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This Is Hell! admin@thisishell.net no no http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-may-26-2007/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-may-26-2007/#comments Sat, 26 May 2007 06:00:00 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://www.thisishellradio.info/2007/05/podcast-for-saturday-may-26-2007/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-may-26-2007/feed/ 0 0:00:01 journalist Spencer Ackerman is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and a national security correspondent for The Washington Monthly. Spnencer’s piece, "Training Iraq’s Death Squads," ran at The Nation’s web s[...] journalist Spencer Ackerman is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and a national security correspondent for The Washington Monthly. Spnencer’s piece, "Training Iraq’s Death Squads," ran at The Nation’s web site. Greg Palast returned because everyone’s emailing us his article, "The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom," and an interview Greg did with some guy named Jeff Diehl. This is, again, groundbreaking stuff from Greg. Greg Palast is the New York Times bestselling author of "Armed Madhouse," which has just been released in paperback with additional content and "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." University of Southern California sociology professor Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of "Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence" (University of California Press). Live in the studio, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth, we heard it from Kevan Harris, aka ‘The Radical Pessimist,’ and Dr. Krys Bigosinski MD checked in. All live in NUR’s fantabulous new studios! Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-may-19-2007/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-may-19-2007/#comments Sat, 19 May 2007 06:00:00 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://www.thisishellradio.info/2007/05/podcast-for-saturday-may-19-2007/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-may-19-2007/feed/ 0 0:00:01 live from Baghdad, Patrick Cockburn, author of "The Occupation" (Verso Books) nominated for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction. Patrick’s recent writing includes, "Iraq: A Small War Guaranteed to Damage a [...] live from Baghdad, Patrick Cockburn, author of "The Occupation" (Verso Books) nominated for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle award for nonfiction. Patrick’s recent writing includes, "Iraq: A Small War Guaranteed to Damage a Superpower." And Jeff Dorchen delivered another Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-may-12-2007/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-may-12-2007/#comments Sat, 12 May 2007 06:00:00 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://www.thisishellradio.info/2007/05/podcast-for-saturday-may-12-2007/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-may-12-2007/feed/ 0 0:00:01 Zaki Chehab is the author of "Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement" (Nation Books). Zaki was on our program last year when he came on to discuss "Inside the Resistance" (Nation Books) the first story told[...] Zaki Chehab is the author of "Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement" (Nation Books). Zaki was on our program last year when he came on to discuss "Inside the Resistance" (Nation Books) the first story told from within the Iraqi occupation resistance. Antonia Juhasz (http://www.thebushagenda.net/) is the Ida Tarbell Fellow at Oil Change International (http://www.priceofoil.org), a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (http://www.ips-dc.org), and a former Project Director at the International Forum on Globalization (http://www.ifg.org). Antonia’s book, "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time" (Regan Books of Harper Collins Publishers) is being re-released in paperback with a new chapter. Miriam Pemberton is Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and Peace and Security Editor for Foreign Policy In Focus, a project of IPS. Miriam is the co-author of the recent report on America’s military budget entitled, "A Unified Security Budget for the United States, FY 2008." And Jeff Dorchen delivered another Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-may-5-2007/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-may-5-2007/#comments Sat, 05 May 2007 06:00:00 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://www.thisishellradio.info/2007/05/podcast-for-saturday-may-5-2007/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-may-5-2007/feed/ 0 0:00:01 Karen J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law (http://www.lawandsecurity.org/) and the editor of "The Torture Debate in America" (Cambridge) and (with Joshua Dratel) "The Tortu[...] Karen J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law (http://www.lawandsecurity.org/) and the editor of "The Torture Debate in America" (Cambridge) and (with Joshua Dratel) "The Torture Papers" (Cambridge). Her recent articles include, "Can Guantanamo Be Closed?" Robert Alvarez is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (http://www.ips-dc.org/) where his currently focuses on nuclear disarmament, environmental and energy policies. Bob’s recent work includes, "Radioactive Waste and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership," a new study that "takes apart new plans by the Bush administration to revive the nuclear power industry."For his work at the Department of Energy, Bob was awarded two Secretarial Gold Medals, the highest awards given by the Department. Bob was one of the Senate’s primary staff experts on the US nuclear weapons program. He helped establish the environmental cleanup program in the DOE, strengthened the Clean Air Act, uncovered several serious nuclear safety and health problems, improved medical radiation regulations, and created a transition program for communities and workers affected by the closure of nuclear weapons facilities. He also helped organize a successful lawsuit on behalf of the family of Karen Silkwood, a nuclear worker and active union member who was killed under mysterious circumstances in 1974.  Julia Whitty is the author of the new book, "Fragile Edge" (Houghton Mifflin) and she returned to This is Hell to discuss her recent writing including her cover story in the May/June issue of Mother Jones (http://www.motherjones.com), "Gone: By the End of the Century, Half of all Species will be Gone." And our irregular correspondents tomorrow were: Drew Youngren, one of our producers-at-large, reported live from Manhattan. Drew recently graduated with a PhD in mathematics from Northwestern University and is currently teaching in New York City. Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth Elvis DeMorrow (http://www.nodoctors.com) returned to tell us what’s happening in the Konspiracy Korner live from San Francisco Shows This Is Hell! no no