Chuck Lewis and Michael Scherer on "This is Hell" live now -- link

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This Is Hell airs live every Saturday from 9 AM to 12:30 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."

Guests on our next broadcast include:

* Chuck Lewis, the founder and executive director of the Center for Public Integrity (http://www.publicintegrity.org/), and author of the new book, "The Buying of the President 2004: Who's really Bankrolling Bush and His Democratic Challengers - and What They Expect in Return" (Perennial). Chuck was an investigative reporter for eleven years at ABC and CBS News. He was also a producer at '60 Minutes.'

* Ed Hammond, is Director of the US Office of the Sunshine Project (http://www.sunshine-project.org/), a biological warfare watchdog group. Ed returns to This is Hell to tell us about bioweapons, biosafety and biodiversity.

* Mother Jones writer Michael Scherer, who'll tell us about his recent special report "The Soul of the New Machine" (http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_402.html), about Grover Norquist, the influential president of Americans for Tax Reform. Michael attended one of Norquist's invitation-only weekly meetings of conservative DC power brokers.
We also might touch on Michael's work on Mad Cow, too.

* we will get a live report from the World Social Forum (http://www.wsfindia.org) in Mumbai, India with Soren Ambrose, an activist with the 50 Years Is Enough Network (http://50years.org/), a US-based coalition of over 200 organizations committed to the fundamental transformation of the IMF and World Bank. Soren will also be one of the speakers in Chicago's World Social Forum coming up on Saturday, January 31st and listed in our new Events section.


LaddieO.com will give us the latest on web and tech news from the hermetically sealed clean room at URL Labs.

And Jeff Dorchen will not only deliver his Moment of Truth.

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

[alcuno]

1. I love "This is Hell"

Always feel a lot smarter after listening.