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This is Hell is four hours of completely uninterrupted unedited blah blah blah which airs every Saturday morning in Chicago. Troublemakers, muckrakers, whistleblowers, host Chuck Mertz does in-depth interviews with rabble of all sorts. Noam Chomsky has ca Primary Format : College Radio Language : English Also Listed as: City : Chicago State/Province : IL Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of THIS IS HELL Podcasts Methings.com listings of THIS IS HELL Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Yesterday on This is Hell! Our guests were ex-CIA officer Paul Pillar on Iran, the Gay Liberation Network's Andy Thayer on this coming May's G8/NATO protests in Chicago, historian Lisa Keller on "Democracy and Public Space," former Seattle police chief during the 1999 WTO demonstrations Norm Stamper, and Tom Frank on 'The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Come Back of the Right." Dan 'the Auto Man' Litchfield talked cars and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Saturday on This is Hell! This is Hell! and your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz return this Saturday, January 7, 2012, with a live four hour show beginning at 9 AM (Chicago time). Our first show of 2012 will feature interviews with … Sarah Sobieraj, assistant professor of sociology at Tufts University. is the author of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of This is Hell!: 2011 The ‘Best of This is Hell!: 2011‘ airs this Saturday, December 24, 2011, for four hours beginning at 9 AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after here. Hosted by producer Theron Hummiston, the interviews from the past year that will be featured include those with Seymour [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episdoe #677: 2011 This is Hell! Office Party! Saturday, December 17, we cordially invited all of our listeners to the first-ever broadcast of the annual This is Hell! Office Party live and completely uninterrupted for four hours from the thirteenth floor of the beautiful Paramutual Building on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast here. Hosting this year’s This is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episdoe #677 – Podcast for December 17, 2011 Saturday, December 17, we cordially invited all of our listeners to the first-ever broadcast of the annual This is Hell! Office Party broadcast live and completely uninterrupted for four hours from the thirteenth floor of the beautiful Paramutual Building on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today on This is Hell! Today, Saturday, December 10, This is Hell! broadcasts a live four hour show beginning at 9 AM (central) over-the-air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Jeffrey D. Clements is the co-founder and general counsel of Free Speech [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yesterday on This is Hell! Saturday, December 3rd, This is Hell! aired a live four hour completely uninterrupted, commercial-free, thoroughly unedited broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … live from Oslo, Reza Marashi is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode #674 Nov, 26 – Interview with Greg Palast This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted and unedited – albeit abbreviated – one hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central) Saturday, November 26, on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed… Investigative reporter and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Palast with Chuck Mertz live on stage Tuesday! This Tuesday, November 29, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will be participating in a special Chicago appearance by investigative reporter and best-selling author Greg Palast. And don’t forget this Saturday your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will interview the world renouwn investigative reporter and New York Times best-selling [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode #673 – #OccupyThisisHell!, Nov 19th This is Hell! broadcast a live – albeit abbreviated – one hour radio show, today,  Saturday, November 19, on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast here. This weekend, This is Hell! was Occupied by members of the #OccupyWallStreet, #OccupyChicago and #OccupyOakland contingents. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today on This is Hell! This is Hell! broadcast a live – albeit abbreviated – one hour radio show, this Saturday, November 12, at 9 AM (US central time) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Immanuel Wallerstein has held several positions as visiting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode #672 for November 12th This is Hell! broadcast a live – albeit abbreviated – one hour radio show, this Saturday, November 12, at 9 AM (US central time) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Immanuel Wallerstein has held several positions as visiting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is your Monday morning quarterbacking for Occupy? The Question From Hell is back! This months Question From Hell for our listening audience is what is your Monday morning quaterbacking for the Occupy movement? What’s the strategy you would like to see, would have liked to have seen, what has been done wrong, what was right, all of the kind of things that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for November 5 This is Hell! broadcasts a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted four hour radio show, this Saturday, November 5, on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will interview: Jeff Goodwin is professor of Sociology at New York University. Jeff is a past [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for October 22 This is Hell! broadcast a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted four hour radio show, Saturday, October 22nd, on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: - Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges is a weekly columnist at Truthdig and a senior fellow [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yesterday on This is Hell! Yesterday, Saturday, October 8, 2011, This is Hell! broadcasts live, completely unedited and uninterrupted four hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central time time) over-the air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … live from London, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today on This is Hell! This is Hell! aired a live – albeit abbreviated – one hour show today, Saturday, October 1, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Michael Hudson covers business and finance for the Center. for Public [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 24, 2011 – Hour Four – Chris Woods This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. In the last hour of the show we talked live from London, Chris Woods is an award-winning London-based investigative journalist and documentary film maker. Chris writes for The Bureau of Investigative reporting. He previously [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 24, 2011 – Hour Three – Sahr Muhammedally This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. In the third hour, live from London, Sahr Muhammedally is a consultant in the Asia division of Human Rights Watch and co-authored the report, “Just Don’t Call it a Militia: Impunity, Militias, and the Afghan [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 24, 2011 – Hour Two – Erica Gaston This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. In the second hour live in-studio, Spencer ’Thunderball’ Thayer and Chuck talked about Positive Loitering and its racist implications in Chicago. Later we attempted to talk to Erica Gaston, a program officer for the Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Policy Initiative of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website September 24, 2011 – Hour One – Stephen Walt This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after our over-the-air broadcast here. In the first hour, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed Stephen Walt is a professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Message From This Is Hell! This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011. However this isn’t it. We’re trying something different, we are finally listening to you the listening audience and we’ll be breaking up the show into one segment per guest! Though this will take us sometime so don’t expect to see the podcast [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saturday 24, 2011 on This is Hell! This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after our over-the-air broadcast here. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviews: Stephen Walt is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today on This is Hell! This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 17, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after our over-the-air broadcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-tooothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Paul Harris is the US [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 10 This is Hell! airs a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 10, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after our over-the-air broadcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will interview: journalist Stephen Glain author [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 3 Today, Saturday, September 3, This is Hell! aired an abbreviated one hour program beginning at 9 AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Bethany McLean is a writer at Vanity Fair and co-author (with Joe Nocera) of, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 27th 2011 Yesterday, Saturday, August 27, This is Hell! aired a live, completely uninterrupted and unedited, four hour broadcast at 9AM (US central time) on Chicago’s Sound Expermient, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and now podcast shortly here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Michael Lind is Policy Director of New America’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of Show, ‘Battling Cockburns’ This is Hell! airs a special broadcast tomorrow, Saturday, August 13, beginning at 9 AM (US central time) on Chicago’sWNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast at http://thisishell.net. This weekend, it’s the ‘Battling Cockburns’, interviews with journalist brothers Alexander, Andrew and Patrick Cockburn from over the last five years. Next week, This is Hell! present, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 6 2011 Today, Saturday, August 6, 2011, This is Hell! airs a live four hour broadcast beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM streaming live and podcast later here. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviews: Richard Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This is Hell! Podcast: July 30 Yesterday, Saturday, July 30, This is Hell! aired a live four hour broadcast beginning at 9AM (US central time) over the air on WNUR 89.3FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment, streaming and podcast here. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Muhammad Idrees Ahmad is a Glasgow-based sociologist, born in Chitral [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yesterday on This is Hell! Yesterday, Saturday, July 30, This is Hell! aired a live four hour broadcast beginning at 9AM (US central time) over the air on WNUR 89.3FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment, streaming and podcast here. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Muhammad Idrees Ahmad is a Glasgow-based sociologist, born in Chitral [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 23rd June Review Today, Saturday, July 23, This is Hell! airs a year in review four hour broadcast beginning at 9AM (US central time) over the air on WNUR 89.3FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz has to take off due to the recent death of his mother. From [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website July 23rd June Review Today, Saturday, July 23, This is Hell! airs a year in review four hour broadcast beginning at 9AM (US central time) over the air on WNUR 89.3FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz has to take off due to the recent death of his mother. From [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vincent Bugliosi v. Spencer “Thunderball” Thayer Rough transcrip: So as I write this some moron is singing the national anthem at the Uptown Rib Fest just a few blocks away and the smell of dead pig marinated in sugar is wafting into my room. So I apologize if I am a little more harsh  on Mr. Bugliosi than I probably should be, but [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for July 16, 2011 Saturday, July 16, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted, four hour radio show on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3FM, streaming live and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: science writer and editor John Carey recently wrote a three-part series on our planet’s extreme [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for July 16, 2011 Saturday, July 16, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted, four hour radio show on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3FM, streaming live and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: science writer and editor John Carey recently wrote a three-part series on our planet’s extreme [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for July 9, 2011 Saturday, July 9, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted, four hour radio show broadcast over-the-air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Greg Muttitt former co-director of the UK group Platform, a group [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for July 9, 2011 Saturday, July 9, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted, four hour radio show broadcast over-the-air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Greg Muttitt former co-director of the UK group Platform, a group [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 2, 2011 This is Hell! is broadcast live for four hours every Saturday morning, beginning at 9AM (US central) over the air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3FM, streaming and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (retired) at MIT. Noam is the author of many [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 2, 2011 This is Hell! is broadcast live for four hours every Saturday morning, beginning at 9AM (US central) over the air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3FM, streaming and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (retired) at MIT. Noam is the author of many [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for June 25, 2011 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Helen Epstein is the author of “The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa” (Picador). Helen’s recent writing at the New York Review of Books includes, “Flu Warning: Beware the Drug Companies!” live from Athens, Greece, Chicago’s Kathy Kelly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for June 25, 2011 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Helen Epstein is the author of “The Invisible Cure: Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa” (Picador). Helen’s recent writing at the New York Review of Books includes, “Flu Warning: Beware the Drug Companies!” live from Athens, Greece, Chicago’s Kathy Kelly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for June 18, 2011 Saturday, June 18, 2011, This is Hell! broadcast a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show on WNUR 89.3FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Laura Carlsen is director of the Mexico City-based Americas Program of the Center for International Policy and a columnist at Foreign Policy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for June 18, 2011 Saturday, June 18, 2011, This is Hell! broadcast a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show on WNUR 