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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: Fatima Bhutto, John Brown, Kevan Harris

Fatima Bhutto is a writer and poet. She is the daughter of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, who was killed in 1996 in Karachi when his sister, and Fatima’s aunt, Benazir, was prime minister. Fatima recently wrote the piece, "The Dismantling of Pakistani Democracy." John Brown is a former US Foreign Service officer who resigned from [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 1 comment  Tags: Gary Leupp, Howard Zinn, Jeff Dorchen, Kevan Harris, Mustafa Barghouthi, Noam Chomsky, Patrick Cockburn

Noam Chomsky returned to This is Hell for the first time in three years. Noam is a professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Most recently, Noam is the author of "Interventions" (City Lights), a collection of op-eds distributed by the New York Times syndicate yet, while published in other [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Dr. Krys Bigosinski MD, Greg Palast, Jeff Dorchen, Kevan Harris, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Spencer Ackerman

journalist Spencer Ackerman is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and a national security correspondent for The Washington Monthly. Spnencer’s piece, "Training Iraq’s Death Squads," ran at The Nation’s web site. Greg Palast returned because everyone’s emailing us his article, "The Goods on Goodling and the Keys to the Kingdom," and an interview [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Aziz Huq, Dan 'The Auto Man', Jeff Dorchen, Kevan Harris, Reese Erlich, Song Hee Young

Aziz Huq, co-author of the new book "Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror" (The New Press). Aziz directs the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center (http://www.brennancenter.org/). Aziz was the recipient of a 2006 Carnegie Scholars Fellowship. Reese Erlich is author of the upcoming book "The Iran Agenda: [...]

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 [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Diane Farsetta, Elvis DeMorrow, Enrique Ochoa, Harwood Schaffer, Kevan Harris, Moment of Truth, Scott Ritter

Scott Ritter, was one of the top UN weapons inspectors in Iraq between 1991 and 1998. Scott’s most recent book is "Target Iran: The Truth About the White House’s Plans for Regime Change" (Nation Books). He served as an officer in the US Marine Corps and as a ballistic missiles advisor to General Norman [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Bill Chandler, Elvis DeMorrow, Glen Ford, Kevan Harris, Marilyn Clement, Michael Klare, Todd Williams, URL Labs

Michael Klare returned to This is Hell. Michael wrote the two-part article series for TomDispatch.com. The first part is called, "Is Energo-fascism in Your Future? The Global Energy Race and Its Consequences." And the second part is called, "Petro-Power and the Nuclear Renaissance; Two Faces of an Emerging Energo-fascism." Michael is a professor of [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Brian Concannon, Elvis DeMorrow, Jeff Dorchen, Kevan Harris, Mark Weisbrot, Moazzem Begg

Human rights lawyer Brian Concannon, director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (http://www.ijdh.org). This week, Brian wrote "Justice for Haiti" with Anthony Phillips. Moazzem Begg, author of "Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram and Kandahar" (The New Press). Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic Policy Research (http://www.cepr.net) returns to [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Dahr Jamail, Elvis DeMorrow, Ian Williams, Jeff Dorchen, Kate O'Donnell, Kevan Harris, Phillip Cryan, Uri Avnery

Ian Williams (http://deadlinepundit.blogspot.com), whose most recent piece is entitled, "Accidentally on Purpose," and covers the Israeli bombing of the United Nations in Lebanon. Ian has written for newspapers and magazines around the world, including the Australian, The Independent, New York Observer, Village Voice, Financial Times and The Guardian. He is the UN correspondent for [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Amjad Shawa, Bill Christison, Hae Young Song, Jose Mario Hollman, Joshua Holland, Justin Vogler, Kevan Harris, LaddieO.com

Bill Christison, who co-wrote "The Power of the Israel Lobby" which appeared at Counterpunch (http://www.counterpunch.org) last weekend. Bill was a senior official of the CIA. He served as a National Intelligence Officer and as Director of the CIA’s Office of Regional and Political Analysis. He is a contributor to "Imperial Crusades," (CP Books) CounterPunch’s [...]

By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Jeff Dorchen, Kevan Harris, Stephen Kinzer

Stephen Kinzer, author of "Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq" (Times Books). Stephen was the Latin America correspondent for the Boston Globe, the New York Times bureau chief in Turkey, Germany and Nicaragua, and has written several books on foreign affairs. Jeff Dorchen delivered his Moment of Truth.and Kevan Harris [...]