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Podcast for April 21, 2012 [ 3:35:33 | 125.12 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1008)

This Saturday, Dahr Jamail told us about the ongoing environmental devastation caused by the BP Gulf oil spill, ProPublica’s Paul Kiel described ‘The Great American Foreclosure Story and The Struggle for Justice and a Place to Call Home,’ and Greg Palast reported how ‘BP Covered Up Blow-out Two Years Prior to Deadly Deepwater Horizon Spill.’ Richard Norwood reported live from Paris on the French elections. Live from Budapest, we heard from ‘Our man in Hungary’ Todd Williams. We heard the deep thoughts of ‘Radical Pessimist’ Kevan Harris, and live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.

Episode 683: February 18th, 2012 32k [ 4:00:03 | 96.15 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1123)

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This Saturday, host Chuck Mertz interviewed Paul Mason on ‘The New Global Revolutions,’ Charles Mann will be ‘Uncovering the New World Columbus Created,’ Marwan Bishara discusses ‘The Promise and Peril of the Arab Revolutions,’ and Ian Morris explains ‘The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future.’ Our irregular correspondents were Will Lynch live from Dublin, and The Radical Pessimist Kevan Harris.

Occasionally I eat a lot of cheese in one sitting and end up having the inevitable “cheese dreams” which send me into night terrors and sweaty shouting matches with my wall.  After one of these, I wrote this blog post comparing the French revolution and the Iranian revolution: http://www.kevanharris.com/post/17042202622/1789-1979-and-all-that In the post I use some [...]

Episode #677 - Podcast for December 17, 2011 [ 4:10:41 | 114.75 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1341)

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 [...]

Podcast for September 17, 2011 [ 4:03:25 | 111.43 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1571)

Your bitter blind broke gap-tooothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Paul Harris is the US correspondent of British papers the Guardian and The Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper. Prior to his work at the Guardian and Observer, Paul reported from Africa for the Daily Telegraph, The Associated Press and Reuters. He has been [...]

Podcast for July 9, 2011 [ 3:58:58 | 218.78 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (504)

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 14, 2011 [ 3:31:44 | 484.61 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (335)

Saturday, May 14, 2011, This is Hell! aired a live broadcast on WNUR 89.3 FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: award-winning investigative journalist Joshua Phillips is author of “None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture” (Verso). Joshua also wrote the [...]

Podcast for March 5, 2011 [ 4:20:51 | 238.82 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (102)

Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Thomas Ferguson is professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and a senior fellow of the Roosevelt Institute. Thomas recently wrote the article, “Obama’s Budget Speaks to Wall Street, Ignores Voters,” for New Deal 2.0. He is the author of many books [...]

Folks, the Radical Pessimist is coming to a town near you!  Well, only if you are a member of the effete, sea-urchin eating, iPad for underwear, East Coast power elite in NYC or Washington DC.  But, hey, gotta start somewhere. I’ll be speaking at two events in February related to the release of The Iran Primer: [...]

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Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … journalist Dante Chinni is author of “Our Patchwork Nation: The Surprising Truth about the ‘Real’ America and the 12 Community Types that Make Up Our Nation” (Gotham Books). Dante, since the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, has been the correspondent for the [...]

I was in Washington DC at the Stewart/Colbert Rally.  I went because I live in Baltimore and I was taking my Iranian friend to DC.  I showed up at the National Mall, caught whiffs of lots of doobies, and saw Dr. Rockso the Rock and Roll Clown live and in person.  But the minute I [...]

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On the Saturday, October 9, 2010, four-hour, completely new, live broadcast, which can be listened to here, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: award-winning investigative journalist Russ Baker is founder and editor-in-chief of WhoWhatWhy/The Real News Project where his recent writing includes the story,  “‘Obama’s Wars’:  The Real story Bob [...]