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This Is Hell! admin@thisishell.net no no http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-681-podcast-for-february-4-2012/ http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-681-podcast-for-february-4-2012/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:48:42 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=6031 http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-681-podcast-for-february-4-2012/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-680-podcast-for-janaury-28-2012/ http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-680-podcast-for-janaury-28-2012/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:42:38 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5978 http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-680-podcast-for-janaury-28-2012/feed/ 0 4:05:18 This week on This is Hell! Peter van Buren told us how he 'Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People,' John Lanchester explained 'Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay,' and Christopher Preble revealed 'How American[...] This week on This is Hell! Peter van Buren told us how he 'Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People,' John Lanchester explained 'Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay,' and Christopher Preble revealed 'How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous and Less Free.' Elvis DeMorrow stepped out of the Konspiracy Korner to give a travelogue, we heard from our 'Man in San Juan' Dave Buchen, and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/this-saturday-on-this-is-hell-14/ http://thisishell.net/shows/this-saturday-on-this-is-hell-14/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 00:13:24 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5926 http://thisishell.net/shows/this-saturday-on-this-is-hell-14/feed/ 0 4:09:03 Our guests were sociologist Sarah Sobieraj on 'The Perils of Media-Centered Activism,' journalist Nicholas Shaxson 'Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens,' Historian Jo Guldi describes how 'Britain Invents the Infrastructure State[...] Our guests were sociologist Sarah Sobieraj on 'The Perils of Media-Centered Activism,' journalist Nicholas Shaxson 'Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens,' Historian Jo Guldi describes how 'Britain Invents the Infrastructure State,' and Christopher Strain will be 'Rethinking Violence in American Life.' Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/announcements/some-words-from-hell-occupying-order/ http://thisishell.net/announcements/some-words-from-hell-occupying-order/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:50:59 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5912 http://thisishell.net/announcements/some-words-from-hell-occupying-order/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/shows/this-saturday-on-this-is-hell-12/ http://thisishell.net/shows/this-saturday-on-this-is-hell-12/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:46:24 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5856 http://thisishell.net/shows/this-saturday-on-this-is-hell-12/feed/ 0 4:05:46 Our guests were ex-CIA officer Paul Pillar on Iran, the Gay Liberation Network's Andy Thayer on this coming May's G8/NATO protests in Chicago, historian Lisa Keller on "Democracy and Public Space," former Seattle police chief during the 1999 WTO dem[...] Our guests were ex-CIA officer Paul Pillar on Iran, the Gay Liberation Network's Andy Thayer on this coming May's G8/NATO protests in Chicago, historian Lisa Keller on "Democracy and Public Space," former Seattle police chief during the 1999 WTO demonstrations Norm Stamper, and Tom Frank on 'The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Come Back of the Right." Dan 'the Auto Man' Litchfield talked cars and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/announcements/introducing-some-words-from-hell/ http://thisishell.net/announcements/introducing-some-words-from-hell/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:55:55 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5847 http://thisishell.net/announcements/introducing-some-words-from-hell/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-677-xmas-party-december-17-2011/ http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-677-xmas-party-december-17-2011/#comments Sat, 17 Dec 2011 06:16:07 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5712 http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-677-xmas-party-december-17-2011/feed/ 4 4:10:41 Saturday, December 17, we cordially invited all of our listeners to the first-ever broadcast of the annual This is Hell! Office Party live and completely uninterrupted for four hours from the thirteenth floor of the beautiful Paramutual Building on [...] Saturday, December 17, we cordially invited all of our listeners to the first-ever broadcast of the annual This is Hell! Office Party live and completely uninterrupted for four hours from the thirteenth floor of the beautiful Paramutual Building on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast here. Hosting this year’s This is Hell! Office Party is your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz. This year’s This is Hell! Office party featured irregular correspondents … ‘Our Man in Budapest,’ Todd Williams reporting live from Hungary … live from Dublin, one of our more recent additions to our crew of irregular correspondents Will Lynch … live in-studio because he couldn’t catch his flight to Gaza, Danny Muller gave a ‘Wasted Energy Report’ … live from San Francisco, Kate O’Donnell talked the ‘God particle’ and says, “Thank You, Science!” … live in-studio, Kevan ‘The Radical Pessimist’ Harris … live