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Our guests on this podcast are:

• Paul Street is an independent journalist, policy adviser, and historian. Paul was Vice President for Research and Planning at the Chicago Urban League. He is the author, most recently, of “Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics” (Paradigm). His next book, “The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power,” (Paradigm) will be released this Summer. We’ll talk with Paul about his two-part piece, “What “Populist Uprising?,” which he co-wrote with past This is Hell! guest Anthony Dimaggio. Part one is headlined, “Facts and Reflections on Race, Class, and the Tea Party ‘Movement.’” Part two is entitled, “Further Reflections on an ‘Astroturf Movement’”
• investigative journalist Aram Roston is the author of, “The Man Who Pushed America to War: The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi” (Nation Books). Aram’s most recent article is “Fueling the Afghan War.”
• Gretchen Peters has covered Pakistan and Afghanistan for more than a decade, first for The Associated Press and later as a reporter for ABC News. Gretchen was nominated for an Emmy for her coverage of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. She also won the South Asian Journalists Association Journalism Award for a Nightline segment on former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf. She is the author of, “Seeds of Terror: How Drugs, Thugs, and Crime are Reshaping the Afghan War” (Picador).
• Lynn Henning is a 2010 recipient of the Goldman Prize for excellence in protecting the environment. Lynn is a family farmer and activist. She received a Goldman Prize for exposing “the egregious polluting practices of livestock factory farms in rural Michigan, gaining the attention of the federal EPA and prompting state regulators to issue hundreds of citations for water quality violations.”

Michael Roper, proprietor of Chicago’s Hopleaf, 5148 North Clark, talked beer. Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.