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Podcast for Saturday, August 8, 2009 [ 4:07:25 | 113.26 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (609)

In honor of producer Drew Colglazier – who is leaving This is Hell! after six years – it’s ‘The Best of Drew Colglazier.’ Interviews that Drew selected include:

• from April 14, 2007, Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology at Columbia University. His most recent book is “Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror.” (Pantheon) Mahmood had just published a London Review of Books article entitled, “The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency.”
• from December 13 , 2008, Glen Ford, executive editor of the Black Agenda Report where he had just posted the story, “Obama’s ‘Center-Right’ Presidency: The Die is Cast.”
• From November 29, 2008, Frances Fox Piven is on the faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author, most recently, of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America. Frances had just written the Nation article, “Obama Needs a Protest Movement.”
• From October 11, 2008, Thomas Frank whose latest book is “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule” (Metropolitan Books). Tom is a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
• From October 4, 2008, author Dave Zirin writes the column ‘The Edge of Sports’ at http://www.edgeofsports.com and is a regular contributor to SI.com, The Nation, SLAM and the Los Angeles Times. Dave’s latest book is “A People’s History of Sports in the United States” (The New Press).
• from April 18, 2009, Peter Gowan wrote “Crisis in the Heartland” for the January/February edition of the New Left Review where he is a member of the editorial board. Peter is Professor of International Relations at London Metropolitan University and course director of the MA in International Relations. He is also a member of the America Discussion Group at the Royal Institute of International Affairs.
  Peter recently passed away.
• from September 17, 2005, MP George Galloway, author of the book, “Mr. Galloway Goes To Washington: The Brit Who Set Congress Straight About Iraq” (New Press).Mr. Galloway is the Respect Party’s Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow in London, a seat he won after being expelled from the Labour Party following thirty-six year of membership. The Party expelled George for opposing the war in Iraq.
• from February 16, 2008 writer and researcher Alex de Waal is a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University, program director at the Social Science Research Council in New York City, and co-director of Justice Africa in London. Alex had been part of a debate on Darfur in Newsweek. His most recent writing at the time included, “Making Sense of Chad.”