This Is Hell!

This is Hell! broadcasts a new, completely live four-hour show today, Saturday, September 4, 2010, beginning at 9 AM (US central time) on Chicago’s WNUR 89.3 FM. The program will also be streaming live at WNUR’s web site, and podcast shortly after our live broadcast here.

This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviews …

• 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 story, “The Secret Killers: Assassination in Afghanistan and Task Force 373.”
• live from Baghdad, writer Nir Rosen is a Fellow at the New America Foundation and at New York University’s Center on Law and Security. Nir’s most recent book is the 2006, “In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq” (Simon and Schuster). His new book, “Aftermath; Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim World,” (Perseus) will be released in October.
• writer Alexander Cockburn edits the political newsletter CounterPunch with past This is Hell! guest Jeffrey St. Clair. Alexander writes the “Beat the Devil” column for The Nation and a weekly syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times as well as for The First Post, which is syndicated by Creators Syndicate.
• writer and former documentary filmmaker Julia Whitty is the author of “Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean,” (Mariner Books). Julia’s book, “The Fragile Edge: Diving and Other Adventures in the South Pacific,” (Mariner Books) won the PEN USA Literary Award. Julia’s article, “BP’s Deep Secrets,” is the cover story for the September/October edition of Mother Jones.

Irregular correspondent Dave Buchen talks to us live from San Juan.

LaddieO.com reports on web, tech and science news from the hermetically sealed clean room at URL Labs.

Live from San Francisco, Kate O’Donnell says, Thank You, Science!”

Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.

 

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On This is Hell! episode #666, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed …

• Edwin Cake is a biological oceanographer, a certified oyster biologist, and a private and public environmental consultant. He is an independent scientist with over 40 years experience in the Gulf of Mexico Region and is currently assisting New Orleans area citizens in preparing damage claims for oyster losses, oyster-lease damages, and long-term recovery costs as a result of the BP oil gusher and the State of Louisiana’s attempt to keep the oil “at bay” with Mississippi River water.
• David Hulme is co-author of, “Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South” (Kumarian Press). David is Professor of Development Studies and Founder-Director of the Chronic Poverty Research Centre and the Brooks World Poverty Institute, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester.
• University of Wisconsin professor emeritus Stanley Kutler is the author of, “Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes” (Free Press), a book that resulted from his successful law suit against the National Archives and Nixon, to force the release of the long-suppressed tapes. Stanley has written widely in a number of fields of American history, particularly concentrating on American constitutional history and the twentieth century. We’ll talk with him about his recent writing at truthdig including, “65 Years After Hiroshima: Truman’s Choices.”
• retired US Army colonel Andrew Bacevich is a history and international relations professors at Boston University. Andrew is the author of the new book, “Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War” (Metropolitan Books).
  Andrew once succinctly said of This is Hell!, “Great show, great host.”
  Andrew is appearing Thursday, August 19th, at 7 PM in the Chicago Temple, 77 West Washington (across from Daley Plaza). He will appear in discussion with a friend of This is Hell!, Jerome McDonnell, host of WBEZ’s Worldview. The event is free and open to the public.An in-studio appearance from irregular correspondent John K. Wilson. John’s the author of “President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union” (Paradigm Publishers), “Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest” (Paradigm Publishers), “Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies” (Paradigm Publishers). and the upcoming, “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Rush Limbaugh’s Assault on Reason” He is the founder of both the Institute for College Freedom and obamapolitics.com.

  Live from somewhere on the west coast, David “The Cynical Optimist” Skalinderr.

  Michael Roper of Chicago’s Hopleaf bar drops by in-studio.

  Live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.