in-studio, the proprietor of Chicago’s Hopleaf, 5148 North Clark, Michael Roper talked beer … and live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-21/ http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-21/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:37:57 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5672 http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-21/feed/ 1 3:52:47 Saturday, December 10, This is Hell! broadcast a live four hour show beginning at 9 AM (central) over-the-air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chu[...] Saturday, December 10, This is Hell! broadcast a live four hour show beginning at 9 AM (central) over-the-air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Jeffrey D. Clements is the co-founder and general counsel of Free Speech for People, a national, nonpartisan campaign to overturn Citizens United and pass the People’s Rights Amendment. Jeff is a former assistant attorney general of Massachusetts. His latest book is, “Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It” (Berret-Koehler). live from Durban, political economist Patrick Bond is a professor in the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Patrick is head of the Centre for Civil Society in Durban. He is author and editor of the just-released books “Politics of Climate Justice” (UKZN Press) and “Durban’s Climate Gamble: Trading carbon, betting the earth” (UNISA Press). He’s also an adviser on the film “Carbon Markets, Trading Our Future.” He recently wrote the article, “The Politics of Durban: A Dirty Deal Coming Down in Durban.” live from Paris, Diana Johnstone was European editor of In These Times from 1979 to 1990, and continues to be a correspondent for the publication. Diana was press officer of the Green group in the European Parliament from 1990 to 1996. She is the author of the 2003 title, “Fools’ Crusade: Yugoslavia, Nato, and Western Delusions” (Monthly Review Press). Her most recent writing includes, “As the ‘Humanitarian Warriors’ Gloat … Here’s the Key Question in the Libyan War.” live from Montreal, Devlin Kuyek is a lead researcher and activist with GRAIN, a small international organization based in Barcelona, Spain that works with social movements around the world in defense of peasant agriculture and food sovereignty. Devlin is author of, “Good Crop/Bad Crop: Seed politics and the future of food in Canada” (Between the Lines). He is also a member of the steering committee of the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network. This week, GRAIN won the Right Livelihood Award, often called the ‘alternative Nobel.’ GRAIN was recognized “for their worldwide work to protect the livelihoods and rights of farming communities and to expose the massive purchases of farmland in developing countries by foreign financial interests.” Our irregular correspondents were … live from the hermetically sealed clean rooms at URL Labs, LaddieO.com gives a report on science and tech stuff … and live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-20/ http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-20/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:07:25 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5635 http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-20/feed/ 0 3:53:20 Saturday, December 3rd, This is Hell! aired a live four hour completely uninterrupted, commercial-free, thoroughly unedited broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast shortl[...] Saturday, December 3rd, This is Hell! aired a live four hour completely uninterrupted, commercial-free, thoroughly unedited broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … live from Oslo, Reza Marashi is the Research Director at the National Iranian American Council. Prior to working at NIAC, Reza worked in the Office of Iranian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State for four years. He has also been an analyst at the Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) covering China-Middle East issues, and a Tehran-based private strategic consultant on Iranian political and economic risk. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, The National Interest and Al Jazeera, among other publications. He has been a guest contributor to the BBC, NPR, Financial Times, Reuters, and ABC News, among other broadcast outlets. His most recent writing includes, “The Iranian-American Game of Chicken.” live from New Mexico, Tom Barry is the author of, “Border Wars” (Boston Review Books). Tom directs the TransBorder Project of the Americas Program at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC. He blogs at http://borderlinesblog.blogspot.com. His most recent writing includes, “How the Drone Warfare Industry Took Over Our Congress.” live from New York, Costas Panayotakis is associate professor of sociology at the New York City College of Technology at CUNY. Costas is author of, “Remaking Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy” (Pluto Press). His most recent writing includes, “The Greek Crisis Intensifies” and “Debunking the Greek (and European) Crisis Narrative.” Our irregular correspondents were: live from Puerto Rico, ‘Our Man in San Juan’ Dave Buchen live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-674-nov-26-interview-with-greg-palast/ http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-674-nov-26-interview-with-greg-palast/#comments Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:00:35 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5582 http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-674-nov-26-interview-with-greg-palast/feed/ 0 0:53:35 This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted and unedited – albeit abbreviated – one hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central) Saturday, November 26, on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast shortly afte[...] This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted and unedited – albeit abbreviated – one hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central) Saturday, November 26, on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed… Investigative reporter and New York Times best-selling author Greg Palast. Greg’s new book is entitled, “Vultures’ Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores” (Dutton). Greg is also the author of 2007′s “Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans–Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild,” and “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization, and High-Finance Fraudsters.” To purchase any and all of Greg’s books, simply click on his name above to go directly to his site. Also don’t forget! This Tuesday, November 29, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will be participating in a special Chicago appearance by investigative reporter and best-selling author Greg Palast. And don’t forget this Saturday your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will interview the world renouwn investigative reporter and New York Times best-selling author Greg Palast. Greg’s new book is entitled, “Vultures’ Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores” (Dutton). Greg is also the author of 2007′s “Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans–Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild,” and “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization, and High-Finance Fraudsters.” To purchase any and all of Greg’s books, simply click on his name above to go directly to his site and to learn more about the even click here. CONTACT Joe Macare phone (773) 772-0100, x240 joe@inthesetimes.com In These Times writers are available for interviews. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-673-occupythisishell/ http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-673-occupythisishell/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:00:03 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5534 http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-673-occupythisishell/feed/ 0 1:00:24 This is Hell! broadcast a live – albeit abbreviated – one hour radio show, today,  Saturday, November 19, on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast here. This weekend, This is Hell! was Occupied by members of the[...] This is Hell! broadcast a live – albeit abbreviated – one hour radio show, today,  Saturday, November 19, on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast here. This weekend, This is Hell! was Occupied by members of the #OccupyWallStreet, #OccupyChicago and #OccupyOakland contingents. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz had a live on-air conversation with all three, simultaneously, unedited and completely uninterrupted. Our guests were: Diane Reiner from the Occupy Oakland Media Committee. Diane has been representing Occupy Oakland on various broadcasts across the nation and has informed us that she is not a morning person. Rachael Perrotta from the Occupy Chicago Press Committee. Rachael has been a member of the Occupy Chicago since mid-October. She is an office worker in her early 30′s who, for the past decade, has been organizing media campaigns for groups working towards peace and social justice. José Giuseppe from the Occupy Wall Street Spokescouncil. José is a proud Brooklyn resident and is an advocate for police accountability and community justice programs like Copwatch.   Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-672-for-november-12t/ http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-672-for-november-12t/#comments Sat, 12 Nov 2011 06:18:03 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5465 http://thisishell.net/shows/episode-672-for-november-12t/feed/ 0 0:57:46 This is Hell! broadcast a live – albeit abbreviated – one hour radio show, this Saturday, November 12, at 9 AM (US central time) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed[...] This is Hell! broadcast a live – albeit abbreviated – one hour radio show, this Saturday, November 12, at 9 AM (US central time) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Immanuel Wallerstein has held several positions as visiting professor at universities worldwide, was awarded multiple honorary degrees, and was president of the International Sociological Association between 1994 and 1998. In 2000 he joined the Yale Sociology department as Senior Research Scholar. In 2003 he received the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association. His most important work, ‘The Modern World-System,’ has appeared in four volumes in 1974, 1980, 1989 and 2011, with two planned volumes still forthcoming. The 2011 volume is entitled, “The Modern World-System, vol. IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789–1914″ (University of California Press). Wallerstein’s world system theory rejects the notion of a “Third World,” claiming there is only one world connected by a complex network of economic exchange relationships. He also writes regular commentaries, his most recent being, “US Withdrawal and Defeat in Iraq.” Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-november-5-2011/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-november-5-2011/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2011 20:01:05 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5445 http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-november-5-2011/feed/ 0 3:40:40 Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Jeff Goodwin is professor of Sociology at New York University. Jeff is a past chair of the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Associ[...] Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Jeff Goodwin is professor of Sociology at New York University. Jeff is a past chair of the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association. His research focuses on social movements, revolutions, political violence, and terrorism. He is best known for his book, “No Other Way Out: States and Revolutionary Movements, 1945-1991″ More recently, he is the author of “Contention in Context” (Stanford University Press) and “The Social Movements Reader” (Wiley-Blackwell). Next month, Jeff will have an article in Le Monde Diplomatique tentatively titled, “Occupy Wall Street: The Challenge Ahead.” Susan Kang is an assistant professor of political science at City University of New York where she teaches a course on international relations and does research on human rights and trade union movements. She is currently involved in #OccupyWallStreet and been active in the demands working group at Zuccotti Park. Dr. Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist on US national security policy with Inter-Press Service. Dr. Porter is the author of, most recently, “Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam.” (University of California Press). Gareth was both a Vietnam specialist and an anti-war activist during the Vietnam War and was Co-Director of Indochina Resource Center in Washington. He taught international studies at City College of New York and American University. He was the first Academic Director for Peace and Conflict Resolution in the Washington Semester program at American University. His most recent writing includes, “Debunking the Iran ‘Terror Plot’,” “ISAF Data Show Night Raids Killed over 1,500 Afghan Civilians,” “UN Tally Excluded Most Afghan Civilian Deaths in Night Raids,” and “US May Have Concealed Deterrent Aim of Iranian Plan.” Our irregular correspondents were: live from Dublin, we heard from Will Lynch and … live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. This weekend’s show was produced solo by Spencer “Thunderball” Thayer. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-october-22/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-october-22/#comments Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:00:28 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5407 http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-october-22/feed/ 0 3:59:34 This is Hell! broadcast a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted four hour radio show, Saturday, October 22nd, on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Me[...] This is Hell! broadcast a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted four hour radio show, Saturday, October 22nd, on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: - Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges is a weekly columnist at Truthdig and a senior fellow at The Nation Institute. Chris’s 2002 book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” (Random House) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. His new book is entitled, “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress” (Nation Books). Watch this amazing video of Chris last Saturday night at #OccupyWallStreet. - Dr. Stefano Battiston is the Chair of Systems Design at ETH Zurich who examined transnational companies and found that 147 interconnected corporations control 40% of the world’s wealth. The report, “The network of global corporate control,” can be read here and an easier to read blog post can be read here. - journalist Mark Engler is a senior analyst with Foreign Policy In Focus. Mark is author of “How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (Nation Books),” which was selected by the Drum Major Institute as one of the “most interesting and informative progressive books” of 2008. Mark is also a monthly columnist for the Oxford, UK-based New Internationalist magazine. He serves on the editorial board of Dissent and writes a weekly post for the magazine’s “Arguing the World” blog. His most recent writing includes, “The Future of the #Occupy Movement: Solidarity and Escalation.” Our irregular correspondents were: - ‘Our Man in Budapest’ Todd Williams reported live from Hungary … - former producer Trevor Ewen, in from New York City, gave us his inaugural segment as an irregular correspondent … - Michael Roper of Chicago’s Hopleaf, 5148 North Clark Street, talked beer live in-studio … - live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/the-nine-circles-of-hell-return-on-halloween/ http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/the-nine-circles-of-hell-return-on-halloween/#comments Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:58:34 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5419 http://thisishell.net/nine-circles-of-hell/the-nine-circles-of-hell-return-on-halloween/feed/ 0 http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-october-8-2011/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-october-8-2011/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 06:53:21 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5342 http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-october-8-2011/feed/ 1 4:00:20 Yesterday, Saturday, October 8, 2011, This is Hell! broadcasts live, completely unedited and uninterrupted four hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central time time) over-the air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast s[...] Yesterday, Saturday, October 8, 2011, This is Hell! broadcasts live, completely unedited and uninterrupted four hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central time time) over-the air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … live from