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This Is Hell! admin@thisishell.net no no http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-11/ http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-11/#comments Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:56:29 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=4121 http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-11/feed/ 3 http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-9/ http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-9/#comments Sun, 15 May 2011 19:17:46 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=3984 http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-9/feed/ 10 3:31:44 Saturday, May 14, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live broadcast on WNUR 89.3 FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: award-winning investigative journalist Joshu[...] Saturday, May 14, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live broadcast on WNUR 89.3 FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: award-winning investigative journalist Joshua Phillips is author of “None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture” (Verso). Joshua also wrote the article, “Inside the Detainee Abuse Task Force: Former agents say the Army’s attempt at accountability after Abu Ghraib was a whitewash.” to be posted later this evening at The Nation. The story is a joint investigation with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute and PBS’s Need to Know, where Joshua’s story is featured in a segment this week. Check your local PBS listings. David Cay Johnston is a Tax Analysts’ columnist. At The New York Times, David received a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for exposing tax loopholes and inequities. He now teaches the tax, property and regulatory law of the ancient world at Syracuse University College of Law and Whitman School of Management. He is the author of two bestsellers on taxes, “Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super-Rich and Cheat Everyone Else” and “Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You with the Bill.” His next book, “The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use ‘Plain English’ and Other Tricks to Rob You Blind,” will be published in November. His latest writing includes this week’s column, “9 Things The Rich Don’t Want You To Know About Taxes,” “Return to Sherwood Forest,” and “Ryan’s $34 Trillion Tax Folly.” David Moberg is senior editor of In These Times. David has received fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Nation Institute for research on the new global economy. His recent writing includes, “Wal-Mart’s Shocking Impact on the Lives of Hundreds of Millions of People,” and “The Debate That Wasn’t.” Our irregular correspondents were: live from Baltimore, we heard from Kevan ‘The Radical Pessimist’ Harris live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-17/ http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-17/#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:13:19 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=2424 http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-17/feed/ 2 3:05:49 This is Hell! presented a special four hour ‘Best of’ broadcast, featuring aninterview with bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz, live from the shores of Houghton Lake, Michigan. Chuck was interviewed by This is He[...] This is Hell! presented a special four hour ‘Best of’ broadcast, featuring aninterview with bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz, live from the shores of Houghton Lake, Michigan. Chuck was interviewed by This is Hell! producer Dr. Krys Bigosinski, MD. Following that live half-hour phone interview, This is Hell! re-broadcasted the following interviews conducted earlier this year: Adam Hochschild on the Democratic Republic of Congo; Heather Rogers explains, ‘How the Economy is Undermining the Environmental Revolution’; Julien Mercille sees, ‘Why Afghanistan’s Poppies Aren’t the Problem’; Fred Kaufman describes, ‘The food bubble’; Dan Baum talks, ‘My concealed weapon and me’; Greta Christina describes ’5 Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Things Expected of Men’; Charles Bowden wonders, ‘Who Is Behind the 25,000 Deaths In Mexico?’; and poverty expert David Hulme says, ‘Just Give Money to the Poor.’ Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-13/ http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-13/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:16:48 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=2322 http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-13/feed/ 1 0:00:01 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Tom Engelhardt is co-founder of the American Empire Project and runs the Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com. Tom’s latest book is, “The American W[...] Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Tom Engelhardt is co-founder of the American Empire Project and runs the Nation Institute’s TomDispatch.com. Tom’s latest book is, “The American Way of War: How Bush’s Wars Became Obama’s” (Haymarket Books). This week, Tom posted the article, “The Opposites Game: All the Strangeness of Our American World in One Article.” Greta Christina is the author of “Bending,” an erotic novella that’s part of the three-novella collection, “Three Kinds of Asking For It,” (Simon & Schuster). Greta is the editor of “Paying For It: A Guide by Sex Workers for Their Clients” (Greenery Press). They are both available through her web site. She also edited the anthology, “Best Erotic Comics.” This week, she posted the article, “5 Stupid, Unfair and Sexist Things Expected of Men: We know the many ways sexism hurts women. But we don’t talk as much about how sexism hurts men.” Charles Bowden is the author of, “Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields” (Nation Books). Chuck will be on to discuss his article, “Who Is Behind the 25,000 Deaths In Mexico?.” Live from Budapest, Todd Williams reported on why he’s an ex-pat in Hungary. Live from Haiti, Danny Muller will gave a relatively optimistic ‘Wasted Energy Report.’ Live from Oakland, Elvis DeMorrow gave a rundown of recent theories in the Konspiracy Korner. Live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth which was, sadly, the best analysis yet on the Shirley Sherrod scandal. