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This Is Hell! admin@thisishell.net no no http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-2/ http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-2/#comments Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:23:56 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://thisishell.net/?p=1696 http://thisishell.net/shows/on-the-next-this-is-hell-2/feed/ 0 0:00:01 On the ‘Latest, Highest This is Hell!‘ we played the following interviews from 2009. Go ahead and  listen: live from Dublin, Julien Mercille is a Professor at the University College of Dublin lecturing in US foreign policy. Julien write[...] On the ‘Latest, Highest This is Hell!‘ we played the following interviews from 2009. Go ahead and  listen: live from Dublin, Julien Mercille is a Professor at the University College of Dublin lecturing in US foreign policy. Julien writes regularly for Foreign Policy in Focus. The week this interview took place, Julien had just posted the story, “Trail of Afghanistan’s drug money exposed.” Matthieu Aikins is an international freelance journalist and photographer who has reported from Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan for Harper’s Magazine, Canada’s National Post and the Toronto Globe & Mail. For his reporting in 2008, Matthieu was the winner of the Canadian Association of Journalists Award in the Community Newspaper category, and the Atlantic Journalism Award for Enterprise Reporting. Matthieu’s article in December’s Harper’s is entitled, “The Master of Spin Boldak: Undercover with Afghanistan’s drug-trafficking border police.” Eugenia Tsao is a PhD candidate in medical anthropology at the University of Toronto and a CGS Doctoral Fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (we have no idea what CGS stands for either, but we’ll ask Eugenia tomorrow). She had just written the story, “Inside the DSM: The Drug Barons’ Campaign to Make Us All Crazy.” Manuel Perez Rocha directs “The NAFTA Plus and the SPP Advocacy Project,” part of the Global Economy Project. Manuel is a Mexican national who has led tri-national efforts to promote just and sustainable alternative approaches to North American economic integration for more than a decade. He had recently written the article, “The Failed War on Drugs in Mexico.” Jeff Faux is founder and former president of the Economic Policy Institute where he is currently a distinguished fellow. Jeff’s most recent article was a piece in The Nation entitled, “So Far From God, So Close to Wall St.” He is the author of “The Global Class War: How America’s Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future – and What It Will Take to Win It Back” (Wiley). live from Mexico City, Laura Carlsen is a program director at the Center for International Policy‘s Americas Policy Program in Mexico City. The previous weekend, Laura wrote, “Drug War Doublespeak: Sorting Reality From Hype.” Paul Armentano is the deputy director of NORML and the NORML Foundation. He is also the co-author of the forthcoming book “Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People To Drink?” (Chelsea Green). Paul had just written the story, “Marijuana Reform Is Part of the Progressive Agenda, So Why Are Obama’s Drug Cops Already Making Pot Raids?“ Shows This Is Hell! no no http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-august-22-2009-2/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-august-22-2009-2/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 06:00:00 +0000 Chuck Mertz http://www.thisishellradio.info/2009/08/podcast-for-saturday-august-22-2009-2/ http://thisishell.net/shows/podcast-for-saturday-august-22-2009-2/feed/ 0 4:09:18 live from Beirut, Rami Khouri is the Director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut as well as editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout t[...] live from Beirut, Rami Khouri is the Director of the Issam Fares Institute of Public Policy and International Affairs at the American University of Beirut as well as editor-at-large of the Beirut-based Daily Star newspaper, published throughout the Middle East with the International Herald Tribune. You can find all Rami’s work at the Daily Star by clicking here. In November 2006, he was the co-recipient of the Pax Christi International Peace Award for his efforts to bring peace and reconciliation to the Middle East. His most recent writing includes the article, “Pro-Israel Panic.” Global Post executive editor Charles M. Sennott is a former New York Daily News city reporter, Boston Globe investigative journalist, foreign correspondent, Middle East and Europe Bureau chief, and winner of the Livingston Award for National Reporting as well as a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting by Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center. In 2004, Charlie article entitled “The Perils of Empire” – and posted from the frontlines of the war in Iraq – was recognized by the Foreign Press Association as “Story of the Year.” We’ll be speaking with Charlie about his Global Post project, “Life, death and the Taliban,” which “seeks to enhance America’s understanding of Taliban history in Afghanistan and Pakistan. At this crucial time in the U.S.-led war against the Taliban.” Anna Lenzer reports on water issues for Mother Jones. Anna’s article in the September edition, “Fiji Water: Spin the Bottle,” wonders “How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands of miles away, become the epitome of cool?” Sherwood Ross is a former writer at now-defunct The Chicago Daily News and other major dailies and a columnist for wire services. This week, Sherwood wrote the piece, “Iraq War’s Winners and Losers.” He currently runs a public relations firm for “worthy causes.” Eugenia Tsao is a PhD candidate in medical anthropology at the University of Toronto and a CGS Doctoral Fellow of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (we have no idea what CGS stands for either, but we’ll ask Eugenia tomorrow). This week, she wrote the story, “Inside the DSM: The Drug Barons’ Campaign to Make Us All Crazy.” Our irregular correspondents were Kevan Harris, ‘The Radical Pessimist,’ reporting live from Istanbul; Elvis DeMorrow returned with a Konspiracy Korner on the Lockerbie bombing; and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth. Shows This Is Hell! no no