Schedule for This Is Hell and MORE on IndyRadio February 11, 2012

FOR WHAT'S PLAYING NOW see http://indyradio.nu:2012 

We also have new shows from Rustbelt Radio and Shortwave Report.

3 weeks of Hell continuously stream from http://indyradio.nu:2012/HELL.m3u - that's the playlist - you can see exactly what's playing at http://indyradio.nu:2012 Just scroll down the list to /HELL - The play button marked m3u is the same as the link above.

The schedule is simple - These are 4 hour shows, the most recent starts at approximately 7:00 every 12 hours -

  7:00    This Is Hell February 11, 2012 

11:00    This Is Hell February 04, 2012

  3:00    This Is Hell January  28, 2012

Program listings are from http://thisishell.net

This Is Hell February 11, 2012

Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz  interviewed …

• Mason Tvert is co-founder of SAFER whose “mission it is to educate the public about the fact that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol to both the user and to society.” Mason also sits on the Denver Marijuana Policy Review Panel appointed by Mayor John Hickenlooper. He is co-author of “Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?” (Chelsea Green) — which you can choose as your premium option for a donation of $50 to This is Hell! during WNUR’s Annual Phoneathon Fundraiser by dialing 1-847-491-3655 RIGHT NOW!

• Rachel Herz is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Rachel has been conducting research on olfaction, emotion and cognition since 1990. She has worked as a consultant valued for her expertise in olfactory psychology, emotion, learning and experimental design. She is the author of, “That’s Disgusting: Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion” (W.W. Norton & Company) — which you can choose as your premium option for a donation of $50 to This is Hell! during WNUR’s Annual Phoneathon Fundraiser by dialing 1-847-491-3655 RIGHT NOW!

• Michael W. Hudson is a Staff Writer for iWatch News at the Center for Public Integrity. Mike previously worked as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and as an investigator for the Center for Responsible Lending. He is a George Polk Award for magazine reporting and a John Hancock Award for business journalism. He is the author of, “The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers Fleeced America—and Spawned a Global Crisis” (MacMillan) — which you can choose as your premium option for a donation of $50 to This is Hell! during WNUR’s Annual Phoneathon Fundraiser by dialing 1-847-491-3655 RIGHT NOW! Mike’s most recent writing includes, “Feds investigating possible fraud at GE’s former subprime unit.”

• Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet. Josh is the author of, “The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy: And Everything else the Right Doesn’t Want You to Know About Taxes, Jobs and Corporate America” — which you can choose as your premium option for a donation of $50 to This is Hell! during WNUR’s Annual Phoneathon Fundraiser by dialing 1-847-491-3655 RIGHT NOW! Josh’s most recent writing includes, “How a Few Über-Wealthy Donors Helped Buy Republicans a Presidential Field They Hate.”

Our irregular correspondents will be …

• live from Hungary, ‘Our Man in Budapest’ Todd Williams
• live from San Francisco, Kate O’Donnell says, ‘Thank You, Science!’
• live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth. Jeff is featured in a book we are offering as a premium option for a donation of $50 to This is Hell! during WNUR’s Annual Phoneathon Fundraiser by dialing 1-847-491-3655 RIGHT NOW! The book is, “A Brief History of Authoterrorism,” edited by Gabriel Levinson.

This Is Hell February 04, 2012

Your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed … 

• Ali Soufan is a former FBI special agent who served on the frontlines against Al Qaeda and gained an international reputation as a top counterterrorism operative and interrogator. Ali is the author of, “Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al Qaeda” (W.W. Norton & Company).

• Carroll Smith-Rosenberg is the Mary Frances Berry Collegiate Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Michigan and author of numerous books including, “Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America”. We’ll be speaking with Carroll about her more recent book, “This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity” (University of North Carolina Press).

• Gar Alperovitz is the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. Gar served as a legislative director in both houses of Congress and as a special assistant in the State Department. He is the president of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives and is a founding principal of the University of Maryland-based Democracy Collaborative, a research institution developing practical, policy-focused, and systematic paths towards ecologically sustainable, community-oriented change and the democratization of wealth. He was the architect of the first modern steel industry attempt at worker ownership. His 2005 book, “America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy (Democracy Collaborative Press) has just been re-released with a new forward and introduction.

• Farideh Farhi is an Independent Scholar and Affiliate Graduate Faculty at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Farideh’s writing includes, “States and Urban-Based Revolutions in Iran and Nicaragua” (University of Illinois Press). She has been a recipient of grants from the United States Institute of Peace and the Rockefeller Foundation and was most recently a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the International Crisis Group. She is currently on the advisory Board of the National Iranian American Coalition. You can read her blog here. In December, she also wrote a piece for Middle East Report Online entitled, “Narrowing the Options on the Table.”

Our irregular correspondents will be:

• live in-studio, Spencer ‘Thunderball’ Thayer will be taking calls around 9:50 AM (US central) from our listening audience regarding the issues surrounding Occupy Oakland’s latest action which resulted in property destruction. Specifically your opinion about the non-violence vs. diversity-of-tactics and if the actions last Saturday resulted in a feeling of isolation from the movement.
  Call Spencer live tomorrow morning on (847) 866-9687 or leave us a voice message that we may play on air at the This is Hell! hotline, (773) 828-9682.
• live from the hermetically sealed clean rooms at URL Labs, LaddieO.com will give us his latest web, tech and science report.
• live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivers another amazing Moment of Truth.

This Is Hell January 28, 2012

• Peter van Buren, author of “We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People” (Metropolitan Books). Peter has served overseas as a State Department Foreign Service Officer for more than two decades in places such as Thailand, Japan and Iraq.

• award-winning writer John Lanchester is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. John is the author most recently of “I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay” (Simon and Schuster).

• Christopher Preble is Director of Foreign Policy Studies at the Cato Institute and a former commissioned officer in the US Navy. Chris is the author of, “The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous and Less Free” (Cornell University Press).

Our irregular correspondents this week were:

• live from New York City, Elvis DeMorrow stepped out of the Konspiracy Korner and gave a travelogue on his recent visit to Italy
• live from Puerto Rico, we heard from ‘Our Man in San Juan’ Dave Buchen
• live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivered another exceptional Moment of Truth.

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