This Is Hell!

 

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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.

 

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

• plant breeder and writer Stan Cox, author of “Losing Our Cool: Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned World (and Finding New Ways to Get Through the Summer)” (The New Press). Stan worked for the US Department of Agriculture in India for thirteen years. Find out more about Stan and his book at http://www.losingourcool.com/
• public interest lawyer, writer and organizer John Atlas is the author of, “Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America’s Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group” (Vanderbilt University Press). John is the founder and current president of The National Housing Institute which publishes Shelterforce.
• Heather Rogers, author of, “Green Gone Wrong: How the Economy is Undermining the Environmental Revolution” (Scribner).
  Past This is Hell! guest Naomi Klein, says of Heather’s new book, “this sensible investigation arrives just in the nick of time.”
• venture capitalist Sheldon Drobny was the founder of Air America Radio. In 2006, Sheldon founded Nova M Radio, a competitor to Air America producing and syndicating progressive talk radio programs. He is the author of “Road to Air America—Breaking the Right Wing Stranglehold on Our Nation’s Airwaves” (Select Books). He is also a former IRS agent.

The Hopleaf‘s Michael Roper talked about beer live from Italy.

Danny Muller gave a ‘Wasted Energy Report’ live from the US Social Forum in Detroit.

Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.