89.3FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Laura Carlsen is director of the Mexico City-based Americas Program of the Center for International Policy and a columnist at Foreign Policy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for June 11, 2011 Saturday, June 11, This is Hell! aired a live completely uninterrupted four hour show, on WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago ‘s Sound Experiment, streaming and podcast here. On last weekend’s show, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: The New Yorker‘s Pulitzer Prize winning writer Seymour Hersh. Sy’s journalism and publishing awards [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for June 11, 2011 Saturday, June 11, This is Hell! aired a live completely uninterrupted four hour show, on WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago ‘s Sound Experiment, streaming and podcast here. On last weekend’s show, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: The New Yorker‘s Pulitzer Prize winning writer Seymour Hersh. Sy’s journalism and publishing awards [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 16, 2002 interview with Syed Saleem Shahzad Asia Times investigative journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad was kidnapped, tortured and murdered only days after he posted his May 27 article, “Al-Qaeda had warned of Pakistan strike,” which exposed a possible link between al-Qaeda and Pakistani servicemen. The story was intended to be the first part of a two-part series. We had the honor of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website March 16, 2002 interview with Syed Saleem Shahzad Asia Times investigative journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad was kidnapped, tortured and murdered only days after he posted his May 27 article, “Al-Qaeda had warned of Pakistan strike,” which exposed a possible link between al-Qaeda and Pakistani servicemen. The story was intended to be the first part of a two-part series. We had the honor of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast Memorial Day Remix This is Hell! broadcasts a ‘Memorial Day Remix‘ tomorrow, Saturday, May 28, for four hours beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, and streaming live and podcast shortly after here. In memory of past interviews with military veterans from around the world, this Memorial Day weekend we are playing conversations [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast Memorial Day Remix This is Hell! broadcasts a ‘Memorial Day Remix‘ tomorrow, Saturday, May 28, for four hours beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, and streaming live and podcast shortly after here. In memory of past interviews with military veterans from around the world, this Memorial Day weekend we are playing conversations [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 21, 2011 Saturday, May 21, This is Hell! aired a live four hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central) on WNUR 89.3 FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will interviewed: live in-studio, Homayoun Pourzad a leader of the Network of Iranian Labor Unions and a member [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 21, 2011 Saturday, May 21, This is Hell! aired a live four hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central) on WNUR 89.3 FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will interviewed: live in-studio, Homayoun Pourzad a leader of the Network of Iranian Labor Unions and a member [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You watch too many movies, police don’t need a warrant. Rough transcrip: One of my favorite parts of being a Copwatcher and a member of the National Lawyers Guild is a class I get to teach called “Know Your Rights.”* It’s great. I get to meet lots of people, learn from their experiences and generally get to blow their freakin minds… Seriously. You would be [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 14, 2011 Saturday, May 14, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live broadcast on WNUR 89.3 FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: award-winning investigative journalist Joshua Phillips is author of “None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture” (Verso). Joshua also wrote the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 14, 2011 Saturday, May 14, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live broadcast on WNUR 89.3 FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: award-winning investigative journalist Joshua Phillips is author of “None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture” (Verso). Joshua also wrote the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 7, 2011 Today, Saturday, May 7, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live four hour broadcast over the air on WNUR 89.3 FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Richard Bulliet is Professor of Middle East History at Columbia University specializing in Middle Eastern history, the social and institutional [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 7, 2011 Today, Saturday, May 7, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live four hour broadcast over the air on WNUR 89.3 FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Richard Bulliet is Professor of Middle East History at Columbia University specializing in Middle Eastern history, the social and institutional [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for April 30, 2011 This is Hell! aired a live four hour broadcast Saturday, April 30, 2011, on Chicago’s WNUR 89.3 FM.. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Moshe Adler is author of “Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal” (The New Press). Moshe teaches economics at Columbia [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yesterday on This is Hell! This is Hell! aired a live four hour broadcast yesterday, Saturday, April 30, 2011, on Chicago’s WNUR 89.3 FM.. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Moshe Adler is author of “Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal” (The New Press). Moshe teaches economics at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for April 23 ‘This is Hell!‘ aired a new live broadcast , Saturday, April 23, 2011, on WNUR 89.3FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Patrick Cockburn is Iraq correspondent for the Independent in London. Patrick has received the Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting, the James Cameron Award, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yesterday on This is Hell! ‘This is Hell!‘ aired a new live broadcast yesterday, Saturday, April 23, 2011, on WNUR 89.3FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Patrick Cockburn is Iraq correspondent for the Independent in London. Patrick has received the Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting, the James Cameron Award, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Another Best of Show for April 16, 2011 From March 6, 2010 … it wouldn’t be a best of if we didn’t talk economy… economist Robert Johnson is a member of the United Nations Commission of Experts on Finance as well as being Senior Fellow and the Director of the Project on Global Finance at the Roosevelt Institute. Rob was on the panel [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Another Best of Show for April 16, 2011 From March 6, 2010 … it wouldn’t be a best of if we didn’t talk economy… economist Robert Johnson is a member of the United Nations Commission of Experts on Finance as well as being Senior Fellow and the Director of the Project on Global Finance at the Roosevelt Institute. Rob was on the panel [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Best of Noam Chomsky” Podcast for April 9 This is Hell! producer Spencer “Thunderball” Thayer host ‘The This is Hell! Noam Chomsky Interviews’. Spencer played interviews conducted by your bitter blind broke gap toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz has conducted with Noam dating back to 2001. We started with our first Chomsky interview back on September 1, 2001, which runs over fifty minutes. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Best of Noam Chomsky” Podcast for April 9 This is Hell! producer Spencer “Thunderball” Thayer host ‘The This is Hell! Noam Chomsky Interviews’. Spencer played interviews conducted by your bitter blind broke gap toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz has conducted with Noam dating back to 2001. We started with our first Chomsky interview back on September 1, 2001, which runs over fifty minutes. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for April 2 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: - economist Ha-Joon Chang teaches in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. Ha-Joon’s past books include, “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free trade and the Secret History of Capitalism” (Bloomsbury Press) and the 2003 Myraid Prize-winning “Kicking Away the Ladder: Development [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for April 2 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: - economist Ha-Joon Chang teaches in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. Ha-Joon’s past books include, “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free trade and the Secret History of Capitalism” (Bloomsbury Press) and the 2003 Myraid Prize-winning “Kicking Away the Ladder: Development [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for March 26 On Saturday, March 26, This is Hell! aired a live four hour show. We are still experiencing technical difficulties which keep us from having live guests. However, this week we did have live contributions from irregular correspondents. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host, Chuck Mertz, also had a special guest sitting in on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for March 26 On Saturday, March 26, This is Hell! aired a live four hour show. We are still experiencing technical difficulties which keep us from having live guests. However, this week we did have live contributions from irregular correspondents. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host, Chuck Mertz, also had a special guest sitting in on [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for March 19 Last week, due to circumstances beyond our control, we were unable to broadcast. This week, because of technical issues at the station, we are playing a ‘Best of This is Hell!’ This is Hell! returns with a new live four hour broadcast next Satuday, March 26. This week, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for March 19 Last week, due to circumstances beyond our control, we were unable to broadcast. This week, because of technical issues at the station, we are playing a ‘Best of This is Hell!’ This is Hell! returns with a new live four hour broadcast next Satuday, March 26. This week, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for March 5, 2011 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Thomas Ferguson is professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and a senior fellow of the Roosevelt Institute. Thomas recently wrote the article, “Obama’s Budget Speaks to Wall Street, Ignores Voters,” for New Deal 2.0. He is the author of many books [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for March 5, 2011 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Thomas Ferguson is professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and a senior fellow of the Roosevelt Institute. Thomas recently wrote the article, “Obama’s Budget Speaks to Wall Street, Ignores Voters,” for New Deal 2.0. He is the author of many books [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for February 26 Your bitter, blind, broke, gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Stanley Kutler is Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Stanley is the author of “The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon” (Norton), “Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes” (Free Press), and “The American Inquisition: Cold War Political [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for February 26 Your bitter, blind, broke, gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Stanley Kutler is Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Stanley is the author of “The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon” (Norton), “Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes” (Free Press), and “The American Inquisition: Cold War Political [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for February 19 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Matthew Rothschild is editor of the Madison, Wisconsin, based magazine The Progressive. Matthew recently wrote the article, “Glorious Rallies in Madison, Ground Zero of the Fight Back.” Award-winning journalist and cultural historian Jeff Biggers is the author of, “Reckoning at Eagle Creek, The United [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This is Hell! Phoneathon Podcast for February 19 Tomorrow, Saturday, February 19, 2011, This is Hell! celebrates the annual WNUR Phoneathon Fundraiser live, completely uninterrupted and unedited, for four hours beginning at 9 AM (US central) on Chicago’s WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live at http://wnur.org and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: live from [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for February 12 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Chase Madar is a civil rights attorney and a member of the National Lawyers Guild. Chase’s writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, Le Monde Diplomatique, the American Conservative Magazine and CounterPunch. His most recent article, “Why Bradley Manning Is a Patriot, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for February 12 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Chase Madar is a civil rights attorney and a member of the National Lawyers Guild. Chase’s writing has appeared in the London Review of Books, Le Monde Diplomatique, the American Conservative Magazine and CounterPunch. His most recent article, “Why Bradley Manning Is a Patriot, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for February 5 Your bitter, blind, broke, gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Amy Aisen Kallander is a historian of Tunisia and assistant professor of Middle East history at Syracuse University. Amy wrote the article, “Tunisia’s Post-Ben Ali Challenge: A Primer,” at Middle East Report Online. Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for February 5 Your bitter, blind, broke, gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Amy Aisen Kallander is a historian of Tunisia and assistant professor of Middle East history at Syracuse University. Amy wrote the article, “Tunisia’s Post-Ben Ali Challenge: A Primer,” at Middle East Report Online. Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOT the Best of This is Hell!: 2010 This is Hell! aired ‘NOT the Best of This is Hell!: 2010” – a collection of interviews that just missed the cut during our three end-of-the-year ‘Best of’ episodes. Why another ‘Best of’? Because your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host came down with the flu. Interviews from 2010 featured were: Berlin-based journalist Paul [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for January 22, 2011 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will interviewed: Lawrence Mishel is the president of the Economic Policy Institute. Lawrence was one of the co-authors in EPI’s recently released briefing paper, “Education is not the Cure for High Unemployment or for Income Inequality.” Chrystia Freeland is the Global Editor-at-Large of Reuters news [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for January 22nd 2011 Tomorrow, Saturday, January 22, 2011, This is Hell! airs a live, four-hour broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central time) on Chicago’s WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live at WNUR.org and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will interview: Lawrence Mishel is the president of the Economic Policy [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cameras Are The New Guns Rough transcrip: So, I have a confession to make. Not the kind you tell a Priest in a confessional, but the one you tell your lawyer when you’re in an holding cell.My lawyer advises me that it’s not a good idea to confess to a crime- on an international radio show, but I’m not one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for January 15 On Saturday morning’s This is Hell!, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Michael Lind is Policy Director of the New America Foundation‘s Economic Growth Program. Michael’s most recent book is 2005′s “What Lincoln Believed” (Doubleday). His first three books – 1995′s “The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Today on This is Hell! This morning, Saturday, January 15, 2011, This is Hell! airs a live, three-hour broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central time) on Chicago’s WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live at WNUR.org and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will interview: Michael Lind is Policy Director of the New [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of This is Hell!; 2010, Part Three The ‘Best of This is Hell!: 2010, Part Three‘ featured interviews from last year with … Melvin Goodman is the national security and intelligence columnist for truthout.org. Heather Rogers, author of, “Green Gone Wrong: How the Economy is Undermining the Environmental Revolution” Greta Christina is the author of “Bending,” an erotic novella that’s part of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of This is Hell!; 2010, Part Three The ‘Best of This is Hell!: 2010, Part Three‘ featured interviews from last year with … Melvin Goodman is the national security and intelligence columnist for truthout.org. Heather Rogers, author of, “Green Gone Wrong: How the Economy is Undermining the Environmental Revolution” Greta Christina is the author of “Bending,” an erotic novella that’s part of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of This is Hell!: 2010, Part Two Interviews featured during ‘The Best of This is Hell!: 2010, Part Two,’ hosted by Spencer ‘Thunderball’ Thayer included … Harper’s Magazine contributing editor Ben Austen who wrote the June cover story, “In the loop: Obama’s hometown takes Washington” journalist Gary Rivlin, author of “Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. – How the Working Poor [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of This is Hell!: 2010, Part Two Interviews featured during ‘The Best of This is Hell!: 2010, Part Two,’ hosted by Spencer ‘Thunderball’ Thayer included … Harper’s Magazine contributing editor Ben Austen who wrote the June cover story, “In the loop: Obama’s hometown takes Washington” journalist Gary Rivlin, author of “Broke, USA: From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. – How the Working Poor [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of This is Hell!: 2010, Part Two This Saturday, December 25, 2010, as a Christmas gift to our listeners This is Hell! airs ‘The Best of This is Hell!: 2010, Part Two,’ hosted by Spencer ‘Thunderball’ Thayer. Saturday’s four hour ‘Best of 2010′ conclusion begins at 9 AM (US central) on Chicago’s WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live at wnur.org, and podcast shortly [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Best of This is Hell!: 2010, Part One “The Best of This is Hell!: 2010, Part One” featured interviews broadcast earlier this year with … art historian Simon Schama, economist Moshe Adler Atlantic writer Don Peck on “How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America’ founder and chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition Dr. Samuel Epstien Just Detention International’s Cynthia Totten Lapham Quarterly’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for December 11 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz intervieed ... journalist Dante Chinni is author of "Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth about the 'Real' America and the 12 Community Types that Make Up Our Nation" (Gotham Books). Dante, since the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, has been the correspondent for the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for December 11 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … journalist Dante Chinni is author of “Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth about the ‘Real’ America and the 12 Community Types that Make Up Our Nation” (Gotham Books). Dante, since the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, has been the correspondent for the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for December 4 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans including fifteen years at The New York Times. Chris is a weekly columnist at Truthdig and a senior fellow at The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for December 4 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans including fifteen years at The New York Times. Chris is a weekly columnist at Truthdig and a senior fellow at The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for November 27 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: economist Gerald Epstein is the co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute and a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts. Jerry is co-author of the new report, “Financial Economists, Financial Interests and Dark Corners of the Meltdown: It’s Time to set Ethical [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Saturday on This is Hell! Tomorrow, Saturday, November 27, 2010, This is Hell! airs a live, four-hour broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central time) on Chicago’s WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live at WNUR.org and podcast shortly after here. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will interview: economist Gerald Epstein is the co-director of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for November 20 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen. Amartya is the author fo the book, “Idea of Justice,” (Harvard University Press) which was named a Book of the Year by the Toronto Globe and Mail and The Economist as well as being called a Book of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for November 20 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will interviewed: Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen. Amartya is the author fo the book, “Idea of Justice,” (Harvard University Press) which was named a Book of the Year by the Toronto Globe and Mail and The Economist as well as being called a Book of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for November 13 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: André Schiffrin, author of the new book, “Words and Money: A publishing luminary analyzes the crisis of the media and considers the alternatives” (Verso Books). Andre was the publisher at Pantheon Books for 30 years. He left in 1990 to start the not-for-profit publisher [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for November 13 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: André Schiffrin, author of the new book, “Words and Money: A publishing luminary analyzes the crisis of the media and considers the alternatives” (Verso Books). Andre was the publisher at Pantheon Books for 30 years. He left in 1990 to start the not-for-profit publisher [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for October 23 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed Michael W. Hudson, author of “The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America – and Spawned a Global Crisis” (Times Books). Michael is a staff writer at the Center for Public Integrity. He has worked as a reporter [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for October 23 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed Michael W. Hudson, author of “The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America – and Spawned a Global Crisis” (Times Books). Michael is a staff writer at the Center for Public Integrity. He has worked as a reporter [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for October 16th Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Bruce Kushnick is the founder of New Networks Institute, and a telecommunications industry analyst who regularly reports for Harvard Nieman’s Watchdog. Last week, Bruce co-wrote the story, “How the Phone Companies Are Screwing America: The $320 Billion Broadband Rip-Off” with past this is Hell! 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Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will be interviewing: Bruce Kushnick is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for October 9 On the Saturday, October 9, 2010, four-hour, completely new, live broadcast, which can be listened to here, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: award-winning investigative journalist Russ Baker is founder and editor-in-chief of WhoWhatWhy/The Real News Project where his recent writing includes the story,  “‘Obama’s Wars’:  The Real story Bob [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for October 2 This past Saturday, October 2, 2010, This is Hell! broadcast an abbreviated one-hour completely unedited and uninterrupted showonWNUR 89.3 FM, and streaming live at WNUR.org. It’s now podcast here and through the above links.. During these shortened programs, This is Hell! will dedicate nearly the entire time to one guest. On our September 11th show, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for September 25 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz sepnt nearly the entire hour of an abbreviated broadcast interviewing … New York Times best-selling author Frank Schaeffer who has just released a new book, “Patience With God: Faith for People Who Don’t Like Religion (or Atheism)” (Da Capo Press), ” Past This is Hell! [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for September 25 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz sepnt nearly the entire hour of an abbreviated broadcast interviewing … New York Times best-selling author Frank Schaeffer who has just released a new book, “Patience With God: Faith for People Who Don’t Like Religion (or Atheism)” (Da Capo Press), ” Past This is Hell! [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for September 18 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz lost his voice Saturday morning after a losing battle with a horrible cold. So, This is Hell! broadcast a full four-hour, ‘Best Of’ edition entitled, “It’s Still the Economy, Stupid!”. We played interviews from earlier this year with economist Moshe Adler on ‘The Dismal Science’; [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for September 18 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz lost his voice Saturday morning after a losing battle with a horrible cold. So, This is Hell! broadcast a full four-hour, ‘Best Of’ edition entitled, “It’s Still the Economy, Stupid!”. We played interviews from earlier this year with economist Moshe Adler on ‘The Dismal Science’; [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for September 11 This is Hell! broadcast an abbreviated one-hour live program this past Saturday, September 11, 2010, on Chicago’s WNUR 89.3 FM. The show is podcast here as well as the above links Last weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz spent nearly the entire hour speaking with the one, the only Noam [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for September 4 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … journalist Pratap Chatterjee is the senior editor at CorpWatch. Pratap’s most recent book is last year’s, “Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War” (Nation Books). We’ll be speaking with Pratap about his recent writing including the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for September 4 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … journalist Pratap Chatterjee is the senior editor at CorpWatch. Pratap’s most recent book is last year’s, “Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War” (Nation Books). We’ll be speaking with Pratap about his recent writing including the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for August 28 This is Hell! airs a ‘Gulf Coast Special’ Saturday, August 28, 2010, on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. We played interviews from five years ago when we originally covered Katrina, a couple follow-up interviews from a year later, and two interviews we did recently on the ongoing BP disaster in the Gulf. The interviews [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for August 28 This is Hell! airs a ‘Gulf Coast Special’ Saturday, August 28, 2010, on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. We played interviews from five years ago when we originally covered Katrina, a couple follow-up interviews from a year later, and two interviews we did recently on the ongoing BP disaster in the Gulf. The interviews [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for August 21 This is Hell! presented a special four hour ‘Best of’ broadcast, featuring aninterview with bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz, live from the shores of Houghton Lake, Michigan. Chuck was interviewed by This is Hell! producer Dr. Krys Bigosinski, MD. Following that live half-hour phone interview, This is Hell! re-broadcasted the following [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for August 21 This is Hell! presented a special four hour ‘Best of’ broadcast, featuring aninterview with bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz, live from the shores of Houghton Lake, Michigan. Chuck was interviewed by This is Hell! producer Dr. Krys Bigosinski, MD. Following that live half-hour phone interview, This is Hell! re-broadcasted the following [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for August 21 This is Hell! presented a special four hour ‘Best of’ broadcast, featuring aninterview with bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz, live from the shores of Houghton Lake, Michigan. Chuck was interviewed by This is Hell! producer Dr. Krys Bigosinski, MD. Following that live half-hour phone interview, This is Hell! re-broadcasted the following [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for August 14 “This is Hell!’  Zinnterviews: On-Air Conversations with the late Howard Zinn,”  featured four hours of live discussions with bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz. Howard appeared on This is Hell! eight times. He first appeared just eleven days after 9/11. His final appearance was in June 2009. Howard once said of This [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for August 14 “This is Hell!’  Zinnterviews: On-Air Conversations with the late Howard Zinn,”  featured four hours of live discussions with bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz. Howard appeared on This is Hell! eight times. He first appeared just eleven days after 9/11. His final appearance was in June 2009. Howard once said of This [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for August 7 On This is Hell! episode #666, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Edwin Cake is a biological oceanographer, a certified oyster biologist, and a private and public environmental consultant. He is an independent scientist with over 40 years experience in the Gulf of Mexico Region and is currently assisting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for August 7 On This is Hell! episode #666, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Edwin Cake is a biological oceanographer, a certified oyster biologist, and a private and public environmental consultant. He is an independent scientist with over 40 years experience in the Gulf of Mexico Region and is currently assisting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 31 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Tom Engelhardt is co-founder of the American Empire Project and runs the Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com. Tom’s latest book is, “The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s” (Haymarket Books). This week, Tom posted the article, “The Opposites Game: All the Strangeness [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 31 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Tom Engelhardt is co-founder of the American Empire Project and runs the Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com. Tom’s latest book is, “The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s” (Haymarket Books). This week, Tom posted the article, “The Opposites Game: All the Strangeness [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for July 24 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Joshua Foust is a military analyst specializing in Afghanistan, Pakistan and post-Soviet Central Asia. Joshua is a contributing editor to Current Intelligence, a journal of opinion and analysis. He blogs at Registan. This week, he posted the article, “What’s Secret in ‘Top Secret [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for July 24 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Joshua Foust is a military analyst specializing in Afghanistan, Pakistan and post-Soviet Central Asia. Joshua is a contributing editor to Current Intelligence, a journal of opinion and analysis. He blogs at Registan. This week, he posted the article, “What’s Secret in ‘Top Secret America?’ Dan [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for July 17 During our special ‘Best of’ edition’ we played interviews including … From March 13 … Melvin Goodman is the national security and intelligence columnist for truthout.org. Melvin’s most recent writing at truthout includes, Too Much Bang, Bang: The Need to Demilitarize US ‘National Security’,” “The Secret History of Gen. Alexander Haig,” and the two-parter, “President [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for July 17 During our special ‘Best of’ edition’ we played interviews including … From March 13 … Melvin Goodman is the national security and intelligence columnist for truthout.org. Melvin’s most recent writing at truthout includes, Too Much Bang, Bang: The Need to Demilitarize US ‘National Security’,” “The Secret History of Gen. Alexander Haig,” and the two-parter, “President Obama and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for July 10 This week, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Mike Marqusee writes Level Playing Field, a column on politics and culture for The Hindu Sunday magazine, one of India’s largest circulation English language publications, and Contending for the Living for Red Pepper. Mike’s most recent book is the paperback edition [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for July 10 This week, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Mike Marqusee writes Level Playing Field, a column on politics and culture for The Hindu Sunday magazine, one of India’s largest circulation English language publications, and Contending for the Living for Red Pepper. Mike’s most recent book is the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for July 3rd This Saturday, July 3rd, This is Hell! will broadcast a live, new four hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central) on WNUR 89.3 FM streaming live at WNUR’s web site, and podcast shortly after here. Tomorrow, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviews … Julien Mercille is lecturer at University College Dublin, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast For June 25th This Saturday, June 26th, This is Hell! will broadcast a live, new four hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central) on WNUR 89.3 FM streaming live at WNUR’s web site, and podcast shortly after here. Tomorrow, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviews … plant breeder and writer Stan Cox, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On the Next This is Hell! This Saturday, June 19th, This is Hell! will broadcast a live, new four hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central) on WNUR 89.3 FM streaming live at WNUR’s web site, and podcast shortly after here. Tomorrow, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviews … journalist and political analyst Vicken Cheterian [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for June 12 Our guests were: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is a weekly columnist at Truthdig and a senior fellow at The Nation Institute. Chris is the author of “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” (Knopf Canada), “When Atheism Becomes Religion: America’s New Fundamentalists” (Simon & Schuster) and the best-selling “American Fascists: [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for June 12 Our guests were: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is a weekly columnist at Truthdig and a senior fellow at The Nation Institute. Chris is the author of “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” (Knopf Canada), “When Atheism Becomes Religion: America’s New Fundamentalists” (Simon & Schuster) and the best-selling “American [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for June 5 Our guests this weekend were: John Vidal is the Guardian’s environment editor. John is the author of “McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial” (Pan Books). His recent articles include, “Nigeria’s agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it,” “Presence of world leaders ‘paralysed’ climate summit, UN letter claims,” “Academic resigns from UK food [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for June 5 Our guests this weekend were: John Vidal is the Guardian’s environment editor. John is the author of “McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial” (Pan Books). His recent articles include, “Nigeria’s agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it,” “Presence of world leaders ‘paralysed’ climate summit, UN letter claims,” “Academic resigns from UK food [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 29 Our guests were: Christopher Hellman is communications liaison at the National Priorities Project in Northampton, Massachusetts. Chris was previously a military policy analyst for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, a Senior Research Analyst at the Center for Defense Information, and spent ten years on Capitol Hill as a congressional staffer working on national security [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 15 Our guests were: Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ira is the author of “American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea ” (Orbis Books) and “Monsters To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin” (Paradigm Publishers). He recently posted the article, “Blood or Treasure? Obama’s Crucial [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 15 Our guests were: Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ira is the author of “American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea ” (Orbis Books) and “Monsters To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin” (Paradigm Publishers). He recently posted the article, “Blood or Treasure? Obama’s Crucial [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 15 Our guests were: Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ira is the author of “American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea ” (Orbis Books) and “Monsters To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin” (Paradigm Publishers). He recently posted the article, “Blood or Treasure? Obama’s Crucial [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 15 This Saturday, May 15th, This is Hell! will broadcast a live, new four hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central) on WNUR 89.3 FM streaming live at WNUR’s web site, and podcast shortly after here. Our guests include: Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ira is the author [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 8 A best of episode. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 8 A best of episode. 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His next book, “The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for May 1 Our guests on this podcast are: Paul Street is an independent journalist, policy adviser, and historian. Paul was Vice President for Research and Planning at the Chicago Urban League. He is the author, most recently, of “Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics” (Paradigm). His next book, “The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for April 24 Our guests were: Stan Cox is a plant breeder and writer in Salina, Kansas. Stan’s book, “Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (And Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer),” will be published in June by The New Press. On Thursday, Stan posted the article, “Cold War: Militarism, Torture … and Air [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for April 24 Our guests were: Stan Cox is a plant breeder and writer in Salina, Kansas. Stan’s book, “Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (And Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer),” will be published in June by The New Press. On Thursday, Stan posted the article, “Cold War: Militarism, Torture … and Air [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for April 17 On the ‘Latest, Highest This is Hell!‘ we played the following interviews from 2009. Go ahead and  listen: live from Dublin, Julien Mercille is a Professor at the University College of Dublin lecturing in US foreign policy. Julien writes regularly for Foreign Policy in Focus. 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Professor emeritus in international law at Princeton University, and past This is Hell! guest, Richard Falk said “Scramble for Africa,” is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for April 3rd Listen to this Saturday’s live four hour This is Hell! Our guests were: Steven Fake is co-author with Kevin Funk of the book, “The Scramble for Africa: Darfur – Intervention and the USA” (Black Rose Books). Professor emeritus in international law at Princeton University, and past This is Hell! guest, Richard Falk said “Scramble for Africa,” is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for April 3rd Listen to this Saturday’s live four hour This is Hell! Our guests were: Steven Fake is co-author with Kevin Funk of the book, “The Scramble for Africa: Darfur – Intervention and the USA” (Black Rose Books). Professor emeritus in international law at Princeton University, and past This is Hell! guest, Richard Falk said “Scramble for Africa,” is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - March 27th, 2010 Featuring interviews with James K. Galbraith, Kevin Funk, Dr. Oliver Fein, and Terry McDermott. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for March 27th Our guests were: James K. Galbraith, author of the new book, “The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too” (Free Press). James holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair of Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin. He is a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for March 27th Our guests were: James K. 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This week, Lewis posted the Lapham’s Quarterly article, “The Great White Whale in San Francisco Bay: Or How the ‘Lively [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for March 20, 2010 Our guests were: Lewis Lapham is editor of Lapham’s Quarterly and the former editor of Harper’s Magazine, Lewis is the author of, most recently, “Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration” (New Press). This week, Lewis posted the Lapham’s Quarterly article, “The Great White Whale in San Francisco Bay: Or How the ‘Lively [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - March 13th, 2010 Featuring interviews with Melvin Goodman, Dr. Samuel S. Epstein, Thomas Frank, and Robert Scheer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for March 13 Our guests were: Melvin Goodman is the national security and intelligence columnist for truthout.org. Melvin’s most recent writing at truthout includes, Too Much Bang, Bang: The Need to Demilitarize US ‘National Security’,” “The Secret History of Gen. Alexander Haig,” and the two-parter, “President Obama and the CIA: What Must Be Done,” and “CIA and Intelligence Community Mythologies.” [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for March 13 Our guests were: Melvin Goodman is the national security and intelligence columnist for truthout.org. Melvin’s most recent writing at truthout includes, Too Much Bang, Bang: The Need to Demilitarize US ‘National Security’,” “The Secret History of Gen. 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Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for February 13, 2010 Our guests were: Don Peck is a deputy managing editor of The Atlantic. Don’s article, “How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America,” appears in the March issue. Mike Marqusee is an American writer who emigrated to Britain in 1971. Mike writes Level Playing Field, a column on politics and culture for The Hindu Sunday magazine, one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for February 13, 2010 Our guests were: Don Peck is a deputy managing editor of The Atlantic. Don’s article, “How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America,” appears in the March issue. Mike Marqusee is an American writer who emigrated to Britain in 1971. Mike writes Level Playing Field, a column on politics and culture for The Hindu Sunday magazine, one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for February 6, 2010 Our guests were: Moshe Adler teaches economics at Columbia University and at the Center for Labor Studies at Empire State College. Moshe is the author of “Economics For The Rest Of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal (The New Press). Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Harvard Law School, is co-founder of the nonprofit Change [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for February 6, 2010 Our guests were: Moshe Adler teaches economics at Columbia University and at the Center for Labor Studies at Empire State College. Moshe is the author of “Economics For The Rest Of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal (The New Press). Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Harvard Law School, is co-founder of the nonprofit Change [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for January 30, 2010 Our guests were: Dr. Margaret Flowers is a pediatrician in the Baltimore area and co-chairs the Maryland chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. Dr. Flowers is one of two single payer doctors who were arrested Friday outside the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel where President Obama was scheduled to speak to House Republicans. Physicians for a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for January 30, 2010 Our guests were: Dr. Margaret Flowers is a pediatrician in the Baltimore area and co-chairs the Maryland chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program. Dr. Flowers is one of two single payer doctors who were arrested Friday outside the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel where President Obama was scheduled to speak to House Republicans. Physicians for a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - January 16th, 2010 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for January 23, 2010 Our guests were: Michael Lind is Policy Director of New America’s Economic Growth Program. Michael’s most recent book is 2005’s “What Lincoln Believed” (Doubleday). He has been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and The New Republic. His first three books – 1995’s “The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for January 23, 2010 Our guests were: Michael Lind is Policy Director of New America’s Economic Growth Program. Michael’s most recent book is 2005’s “What Lincoln Believed” (Doubleday). He has been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and The New Republic. His first three books – 1995’s “The Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for January 16, 2010 Our guests were: live from London, Peter Hallward professor of Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University and author of 2008’s “Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment” (Verso Books). This week, Peter wrote the Guardian story, “Our role in Haiti’s plight.” journalist Robert Parry, whose work can be found at ConsortiumNews.com. In 1984, Bob won the prestigious [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for January 16, 2010 Our guests were: live from London, Peter Hallward professor of Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University and author of 2008’s “Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment” (Verso Books). This week, Peter wrote the Guardian story, “Our role in Haiti’s plight.” journalist Robert Parry, whose work can be found at ConsortiumNews.com. In 1984, Bob won the prestigious [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - January 2nd, 2010 Featuring interviews with Kenneth Saltman, Johann Hari, Henry Giroux, Robert Auerbach, and Saskia Sassen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast January 2, 2010 This is part two of the Best of This is Hell!: 2009. #5: From January 24th, Kenneth Saltman is associate professor in the department of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the author, most recently, of “Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools,” (Paradigm Publishers), and editor of Schooling and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast January 2, 2010 This is part two of the Best of This is Hell!: 2009. #5: From January 24th, Kenneth Saltman is associate professor in the department of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the author, most recently, of “Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools,” (Paradigm Publishers), and editor of Schooling and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - December 19th, 2009 Featuring interviews with Martin Chulov, William Astore, Bruce E. Levine, and Julien Mercille. