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Why doesn't "This is Hell!" have a listen live button here at DU?
This Saturday's live broadcast, begins at 9 AM (central), on WNUR 89.3 FM Evanston/Chicago. We also are broadcast live online via WNUR's web site (
http://www.wnur.org) under the heading, "Listen Online."
Our guests this week include:
* John Prados is a senior fellow of the National Security Archive in Washington, DC, and author of "Hoodwinked: The Documents that Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War" (The New Press). His most recent writing includes the TomPaine.com article, "Big Brother's History."
* Historian, academic, author, lecturer, activist Howard Zinn, best known for the seminal "People's History of The United States," returns to This is Hell
* writer and documentary filmmaker Astra Taylor who wrote the AlterNet column, "How the Right Stole the '60s (And Why We Should Get Them Back)." Astra directed the 2005 documentary, "Zizek," on philosopher Slavoj Zizek. Astra's first book, "Shadow of the Sixties," is forthcoming from the New Press in 2007.
* Tim Wise, author of two new books, "White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son" (Soft Skull Press), and "Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White" (Routledge). Tim wrote the Counterpunch story "Of Immigrants and 'Real Amurkans'"
LaddieO.com will return with a web, science and tech report from the hermetically sealed clean rooms at URL Labs. Jeff Dorchen will deliver a Moment of Truth. Danny Muller will give us his Wasted Energy Report, and Elvis DeMorrow will tell us what's happening in his Konspiracy Korner.
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