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Every weekend, The Sunday Edition! of The Nine Circles of Hell! features writing from the past week by past guests on This is Hell! The July 31, 2011 Sunday Edition! is: Fatima Bhutto, “Why Karachi’s violence shouldn’t define city” Michelle Goldberg, “Norway Killer’s Hatred of Women” Chris Hedges, “Fundamentalism Kills” Katrina vanden Heuvel, “The GOP’s [...]

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Yesterday, Saturday, July 30, This is Hell! aired a live four hour broadcast beginning at 9AM (US central time) over the air on WNUR 89.3FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment, streaming and podcast here. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz interviewed: Muhammad Idrees Ahmad is a Glasgow-based sociologist, born in Chitral [...]

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The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Friday, July 29, 2011, are: Law would force Internet providers to record customers’ online activity Why did Customs hold Bradley Manning supporter’s laptop for 49 days? Hiker (a past This is Hell! guest) faces final hearing on spy [...]

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Thursday, July 28, 2011, are: Since 2007, major increases in US children going hungry ‘The unemployed need not apply’ African unions organizing against Wal-Mart expansion to continent Exxon has ‘strongest quarter’ since record-setting profits of 2008 Veterans healthcare [...]

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Wednesday, July 27, 2011, are: China “shocked by the dysfunctional US political system” “The first risk of a legitimate default is August 15″ not August 2 Madrid to Brussels march against cuts, job losses, privatization Pentagon says, “we’re [...]

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Monday, July 25, 2011, are: Another violent, deadly weekend in America Right-wing US ‘counterjihad’ bloggers inspired Norway killer Obama takes on Yakuza, Camorra, Los Zetas, Brothers’ Circle crime mobs Libya claims NATO bombed hospital, killing seven Report: During [...]

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Wednesday, July 20, 2011, including a bonus story on impoverished Americans, an extra link on what could be the end of the Tea party, and an additional article on medical marijuana, are: Michigan seniors “economically insecure” – even [...]

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Tuesday, July 26, 2011, are: New home prices rise, sales fall US whites have 20 times wealth of blacks, 18 times more than Hispanics Voters see Obama doing better on jobs, blame economy on president, GOP GOP’s Boehner, [...]

The Sunday Edition! of The Nine Circles of Hell! features writing from the past week from past guests of This is Hell! The Sunday Edition! for July 24, 2011 is: Ari Berman, “Grover Norquist’s Culture of Corruption” Fatima Bhutto, “Pakistan v. Pakistan: On Anatol Lieven” Laura Carlsen, “NAFTA-Look Alikes: Obama Pushes Bush Trade Relics” Alexander [...]

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Today, Saturday, July 23, This is Hell! airs a year in review four hour broadcast beginning at 9AM (US central time) over the air on WNUR 89.3FM, Chicago’s Sound Experiment. This weekend, your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz has to take off due to the recent death of his mother. From [...]

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – for Friday, July 22, 2011, are: Syrian opposition keeps growing despite protester deaths Another African politician attacks homosexuals In Malawi, is the “Arab Spring spreading South of the Sahara?” Chilean miners trapped last fall, now suing government, company New [...]