"Passion of Bradley Manning" from This Is Hell on IndyRadio

We have the shows from 4/21, 4/14 4/07 - and since the last 2 shows have been short, we also have 2 hours from 3/31 to complete the 12 hours of Hell that play continously. I'll post the exact timings soon.  All the program notes follow below, including the live show being broadcast now, which will soon be re-broadcast here (updated 4-28)

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

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

This Is Hell continuously streams 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. Times given are CST, GMT -6 since the show comes is broadcast from WNUR in Evanston IL, just North of Chicago.

The schedule is no longer simple since sports events at Northwestern have shortened the last 2 shows. So we have a 12 hour marathon that includes some of the show from March 31. Program notes for April 28 start the list below, and rest of the shows follow: (updated during the live broadcast, April 28)

This Is Hell April 28, 2012

On Saturday, April 28, 2012, This is Hell! aired a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted three hour and forty minute broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM.

This morning, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed …

• Chase Madar is a civil rights attorney. Chase is a contributing editor at The American Conservative. He is the author of, “The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story of the Suspect Behind the Highest Security breach in US History” (OR Books). His most recent writing includes, “What the Laws of War Allow: Do the WikiLeaks War Logs Reveal War Crimes — Or the Poverty of International Law?”

• Van Jones is the founding president of Rebuild the Dream, a pioneering initiative to restore good jobs and economic opportunity. Mr. Jones is the co-founder of three thriving organizations; the Ell Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change, and Green for All. Jones worked as a special adviser to the Obama administration on green jobs. Van currently sits on the board of the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights. He is the author of the new book, “Rebuild the Dream” (Nation Books). His previous book, “The Green Collar Economy,” was also a New York Times best-seller.

This Saturday’s irregular correspondents will be …

• ‘Our Man in Dublin’ Will Lynch

• live from Los Angeles, Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth

This Is Hell April 21, 2012

On Saturday, April 21, 2012, This is Hell! aired a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted three hour and forty minute broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM.

This morning, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed …

• live from Doha, Al Jazeera online producer Dahr Jamail. Dahr has been a recipient of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism, The Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, and four Project Censored awards. He is the author most recently of, “The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan,” which you can purchase at Dahr’s site by clicking on his name. Dahr’s most recent writing includes his work the last few days on the continuing aftermath of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which you can find in the Nine Circles of Hell!

• investigative journalist Greg Palast. Thursday, Greg posted a new video and details concerning a previously documented deadly cover-up of a near identical blow-out two years prior to the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The blowout, occurring on a BP oil rig in the Caspian Sea of the coast of Azerbaijan was initially concealed from the US Government. Greg directed the US government’s largest racketeering case in history (that garnered a $4.3 billion jury award) and the investigation of the Exxon Valdez. However, he is best known as the investigative reporter who uncovered how Katherine Harris purged thousands of African-Americans from Florida voters rolls in the 2000 Presidential Election. He is the author of the New York Times and international bestsellers, “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy,” “Armed Madhouse,” and “Vulture’s Picnic.” He is Patron of the Trinity College Philosophical Society, an honor previously held by Jonathan Swift and Oscar Wilde. He has also been a recipient of the George Orwell Courage in Journalism Prize for his BBC television documentary, “Bush Family Fortunes.”

• investigative reporter Paul Kiel writes at ProPublica. Paul’s coverage of the firings of US attorneys and politicization of the Department of Justice won a George Polk Award for legal reporting. Paul was on to discuss his new work, “The Great American Foreclosure Story: The Struggle for Justice and a Place to Call Home.”

This Saturday’s irregular correspondents were …

• Producer Richard Norwood reports on the French presidential election live from Paris
• ‘Our Man in Budapest’ Todd Williams
• ‘The Radical Pessimist’ Kevan Harris
• and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth

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This Is Hell April 14, 2012

On Saturday, April 14, 2012, This is Hell! aired a live, completely unedited and uninterrupted two hour and thirty minute broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM.

This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed …

• Journalist Ken Jacobson covers business, economics and technology. Ken served as an investigator on the Democratic staff of US House of Representatives’ Science and Technology Committee between 2007 and 2011. He is currently acting as senior editor for the newsletter Manufacturing & Technology News. We’ll speak with Ken about his recent writing including, “Whose Corporations? Our Corporations!,” and “3 Corporate Myths that Threaten the Wealth of the Nation.”

• Live from Mexico City, cultural historian and social critic Morris Berman, author of “Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline” (Wiley). In 2000 his book, “The Twilight of American Culture,” was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times Book Review. He has taught and held endowed chairs at a number of universities in Europe and North America, most recently being a Visiting Professor in Sociology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City. You can read his blog and purchase all of his books by clicking his name above.

This Saturday’s irregular correspondents will be …

• ‘Our Man in Budapest’ Todd Williams
• and Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth

This Is Hell April 07, 2012

Saturday, April 7, 2012, This is Hell! aired a live and completely uninterrupted and unedited four hour broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM.

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

• Rick Perlstein is the author of, “Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus,” and “Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.” Rick writes a weekly column for RollingStone.com. His column this week was headlined, “Rahm Emanuel Has a Problem With Democracy.”

• James K. Galbraith is professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations. James is the author of, “Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis” (Oxford University Press).

• William K. Black is an associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and the author of “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One.” Bill was the deputy staff director of the national commission that investigated the cause of the savings and loan debacle. He recently wrote an open letter signed by several noted analysts entitled, “The JOBS Act is so Criminogenic that it Guarantees Full-Time Jobs for Criminologists.”

This Saturday’s irregular correspondents were …

• ‘Our Man in San Juan’ Dave Buchen
• live from New York City, Elvis DeMorrow told us what’s happening in the Konspiracy Korner
• and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth

This Is Hell March 31, 2012

This Saturday, March 31, 2012, This is Hell! airs a live and completely uninterrupted and unedited three hour and forty minute broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment WNUR 89.3 FM, streaming live and podcast shortly after here.

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

• Corey Robin teaches political science at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is the author of, “The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin” (Oxford University Press). Read his award-winning blog by clicking on his name above.

• Gary Weiss is an award-winning investigative journalist formerly at BusinessWeek. Gary is the author of, “Ayn Rand Nation: The Hidden Struggle for America’s Soul” (St. Martin’s Press).

• Stephen Graham is Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University. Steve is the author of, “Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism” (Verso). He recently wrote The Guardian article, “Olympics 2012 security: welcome to lockdown London.”

This Saturday’s irregular correspondents will be …

• live from New York City, Trevor Ewen reports from “The County Incinerator”
• also live from NYC, Susan Kang, Assistant Professor of Political Science, at the John Jay School of Criminal Justice in the City University of New York who was a member of the Occupy Wall Street Demands Working Group
• and Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth

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