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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 1 comment  Tags: Charles Bowden, Chuck Mertz, Danny Muller, Elvis DeMorrow, Greta Christina, Jeff Dorchen, Todd Williams, Tom Engelhardt

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 [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 1 comment  Tags: Chuck Mertz, Danny Muller, Heather Rogers, Jeff Dochen, John Atlas, Michael Roper, Naomi Klein, Sheldon Drobny, Stan Cox

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 [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 4 comments  Tags: Danny Muller, Ira Chernus, Jeff Dorchen, Kate O'Donnell, Marjorie Cohn, Paul Hockenos, Spencer Thayer

Our guests were: Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ira is the author of “American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea ” (Orbis Books) and “Monsters To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin” (Paradigm Publishers). He recently posted the article, “Blood or Treasure? Obama’s Crucial [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Andrew Bacevich, Chris Shaw, Danny Muller, Greg Palast, Henry Giroux, Jeff Dorchen, Kathy Kelly

Our guests were: Henry Giroux is one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States. He is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. He is the Global TV Network Chair in English and Cultural Studies at Hamilton, Ontario’s [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Danny Muller, Jason Grotto, Jeff Dorchen, Patrick Bond, Robert Dreyfuss, Shlomo Sands

Our guests were: Robert Dreyfuss is Rolling Stone’s national security correspondent, and a contributing editor at The Nation where he writes the ‘The Dreyfuss Report, blog. Recent entries include, “Fire Gates!,” “Exit 2011, Parts I and II,” “Iran: No Sanctions” and “The Iranian Souffle.”author of “Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam.” [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Danny Muller, Eamonn Fingleton, Grahame Russell, Jeff Dorchen, Jeff Faux, John K. Wilson, Matt Kennard, Nicholas Hale

live from Tokyo, Eamonn Fingleton is the former editor for Forbes and the Financial Times. Eamonn wrote the Counterpunch article about “Detroit’s Collapse, the Untold Story: How the Press Helped Destroy the Auto Industry.” He is the author of “In the Jaws of the Dragon: America’s Fate in the Coming Chinese Hegemony” (Thomas Dunne [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Danny Muller, Fouad Pervez, Heather Williams, Jeff Dorchen, Johann Hari

Johann Hari is an award-winning journalist who writes twice-weekly for the UK paper, The Independent. Last year, at the age of 29, Johann became the youngest person ever to be awarded the George Orwell Prize, which the Observer newspaper calls “Britain’s preeminent award for political writing”. In 2007 he was named Newspaper Journalist of [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Dahr Jamail, Danny Muller, Gareth Porter, Jeff Dorchen, Joshua Holland, Mark Potok, William Blum

William Blum is the author of “Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II” and “Rogue State: a guide to the World’s Only Super Power” which are both published by Common Courage Press. Last weekend, he posted the article, “Obama and the Empire.” Visit his web site http://www.killinghope.org/. Dr. Gareth Porter [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Bill Ayers, Danny Muller, Gerard Prunier, Jeff Dorchen, Laura Mayer, Robert Dreyfuss, Scott Horton, Steve Fraser

Gerard Prunier were on to discuss his opendemocracy.net article, “The eastern DR Congo: dynamics of conflict.” Gerard is research professor at the University of Paris. He is the author of 1998’s The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide, 2007’s revised edition of “Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide”, and 2006’s “From Genocide to Continental War: The [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Alan Snitow, Anand Gopal, Danny Muller, Jeff Dorchen, Steven Rosenfeld, Thomas Ferguson, Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank whose latest book is “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule” (Metropolitan Books). Tom is a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal. live from Afghanistan, Anand Gopal discussed his TomDispatch article, “The Surge That Failed: Afghanistan under the Bombs.” Anand is a correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, based in Afghanistan. Steven [...]

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: Danny Muller, David Enders, Drew Youngren, Ismael Hossein-zadeh, Jeff Dorchen, Kate O'Donnell, Lawrence Velvel, Lyndall Stein

live from (not) Dublin, Lyndall Stein is executive director of Concern, an “humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.” Lyndall’s most recent writing includes her openDemocracy article, “Ethiopia: the tears and the rains.” live from Baghdad, journalist David Enders [...]