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for December 19, 2009 Our guests were: live from Beirut, Martin Chulov is the Baghdad correspondent for The Guardian. This week, Martin posted the article, “Iraq: Water, Water Nowhere,” at the World Policy Journal web site. William Astore is a retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel. Bill taught cadets at the Air Force Academy and officers at the Naval Postgraduate School. He [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for December 19, 2009 Our guests were: live from Beirut, Martin Chulov is the Baghdad correspondent for The Guardian. This week, Martin posted the article, “Iraq: Water, Water Nowhere,” at the World Policy Journal web site. William Astore is a retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel. Bill taught cadets at the Air Force Academy and officers at the Naval Postgraduate School. He [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for December 12, 2010 Our guests were: Robert Dreyfuss is Rolling Stone’s national security correspondent, and a contributing editor at The Nation where he writes the ‘The Dreyfuss Report, blog. Recent entries include, “Fire Gates!,” “Exit 2011, Parts I and II,” “Iran: No Sanctions” and “The Iranian Souffle.”author of “Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam.” He [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for December 12, 2010 Our guests were: Robert Dreyfuss is Rolling Stone’s national security correspondent, and a contributing editor at The Nation where he writes the ‘The Dreyfuss Report, blog. Recent entries include, “Fire Gates!,” “Exit 2011, Parts I and II,” “Iran: No Sanctions” and “The Iranian Souffle.”author of “Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam.” He [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - December 5th, 2009 Featuring interviews with Rahul Mahajan, Greg Palast, Zoltan Grossman and Matthieu Atkins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, December 5, 2009 Rahul Mahajan is the author of 2003’s “Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond” (Seven Stories Press) and 2002’s “The New Crusade: America’s War on Terrorism,” (Monthly Review Press). Rahul serves on the Administrative Committee of anti-war coalition United for Peace and Justice, the Board of Directors of Peace Action and the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, December 5, 2009 Rahul Mahajan is the author of 2003’s “Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond” (Seven Stories Press) and 2002’s “The New Crusade: America’s War on Terrorism,” (Monthly Review Press). Rahul serves on the Administrative Committee of anti-war coalition United for Peace and Justice, the Board of Directors of Peace Action and the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - November 28th, 2009 Featuring interviews with Ivan Eland, David Rosen, Christian Parenti, and Alexander Cockburn. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, November 28, 2009 Ivan Eland is Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute. Ivan has spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues, including as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. His books include “The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, November 28, 2009 Ivan Eland is Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute. Ivan has spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues, including as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. His books include “The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, November 28, 2009 Ivan Eland is Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute. Ivan has spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues, including as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. His books include “The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, November 21, 2009 Robert Auerbach was an economist at the House banking committee during the tenure of four Federal Reserve Chairmen including Alan Greenspan. Robert also served as an economist in the US Treasury’s Office of Domestic Monetary Affairs during the Reagan administration and as a financial economist with the Federal Reserve. He received his PhD. in economics [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, November 21, 2009 Robert Auerbach was an economist at the House banking committee during the tenure of four Federal Reserve Chairmen including Alan Greenspan. Robert also served as an economist in the US Treasury’s Office of Domestic Monetary Affairs during the Reagan administration and as a financial economist with the Federal Reserve. He received his PhD. in economics [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - November 7th, 2009 Featuring interviews with Kevan Harris and Ken Silverstein. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, November 7, 2009 Harper’s Washington editor Ken Silverstein who writes the Washington Babylon blog … and ‘Radical Pessimist’ Kevan Harris, live from Tehran. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, November 7, 2009 Harper’s Washington editor Ken Silverstein who writes the Washington Babylon blog … and ‘Radical Pessimist’ Kevan Harris, live from Tehran. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - October 24th, 2009 Featuring interview(s) with Barbara Ehrenreich. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 24, 2009 New York Times and Time magazine columnist, Barbara Ehrenreich. Barbara is the author of seventeen books including her latest, “Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America” (Metropolitan Books). She is also a contributor to The Nation and Harper’s. Her recent writing includes the Tom Dispatch piece, “Are Women Getting Sadder?: Or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 24, 2009 New York Times and Time magazine columnist, Barbara Ehrenreich. Barbara is the author of seventeen books including her latest, “Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America” (Metropolitan Books). She is also a contributor to The Nation and Harper’s. Her recent writing includes the Tom Dispatch piece, “Are Women Getting Sadder?: Or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - October 10th, 2009 Featuring interview(s) with James B. Steele. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 10, 2009 James B. Steele co-wrote the Vanity Fair article, “Good Billions After Bad,” with his investigative reporting partner Donald L. Barlett. Steele and Barlett are the only investigative journalism team to have won two Pulitzers and two National Magazine Awards. They are both contributing editors to Vanity Fair and editors-at-large for TIME magazine. Their most recent [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 10, 2009 James B. Steele co-wrote the Vanity Fair article, “Good Billions After Bad,” with his investigative reporting partner Donald L. Barlett. Steele and Barlett are the only investigative journalism team to have won two Pulitzers and two National Magazine Awards. They are both contributing editors to Vanity Fair and editors-at-large for TIME magazine. Their most recent [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - October 3rd, 2009 Featuring interviews with Tom Tresser and David Cole. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 3, 2009 live from Copenhagen, Tom Tresser is a volunteer organizer for ‘No Games Chicago.’ Tom is a consultant, producer, educator and trainer who works with individuals, companies and communities to “leverage and amplify their creative assets in order to solve problems, create economic value and trigger civic engagement.” He is the author of the book, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 3, 2009 live from Copenhagen, Tom Tresser is a volunteer organizer for ‘No Games Chicago.’ Tom is a consultant, producer, educator and trainer who works with individuals, companies and communities to “leverage and amplify their creative assets in order to solve problems, create economic value and trigger civic engagement.” He is the author of the book, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - September 26th, 2009 Featuring interview(s) with Stephen Glain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 26, 2009 Stephen Glain is a weekly columnist for the Abu Dhabi English-language paper The National and a regular contributor to the London-based Al Majallah magazine. Stephen has been a business reporter for the South China Morning Post and a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. His book, “Mullahs, Merchants, and Militants: The Economic Collapse of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 26, 2009 Stephen Glain is a weekly columnist for the Abu Dhabi English-language paper The National and a regular contributor to the London-based Al Majallah magazine. Stephen has been a business reporter for the South China Morning Post and a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. His book, “Mullahs, Merchants, and Militants: The Economic Collapse of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 19, 2009 Thomas Frank is a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Tom’s latest book is “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule” (Metropolitan Books). Tom’s earlier book, “What The Matter With Kansas,” has been made into a documentary. Joe Winston, the director of the new film, joined us live in-studio.Show times through Thursday, are 6:15 PM [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 19, 2009 Thomas Frank is a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal. Tom’s latest book is “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule” (Metropolitan Books). Tom’s earlier book, “What The Matter With Kansas,” has been made into a documentary. Joe Winston, the director of the new film, joined us live in-studio.Show times through Thursday, are 6:15 PM [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 12, 2009 Craig Holman is Legislative Representative for Public Citizen. In that capacity, Craig serves as the organization’s Capitol Hill lobbyist on campaign finance and governmental ethics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 12, 2009 Craig Holman is Legislative Representative for Public Citizen. In that capacity, Craig serves as the organization’s Capitol Hill lobbyist on campaign finance and governmental ethics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 5, 2009 Danny Weil has written a three-part series on charter schools for Counterpunch. Danny is an attorney with thirty years experience as well as a union organizer. Danny is also a former primary school teacher in Los Angeles and works as an educational and organizational management consultant. He is currently director of the Critical Thinking Institute, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 5, 2009 Danny Weil has written a three-part series on charter schools for Counterpunch. Danny is an attorney with thirty years experience as well as a union organizer. Danny is also a former primary school teacher in Los Angeles and works as an educational and organizational management consultant. He is currently director of the Critical Thinking Institute, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 29, 2009 We broadcast ‘The Best of This is Hell!: 2005-2009′ featuring the following interviews: from September 17, 2005, author and professor Norman Finkelstein; from September 30 2006, Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi; from October 21, 2006; Harper’s editor Ken Silverstein; from June 30 2007, former member of the National Security Council Roger Morris; and from January 12, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 29, 2009 We broadcast ‘The Best of This is Hell!: 2005-2009′ featuring the following interviews: from September 17, 2005, author and professor Norman Finkelstein; from September 30 2006, Rolling Stone columnist Matt Taibbi; from October 21, 2006; Harper’s editor Ken Silverstein; from June 30 2007, former member of the National Security Council Roger Morris; and from January 12, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - August 22nd, 2009 Featuring interviews with Rami Khouri, Charles M. Sennott, Anna Lenzer, Sherwood Ross, and Eugenia Tsao. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 22, 2009 live from Beirut, Rami Khouri is the Director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut as well as editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. You can find all Rami’s work at the Daily [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 22, 2009 live from Beirut, Rami Khouri is the Director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut as well as editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. You can find all Rami’s work at the Daily [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 15, 2009 ‘This is Hell! Goes To Pot: The Best of Our War on Drugs Coverage.’ Interviews included: from January 31, 2009, Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML and the NORML Foundation. He is also the co-author of the forthcoming book “Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People To Drink?,” which will [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 15, 2009 ‘This is Hell! Goes To Pot: The Best of Our War on Drugs Coverage.’ Interviews included: from January 31, 2009, Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML and the NORML Foundation. He is also the co-author of the forthcoming book “Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People To Drink?,” which will [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 8, 2009 In honor of producer Drew Colglazier – who is leaving This is Hell! after six years – it’s ‘The Best of Drew Colglazier.’ Interviews that Drew selected include: from April 14, 2007, Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology at Columbia University. His most recent book is “Good Muslim, Bad [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 8, 2009 In honor of producer Drew Colglazier – who is leaving This is Hell! after six years – it’s ‘The Best of Drew Colglazier.’ Interviews that Drew selected include: from April 14, 2007, Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology at Columbia University. His most recent book is “Good Muslim, Bad [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 1, 2009 writer Andrew Cockburn, co-producer of the award-winning film, “American Casino: When You Are in Wall Street’s Casino, You Play by Their Rules.” Andrew’s recent writing includes the Counterpunch piece, “The Wall Street White House: How Goldman Sachs and Citi Run the Show.” His most recent book is 2007’s “Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy” [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 1, 2009 writer Andrew Cockburn, co-producer of the award-winning film, “American Casino: When You Are in Wall Street’s Casino, You Play by Their Rules.” Andrew’s recent writing includes the Counterpunch piece, “The Wall Street White House: How Goldman Sachs and Citi Run the Show.” His most recent book is 2007’s “Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall and Catastrophic Legacy” [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 25, 2009 Melvin Goodman, is senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. Melvin spent 42 years with the CIA, the National War College, and the US Army. His latest book is “Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA.” He is a a regular contributor [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 25, 2009 Melvin Goodman, is senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. Melvin spent 42 years with the CIA, the National War College, and the US Army. His latest book is “Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA.” He is a a regular contributor [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - July 18th, 2009 Featuring interviews with Eamonn Fingleton, Matt Kennard, Jeff Faux, and Grahame Russell. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 18, 2009 live from Tokyo, Eamonn Fingleton is the former editor for Forbes and the Financial Times. Eamonn wrote the Counterpunch article about “Detroit’s Collapse, the Untold Story: How the Press Helped Destroy the Auto Industry.” He is the author of “In the Jaws of the Dragon: America’s Fate in the Coming Chinese Hegemony” (Thomas Dunne Books). [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 18, 2009 live from Tokyo, Eamonn Fingleton is the former editor for Forbes and the Financial Times. Eamonn wrote the Counterpunch article about “Detroit’s Collapse, the Untold Story: How the Press Helped Destroy the Auto Industry.” He is the author of “In the Jaws of the Dragon: America’s Fate in the Coming Chinese Hegemony” (Thomas Dunne Books). [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 4, 2009 live from London, David Hill is a researcher and campaigner for Survival International, “the only international organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide.” David will discuss SI’s latest report on recent violence against Peru’s indigenous, “Death at Devil’s Bend: an eyewitness account.” In 2007, David traveled to Peru and spent months researching some of the world’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 4, 2009 live from London, David Hill is a researcher and campaigner for Survival International, “the only international organization supporting tribal peoples worldwide.” David will discuss SI’s latest report on recent violence against Peru’s indigenous, “Death at Devil’s Bend: an eyewitness account.” In 2007, David traveled to Peru and spent months researching some of the world’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - Jun 27, 2009 Featuring interviews with Ira Chernus, Paul Rogers, and Anthony DiMaggio. We lost the first couple minutes of this one but all interviews are here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, June 27, 2009 Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of “Monsters To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin” (Paradigm Publishers). This week, he wrote the piece, “Time to Change the Story: Palestinian Violence Overstated, Jewish Violence Understated.” live from Jerusalem, adjunct professor of business at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, June 27, 2009 Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of “Monsters To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin” (Paradigm Publishers). This week, he wrote the piece, “Time to Change the Story: Palestinian Violence Overstated, Jewish Violence Understated.” live from Jerusalem, adjunct professor of business at [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - Jun 13, 2009 Featuring interviews with Ethan Nadelmann, Shane Bauer, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Martin Shaw, and Muhammad Sahimi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - Jun 13, 2009 Featuring interviews with Ethan Nadelmann, Shane Bauer, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Martin Shaw, and Muhammad Sahimi. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, June 13, 2009 Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs. Ethan is the author of 1993’s “Cops Across Borders,” which was the first scholarly study of the internationalization of US criminal law enforcement, and co-authored the 2006 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, June 13, 2009 Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs. Ethan is the author of 1993’s “Cops Across Borders,” which was the first scholarly study of the internationalization of US criminal law enforcement, and co-authored the 2006 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - Jun 6, 2009 Featuring interviews with Kim Bobo, David Vine, Mahmood Mamdani, Howard Zinn, and David Neiwert. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - Jun 6, 2009 Featuring interviews with Kim Bobo, David Vine, Mahmood Mamdani, Howard Zinn, and David Neiwert. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, June 6, 2009 Kim Bobo is the founder and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice and a columnist for Religious Dispatches. Kim is the author of “Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid – And What We Can Do About It” (The New Press). American University assistant professor of anthropology David Vine, author [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, June 6, 2009 Kim Bobo is the founder and executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice and a columnist for Religious Dispatches. Kim is the author of “Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid – And What We Can Do About It” (The New Press). American University assistant professor of anthropology David Vine, author [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 30, 2009 Featuring interviews with Jeff Faux, Fatima Bhutto, Patrick Cockburn, Kristen Lombardi, Christian Parenti, David Cay Johnston, and Gareth Porter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 30, 2009 Featuring interviews with Jeff Faux, Fatima Bhutto, Patrick Cockburn, Kristen Lombardi, Christian Parenti, David Cay Johnston, and Gareth Porter. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, May 30, 2009 Interviews played during this special podcast – ‘The Very Best of Taylor Dearr ‘ – included: from April 15, 2008, Jeff Faux is founder and former president of the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epinet.org/) where he is currently a distinguished fellow. Jeff’s most recent article as of this date was a piece in The Nation entitled, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, May 30, 2009 Interviews played during this special podcast – ‘The Very Best of Taylor Dearr ‘ – included: from April 15, 2008, Jeff Faux is founder and former president of the Economic Policy Institute (http://www.epinet.org/) where he is currently a distinguished fellow. Jeff’s most recent article as of this date was a piece in The Nation entitled, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 23, 2009 Featuring interviews with Phyllis Bennis, Tom Knoche, Andy Thayer, Tom Hayden, Fawaz Gerges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, May 23, 2009 Phyllis Bennis is the Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and a fellow at the Transnational Institute. Phyllis is the author of several books including, “Ending the Iraq War: A Primer,” and, “Understanding the US-Iran Crisis: A Primer” (Interlink Publishing). This week, she wrote the article, “Netanyahu at the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, May 23, 2009 Phyllis Bennis is the Director of the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies and a fellow at the Transnational Institute. Phyllis is the author of several books including, “Ending the Iraq War: A Primer,” and, “Understanding the US-Iran Crisis: A Primer” (Interlink Publishing). This week, she wrote the article, “Netanyahu at the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 09, 2009 Featuring interviews with John Dunbar, John Sifton, Nomi Prins, Anatol Lieven, and Michael Ash. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, May 9, 2009 John Dunbar is the Center for Public Integrity’s lead writer/researcher on their new report, “Who’s Behind The Financial Meltdown?” John covered information technology and economics for the Washington, DC, bureau of The Associated Press. He was also an investigative reporter with the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville. attorney and investigator John Sifton is the Executive Director of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, May 9, 2009 John Dunbar is the Center for Public Integrity’s lead writer/researcher on their new report, “Who’s Behind The Financial Meltdown?” John covered information technology and economics for the Washington, DC, bureau of The Associated Press. He was also an investigative reporter with the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville. attorney and investigator John Sifton is the Executive Director of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 02, 2009 Featuring interviews with Kai Wright, Karen Greenberg, Richard Wilkinson, Andy Worthington, and Kathy Kelly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, May 2, 2009 Kai Wright is a Brooklyn writer and editor and senior writer for TheRoot.com. Kai is the author of “Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York” (Beacon Press). His most recent writing includes The Nation article, “More Mortgage Madness.” Last June, Kai also wrote, “Mortgage Industry [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, May 2, 2009 Kai Wright is a Brooklyn writer and editor and senior writer for TheRoot.com. Kai is the author of “Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York” (Beacon Press). His most recent writing includes The Nation article, “More Mortgage Madness.” Last June, Kai also wrote, “Mortgage Industry [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - April 25, 2009 Featuring interviews with Johann Hari, Fouad Pervez, and Heather Williams. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - April 18, 2009 Featuring interviews with Bill Black, Henry Giroux, Daniele Archibugi, Robert Naiman, Marcelo Ballve, and Peter Gowan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - April 11, 2009 Featuring interviews with Graham Usher, Manuel Perez Rocha, Jurgen Todenhofer, Lisa Laplante, and Chris Shaw. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, April 25, 2009 Johann Hari is an award-winning journalist who writes twice-weekly for the UK paper, The Independent. Last year, at the age of 29, Johann became the youngest person ever to be awarded the George Orwell Prize, which the Observer newspaper calls “Britain’s preeminent award for political writing”. In 2007 he was named Newspaper Journalist of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, April 25, 2009 Johann Hari is an award-winning journalist who writes twice-weekly for the UK paper, The Independent. Last year, at the age of 29, Johann became the youngest person ever to be awarded the George Orwell Prize, which the Observer newspaper calls “Britain’s preeminent award for political writing”. In 2007 he was named Newspaper Journalist of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, April 18, 2009 Bill Black is an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Bill is the former Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention. He was litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, deputy director of the Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation, Senior Vice President and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, April 18, 2009 Bill Black is an Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. Bill is the former Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention. He was litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, deputy director of the Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation, Senior Vice President and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, April 11, 2009 live from Islamabad, Graham Usher is a contributing editor of Middle East Report (http://www.merip.org). Graham is the author of “Dispatches from Palestine: The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process” (Pluto Press). His most recent writing includes, “Taliban v. Taliban.” Graham’s articles on Pakistan appear regularly in al Ahram English Weekly. Manuel Perez Rocha directs [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, April 11, 2009 live from Islamabad, Graham Usher is a contributing editor of Middle East Report (http://www.merip.org). Graham is the author of “Dispatches from Palestine: The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process” (Pluto Press). His most recent writing includes, “Taliban v. Taliban.” Graham’s articles on Pakistan appear regularly in al Ahram English Weekly. Manuel Perez Rocha directs [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, March 28, 2009 journalist Robert Parry, whose work can be found at ConsortiumNews.com, returned to This is Hell! In 1984, Bob won the prestigious Polk Award for National Reporting by breaking many of the Iran-Contra stories for Newsweek and The Associated Press. His recent columns include, “Lost History Hurts Obama’s Iran Bid” and “WPost Elitists Feel for Wall [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, March 28, 2009 journalist Robert Parry, whose work can be found at ConsortiumNews.com, returned to This is Hell! In 1984, Bob won the prestigious Polk Award for National Reporting by breaking many of the Iran-Contra stories for Newsweek and The Associated Press. His recent columns include, “Lost History Hurts Obama’s Iran Bid” and “WPost Elitists Feel for Wall [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, March 21, 2009 Daniel Volman is a specialist on US military activities in Africa and the director of the African Security Research Project and a member of the board of directors of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars. Daniel just posted the piece, “Making Peace or Fueling War in Africa.” Sam Pizzigati is the editor of Too Much, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, March 21, 2009 Daniel Volman is a specialist on US military activities in Africa and the director of the African Security Research Project and a member of the board of directors of the Association of Concerned Africa Scholars. Daniel just posted the piece, “Making Peace or Fueling War in Africa.” Sam Pizzigati is the editor of Too Much, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, March 14, 2009 financial historian and economist Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. In 2007, Dr. Hudson was Chief Economic Policy Adviser for the Kucinich for President campaign. Michael is now [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, March 14, 2009 financial historian and economist Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. In 2007, Dr. Hudson was Chief Economic Policy Adviser for the Kucinich for President campaign. Michael is now [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - February 28, 2009 Featuring interviews with Walden Bello, Michael Klare, Kristen Lombardi, Marjorie Cohn, Julia Whitty. