Podcast for March 5, 2011
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...
View ArticlePodcast for May 14, 2011
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:...
View ArticlePodcast for July 9, 2011
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...
View ArticlePodcast for Saturday, September 17
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....
View ArticleEpisode #677: 2011 This is Hell! Office Party!
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...
View ArticleRadical Pessimist chimes in: 1789, 1979, and all that…
Occasionally I eat a lot of cheese in one sitting and end up having the inevitable “cheese dreams” which send me into night terrors and sweaty shouting matches with my wall. After one of these, I...
View ArticleEpisode 683: February 18th, 2012
This Saturday, host Chuck Mertz interviewed Paul Mason on 'The New Global Revolutions,' Charles Mann will be 'Uncovering the New World Columbus Created,' Marwan Bishara discusses 'The Promise and Peril...
View ArticleEpisode #690: Podcast for April 21, 2012
This Saturday, Dahr Jamail told us about the ongoing environmental devastation caused by the BP Gulf oil spill, ProPublica's Paul Kiel described 'The Great American Foreclosure Story and The Struggle...
View ArticleEpisode #700: Podcast for July 7, 2012
Laura Rozen talked Syria and Iran, David Shulman on 'being an illegal alien in your own land,' Tom Philpott on agriculture and climate change, and Noel Ortega gave 'A Main Street Fix for Wall Street's...
View ArticleEpisode # 708: Podcast for September 8, 2012
Host Chuck Mertz talked to a whistleblower, an investigative journalist discussed drones, and we'll talk Obama's foreign policy. 'The Radical Pessimist' leaves for Iran, we'll learn what's FAIR and a...
View ArticleEpisode #716: Podcast for November 24, 2012
Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery on the Gaza conflict and Human Rights Watch's Stephen Goose on drones.
View ArticleEpisode #723: Podcast for January 12, 2013
This is Hell! is back today, Saturday, January 12, with a live four hour completely unedited and uninterrupted four hours show beginning at 9AM (US central) on Chicago’s Sound Experiment, WNUR 89.3 FM,...
View ArticleEpisode #724: Podcast for January 19, 2013
Journalist Peter Tinti from Mali, writer Nick Turse on ''The American System of Suffering,' Dean Baker on Aaron Swartz, and Pam Palmater is 'Idle No More.' 'The Radical Pessimist,' a 'Moment of Truth'...
View ArticleEpisode #734: Podcast for March 30, 2013
Obama's crackdown on whistleblowers, a new scary trade deal, Obama's Israeli heckler, and Iraq's 'intentional state of terror. A 'Radical Pessimist' and 'The View From The Agile Left.'
View ArticleSaturday: Wealth, Power and Madness
This is Hell! airs a live four hour show this Saturday beginning at 9AM (US central) with your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz. Media Critic Robert McChesney gives us a tour...
View Article770: Chasm and Bridge
Robert McChesney: “At a certain point, giving money stops being anything about civic duty, and rather it becomes an investment.” Media Critic Robert McChesney gives us a tour of America’s Dollarocracy,...
View Article774: Trouble Starts With Tea
November 16th, 2013 – The Tea Party invades This is Hell!. Our radio hero Chuck Mertz spends four hours dodging silly hats and government shutdowns to uncover the right wing thoughts and policies still...
View Article781: 2014 In Review
Brazil's boom / Quebec's values bust / Energy's future / de Blasio's past / Inside Iran / Outside America / 201zzzzzz
View Article785: Down In Smoke
The rise of the entrepreneurial state / The fall of pot prohibition / Ruin your Superbowl party / Plus: Voting in Hungary, Popping Bubbles in Iran and the Triumph of the Walt
View Article792: Eurofission
America's double government / Islamophobic surveillance / Ukraine's Incoherent Revolution / Bosnia's Democratic Uprising / Plus: Venezuela coverage uncovered, Wallerstein in Iran and the sadness of...
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