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On the next ‘This is Hell!”

30 Jul

Tomorrow, Saturday, July 31st, This is Hell! will broadcast a live, four hour edition beginning at 9 AM (US central) on WNUR 89.3 FM streaming live at WNUR’s web site, and podcast shortly after here.

Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will interview …

  • 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 of Our American World in One Article.”
  • David Hulme is co-author of, “Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South” (Kumarian Press). David is Professor of Development Studies and Founder-Director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre and the Brooks World Poverty Institute, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester.
  • Greta Christina is the author of “Bending,” an erotic novella that’s part of the three-novella collection, “Three Kinds of Asking For It,” (Simon & Schuster). Greta is the editor of “Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients” (Greenery Press). They are both available through her web site. She also edited the anthology, “Best Erotic Comics.” This week, she posted the article, “5 Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Things Expected of Men: We know the many ways sexism hurts women. But we don’t talk as much about how sexism hurts men.”
  • Charles Bowden is the author of, “Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields” (Nation Books). Chuck will be on to discuss his article, “Who Is Behind the 25,000 Deaths In Mexico?.”

Live from Budapest, Todd Williams reports on what’s happening in Hungary.

Live from Haiti, Danny Muller will give a ‘Wasted Energy Report.’

Live from Oakland, Elvis DeMorrow tells us what’s lurking in the Konspiracy Korner.

Live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.

Friday, July 30

30 Jul

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Friday, July 30, are:

Obama’s arms trade increase could put weapons in wrong hands

Czech activists will protest Obama’s new missile defense plan

Michigan spill not first for company with “suspect” safety record

Governments put ten times more money in dirty energy than clean

Three-quarters of US metro areas show foreclosure rate increase

Illegal immigration down while deaths of illegal immigrants rises

July 2010 deadliest month yet for US troops in Afghanistan

Israel’s official 1967 story on what happened in Golan challenged

California leads all states in anti-Semitism

(more…)

Podcast for July 24

24 Jul

 
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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 Baum is a contributing editor to Harper’s Magazine. Dan’s article, “Happiness is a worn gun: My concealed weapon and me,” is the cover story in Harper’s August edition.
  • Daniel C. Maguire is a professor of Moral Theology at Marquette University, a Catholic, Jesuit institution. Daniel recently posted the article, “Why I Am a Jew.”
  • Robert Perkinson is a professor of American studies at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Robert is the author of the book, “Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire” (Metropolitan). Find out more at http://texastough.com

Live from Baltimore, Kevan ‘The Radical Pessimist’ Harris gave us a piece of his mind.

Live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.

This is Hell! 13th Anniversary, 666th Broadcast Celebration!

27 Jul

Join your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz, our irregular correspondents and amazing listeners in celebrating 13 years and 666 broadcasts of This is Hell!

The party starts at 7 PM, Saturday, August 7, at Chicago’s Cary’s Lounge, 2251 West Devon, and goes until, well, who the hell knows?

Live music performed by The Exponential featuring samples of This is Hell!

Plenty of National Beer on tap!

We’ll have free This is Hell! posters for everyone!

There’s gonna be lots more so keep coming back to find out just what the Hell else will be going on.

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