Bev Harris on "This is Hell" at 10am EDT -- listening link

[Bozita]

Take a look at this line-up:


THIS WEEK'S SHOW: Saturday, June 26th, 2004
This Is Hell airs live every Saturday from 9 AM to 1 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."

Our guests this week include:

* Jonathan Steele, the senior foreign correspondent for The Guardian, will be reporting to us live from Baghdad. You can find his daily dispatches at http://www.selvesandothers.org/

* Bill Quigley, lawyer for Voices in the Wilderness (http://www.vitw.org) and Loyola Law Professor in New Orleans.

* Richard Heinberg, author of "The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies" (http://www.museletter.com/).

* Ambassador H. Allen Holmes who was one of "the unprecedented bipartisan coalition of twenty-seven career chiefs of mission and retired four-star military leaders who launched a nationwide campaign to press for the need for change in US foreign and defense policy because they are deeply concerned by the damage the Bush Administration has caused to our national and international interests." Ambassador Holmes was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations during the Clinton administration, Ambassador at Large for Burdensharing during the first Bush administration, and Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs and Ambassador to Portugal during the Reagan administration. Read more about Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change at http://www.diplomatsforchange.com/

* Bev Harris, executive director of Black Box Voting (http://www.BlackBoxVoting.org), a nonpartisan consumer protection organization for elections.


LaddieO.com will give us a live web and tech report from the hermetically sealed clean room at URL Labs, and Jeff Dorchen will return to deliver his Moment of Truth.

On July 3rd, we'll have the first interview with Kathy Kelly of Chicago's Voices in the Wilderness (http://www.vitw.org) since being released from prison.

And we'll finally speak with Mark Sedra, a researcher and expert on Afghanistan security at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (http://www.bicc.de/). Mark returns to This is Hell and will be talking to us after returning from Kabul. Mark's most recent reports are entitled "Are the Taliban Really 'Gone'?" (http://www.fpif.org/papers/2004taliban.html) and "Afghanistan's Problematic Path to Peace: Lessons in State Building in the Post-September 11 Era," (http://www.fpif.org/papers/2004afgh-stbuild.html)

You can send along any questions for our guests by emailing here, if you have any suggestions for guests or stories, feel free to tell us.

While This is Hell is being broadcast live here in Chicago on Saturday mornings, you can call us at 847-866-9687, or instant message us via AOL's Instant Messenger at wnurdj, or email us at our new on-air email address, thisishellradio-at-yahoo-dot-com (anti-spam, so click, don't cut and paste).

[ParanoidPat]

1. Thank you!

:kick:

[buycitgo]

2. Bo ZEEE TA!

now I have something for which to look forward tomorrow!

how cool

too bad they don't take calls.....I'd for sure give her some props from DU

DUers should Email Chuck and tell them how much they appreciate (his favorite word) having an AUTHENTIC american HERO as a guest.

tho he does have quite a few of those, now that I think about it.

thanks!

do you like Moment of Truth?

I saw him (Jeff Dorchen) perform his Jewboy Cane live at the Oldtown School of Folk Music last year....free tickets, courtesy of This is Hell

GIFTED, funny writer

he should have a column of his own

here

I love the part about government by publicity stunt....be patient:

Now, if you find you are unable to see what I mean when I say the US under demagogic corporate rule is like a big, slow-motion suicide cult, do not fret. You may still be able to get a job at Fox News Channel. You probably already work there. If not, perhaps your brain is actually a tiny nucleus, and you are a one-celled organism. In which case you probably work at the American Enterprise Institute, and God bless you.

The question is, when policy is based on such mangled yet pervasive premises, what exactly does a policy-maker do? To illustrate the paradox of our present situation, let me compare policy making under the prevailing economic logic to riding a bicycle based on the theory that a bicycle will take you anywhere you want to go if you just put a bag of magic beans on the seat.

First you need a motley collection of gullible fools. We'll call them The Markets. The Markets believe in the magic bean theory. So when someone puts the magic beans on the seat, The Markets get all excited and start saying, "The bicycle's getting ready to go!" They tell everyone who will listen that the bicycle is on its way. And so for a while the theory is convincing.

But what about when the bicycle doesn't go? Then it's up to the Bicycle Rider to convince The Markets that there aren't enough beans in the bicycle-seat beanbag. Or the person putting the bag on the seat isn't the right kind of person. Or the bag itself isn't pretty enough and needs new decorations. And so policy-making becomes an exercise in manipulating the parameters of the bicycle-seat-beanbag theory.

So, for example, if we just make Arnold Schwarzenegger the Governor of California, then for a while The Markets will believe and get everyone else to believe that the California bicycle will go. That euphoria will last a little while. Then maybe a big corporation will fire a bunch of people, and The Markets will get excited again. But again, the bicycle will not have moved, and eventually another dazzling spectacle, another publicity stunt, will have to be arranged. Or maybe a new technology will be developed, and The Markets will resume jabbering happily. But still the bicycle will not move, and as the confetti settles and the party balloons sag and wrinkle, the sobering image of a motionless bicycle with a bag of magic beans on its seat will again come into focus

Yet there's really no finite supply of publicity stunts. In fact, the art of governing has become the art of producing publicity stunts. And a really good policy maker is a guy who can come up with an engine for producing a long chain of publicity stunts that seem to follow logically from one to the next, based on some kind of principle or other. Like "family values" or "the strong, independent American." Or "Jesus is Lord." Or "poor people just don't have what it takes." Or "War on Terrorism."

Now go back to FDR. I don't know why, I just see his policy-making as more authentic. I'm no historian, obviously. But I just I don't see the New Deal as a series of publicity stunts. Certainly FDR's attempt to manipulate the makeup of the Supreme Court was fascistic. But was it a publicity stunt? Maybe I'm wrong, but the jobs programs seem like a genuine attempt to get money, food and housing to people who didn't have any by creating jobs the corporate sector was unable or unwilling to provide.

see?
http://mejeffdorchen.oblivio.com/moments/moment_beans.html

[Bozita]

3. imho TiH is the best streaming college radio ... and they DO take calls

from their website:

"While This is Hell is being broadcast live here in Chicago on Saturday mornings, you can call us at 847-866-9687, or instant message us via AOL's Instant Messenger at wnurdj, or email us at our new on-air email address, thisishellradio-at-yahoo-dot-com (anti-spam, so click, don't cut and paste)."


That Dorchen column is killer. It seems to go hand in hand with Thomas Frank's "What's the Matter With Kansas: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America." The reviews are good reading:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0805073396/qid=1088232205/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-8898560-0760645

[buycitgo]

4. I meant callers on the air, not very clear

I call in occasionally with suggestions, praise, etc....really heaped it on for the Kwiatkowski appearances.

they had that guy on one of the AAR shows, I think

or was it TIH?

he was very good.....thx for review site

[Bozita]

5. That was "This is Hell" -- 2 weeks ago, the 12th

in the TiH archives.

Frank is really MUST READ for folks in the Kerry campaign.

[Bozita]

6. kick