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, February 28, 2009 live from Manila, Walden Bello is Foreign Policy In Focus columnist, a senior analyst at the Bangkok-based Focus on the Global South, president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition, and a professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines. Walden’s most recent writing includes, “The Global Collapse: a Non-orthodox View,” and “Asia: The Coming [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, February 28, 2009 live from Manila, Walden Bello is Foreign Policy In Focus columnist, a senior analyst at the Bangkok-based Focus on the Global South, president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition, and a professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines. Walden’s most recent writing includes, “The Global Collapse: a Non-orthodox View,” and “Asia: The Coming [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, February 21, 2009 Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Dean writes the Beat the Press blog at the American Prospect. He is the author of several books, including his just-released “Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy.” (PoliPointPress). Emma Rothschild is Director of the Joint Centre for History [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, February 21, 2009 Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Dean writes the Beat the Press blog at the American Prospect. He is the author of several books, including his just-released “Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy.” (PoliPointPress). Emma Rothschild is Director of the Joint Centre for History [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, February 14, 2009 William Blum is the author of “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II” and “Rogue State: a guide to the World’s Only Super Power” which are both published by Common Courage Press. Last weekend, he posted the article, “Obama and the Empire.” Visit his web site http://www.killinghope.org/. Dr. Gareth Porter [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, February 14, 2009 William Blum is the author of “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II” and “Rogue State: a guide to the World’s Only Super Power” which are both published by Common Courage Press. Last weekend, he posted the article, “Obama and the Empire.” Visit his web site http://www.killinghope.org/. Dr. Gareth Porter [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, February 7, 2009 Benjamin Barber is Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and President of CivWorld at Demos, a nonpartisan public policy and advocacy organization. Mr. Barber was Walt Whitman Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society at The University of Maryland. Barber was a founding editor and for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, February 7, 2009 Benjamin Barber is Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos and President of CivWorld at Demos, a nonpartisan public policy and advocacy organization. Mr. Barber was Walt Whitman Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society at The University of Maryland. Barber was a founding editor and for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - January 31, 2009 Featuring interviews with Aziz Huq, Vijay Prashad, and Paul Armentano. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, January 31, 2009 Aziz Huq is the director of the Liberty & National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. Aziz’s most recent book is 2007’s “Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror,” (New Press) which he co-authored with with Fritz Schwarz. This week, Aziz wrote the article, “Obama’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, January 31, 2009 Aziz Huq is the director of the Liberty & National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University. Aziz’s most recent book is 2007’s “Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror,” (New Press) which he co-authored with with Fritz Schwarz. This week, Aziz wrote the article, “Obama’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, January 24, 2009 Kenneth Saltman is associate professor in the department of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the author, most recently, of “Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools,” (Paradigm Publishers), and editor of Schooling and the Politics of Disaster (Routledge).In December, he wrote the article, “Obama’s Betrayal of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, January 24, 2009 Kenneth Saltman is associate professor in the department of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul University in Chicago. He is the author, most recently, of “Capitalizing on Disaster: Taking and Breaking Public Schools,” (Paradigm Publishers), and editor of Schooling and the Politics of Disaster (Routledge).In December, he wrote the article, “Obama’s Betrayal of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, January 17, 2009 investigative journalist Russ Baker is founder of WhoWhatWhy/the Real News Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organization. Russ’s exclusive reporting on George W. Bush’s military record won him a 2005 Deadline Club Award. His new book is “Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, January 17, 2009 investigative journalist Russ Baker is founder of WhoWhatWhy/the Real News Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative news organization. Russ’s exclusive reporting on George W. Bush’s military record won him a 2005 Deadline Club Award. His new book is “Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, December 20, 2008 On our ‘Best of Hell: 2008′ we featured the following interviews: From June 14, David Cay Johnston is an independent investigative journalist, formerly with The New York Times, now focusing on the subject of taxation. David’s most recent book is last year’s “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, December 20, 2008 On our ‘Best of Hell: 2008′ we featured the following interviews: From June 14, David Cay Johnston is an independent investigative journalist, formerly with The New York Times, now focusing on the subject of taxation. David’s most recent book is last year’s “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, December 13, 2008 Lew Daly is a senior fellow of Demos and the author of God and the Welfare State. Lew is co-author of the new book, “Unjust Desserts: How the Rich are Taking our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take it Back” (New Press). Steven Kinzer, author of “Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, December 13, 2008 Lew Daly is a senior fellow of Demos and the author of God and the Welfare State. Lew is co-author of the new book, “Unjust Desserts: How the Rich are Taking our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take it Back” (New Press). Steven Kinzer, author of “Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, December 6, 2008 Gerard Prunier were on to discuss his opendemocracy.net article, “The eastern DR Congo: dynamics of conflict.” Gerard is research professor at the University of Paris. He is the author of 1998’s The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide, 2007’s revised edition of “Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide”, and 2006’s “From Genocide to Continental War: The Congolese’ [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, December 6, 2008 Gerard Prunier were on to discuss his opendemocracy.net article, “The eastern DR Congo: dynamics of conflict.” Gerard is research professor at the University of Paris. He is the author of 1998’s The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide, 2007’s revised edition of “Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide”, and 2006’s “From Genocide to Continental War: The Congolese’ [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - November 29, 2008 Featuring interviews with Chris Hedges, Frances Fox Piven, George Packer, Robert Parry, Jeff Cohen, and Larry Pinkney. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, November 29, 2008 Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. Chris spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is the author of the best selling “War [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, November 29, 2008 Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. Chris spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He is the author of the best selling “War [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, November 22, 2008 This is Hell! presents “The Best of the Worst of the Economy: America’s Inevitable Economic Collapse in Hellish Review.” From February 16, John Miller, a professor of economics at Wheaton College who writes for Dollar and Sense. We talked with John about his latest article, “Stormier Weather: The economic recovery that’s been officially underway since [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, November 22, 2008 This is Hell! presents “The Best of the Worst of the Economy: America’s Inevitable Economic Collapse in Hellish Review.” From February 16, John Miller, a professor of economics at Wheaton College who writes for Dollar and Sense. We talked with John about his latest article, “Stormier Weather: The economic recovery that’s been officially underway since [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, November 8, 2008 Vince Bugliosi author of the new and highly controversial book, “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, November 8, 2008 Vince Bugliosi author of the new and highly controversial book, “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - October 25th, 2008 Featuring interviews with John R. MacArthur. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 25, 2008 John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper’s Magazine, is an award winning journalist and author. His new book is called, “You Can’t Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America” (Melville House). This week’s irregular correspondent was Jeff Dorchen who delivered a Moment of Truth entitled, “Finding common ground with the crazy stupid white people.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 25, 2008 John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper’s Magazine, is an award winning journalist and author. His new book is called, “You Can’t Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America” (Melville House). This week’s irregular correspondent was Jeff Dorchen who delivered a Moment of Truth entitled, “Finding common ground with the crazy stupid white people.” Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - October 18th, 2008 Featuring interviews with Michael Schwartz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - October 11th, 2008 Featuring interviews with Tom Frank, Anand Gopal, Steven Rosenfeld, Thomas Ferguson, and Alan Snitow. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 18, 2008 Michael Schwartz is the author of “War Without End: The Iraq War in Context” (Haymarket Books). Michael is a professor of sociology and the founding director of the Undergraduate College of Global Studies at Stony Brook University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 18, 2008 Michael Schwartz is the author of “War Without End: The Iraq War in Context” (Haymarket Books). Michael is a professor of sociology and the founding director of the Undergraduate College of Global Studies at Stony Brook University. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 11, 2008 Thomas Frank whose latest book is “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule” (Metropolitan Books). Tom is a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal. live from Afghanistan, Anand Gopal discussed his TomDispatch article, “The Surge That Failed: Afghanistan under the Bombs.” Anand is a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, based in Afghanistan. Steven Rosenfeld is a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 11, 2008 Thomas Frank whose latest book is “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule” (Metropolitan Books). Tom is a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal. live from Afghanistan, Anand Gopal discussed his TomDispatch article, “The Surge That Failed: Afghanistan under the Bombs.” Anand is a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, based in Afghanistan. Steven Rosenfeld is a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 4, 2008 live from Cochabamba, the Democracy Center’s Jim Shultz explained what the hell is going on in the near civil war in Bolivia. You can read Jim’s blog by visiting http://www.democracyctr.org/blog/. The Democracy Center “works globally to advance social justice through investigation and reporting, training citizens in public advocacy, and leading international citizen campaigns.” journalist and author [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, October 4, 2008 live from Cochabamba, the Democracy Center’s Jim Shultz explained what the hell is going on in the near civil war in Bolivia. You can read Jim’s blog by visiting http://www.democracyctr.org/blog/. The Democracy Center “works globally to advance social justice through investigation and reporting, training citizens in public advocacy, and leading international citizen campaigns.” journalist and author [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 27, 2008 Ann Pettifor is executive director of Advocacy International. In the 1990s she helped design and lead the international campaign Jubilee 2000. She is editor of “The Real World Economic Outlook” (Palgrave) and author of “The Coming First World Debt Crisis” (Palgrave). This week she wrote the articles “The week that changed everything” and “America’s financial [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 27, 2008 Ann Pettifor is executive director of Advocacy International. In the 1990s she helped design and lead the international campaign Jubilee 2000. She is editor of “The Real World Economic Outlook” (Palgrave) and author of “The Coming First World Debt Crisis” (Palgrave). This week she wrote the articles “The week that changed everything” and “America’s financial [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 20, 2008 Ken Menkhaus is a political science professor at North Carolina’s Davidson College and a former political advisor to the UN Operation in Somalia. Ken has a new report out called, “Somalia: A Country in Peril, A Policy Nightmare.” In the report, Ken says, “US counterterrorism policies have not only compromised other international agendas in Somalia, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 20, 2008 Ken Menkhaus is a political science professor at North Carolina’s Davidson College and a former political advisor to the UN Operation in Somalia. Ken has a new report out called, “Somalia: A Country in Peril, A Policy Nightmare.” In the report, Ken says, “US counterterrorism policies have not only compromised other international agendas in Somalia, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 13, 2008 live from Estonia, we will speak with Rein M�llerson who wrote the article, “The world after the Russia-Georgia war,” which is posted at openDemocracy.net. Rein is professor and chair of international law at King’s College, London. Rein has been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, a member of the United Nations Human [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 13, 2008 live from Estonia, we will speak with Rein M�llerson who wrote the article, “The world after the Russia-Georgia war,” which is posted at openDemocracy.net. Rein is professor and chair of international law at King’s College, London. Rein has been a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, a member of the United Nations Human [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 6, 2008 Mark Weisbrot, co-director at the Center for Economic Policy Research, who has just co-authored a report entitled, “Oil Drilling In Environmentally Sensitive Areas: The Role of the Media.” Matt Kennard is a writer who, while studying for his Master’s in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University in New York. looked into the increasingly liberal attitude of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, September 6, 2008 Mark Weisbrot, co-director at the Center for Economic Policy Research, who has just co-authored a report entitled, “Oil Drilling In Environmentally Sensitive Areas: The Role of the Media.” Matt Kennard is a writer who, while studying for his Master’s in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University in New York. looked into the increasingly liberal attitude of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 30, 2008 Dr. Phillip Butler wrote the