This Is Hell!

This is Hell! broadcasts a new, completely live four-hour show today, Saturday, September 4, 2010, beginning at 9 AM (US central time) on Chicago’s WNUR 89.3 FM. The program will also be streaming live at WNUR’s web site, and podcast shortly after our live broadcast here.

This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviews …

• journalist Pratap Chatterjee is the senior editor at CorpWatch. Pratap’s most recent book is last year’s, “Halliburton’s Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War” (Nation Books). We’ll be speaking with Pratap about his recent writing including the story, “The Secret Killers: Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373.”
• live from Baghdad, writer Nir Rosen is a Fellow at the New America Foundation and at New York University’s Center on Law and Security. Nir’s most recent book is the 2006, “In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq” (Simon and Schuster). His new book, “Aftermath; Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim World,” (Perseus) will be released in October.
• writer Alexander Cockburn edits the political newsletter CounterPunch with past This is Hell! guest Jeffrey St. Clair. Alexander writes the “Beat the Devil” column for The Nation and a weekly syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times as well as for The First Post, which is syndicated by Creators Syndicate.
• writer and former documentary filmmaker Julia Whitty is the author of “Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean,” (Mariner Books). Julia’s book, “The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific,” (Mariner Books) won the PEN USA Literary Award. Julia’s article, “BP’s Deep Secrets,” is the cover story for the September/October edition of Mother Jones.

Irregular correspondent Dave Buchen talks to us live from San Juan.

LaddieO.com reports on web, tech and science news from the hermetically sealed clean room at URL Labs.

Live from San Francisco, Kate O’Donnell says, Thank You, Science!”

Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.

 

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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.