This Is Hell!

This is Hell! broadcasts a new, completely live four-hour show today, Saturday, September 4, 2010, beginning at 9 AM (US central time) on Chicago’s WNUR 89.3 FM. The program will also be streaming live at WNUR’s web site, and podcast shortly after our live broadcast here.

This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviews …

• 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 story, “The Secret Killers: Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373.”
• live from Baghdad, writer Nir Rosen is a Fellow at the New America Foundation and at New York University’s Center on Law and Security. Nir’s most recent book is the 2006, “In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq” (Simon and Schuster). His new book, “Aftermath; Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim World,” (Perseus) will be released in October.
• writer Alexander Cockburn edits the political newsletter CounterPunch with past This is Hell! guest Jeffrey St. Clair. Alexander writes the “Beat the Devil” column for The Nation and a weekly syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times as well as for The First Post, which is syndicated by Creators Syndicate.
• writer and former documentary filmmaker Julia Whitty is the author of “Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean,” (Mariner Books). Julia’s book, “The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific,” (Mariner Books) won the PEN USA Literary Award. Julia’s article, “BP’s Deep Secrets,” is the cover story for the September/October edition of Mother Jones.

Irregular correspondent Dave Buchen talks to us live from San Juan.

LaddieO.com reports on web, tech and science news from the hermetically sealed clean room at URL Labs.

Live from San Francisco, Kate O’Donnell says, Thank You, Science!”

Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.

 

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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.’