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Episode #677 - Podcast for December 17, 2011 [ 4:10:41 | 114.75 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1019)

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 (1516)

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 (443)

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 (286)

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 (80)

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 [...]

John McCain walked out of a Senate hearing last Thursday on the subject of financial fraud and abuse in the for-profit higher education industry.  The fact that I am writing the phrase “education industry” says something, doesn’t it?  You shouldn’t be surprised that McCain, from the state of Arizona, isn’t interested in hearing the sordid [...]

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Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … Joshua Foust is a military analyst specializing in Afghanistan, Pakistan and post-Soviet Central Asia. Joshua is a contributing editor to Current Intelligence, a journal of opinion and analysis. He blogs at Registan. This week, he posted the article, “What’s Secret in ‘Top Secret [...]

Chuck did a great interview with Fred Kaufman on July 10th about his article in Harpers’ magazine on the “food bubble” of 2008.  In the interview, Chuck wondered if the price hikes in basic food commodities in 2007-8 were unprecedented, and much of the interview went into detail about how the newfangled financial products on [...]