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This Is Hell! admin@thisishell.net no no http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-february-28/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-february-28/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 21:41:05 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3635 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-february-28/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-4/ http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-4/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 07:44:38 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3621 http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-4/feed/ 5 0:00:01 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[...] 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 Trials” (Hill & Wang). He is also a contributor at truthdig where his most recent columns include, “What Gov. Walker Won’t Tell You,” and “Activist Judges Strike Again.” Robert Pollin is a professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts. Bob is the author of “A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States.” He recently posted The Nation story, “The Betrayal of Public Workers.” Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair of South Asian History and Director of International Studies at Trinity College. Vijay’s most recent book, “The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World,” (New Press) won the 2009′s Muzaffar Ahmad Memorial Prize. His most recent columns at Counterpunch include, “The Libyan Labyrinth: The Bang That Ends Qaddafi’s Revolution?,” and “The Long Arab Revolution: Two Types of Revolt.” Gideon Levy is a columnist at Haaretz and a member of their editorial board. Gideon posts the weekly Twilight Zone feature, which covers the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza over the last 25 years, as well as the writer of political editorials for the newspaper. He was the recipient of the Euro-Med Journalist Prize for 2008; the Leipzig Freedom Prize in 2001; the Israeli Journalists’ Union Prize in 1997; and The Association of Human Rights in Israel Award for 1996. His latest book is, “The Punishment of Gaza” (Verso). His latest writing at Haaretz is, “With settlement resolution veto, Obama has joined Likud.” Our irregular correspondents were: live from Portland, Maine, Danny Muller gave a ‘Wasted Energy Report’ … live from Puerto Rico, we heard from ‘Our Man in San Juan’ Dave Buchen … live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/url-labs-website-of-the-week-for-february-26-2011/ http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/url-labs-website-of-the-week-for-february-26-2011/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 13:29:26 +0000 laddieo http://thisishell.net/?p=3625 http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/url-labs-website-of-the-week-for-february-26-2011/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-february-25/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-february-25/#comments Fri, 25 Feb 2011 20:30:02 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3618 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-february-25/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-february-24/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-february-24/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 21:42:24 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3606 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-february-24/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-february-23/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-february-23/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:39:17 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3601 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-february-23/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/tuesday-february-22/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/tuesday-february-22/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 22:29:46 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3596 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/tuesday-february-22/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/shows/3542/ http://thisishell.net/shows/3542/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:23:49 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3542 http://thisishell.net/shows/3542/feed/ 0 0:00:01 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 th[...] 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 States of Appalachia and In the Sierra Madre,” and a contributing editor to the Bloomsbury Review. He has been a recipient of the American Book Award, the David Brower Award for Environmental Reporting, a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award, a Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Journalism, a Plattner Award for Appalachian Literature, the Delta Award for Southern Illinois literature, a Field Foundation Fellowship and an Illinois Arts Council Creative Non-Fiction Award/Fellowship. This week, he posted the article, “Balloon Over Coal-Fired Chicago: Mayor Daley, is This Your Green Legacy?“ Our irregular correspondents were: Dr. Krys Bigosinski, MD returns to talk about whatever the hell he wants to talk about … Michael Roper, proprietor of Chicago’s Hopleaf, talks beer … Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-february-21/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-february-21/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 03:22:45 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3590 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-february-21/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/url-labs-website-of-the-week-for-february-19th-2011/ http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/url-labs-website-of-the-week-for-february-19th-2011/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2011 15:42:03 +0000 laddieo http://thisishell.net/?p=3578 http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/url-labs-website-of-the-week-for-february-19th-2011/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-february-18/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-february-18/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:52:28 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3563 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-february-18/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-february-17/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-february-17/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:15:48 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3551 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-february-17/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-february-16/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-february-16/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:01:24 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3545 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-february-16/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/tuesday-february-15/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/tuesday-february-15/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:43:18 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3540 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/tuesday-february-15/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-february-14/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-february-14/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:24:08 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3537 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/monday-february-14/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-3/ http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-3/#comments Sat, 12 Feb 2011 20:58:57 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3487 http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-3/feed/ 2 0:00:01 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,[...] 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, Not a Criminal: An Opening Statement for the Defense of Private Manning,” was posted this week at TomDispatch. Lisa Hajjar is a professor in the sociology department at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Lisa is a co-editor of Jadaliyya, an independent Ezine produced by the Arab Studies Institute, a network of writers associated with the Arab Studies Journal. This week, she posted the piece “Omar Suleiman, the CIA’s Man in Cairo and Egypt’s Torturer-in-Chief.” live from Kandahar, Felix Kuehn is co-author of the new Center on International Cooperation report, “Separating the Taliban from Al Qaeda: The Core of Success in Afghanistan.” Felix is co-founder of AfghanWire, an internet-based news and information service that monitors Afghanistan’s national media outlets. He is co-editor of “Abdul Salam Zaeef, My Life With the Taliban” (Hurst). A book-length study of the themes explored in this paper will be published in April 2011 entitled, “An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban/Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970-2010″ (Hurst). Will Bunch, a senior writer at the Philadelphia Daily News, is author of the book, “The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters, and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama” (HarperCollins). Will also wrote 2009′s, “Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future” (Simon & Schuster). Will’s Daily New blog, Attytood, is one of the most successful political site on the Web. Will shared a 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporter when he worked at New York’s Newsday. He is also a senior fellow at Media Matters for America. Mark LeVine is a professor of history at UC Irvine and senior visiting researcher at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden. Mark’s most recent books are Heavy Metal Islam (Random House) and Impossible Peace: Israel/Palestine Since 1989 (Zed Books). This week, Mark posted the story, “The shaping of a New World Order.” Our irregular correspondents were … live from New York City, Elvis DeMorrow screamed out from the Konspiracy Korner and … live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/3528/ http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/3528/#comments Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:48:55 +0000 laddieo http://thisishell.net/?p=3528 http://thisishell.net/website-of-the-week/3528/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-february-11/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-february-11/#comments Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:55:15 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3515 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/friday-february-11/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-february-10/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-february-10/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:19:38 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3508 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/thursday-february-10/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-february-9/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-february-9/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:54:32 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3502 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/wednesday-february-9/feed/ 0