Saturday, April 3rd, 'This is Hell!' airs a live four hour broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central) on WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago, streaming live at http://wnur.org, and podcast shortly after here.

Tomorrow, our guests include:

• Steven Fake is co-author with Kevin Funk of the book, "The Scramble for Africa: Darfur - Intervention and the USA" (Black Rose Books). Professor emeritus in international law at Princeton University, and past This is Hell! guest, Richard Falk said "Scramble for Africa," is a "devastating critique ... well-researched, easy-to-read, and utterly convincing." Past guest Michael Parenti called the book, "a commanding expose of the duplicitous and damaging role played by US leaders and others in a dark drama." Past guest Vijay Prashad, author of "The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World," says Steven and Kevin's work, "stands against the mock of neo-liberal ideology, taking us through the Darfur conflict, putting it into history and allowing us to think of a neo-imperialist way to bring peace to a tormented region."
• Just Detention International Program Director Cynthia Totten will discuss her group's work and the New York Review of Books article, "The Way to Stop Prison Rape." Just Detention works "to ensure government accountability for prisoner rape; to transform ill-informed public attitudes about sexual violence in detention; and to promote access to resources for those who have survived this form of abuse."
• investigative journalist Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and "Armed Madhouse." Greg's DVD is called, "Palast Investigates: From 8-Mile to the Amazon." The DVD focuses on the trail of the financial marauders. The DVD is a compilation three Palast reports on BBC Newsnight, none of which have been broadcast on American television. His most recent work on "financial vultures preying on the world's poorest nations" has appeared in The Guardian, on BBC World Service, BBC Television's "Newsnight," BBC World News America and In These Times. He also has a recent exclusive for Buzzflash entitled, "Getting into Massa's Drawers: Truly Creepy Details about the Congressman."
  Links to all Greg's writings, reports, books and DVDs can be found by clicking on his name above.
• Muhammad Sahimi is the NIOC Chair in petroleum engineering and professor of chemical engineering and materials science at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Muhammad has written extensively on Iran's political development and its nuclear program. In particular, Muhammad has concentrated on the legal and technical aspects of the dispute between Iran and the Western powers regarding Iran's nuclear energy program. He is a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, an organization dedicated to making the public aware of the dangers of weapons of mass destruction, as well as polluting the environment. His most recent writing at Tehran Brueau is the article, "An Administration Plagued by Fraud and Corruption: Ahmadinejad and His Men - Embodiments of Fraud and Corruption."
• freelance writer Christopher Ketcham was on This is Hell! back in January to discuss his GQ article, "Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health." Since then, Chris has written an editorial for the Los Angeles Times called, "Lab rats with cellphones?: Our wireless lifestyle is making us all unwitting test subjects." His more recent writing includes, "The Curse of Bigness: Or business as usual in America the vulnerable," "Technophilia, Technotyranny, Techno-infantilism: Culture Shock Coming Out of Paria Canyon," "The Joe Stack Manifesto: What it Really Means," "Freedom of Speech for a Fiction: The Trouble with Corporate Personhood," and his latest is the Hustler article, "The Israelis Next Door."

LaddieO.com reports live from the hermetically sealed clean rooms at URL Labs on web, tech and science stuff.

Self-styled "Itinerant Bum" David Skalinder gives a 'Culture Shock Report' after seven years in London where he studied at the London School of Economics. His segment this week is entitled, "The Inverted Potbelly."

Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth.

Listen to this past Saturday's show by clicking here. This is Hell! featured interviews with economist James Galbraith on 'deficit phobia'; Dr. Oliver Fein, MD, on health care reform; and former reporter Terry McDermott on Fox News and the rest of the talk TV outlets.

Our irregular correspondents included Kevan 'The Radical Pessimist' Harris, live from Tehran; Dave 'Our Man in San Juan' Buchen; and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.

A Conversation with Greg Palast, featuring your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio host Chuck Mertz, happens Friday, April 9th, at 6:30 PM in Columbia College's Film Row Cinema, on the eighth floor of the Ludington Building, 1104 South Wabash, here in Chicago.
Chuck will interview Greg live on-stage for about a half hour. Following that conversation, we will take questions from the audience.
Our conversation is part of the two-day "Art, Access & Action" Summit beginning Thursday, April 8th.
This arts in communication college event will explore the intersection of arts, media and politics and the role of artists and media makers in society.
Other speakers include Jeff Biggers, Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice Malkia Cyril, WVON personality and senior editor for In These Times Salim Muwakkil, project director for Media Consortium Tracy Van Slyke, editor of Gapers Block Andrew Huff, The Yes Men's Patrick Lichty, and past This is Hell! guest Paul Street.
While this event is free and open to the public, donations re being accepted through their web site at http://artsmediasummit.wordpress.com.
For more information, either visit the web site, send an email, or call 574-261-4465.

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