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By Chuck Mertz in Nine Circles of Hell! with 0 comment  Tags: Chuck Mertz, Diane Ravitch, Ira Chernus, Jon Wiener, Paul Pillar, Peter Beaumont, Robert Parry, Robert Pollin, Robert Scheer, Steven Greenhouse

Writing from the past week by nine past guests of This is Hell! including Peter Beaumont, Ira Chernus, Steven Greenhouse, Robert Parry, Paul Pillar, Robert Pollin, Diane Ravitch, Robert Scheer, and Jon Wiener

By Chuck Mertz in Nine Circles of Hell! with 0 comment  Tags: Chase Madar, Chris Hedges, David Zirin, Gabriel Kolko, Ira Chernus, John Pilger, Jonathan Cook, Michelle Chen, Scott Horton

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – is posted each weekday. While we post the nine most hellish news stories we can find Monday through Friday, our Sunday Edition! features writing from the past week – including opinion pieces – by nine of our past guests [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Nine Circles of Hell! with 0 comment  Tags: Ira Chernus, James B. Steele, Mark Ames, Matt Taibbi, Noam Chomsky, Russ Baker, Steven Aftergood

Every Sunday, This is Hell! will be posting links to articles by some of our past guests. After interviewing thousands of people over the last 14 years, it would be impossible to include the writing by everyone who has every appeared on TiH! Therefore, we offer this simple taste of recent writing by past guests. [...]

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: Anthony DiMaggio, Bernard Avishai, Dave Buchen, Ira Chernus, Jeff Dorchen, Jonathan Mazower, Paul Rogers

Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of “Monsters To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin” (Paradigm Publishers). This week, he wrote the piece, “Time to Change the Story: Palestinian Violence Overstated, Jewish Violence Understated.” live from Jerusalem, adjunct professor of business at [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Chris Hedges, Elvis DeMorrow, Ira Chernus, Jeff Dorchen, Kevan Harris, Scott Ritter, Thomas Geoghegan

former UN weapons inspector in Iraq Scott Ritter returns to This is Hell! to talk about his latest writing including, “Presidential Hopefuls Need a Reality Check on Iraq.” His last book was last May’s, “Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Anti-War Movement” (Nation Books). Ira Chernus also returns to This is Hell! [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Drew Youngren, Ira Chernus, Jeff Dorchen, Kate O'Donnell, Kevan Harris, Paul Cruickshank, Phil Gasper

Phil Gasper teaches philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University in California and writes the bimonthly "Critical Thinking" column for International Socialist Review. Phil wrote the Counterpunch piece yesterday entitled, "Prisoners of Ideology: America’s draconian approach to criminal justice" Paul Cruickshank, who co-authored the new study "The Iraq Effect: The War in Iraq and [...]