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Saturday, February 13th, 'This is Hell!' airs
a live four hour broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central)
on WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago, streams live at http://wnur.org
and is podcast in our Archives.
This past Saturday, our guests were:
- Moshe Adler teaches economics at Columbia University
and at the Center for Labor Studies at Empire State College.
Moshe is the author of "Economics For The Rest Of Us:
Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal (The
New Press).
- Lawrence Lessig, a professor of law at Harvard
Law School, is co-founder of the nonprofit Change
Congress. This week, Lawrence posted The Nation article,
"How
to Get Our Democracy Back: If You Want Change, You Have
to Change Congress."
- Glen Ford, executive editor of the Black
Agenda Report. Glen discussed a recent speech he gave
to the Black
is Back Coalition entitled, "Black Realities and
Delusion in the Age of Obama." Wel also touched on
Glen's article, "Obama Sec'y of Education Says Katrina
'the Best Thing to Happen' to Education in New Orleans,"
and we talked Haiti.
- Stephen
Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International
Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs
the program in Middle Eastern Studies. He is also the author
of "Tinderbox: US Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism"
(Common
Courage Press) and co-author (with Jacob Mundy) of the
forthcoming "Western Sahara: Nationalism, Conflict, and
International Accountability" (Syracuse
University Press). His most recent articles include,
"Obama's
State of the Union," "Obama's
Human Rights Record a Disappointment," and "Yemen:
The Latest U.S. Battleground."
- Greg Grandin teaches history at New York University.
He is the author of "Empire's Workshop: Latin America,
The United States and The Rise of the New Imperialism"
(Metropolitan)
and, most recently, "Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall
of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City," (Henry
Holt) which was a 2009 National Book Award finalist.
His article in The Nation, "Muscling
Latin America," is on newsstands now.
Elvis
DeMorrow will told us what's rumbling around in the
'Konspiracy Korner', and Jeff
Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.
Saturday's This is Hell! is podcast here.
The Question From Hell! for our listeners is 'if you
could re-name This is Hell!, what would you call it?'
Email your responses
by Noon (US central time) next Saturday and we will read at
least a portion of each and every one on the air.
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18th. Start saving your money now to get some great premiums
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The Nine Circles
of Hell! - all the news that gives you fits in print
- are posted every Monday through Friday!
The past week's Nine Circles features past guests Mike
Marqusee, Pratap Chatterjee, Jonathan Cook,
Andy Kroll, and Mark Weisbrot.
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Producer Trevor Ewen's band, the Howlin' Tumbleweeds,
now has a web site at http://www.howlintumbleweeds.com.
Check out the video of their song, 'Buckshot.'
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