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Thursday, September 2

2 Sep

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Thursday, September 2, 2010, are:

“Perverse incentive system” rewards CEOs for slashing jobs

Another Gulf of Mexico oil rig explodes

Oil companies get offshore drilling moratorium overturned

Company behind Michigan oil spill buy citizens’ legal rights

Mozambique police fire on crowds protesting high fuel, food prices

Is brutal guerrilla group in death throes or returning to Uganda?

Israel may save Palestinians from an unfair peace settlement

Codebreaker for NSA, MI6 found mysteriously dead

Fidel takes responsibility for decades of persecuting gays

(more…)

Wednesday, September 1

1 Sep

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Wednesday, September, 1, 2010, are:

Soldier tells lawmakers his unit is unprepared for Afghan war

Lobbyists undermine bipartisan support for transparency

Gulf Coast seafood “‘all clear’ is being sounded way too early”

Irrigation, T. Boone Pickens put Texas aquifer in severe decline

In wake of massacre, Latin nations getting citizens out of Mexico

Germany, Britain secretly concerned about ‘peak oil’

Gaddafi wants billions to stop black “barbarian invasion” of Europe

UN report calls Congo corrupt, rotten, lacking rights, justice, values

Enough wheat to feed 100 million rots as Indian children go hungry

(more…)

Podcast for August 28

28 Aug

 

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 we played were:

  • From September 10, 2005, historian Stephen Zunes talks “Hurricane Katrina and the War in Iraq.”
  • From September 17, 2005, Jamie Court, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, discusses oil company profiteering.
  • From October 1, 2005, Beth Daley, director of communication at the Project On Government Oversight, dissects ‘Katrina cronyism.’
  • From February 18, 2006, Michael Dawson, John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, looks at “Racial Attitudes and the Katrina Disaster.”
  • From December 16, 2006, media critic Neil deMause, describes “Katrina’s Vanishing Victims” and how the media forgot the ‘rediscovered’ poor.
  • From June 5, 2010, author and filmmaker Julia Whitty reports on the BP disaster live from the Gulf Coast.
  • From August 7, oceanography biologist Dr. Edwin Cake tells us what’s really going on beneath the surface of the BP oil disaster.