. She is the series editor of the political economy imprint Spectre. Lilley is a co-founder and host of the Pacifica Radio program Against the Grain. From 2007-2009, she was the interim program director at KPFA. She directed Pacifica Radio’s coverage of the Winter Soldier hearings in Silver Spring, Maryland, launched the War Comes Home, about the human costs of the

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and

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occupations, curated the multimedia project “1968: The Year that Shook the World” commemorating 1968 with archival audio from the Pacifica Radio Archives, and launched the multimedia collaboration “Afghanistan 2008: Seven Years After the Taliban”. She has overseen national broadcasts, including on torture under the Bush Administration, the testimonials of survivors of Hurricane Katrina, and on the

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. Lilley was an editor, staff writer, and researcher at

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, reporting on the

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, labor struggles, and agribusiness. She has worked as an academic researcher and investigative journalist, including into US contracts in Iraq following the American-led invasion.Chatterjee, Pratap
''Halliburton's Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War''
Nation Books, 2009

Personal

Lilley is married to PM Press and

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founder Ramsey Kanaan.

Books

* Lilley, Sasha. ''Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult'' PM Press, 2011. * Turbulence Collective (ed.) ''What Would it Mean to Win?'' PM Press, 2010. * Lilley, Sasha, et al., ''Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth'' PM Press, 2012.

Misc

* Lilley, Sasha. ''Theory and Practice: Conversations with Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn'' (DVD) PM Press, 2010.

References

External links

* Counterspin
“Interview with Sasha Lilley on the War Comes Home”
November 14, 2008
“Christopher Hitchens and Chris Hedges Debate ‘Is God Great?’ Moderated by Sasha Lilley", May 24, 2007
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