opinion piece, “Why I Will Not Vote for John McCain,” for the web site Military.com. Phil is a 1961 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former light-attack, carrier pilot. In 1965 he was shot down over North Vietnam where he spent eight years as a prisoner [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 30, 2008 Dr. Phillip Butler wrote the opinion piece, “Why I Will Not Vote for John McCain,” for the web site Military.com. Phil is a 1961 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a former light-attack, carrier pilot. In 1965 he was shot down over North Vietnam where he spent eight years as a prisoner [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 23, 2008 Barbara Crossette wrote the article “After Musharraf” for The Nation this week. Barbara is a former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, was South Asia bureau chief from 1988 to 1991 and UN bureau chief from 1994 to 2001. James K. Galbraith, author of the new book, “The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 23, 2008 Barbara Crossette wrote the article “After Musharraf” for The Nation this week. Barbara is a former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, was South Asia bureau chief from 1988 to 1991 and UN bureau chief from 1994 to 2001. James K. Galbraith, author of the new book, “The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 2, 2008 Christian Parenti returned to This is Hell! Christian is the author of, most recently, “The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq” (New Press). This week, he wrote the Nation piece, “Class Struggle in the New China.” Peter Rogers who wrote the Scientific American article, “Facing the Freshwater Crisis.” Peter argues that, “As demand for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, August 2, 2008 Christian Parenti returned to This is Hell! Christian is the author of, most recently, “The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq” (New Press). This week, he wrote the Nation piece, “Class Struggle in the New China.” Peter Rogers who wrote the Scientific American article, “Facing the Freshwater Crisis.” Peter argues that, “As demand for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 26, 2008 live from (not) Dublin, Lyndall Stein is executive director of Concern, an “humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.” Lyndall’s most recent writing includes her openDemocracy article, “Ethiopia: the tears and the rains.” live from Baghdad, journalist David Enders has [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 26, 2008 live from (not) Dublin, Lyndall Stein is executive director of Concern, an “humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.” Lyndall’s most recent writing includes her openDemocracy article, “Ethiopia: the tears and the rains.” live from Baghdad, journalist David Enders has [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 19, 2008 Kai Wright is a Brooklyn writer and editor whose work focuses on the politics of sex, race, and health. He is author of “Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York” (Beacon Press). Kai’s most recent writing includes the American Prospect article, “America’s AIDS Apartheid: The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 19, 2008 Kai Wright is a Brooklyn writer and editor whose work focuses on the politics of sex, race, and health. He is author of “Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York” (Beacon Press). Kai’s most recent writing includes the American Prospect article, “America’s AIDS Apartheid: The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 12, 2008 live from Islamabad, Graham Usher is a contributing editor of Middle East Report (http://www.merip.org). Graham is the author of “Dispatches from Palestine: The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process” (Pluto Press). His most recent writing includes “Pakistan Amidst the Storms” and “Getting Pakistan Wrong.” Adam Isacson is director of programs at the Center for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 12, 2008 live from Islamabad, Graham Usher is a contributing editor of Middle East Report (http://www.merip.org). Graham is the author of “Dispatches from Palestine: The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process” (Pluto Press). His most recent writing includes “Pakistan Amidst the Storms” and “Getting Pakistan Wrong.” Adam Isacson is director of programs at the Center for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 5, 2008 Pervez Hoodbhoy wrote the article, “Anti-Americanism in Pakistan and the Taliban Menace.” Pervez is chairman of the Department of Physics at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. He is chairman of Mashal, a non-profit organization which publishes books in Urdu on women’s rights, education, environmental issues, philosophy, and modern thought. He is author of “Islam and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, July 5, 2008 Pervez Hoodbhoy wrote the article, “Anti-Americanism in Pakistan and the Taliban Menace.” Pervez is chairman of the Department of Physics at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. He is chairman of Mashal, a non-profit organization which publishes books in Urdu on women’s rights, education, environmental issues, philosophy, and modern thought. He is author of “Islam and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, June 28, 2008 Mike Marqusee, is the author of “If I Am Not Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew” (Verso Books). Mike also writes for The Guardian and The Hindu. Elliot Cohen wrote the truthdig piece, “John McCain’s Chilling Project for America.” Elliot is the editor in chief of the International Journal of Applied Philosophy and ethics editor for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, June 28, 2008 Mike Marqusee, is the author of “If I Am Not Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew” (Verso Books). Mike also writes for The Guardian and The Hindu. Elliot Cohen wrote the truthdig piece, “John McCain’s Chilling Project for America.” Elliot is the editor in chief of the International Journal of Applied Philosophy and ethics editor for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, June 14, 2008 Steven Greenhouse, author of “The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker (Knopf). Steve has been the labor and workplace correspondent for the New York Times since 1995. John Bowe is the author of “Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy (Random House). In 2004, John received the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, June 14, 2008 Steven Greenhouse, author of “The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker (Knopf). Steve has been the labor and workplace correspondent for the New York Times since 1995. John Bowe is the author of “Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy (Random House). In 2004, John received the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - June 07, 2008 Featuring interviews with Martin Beck Matustik, Ha-Joon Chang, and James Howard Kunstler. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, June 7, 2008 Martin Beck Matustik author of “Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations” (Indiana University Press). Martin is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. Ha-Joon Chang is an economist specializing in development economics. Ha-Joon Reader in the Political Economy of Development at Cambridge University. Ha-Joon is the author of several books including last year’s “Bad [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, June 7, 2008 Martin Beck Matustik author of “Radical Evil and the Scarcity of Hope: Postsecular Meditations” (Indiana University Press). Martin is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. Ha-Joon Chang is an economist specializing in development economics. Ha-Joon Reader in the Political Economy of Development at Cambridge University. Ha-Joon is the author of several books including last year’s “Bad [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 31, 2008 Featuring interviews with Jeff Sharlet, Dr. Carsten Wieland, Frida Berringer, and Jim Shultz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, May 31, 2008 Jeff Sharlet is author of the new book, “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power” (HarperCollins). Jeff is a contributing editor at Harper’s and Rolling Stone. He is also an associate research scholar at New York University’s Center for Religion and Media. He is also the editor of the web site, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 24, 2008 Featuring interviews with Siri Carpenter, Jim Quilty, and Joshua Holland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 24, 2008 Featuring interviews with Siri Carpenter, Jim Quilty, and Joshua Holland. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 17, 2008 Featuring interviews with Robert Parry and Dahr Jamail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, May 24, 2008 Last week’s guests included: Siri Carpenter wrote the Scientific American article, “Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain” which says that ‘Deep within our subconscious, all of us harbor biases that we consciously abhor. And the worst part is: we act on them.” Siri is a science writer and editor and a social psychologist with a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 17, 2008 Featuring interviews with Robert Parry and Dahr Jamail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, May 17, 2008 journalist Robert Parry, whose work can be found at ConsortiumNews.com, returns to This is Hell! In 1984, Bob won the prestigious Polk Award for National Reporting by breaking many of the Iran-Contra stories for Newsweek and The Associated Press. His recent columns include, “Danger: Tough Talk and Wishful Thinking,” and the Alternet piece, “Dire Consequences [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 10, 2008 Featuring interviews with David Rothkopf, Janet Redman, and John Perkins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 10, 2008 Featuring interviews with David Rothkopf, Janet Redman, and John Perkins. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, May 10, 2008 David Rothkopf, author of “Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making” (MacMillan). David is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment and directed the efforts of the Carnegie Economic Strategy Roundtable. He is also the author of “Running the World: The Inside Story of the NSC and the Architects of American [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 03, 2008 Featuring interviews with Doug Gurian-Sherman, Bob Fitrakis, and Paul Roberts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - May 03, 2008 Featuring interviews with Doug Gurian-Sherman, Bob Fitrakis, and Paul Roberts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, May 3, 2008 Doug Gurian-Sherman is the senior scientist in the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Doug recently released the report, “CAFOs Uncovered: The Untold Costs of Confined Feeding Operations.” Doug was the senior scientist at Washington DC’s Center for Food Safety from 2004 to 2006. Bob Fitrakis is co-author with past This is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, April 19, 2008 Loretta Napoleoni, author of “Rogue Economics” (Seven Stories) returns to This is Hell! Loretta was on our show back in 2003 when we talked with her about her book, “Terror, Inc.: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism.” Loretta, an economist herself, is one of the world’s leading experts on money laundering and terror financing. Michael Hudson [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, April 5, 2008 Haifa Zangana, author of “City Of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance” (Seven Stories). Haifa was a prisoner of Saddam Hussein’s regime. She is a weekly columnist at al-Quds newspaper and a commentator for The Guardian, Red Pepper and al-Ahram Weekly. Gary Brecher writes the War Nerd column at eXile.ru. Gary’s first book, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, March 29, 2008 Michael Massing, a contributing editor at the Columbia Journalism Review, who also writes frequently on the press and foreign affairs on the pages of the New York Review of Books. Michael’s article, “The Volunteer Army: Who Fights and Why?,” appears in the April 5th issue. Michael’s article in the March/April issue of CJR is “Out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - March 15, 2008 Featuring interviews with Greg Mitchell, Maude Barlow, Peter Erlinder, and Nir Rosen. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, March 15, 2008 Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor & Publisher and author of “So Wrong For So Long: How the Press, the Pundits – and the President – Failed on Iraq” (Sterling). Maude Barlow is the head of the Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest public advocacy organization. She is a past winner of the Right Livelihood Award (the “alternative [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, March 8, 2008 Ken Silverstein is the Washington editor of Harper’s Magazine. We discussed his article in the March issue entitled, “Beltway Bacchanal: Congress Lives High on the Contributor’s Dime.” Theresa Hitchens is the director of the Center for Defense Information where she heads their Space Security Project. Theresa is the author of “Future Security In Space: Charting a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - March 01, 2008 Featuring interviews with James Livingston, Eric Umansky, David Leigh, and Diana Johnstone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, March 1, 2008 James Livingston teaches history at Rutgers. He’s finishing a book called “The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century. He blogs at politicsandletters.com. This week, he wrote the article, “Clintonites Need to Realize the Left Won the Debates of the 1960s” at the History News Network web [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - February 23, 2008 WNUR's annual fundraising drive is happening now through February 28. Call 847-491-9687 to make a donation. Today's show features interviews with Andy Worthington, Gary Leupp, Juan Cole, and Sheila Kaplan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, February 23, 2008 British historian Andy Worthington is the author of the book, “The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison.” Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University, and Adjunct Professor of Comparative Religion. Gary’s most recent article, “The Independence of Kosovo,” is posted at Counterpunch. He’s also the author “Servants, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - February 16, 2008 Technical difficulties early, portions of the show are missing. Featuring interviews with John Miller, Alex de Waal, and John Feffer. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, February 16, 2008 John Miller is a professor of economics at Wheaton College and writes for Dollar and Sense. We talked with John about his latest article, “Stormier Weather: The economic recovery that’s been officially underway since late 2001 is probably over—too bad many Americans never got to experience it.” writer and researcher Alex de Waal is a fellow [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - February 09, 2008 Featuring Paul Rogers, Robert Parry, Michael Klare, and Darnell Little. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Podcast for Saturday, February 9, 2008 Paul Rogers, professor of peace studies at Bradford University, northern England, returns to This is Hell! Paul is a weekly columnist on global security at openDemocracy.net, the most recent columns being “A mission impossible” and “The Iraq Project.” Paul also writes an international security monthly briefing for the Oxford Research Group, the most recent briefing [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - January 12, 2008 Fatima Bhutto, Caroline Elkins, David Morris, Patrick Cockburn, Glen Ford Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website This Is Hell - December 08, 2007 Featuring Maurice Carney, Michael Fox, Robert Lipsyte, Jonathan Schell, and Carah Ong. 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