Episode 868
Recent Review (Clip Show)
Sep 26 2015
As the world unravels, as mass migrations become even more pronounced because of the breakdown of the climate, I think fears are justified that the Gaza genocide becomes a kind of template for how the global North will respond to the rest of the world.
Chris Hedges discusses his new book, A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine.
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Sep 24 2015
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Here's what Chuck is reading this week to prepare for Saturday's show:
John Kay - Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance [Public Affairs Books]
John Cassidy - Five Things Jeremy Corbyn Has Right [New Yorker]
Morten Jerven - Africa: Why Economists Get it Wrong [Zed Books]
Alice Dreger - Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science [Penguin]
Sep 18 2015
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Listen live tomorrow 9AM - 10:30AM Central on WNUR 89.3FM or stream here at thisishell.com
9:10 - Historian Ray Raphael explores the politics behind America's revolutionary moment.
Ray is co-author (along with Marie Raphael) of the book The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began from the New Press.
9:50 - Filmmaker Leslee Udwin follows a rape, a backlash, and a political movement in India.
Leslee is the director of the documentary India's Daughter. She'll be screening and talking about the film on Wednesday night at the Siskel Film Center. Listen live to win tickets!
Sep 11 2015
Posted by Alexander Jerri
Listen live tomorrow 9AM - 1PM Central on WNUR 89.3FM or stream here at thisishell.com
9:15 - Economist Michael Hudson explains how finance became capitalism's driving force.
Michael is author of the new book Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy
10:05 - Jacobin editor Megan Erickson explores childhood in an age of austerity and division.
Megan's new book is Class War: The Privatization of Childhood from Verso Books.
11:05 - Sociologist Javier Auyero profiles daily life in Argentina's most dangerous neighborhood.
Javier is co-author (along with María Fernanda Berti) of In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence from Princeton University Press.
12:05 - Writer Michelle Chen looks to the present and future of digital labor organizing.
Michelle wrote the article The Unionization of Digital Media for The Nation.
12:45 - Jeff Dorchen bashes (from the left) a left-basher bashing from the left.
We're worried that many left turns puts Jeff on the right.
Sep 10 2015
Posted by Alexander Jerri
Here's what Chuck is reading this week to prepare for Saturday's show:
Michael Hudson - Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Destroy the Global Economy
Megan Erickson - Class War: The Privatization of Childhood
Javier Auyero & María Fernanda Berti - In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence
Michelle Chen - The Unionization of Digital Media
Sep 4 2015
Posted by Alexander Jerri
Heather Exner-Pirot explains how a melting Arctic and international politics threaten indigenous land and political autonomy.
Heather wrote the chapter Whose Arctic Is it? in the Worldwatch Institute's report State of the World 2015: Confronting Hidden Threats to Sustainability.