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Podcast for May 4, 2013 [ 3:04:55 | 99.1 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1278)

Middle East correspondent at The Economist Sarah Birke on Syria.
Worker rights activist Charles Kernaghan discusses the Bangladesh garment factory disaster.
Anthropologist Robin Nagle goes “On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City.”
Psychologist Roland Weierstall describes, “The peculiar psychology of war likely holds answers for avoiding future atrocities.”
FAIR’s Jim Naureckas gives a ‘Bulletin to the Head’ with his media criticism.
Susan Kang, ‘The Solidarity Bitch,’ talks labor.
Elvis DeMorrow skulks into the Konspiracy Korner to find what the Boston bombing has left behind.
Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth from Kerala, India.

Podcast for March 9, 2013 [ 4:17:25 | 117.83 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1628)

Victoria Brittain reveals ‘The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror,’ Kevin Gosztola reports on the Bradley Manning trial, Chavala Madlena finds ‘Pentagon’s link to Iraqi torture centers,’ Noam Chomsky wonders if ‘Will Capitalism Destroy Civilization?,’ and Paul Pillar tells us what’s ‘Breeding Anti-US Suspicions.’

Contributors John K. Wilson talks politics and Elvis DeMorrow tells us what’s in the Konspiracy Korner.

Podcast for December 15, 2012 [ 3:58:12 | 218.08 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1822)

It’s the Second Annual This is Hell! Holiday Office Party!

Podcast for September 22, 2012 [ 3:59:53 | 219.62 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2097)

Anatol Lieven talks about talking to the Taliban, Diane Ravitch on education and the Chicago strike, Moustafa Bayoumi on “Men Behaving Badly.”

Irregular correspondents Danny Muller from Haiti, Brian Foley on the law and war, Will Lynch live from Dublin, Elvis DeMorrow reports from the Konspiracy Korner, and Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.

Podcast for July 28, 2012 [ 4:02:40 | 222.17 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2002)

On this week’s This is Hell!, Chuck Mertz interviewed former M15 officer Annie Machon on the possibility we will be misled into war with Iran, Kristen Gwynne talked drugs and cops, and Guardian writer Michael Cohen explained how ‘America rots from the inside, while overreacting to threats from outside.’

David Skalinder reported from the Olympics, Elvis DeMorrow told us what’s happening with the Aurora shootings in the Konspiracy Korner, and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.

Podcast for June 9, 2012 [ 3:56:04 | 216.13 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2174)

This week, Saqib Bhatti explained ‘How Wall Street is Bankrupting Our Public Transit Agencies by Profiteering off Toxic Swap Deals’; Andrew Gavin Marshall told us ’10 Things You Should Know About the Quebec Student Movement’; Doug Henwood described Wisconsin Governor Scott ”Walker’s victory, un-sugar-coated’; and Wayne Getz warned us about “the tipping point.”

Dan ‘The Auto Man’ Litchfield talks transportation and Elvis DeMorrow tells us what’s scuttling around the Konspiracy Korner.

Podcast for April 7, 2012 [ 3:55:57 | 148.92 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1934)

This weekend, This is Hell! host Chuck Mertz interviewed Mother Jones investigative Rolling Stone columnist and author Rick Perlstein and economists James K. Galbraith and William K. Black. Our irregular correspondents were Elvis DeMorrow from the Konspiracy Korner, Dave Buchen from San Juan, and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.

Podcast for January 28, 2012 [ 4:05:18 | 168.43 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1749)

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.

September 24, 2011 - Hour Three - Sahr Muhammedally [ 47:09 | 43.17 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1123)

This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted four hour show today, Saturday, September 24, 2011, beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM. In the third hour, live from London, Sahr Muhammedally is a consultant in the Asia division of Human Rights Watch and co-authored the report, “Just Don’t Call it a Militia: Impunity, Militias, and the Afghan [...]

Podcast for September 24, 2011 [ 4:07:56 | 226.99 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (996)

This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Stephen Walt is a professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Stephen is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs in the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He co-authored, “The [...]

Podcast for July 9, 2011 [ 3:58:58 | 218.78 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (722)

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 [...]

Podcast for May 21, 2011 [ 4:01:12 | 110.42 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (479)

Saturday, May 21, This is Hell! aired a live four hour show beginning at 9 AM (US central) on WNUR 89.3 FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz will interviewed: live in-studio, Homayoun Pourzad a leader of the Network of Iranian Labor Unions and a member [...]