http://thisishell.net Brave enough to be live, dumb enough to be goofy, stupid enough to think that we can be a regular part of your Saturday morning hangover. This is Hell! airs a live four hour broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central) on WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago, streaming live from WNUR and podcasted shortly after. Mon, 20 May 2013 23:31:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Copyright © This Is Hell! 2012 admin@thisishell.net (This Is Hell!) admin@thisishell.net (This Is Hell!) News & Politics 1440 http://www.thisishell.net/wp-content/themes/bueno/images/TIH_icon_144px.png http://thisishell.net 144 144 This is Hell! airs a live four hour broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central) on WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago, streaming live from WNUR and podcasted shortly after. Politics, News, Journalism, Chomsky This Is Hell! This Is Hell! admin@thisishell.net no no http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-april-30/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-april-30/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:04:40 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=1837 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-april-30/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-april-29/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-april-29/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:43:07 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=1830 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-april-29/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-april-28/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-april-28/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:41:01 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=1812 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-april-28/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/correspondents/the-radical-pessimist-correspondents/chris-wares-rebuffed-cover-for-fortune-magazine/ http://thisishell.net/correspondents/the-radical-pessimist-correspondents/chris-wares-rebuffed-cover-for-fortune-magazine/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:54:55 +0000 Kevan Harris http://thisishell.net/?p=1803 http://thisishell.net/correspondents/the-radical-pessimist-correspondents/chris-wares-rebuffed-cover-for-fortune-magazine/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/correspondents/youtube-cats-test/ http://thisishell.net/correspondents/youtube-cats-test/#comments Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:08:01 +0000 Drew Colglazier http://thisishell.net/uncategorized/youtube-cats-test/1799/ http://thisishell.net/correspondents/youtube-cats-test/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/tuesday-april-27/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/tuesday-april-27/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:33:19 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=1796 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/tuesday-april-27/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-april-26/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-april-26/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:28:42 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=1778 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-april-26/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-3/ http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-3/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:59:06 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=1729 http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-3/feed/ 1 2:51:28 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 P[...] 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 Conditioning? award-winning writer Rebecca Solnit, is the author of “A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster” (Viking). This week, Rebecca posted the article, “350 Degrees of Inseparability: 
The Good News About the Very Bad News (about Climate Change).” John Feffer is co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. John posted the piece, “Nuclear Follies: Are we in the process of giving up our nuclear addiction, or is this just flimflam from an addict who refuses to go cold turkey?,” on Tuesday. This week’s irregular correspondents were, Dan ‘The Auto Man’ Litchfield; Drew Colglazier will give us his sports report; and Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/correspondents/the-moment-of-truth/just-another-arms-deal/ http://thisishell.net/correspondents/the-moment-of-truth/just-another-arms-deal/#comments Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:37:14 +0000 jdorchen http://thisishell.net/?p=1772 http://thisishell.net/correspondents/the-moment-of-truth/just-another-arms-deal/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/url-labs-website-of-the-week-for-april-24-2010/ http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/url-labs-website-of-the-week-for-april-24-2010/#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:34:33 +0000 laddieo http://thisishell.net/?p=1764 http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/url-labs-website-of-the-week-for-april-24-2010/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-april-23/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-april-23/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:56:09 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=1756 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-april-23/feed/ 13 http://thisishell.net/correspondents/open-my-eyes/naomi-klein-weighs-in-on-morales-stance/ http://thisishell.net/correspondents/open-my-eyes/naomi-klein-weighs-in-on-morales-stance/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:03:02 +0000 Krys Bigosinski http://thisishell.net/?p=1753 http://thisishell.net/correspondents/open-my-eyes/naomi-klein-weighs-in-on-morales-stance/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/correspondents/open-my-eyes/mitchell-confused-on-his-history/ http://thisishell.net/correspondents/open-my-eyes/mitchell-confused-on-his-history/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:37:05 +0000 Krys Bigosinski http://thisishell.net/?p=1750 http://thisishell.net/correspondents/open-my-eyes/mitchell-confused-on-his-history/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/uncategorized/mitchell-confused-on-his-dates/ http://thisishell.net/uncategorized/mitchell-confused-on-his-dates/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:31:09 +0000 Krys Bigosinski http://thisishell.net/?p=1748 http://thisishell.net/uncategorized/mitchell-confused-on-his-dates/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-april-22/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-april-22/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:38:47 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=1744 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-april-22/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-april-21/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-april-21/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:24:29 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=1737 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-april-21/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/tuesday-april-20/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/tuesday-april-20/#comments Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:00:51 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=1720 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/tuesday-april-20/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-april-19/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-april-19/#comments Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:33:43 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=1717 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-april-19/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/url-labs-website-of-the-week-for-april-17-2010/ http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/url-labs-website-of-the-week-for-april-17-2010/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:04:50 +0000 laddieo http://thisishell.net/?p=1703 http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/url-labs-website-of-the-week-for-april-17-2010/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-2/ http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-2/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:23:56 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=1696 http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-2/feed/ 0 0:00:01 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 write[...] 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. The week this interview took place, Julien had just posted the story, “Trail of Afghanistan’s drug money exposed.” Matthieu Aikins is an international freelance journalist and photographer who has reported from Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan for Harper’s Magazine, Canada’s National Post and the Toronto Globe & Mail. For his reporting in 2008, Matthieu was the winner of the Canadian Association of Journalists Award in the Community Newspaper category, and the Atlantic Journalism Award for Enterprise Reporting. Matthieu’s article in December’s Harper’s is entitled, “The Master of Spin Boldak: Undercover with Afghanistan’s drug-trafficking border police.” Eugenia Tsao is a PhD candidate in medical anthropology at the University of Toronto and a CGS Doctoral Fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (we have no idea what CGS stands for either, but we’ll ask Eugenia tomorrow). She had just written the story, “Inside the DSM: The Drug Barons’ Campaign to Make Us All Crazy.” Manuel Perez Rocha directs “The NAFTA Plus and the SPP Advocacy Project,” part of the Global Economy Project. Manuel is a Mexican national who has led tri-national efforts to promote just and sustainable alternative approaches to North American economic integration for more than a decade. He had recently written the article, “The Failed War on Drugs in Mexico.” Jeff Faux is founder and former president of the Economic Policy Institute where he is currently a distinguished fellow. Jeff’s most recent article was a piece in The Nation entitled, “So Far From God, So Close to Wall St.” He is the author of “The Global Class War: How America’s Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future – and What It Will Take to Win It Back” (Wiley). live from Mexico City, Laura Carlsen is a program director at the Center for International Policy‘s Americas Policy Program in Mexico City. The previous weekend, Laura wrote, “Drug War Doublespeak: Sorting Reality From Hype.” 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?” (Chelsea Green). Paul had just written the story, “Marijuana Reform Is Part of the Progressive Agenda, So Why Are Obama’s Drug Cops Already Making Pot Raids?“ Shows This Is Hell! no no