London, economist, author, journalist and political analyst Loretta Napoleoni, author of “Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We do” (Seven Stories). Loretta has been on the show in the past to discuss her books, “Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality,” which has been translated into fourteen languages, and “Terror Inc.: Tracing the Money Behind Global Terrorism,” which has been translated into twelve languages. She’s one of the world’s leading experts on money laundering and terror financing. She has worked as London correspondent and columnist for Turin’s La Stampa, Milan’s Corriere della Sera, Rome’s La Repubblica, Spain’s national daily El País, and Le Monde. Loretta has also worked as a consultant for the commodities markets. Geoff Dembicki reports extensively on the growing political influence of Alberta’s oil sands industry and other climate change-related issues for TheTyee.ca, an award-winning online newspaper based in Vancouver, Canada. His recent writing includes a special article for Corpwatch, “Keystone Pipeline Faces Indigenous Trans-Border Opposition.” Brennan Center Senior Counsel Keesha Gaskins will be on to discuss the Center’s new report, “Voting Law Changes in 2012.” The report says new Republican-backed voting changes, “could make it significantly harder for more than five million eligible voters to cast ballots in 2012.” Keesha assisted with researching and drafting multiple sections of this report, and is a senior attorney at the Center and an expert on voting rights issues. live from Paris, Financial Times columnist and feature writer Simon Kuper, author of, “Soccer Men: Profiles of the Rogues, Geniuses and Neurotics Who Dominate the World’s Most Popular Sport” (Nation Books). Simon’s 1994, “Soccer Against the Enemy: How the World’s Most Popular Sport Starts and Fuels Revolutions and Keeps Dictators in Power,” won the 1994 William Hall Sports Book of the Year. Our irregular correspondents were: live from the #OccupyWallStreet action in Chicago, Spencer ‘Thunderball’ Thayer live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen will deliver a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-19/ http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-19/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:33:54 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=5320 http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-19/feed/ 2 0:55:20 This is Hell! aired a live – albeit abbreviated – one hour show today, Saturday, October 1, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio sho[...] This is Hell! aired a live – albeit abbreviated – one hour show today, Saturday, October 1, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Michael Hudson covers business and finance for the Center for Public Integrity Mike previously worked as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and as an investigator for the Center for Responsible Lending. His work has won many honors, including a George Polk Award for magazine reporting and a John Hancock Award for business journalism. His latest book, “The Monster How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America—and Spawned a Global Crisis” (St. Martin’s Griffin), was named 2010 Book of the Year by Baltimore City Paper. His most recent writing at the Center for Public Integrity’s i watch news site is, “The Great Mortgage Cover-Up: A Two-Part Series,” which “reveals the legacy of corruption that still plagues Bank of America.” Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-17/ http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-17/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2011 07:58:56 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=4369 http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-17/feed/ 1 3:57:45 Saturday, July 16, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted, four hour radio show on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3FM, streaming live and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck M[...] Saturday, July 16, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted, four hour radio show on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3FM, streaming live and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: science writer and editor John Carey recently wrote a three-part series on our planet’s extreme weather at Scientific American. John is a former senior correspondent for Business Week magazine, covering a range of topics including energy and global warming and cholesterol-lowering drugs and the human genome. Previously, he was an editor at The Scientist and a reporter at Newsweek. His stories have won awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Wistar Institute and a number of other organizations. He was also a National Magazine Award finalist. James K. Galbraith, is the author of, “The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too” (Free Press). James holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. Chair of Government/Business Relations at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin. He is a senior scholar at the Levy Economics Institute. He is Chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security, an international association of professional economists. An archive of his writings as well as his current research can be found at the University of Texas Inequality Project web site. He served on the staff of the US Congress, including as Executive Director of the Joint Economic Committee. He was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2003. His most recent writing includes, “Deficit Predators: Everything You Need to Know About the Twisted, Dangerous Debt Ceiling Fight.” Paul Rogers is professor of peace studies at Bradford