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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 4 comments  Tags: Chuck Mertz, Danny Muller, Jeff Dorchen, Kate O'Donnell, Kevan Harris, Michael Roper, Todd Williams, Will Lynch

Saturday, December 17, we cordially invited all of our listeners to the first-ever broadcast of the annual This is Hell! Office Party live and completely uninterrupted for four hours from the thirteenth floor of the beautiful Paramutual Building on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast here. Hosting this year’s This is [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 9 comments  Tags: Jeff Dorchen, Kate O'Donnell, Mark Weisbrot, Michael Roper, Patrick Cockburn, Richard Wolff, Todd Williams

Today, Saturday, August 6, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live four hour broadcast beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM streaming live and podcast here. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz intervieed: Richard Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Annette Fuentes, Chuck Mertz, Dave Buchen, Jeff Dorchen, Johann Hari, Kate O'Donnell, Laura Carlsen, Lewis Lapham

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 [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 7 comments  Tags: Chuck Mertz, Conn Hallinan, Danny Muller, Dave Buchen, Jeff Dorchen, Jo Comerford, Kate O'Donnell, Mark Ames, Moshe Adler, William Hartung

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 [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 6 comments  Tags: Chuck Mertz, Gerald Epstein, Greg Anrig, Jeff Dorchen, Kate O'Donnell, Martha Rosenberg, Martin Shaw, Neill Franklin, Will Lynch

Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: economist Gerald Epstein is the co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute and a Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts. Jerry is co-author of the new report, “Financial Economists, Financial Interests and Dark Corners of the Meltdown: It’s Time to set Ethical [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Alexander Cockburn, Chuck Mertz, Dave Buchen, Jeff Dorchen, Julia Whitty, Kate O'Donnell, LaddieO.com, Nir Rosen, Pratap Chatterjee

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 [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 1 comment  Tags: Ann Jones, Chris Mooney, Chuck Mertz, Dan Litchfield, Frank Kaufman, Jeff Dorchen, Kate O'Donnell, Mike Marqusee

This week, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Mike Marqusee writes Level Playing Field, a column on politics and culture for The Hindu Sunday magazine, one of India’s largest circulation English language publications, and Contending for the Living for Red Pepper. Mike’s most recent book is the paperback edition [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Chuck Mertz, Dan Litchfield, Jeff Dorchen, Joshua Holland, Julien Mercille, Kate O'Donnell, LaddieO.com, Mark Weisbrot, Nat Parry, Robert Parry, Sam Parry, Tariq Ali

Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Julien Mercille is lecturer at University College Dublin, Ireland. Julien’s recent writing includes, “Demand is King: Why Afghanistan’s Poppies Aren’t the Problem.” He specializes in U.S. foreign policy and geopolitics. Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in [...]

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: Don Peck, Drew Colglazier, Gareth Porter, Kate O'Donnell, Mike Marqusee, Norman Solomon

Our guests were: Don Peck is a deputy managing editor of The Atlantic. Don’s article, “How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America,” appears in the March issue. Mike Marqusee is an American writer who emigrated to Britain in 1971. Mike writes Level Playing Field, a column on politics and culture for The Hindu Sunday [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Chalmers Johnson, Dave Zirin, Jeff Dorchen, Jim Shultz, Kate O'Donnell, Nomi Prins, Tariq Ali

live from Cochabamba, the Democracy Center‘s Jim Shultz explained what the hell is going on in the near civil war in Bolivia. You can read Jim’s blog by visiting http://www.democracyctr.org/blog/. The Democracy Center “works globally to advance social justice through investigation and reporting, training citizens in public advocacy, and leading international citizen campaigns.” journalist [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Danny Muller, David Enders, Drew Youngren, Ismael Hossein-zadeh, Jeff Dorchen, Kate O'Donnell, Lawrence Velvel, Lyndall Stein

live from (not) Dublin, Lyndall Stein is executive director of Concern, an “humanitarian organisation dedicated to the reduction of suffering and working towards the ultimate elimination of extreme poverty in the world’s poorest countries.” Lyndall’s most recent writing includes her openDemocracy article, “Ethiopia: the tears and the rains.” live from Baghdad, journalist David Enders [...]