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Podcast for January 28, 2012 [ 4:05:18 | 168.43 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (710)

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.

Episode #675 - December 3, 2012 [ 3:53:20 | 127.43 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1476)

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 [...]

Podcast for August 27, 2011 [ 3:57:00 | 108.49 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1225)

Yesterday, Saturday, August 27, This is Hell! aired a live, completely uninterrupted and unedited, four hour broadcast at 9AM (US central time) on Chicago’s Sound Expermient, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and now podcast shortly here. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Michael Lind is Policy Director of New America’s [...]

Podcast for June 18, 2011 [ 4:07:49 | 226.88 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (197)

Saturday, June 18, 2011, This is Hell! broadcast a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show on WNUR 89.3FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Laura Carlsen is director of the Mexico City-based Americas Program of the Center for International Policy and a columnist at Foreign Policy [...]

Podcast for April 30, 2011 [ 4:00:53 | 275.67 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (127)

This is Hell! aired a live four hour broadcast Saturday, April 30, 2011, on Chicago’s WNUR 89.3 FM.. Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Moshe Adler is author of “Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal” (The New Press). Moshe teaches economics at Columbia [...]

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Your bitter, blind, broke, gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Stanley Kutler is Emeritus Professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Stanley is the author of “The Wars of Watergate: The Last Crisis of Richard Nixon” (Norton), “Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes” (Free Press), and “The American Inquisition: Cold War Political [...]

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Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans including fifteen years at The New York Times. Chris is a weekly columnist at Truthdig and a senior fellow at The [...]

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

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Friday, July 2, are: Recession erases 35 years of African-American family well-being Lobbyists fix financial reform so banks can’t lose Pepper spray, batons, violence, protesters and Puerto Rican police Fears follow safety breach at Canada’s only privately-run nuke [...]

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Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … journalist and political analyst Vicken Cheterian works for the non-profit governance organization CIMERA, based in Geneva. Vicken’s recent writing includes, “Kyrgyzstan failing, and an arc of crisis.” historian and journalist Andy Worthington, author of,  “The Guantanamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees [...]

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Our guests were: James K. Galbraith, author of the new book, “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 [...]