Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:20 - Live from Paris, journalist Cole Stangler traces the class lines running through France's Yellow Vest movement.
Cole wrote the articles What’s Really Behind France’s Yellow Vest Protest? for The Nation and “Yellow Vests” Against the “President of the Rich” for Jacobin.
10:05 - Writer Sohaila Abdulali talks about what we do (and don't) talk about when we talk about rape.
Sohaila is author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Rape from The New Press.
11:05 - Political scientist Neta C. Crawford examines the brutal, ongoing human cost of America's wars.
Neta is author of the paper Human Cost of the Post-9/11 Wars: Lethality and the Need for Transparency for Brown University's Watson Institute.
11:35 - Investigative journalist Yasha Levine exposes the greedy, vampiric heart of California's pistachio industry.
Yasha's documentary, Pistachio Wars: Killing California for a Snack Food is raising funds for post-production at Kickstarter right now. Help em out!
12:05 - Writer Jesse Bering explains what happens in the brain (and life) of the suicidal person.
Jesse is author of the book Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves from University of Chicago Press.
12:45 - In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen sees the glass as entirely full.
Guess those Wellbutrins are kicking in.