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 (
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This week our guests include, in order:
* Greg Palast (
http://www.gregpalast.com) author of "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy". Greg has also just released a new CD entitled "Weapon of Mass Instruction - Greg Palast Live and Uncensored". Greg will be celebrating the release of the CD on Friday, February 27th, at 8:30 PM at New York's CBGB's which is located on Bleecker at Bowery.
* Noam Chomsky ... okay, so you know who he is. Noam's got a new book out called "Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance". We understand the movie will star Owen Wilson. You can find his ZNet archive at
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/index.cfm* Tim Kerr, executive director of Media for Democracy (
http://www.mediafordemocracy.us/mfd/homepage.html), a collaborative project by the US affiliates of MediaChannel.org (
http://www.mediachannel.org). Media for Democracy calls itself "a non-partisan citizens' initiative to monitor mainstream news coverage of the 2004 elections and advocate fair, democratic and issue-oriented standards of reporting. The project links voters with more than 100 independent media reform groups in a targeted campaign to prevent the types of media mistakes - such as early, erroneous and politically biased projections - that plagued the 2000 election."
* Glen Ford, co-publisher of The Black Commentator (
http://www.blackcommentator.org), returns to discuss his new article "Remaking America in Wal-Mart's Image: Grocery Strikers Fight for ALL of Us."