University, northern England. Paul is a weekly columnist on global security at openDemocracy.net, the most recent column being, “America and Afghanistan: politics in charge.” He also writes an international security monthly briefing for the Oxford Research Group. His latest book is “Why We’re Losing the War on Terror” (Polity) which focuses on the post-9/11 era and explains why a new security paradigm is needed. Paul has been called, “one of the world’s leading security experts.” Also, look for the third edition of his 2002, “Losing Control: Global Security in the 21st Century” (Pluto Press). Christian Parenti is a contributing editor at The Nation magazine, a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at The Nation Institute, and a visiting scholar at the City University of New York. Christian’s new book is entitled, “Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence” (Nation Books). Our irregular correspondents will be: live from WNUR’s palatial studios, Spencer ‘Thunderball’ Thayer went after long-time This is Hell! supporter Vincent Bugliosi … live from the Tour de Fat, Dan ‘The Auto Man’ Litchfield talked transportation and wind power … live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-16/ http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-16/#comments Sat, 09 Jul 2011 06:57:40 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=4334 http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-16/feed/ 5 3:58:58 Saturday, July 9, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted, four hour radio show broadcast over-the-air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind[...] Saturday, July 9, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted, four hour radio show broadcast over-the-air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Greg Muttitt former co-director of the UK group Platform, a group that fosters an interdisciplinary approach to social and environmental justice. Greg is the author of the new book, “Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq” (Bodley Head) which past This is Hell! guest Naomi Klein called, “nothing short of a secret history of the war.” Greg’s new book investigates the occupying powers intention to return Iraq’s oil industry to multinational companies  and the Iraqis determination to keep production in the public sector. Unlike previous books on oil, Iraq and the war, Greg’s book looks into what has happened since 2003. Andy Kroll is a reporter in the Washington, DC bureau of Mother Jones magazine, and an associate editor at TomDispatch. Andy’s most recent writing includes, “What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Jobs: How racism, global economics, and the new Jim Crow fuel Black America’s crippling jobs crisis.” Glenn Carle served twenty-three years in the CIA’s Clandestine Services, working in a number of overseas posts on four continents and in Washington, DC. Glenn has worked on terrorism issues at various times since the mid-1980s and has worked extensively on Balkan, Central American, and European political, security, and economic issues. He retired in March 2007 as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats, on the National Intelligence Council, where his office was responsible for strategic analysis of terrorism, international organized crime, and narcotics issues. He is the author of the new book, “The Interrogator: An Education” (Nation Books). Our irregular correspondents will be: live from Baltimore, Kevan ‘The Radical Pessimist’ Harris gave us a piece of his mind live from San Francisco, Elvis DeMorrow toldus what’s happening in the Konspiracy Korner live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-15/ http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-15/#comments Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:57:07 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=4294 http://thisishell.net/shows/tomorrow-on-this-is-hell-15/feed/ 0 4:03:54 This is Hell! is broadcast live for four hours every Saturday morning, beginning at 9AM (US central) over the air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3FM, streaming and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck[...] This is Hell! is broadcast live for four hours every Saturday morning, beginning at 9AM (US central) over the air on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3FM, streaming and podcast here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (retired) at MIT. Noam is the author of many books and articles on international affairs and social-political issues, and a long-time participant in activist movements. His most recent book is, “Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestinians” (Haymarket Books) which he wrote with past This is Hell! guest Ilan Pappe. Guardian environmental writer John Vidal whose most recent writing includes, “Fukushima spin was Orwellian” Alternet’s Joshua Holland who posted the column, “With Republicans Caught Between Wall Street and the Tea Party, Dems Just Might Win the Debt Ceiling Standoff,” today Dr. Chris Fichtner is a psychiatrist who has clinical and administrative public mental health experience in federal, state and county systems including serving as state mental health director for Illinois from 2003 to 2005. Chris is a Fellow of the American College of Physician Executives and holds a volunteer faculty appointment at Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He is the author of “Cannabinomics: The Marijuana Poilicy Tipping Point” (Well Mind Books). Our irregular correspondents were: Danny Muller gave us a Wasted Energy Report live from Portland, Maine David Skalinder gave a ‘Back in Blighty’ report Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth live from Los Angeles. Shows This Is Hell! no no