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By Chuck Mertz in Nine Circles of Hell! with 0 comment  Tags: Alexander Cockburn, Andrew Gumbel, Bruce E. Levine, Hussein Ibish, John Cavanagh, Michael Hudson, Michael Klare, Russ Baker, Terry Jones

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – is posted each weekday. While we post the nine most hellish news stories we can find Monday through Friday, our Sunday Edition! features writing from the past week – including opinion pieces – by nine of our past guests [...]

By Spencer "Thunberball" Thayer in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Alexander Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn, Patrick Cockburn

This is Hell! airs a special broadcast tomorrow, Saturday, August 13, beginning at 9 AM (US central time) on Chicago’sWNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast at http://thisishell.net. This weekend, it’s the ‘Battling Cockburns’, interviews with journalist brothers Alexander, Andrew and Patrick Cockburn from over the last five years. Next week, This is Hell! present, [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Alexander Cockburn, Chuck Mertz, Dave Buchen, Jeff Dorchen, Julia Whitty, Kate O'Donnell, LaddieO.com, Nir Rosen, Pratap Chatterjee

Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … 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 [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with Comments Off  Tags: Alexander Cockburn, David Vine, Luke Bergmann, Matthieu Aikins, Stephen Glain

Part one of the 'Best of This is Hell!;2009' included the following interviews. However, the podcast does not exist. #10: From September 26, Stephen Glain is a weekly columnist for the Abu Dhabi English-language paper The National and a regular contributor to the London-based Al Majallah magazine. Stephen has been a business reporter for the South [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Alexander Cockburn, Christian Parenti, David Rosen, Ivan Eland, Jeff Dorchen, LaddieO.com

Ivan Eland is Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute. Ivan has spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues, including as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. His books include “The Empire Has No Clothes: [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Alexander Cockburn, Danny Muller, Elvis DeMorrow, Gregg Erickson, Jeff Dorchen, Jessica Montell, Mark Weisbrot, Matt Kennard

Mark Weisbrot, co-director at the Center for Economic Policy Research, who has just co-authored a report entitled, “Oil Drilling In Environmentally Sensitive Areas: The Role of the Media.” Matt Kennard is a writer who, while studying for his Master’s in Investigative Journalism at Columbia University in New York. looked into the increasingly liberal attitude [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Alexander Cockburn, Bart Ehrman, Dan 'The Auto Man', Elvis DeMorrow, Joe Stiglitz, Moment of Truth, The Radical Pessimist

producer Anthony "Big Nice" Walters picked our September interview with "Smokin”’ Joe Stiglitz for the "Best of Two Thousand-Sux" show. Joe is the Nobel Prize winning economist and author of the book, "Making Globalization Work" (Penguin UK). He’s the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank. The Stigmeister founded the [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Alexander Cockburn, Moment of Truth

Alexander Cockburn, one of our very favorite guests, returned to This is Hell. Alexander runs the amazing Counterpunch newsletter and web site. We never do this, but we found Cockburn’s entry in Wikipedia friggin’ hilarious. So check out this link. At least they finally took out the crack about phonetically pronouncing his last name. [...]