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• Rahul Mahajan is the author of 2003′s “Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond” (Seven Stories Press) and 2002′s “The New Crusade: America’s War on Terrorism,” (Monthly Review Press). Rahul serves on the Administrative Committee of anti-war coalition United for Peace and Justice, the Board of Directors of Peace Action and the Advisory Board of Occupation Watch. In 2002 he ran as the Green Party candidate for governor of Texas. Rahul reported from Fallujah during the bloody April 2004 siege.
  This will be Rahul’s first appearance on This is Hell! since October 13, 2001
• investigative journalist Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” and “Armed Madhouse.” Greg’s new DVD is called, “Palast Investigates: From 8-Mile to the Amazon,” which focuses on the trail of the financial marauders. The DVD is a compilation three Palast reports on BBC Newsnight, none of which have been broadcast on American television.
  All of Greg’s books and videos can be purchased through his web site. Just click above on his name.
  We’ll be talking with Greg about his recent report, “World Trade Organization Risks Financial ‘China Syndrome’” among other things.
  This is Hell! was the first US radio program to ever feature an interview with Greg, way back in December 16, 2000.
  Greg once said of your bitter blind broke gap-toothed host of This is Hell!, “Chuck should be syndicated. He has the greatest guests. I do endless interviews on C-SPAN, and it’s so much fun on Chuck’s show. It’s like a vacation. But he also does heavy stuff, so I feel like I’m getting more information than with the other outlets.”
• Zoltan Grossman is a faculty member in Geography and Native American Studies at The Evergreen State College at Olympia, Washington’s Evergreen State College. Zoltan’s studies and teaching have focused on many areas including military interventions and the US military bases network. He wrote the essay, “A Century of US Military Interventions: From Wounded Knee to Iraq,” for Carolyn Baker’s 2006 collection, “US History Uncensored: What Your High School Textbook Didn’t Tell You” (iUniverse). This week, he posted the article, “Afghanistan: The Roach Motel of Empires,”
• Matthieu Aikins is an international freelance journalist and photographer who has reported from Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan for Harper’s Magazine, Canada’s National Post and the Toronto Globe & Mail. For his reporting in 2008, Matthieu was the winner of the Canadian Association of Journalists Award in the Community Newspaper category, and the Atlantic Journalism Award for Enterprise Reporting. Matthieu’s article in this month’s Harpers’ is entitled, “The master of Spin Boldak: Undercover with Afghanistan’s drug-trafficking border police.”

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