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-august-15-2009-2/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-august-15-2009-2/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 06:00:00 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://www.thisishellradio.info/2009/08/podcast-for-saturday-august-15-2009-2/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-august-15-2009-2/feed/ 0 4:04:45 ‘This is Hell! Goes To Pot: The Best of Our War on Drugs Coverage.’ Interviews included: from January 31, 2009, Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML and the NORML Foundation. He is also the co-author of the forthcoming book[...] ‘This is Hell! Goes To Pot: The Best of Our War on Drugs Coverage.’ Interviews included: from January 31, 2009, Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML and the NORML Foundation. He is also the co-author of the forthcoming book “Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People To Drink?,” which will be published later this year by Chelsea Green.Paul had just written the story, “Marijuana Reform Is Part of the Progressive Agenda, So Why Are Obama’s Drug Cops Already Making Pot Raids?“ from March 21, 2009, and live from Mexico City, Laura Carlsen is a program director at the Center for International Policy‘s Americas Policy Program in Mexico City. The prior weekend, Laura wrote, “Drug War Doublespeak: Sorting Reality From Hype.” from April 11, 2009, Manuel Perez Rocha directs “The NAFTA Plus and the SPP Advocacy Project,” part of the Global Economy Project. Manuel is a Mexican national who has led tri-national efforts to promote just and sustainable alternative approaches to North American economic integration for more than a decade. Manuel had recently written the article, “The Failed War on Drugs in Mexico.” from July 18, 2009, Jeff Faux is founder and former president of the Economic Policy Institute where he is currently a distinguished fellow. Jeff’s most recent article was a piece in The Nation entitled, “So Far From God, So Close to Wall St.” He is the author of “The Global Class War: How America’s Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future – and What It Will Take to Win It Back” (Wiley). from July 26, 2009, author, journalist, and essayist Charles Bowden is a former writer for the Tucson Citizen and often writes about the American Southwest. Chuck is currently a contributing editor of GQ and Mother Jones magazines. His most recent writing includes, “We Bring Fear: A reporter flees the biggest cartel of all – the Mexican Army.” His most recent book is “Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future” (Houghton Mifflin) which came out earlier this year. from December 2, 2006, Margaret Dooley is the outreach coordinator for the Drug Policy Alliance and she wrote the piece, “Meth: The Overstated Addiction” that appeared in AlterNet. from February 26, 2005, Dr. David Healy, director of the North Wales Department of Psychological Medicine, who has made claims that Prozac and other drugs like it – known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors – can be addictive and cause suicidal tendencies in some people. Dr. Healy recently testified in the deaths of two grandparents murdered by their twelve year-old son in which Dr. Healy believes Zoloft may have been the cause. from June 13, 2009, Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs. Ethan is the author of 1993′s “Cops Across Borders,” which was the first scholarly study of the internationalization of US criminal law enforcement, and co-authored the 2006 book, “Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations.” (Oxford University Press). He has been described by Rolling Stone as “the point man” on drug policy reform efforts. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-july-25-2009-2/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-july-25-2009-2/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:00:00 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://www.thisishellradio.info/2009/07/podcast-for-saturday-july-26-2009-2/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-july-25-2009-2/feed/ 0 4:08:53 Melvin Goodman, is senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. Melvin spent 42 years with the CIA, the National War College, and the US Army. His latest book is “Failu[...] Melvin Goodman, is senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. Melvin spent 42 years with the CIA, the National War College, and the US Army. His latest book is “Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA.” He is a a regular contributor to The Public Record. His latest column was headlined, “The CIA’s Long History Of Lying to Congress.” live from Haifa, Noam Chayut, co-founder of Breaking the Silence and a former Lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Forces. Breaking the Silence recently release a report with allegations that IDF soldiers used Palestinians as human shields during this past December’s war in Gaza. Washington Post staff writer and author Kari Lydersen will discuss her new book, “Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago factory takeover and what it says about the economic crisis” (Melville House). author, journalist, and essayist Charles Bowden is a former writer for the Tucson Citizen and often writes about the American Southwest. Chuck is currently a contributing editor of GQ and Mother Jones magazines. His most recent writing includes, “We Bring Fear: A reporter flees the biggest cartel of all – the Mexican Army.” His most recent book is “Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing: Living in the Future” (Houghton Mifflin) which came out earlier this year. University of California-Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of History Kenneth Pomeranz. Ken’s most recent writing includes, “The Great Himalayan Watershed: Agrarian Crisis, Mega-Dams and the Environment.” His most recent book is 2006′s “The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present, Second Edition” (M.E. Sharpe) which he co-wrote with Scott Turk. We’ll also interviewed guest Kevan Harris (AKA ‘The Radical Pessimist’) live from Tehran, but the connection was horrible. Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no