lineup for today's "This is Hell" -- streaming now

[Bozita]

THIS WEEK'S SHOW: Today, Saturday, April 3rd, 2004
This Is Hell airs live every Saturday from 9 AM to 1 PM (US central time) on WNUR 89.3 FM in Chicago, and live all over the rest of the world via RealPlayer and Windows Media Player. Just go to WNUR's website (http://www.wnur.org) and click on either the RealAudio or Windowsmedia button found just beneath the heading, "Listen Online."

This week, we've sent Kevan and Krys up to the studio with seven interviews. Help them pick which ones to play by emailing us, or calling during the show at 847-866-9687, here's a list of the selection:

* Author and historian Bruce Cumings, whose most recent book is entitled, " Inventing the Axis of Evil: The Truth About North Korea, Iran, and Syria." This interview, from early 2003, focused on the Korean peninsula.

* Doug Henwood (http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/), author of the new book "After the New Economy" (http://www.thenewpress.com/)

* Adam Hochschild, author of "King Leopold's Ghost", filled us in on the horrors that were ongoing in the Congo.

* Jon Lehman, a former Wal-Mart store manager who is now a Special Representative in the Strategic Programs Department of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (http://www.walmartswaronworkers.com)

* author Saskia Sassen, professor of sociology at the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago. At the time of this interview last Summer, she had recently written a commentary that appeared in the Guardian entitled "New Lords of Africa: Global protests did help poor countries over drugs and Aids. But the counterattack has begun"(http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,994216,00.html). Saskia's insight on the WTO, Africa and the Bush administration challenges conventional conservative and liberal views on globalization.

* Malavika Vartak works on the south Asia campaigns of International Rivers Network (http://www.irn.org) and she filled us in on the Narmada River Development project in India and its impact on millions of people living in the river valley there. We got in touch with Malavika through another group she works with called the Friends of the River Narmada (http:www.narmada.org)

* Hilary Wainwright, author of the book "Reclaim the State: Experiments in Popular Democracy" (Verso) and the editor of Red Pepper (http://www.redpepper.org.uk/).


The following Saturday, April 10th, we will interview former death row inmate Aaron Patterson and fired WKZO radio host Kevin Vandenbroek who broke the story of the 'bribery' scandal encircling Republican US Congressman Nick Smith of Michigan.

LaddieO.com will give Kevn and Krys a live web and tech report from the hermetically sealed clean room at URL Labs.

Jeff Dorchen will deliver his Moment of Truth.

If you have any questions for this Saturday's guests, send them to us by emailing here.

If you have any suggestions for guests or stories, feel free to send them to us at emailing here.

To hear past shows, including last week's show, go to our Archives.

[Robbien]

1. I am surprised they chose the India Dam story to air first

After the New Economy or King Leopold's Ghost seems to me to be livelier discussions. Or the Walmart story or the African protest story.

The Dam story would be an interesting 5 or 10 minute interview, but there is not enough information here for that 20 minute interview.

[Robbien]

2. Chuck has a very good point about Air America

He said that all the show formats are the same and they all talk about well known liberal stories. There needs to be a little variety. DemocracyNow and ThisIsHell have indepth interviews on not as well known topics which then make the liberal mainstream talk sites. AirAmerica needs some shows which do the investigative journalism that these two shows do so well.

[Robbien]

3. The Professor Sassen interview on the Left Economy was great

She was in the middle of talking about the little known fact that the oil industry in Iraq was more expensive to repair than most oil companies wanted to expend. She didn't mention that the other little known fact that Cheney&co expected to pump at least l0 billion barrels per month but Iraq will never produce more than 3 billion barrels per month. Bad surprise for Cheney&co.

[Robbien]

4. This Bruce Cummings show was fascinating

Where are all the DUers? You missed a great North Korea interview.