LIVE on "This is Hell": Scott Ritter, Danny Schecter, Daniel Ellsberg

[Bozita]

coming up in 35 minutes:


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."

This week our guests include, in order:

* Andrew Fandino of Peace Brigades International (http://www.peacebrigades.org/). Andrew will be addressing a forum on Colombia at the University of Illinois at Chicago this Saturday, February 28th. The keynoted speakers at this event will be Astrid Manrique and Yolima Quintero from the Colombian group ASFADDES in Colombia, the association of disappeared detainees (http://www.asfaddes.org.co/). For more information on this event, visit http://www.chicagoans.net

* Scott Ritter, the former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq whose interview with us last year was selected as the 'Best of 2003.' In that interview, Scott accurately predicted the looming shortfalls in the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, as well as the difficulties occupation forces would have in that country.

* Danny Schechter, author of the new book "Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception" which tells how the media failed to cover the war on Iraq. Danny is executive director of MediaChannel (http://www.mediachannel.org) and cofounder and executive producer of Globalvision, a New York-based television and film production company. Danny was also a recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists' 2001 Award for Excellence in 'documentary journalism' and is a former producer for CNN and for ABC News 20/20 where he won two Emmys.

* Dan Ellsberg is the former Defense and State Department analyst who served during the Vietnam War and made headlines around the world when he released the Pentagon Papers in 1971. The release of these papers showed how the US government had misled the public about Vietnam. The release is credited with ending the Vietnam War and laying the foundation for Watergate and the eventual resignation of President Nixon.


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 deliver his Moment of Truth.

[alcuno]

1. This is my favorite listen.

Wonder how much money they raised last week.

[pearl]

2. Thanks for the info

I hadn't discovered this program in Chicago.

"Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living"
Mother Jones

[alcuno]

9. I listen every Saturday AM without fail.

"The Moment of Truth" is truly excellent. It's normally on at around 11:30AM.

[Ilsa]

3. Thanks, this is new to me!

I live in a Republican armpit. Not only do the freepers have control of the media, but the town is settled into a topographical low spot (hardly a "valley") and it is hard to pick up power stations from large cities only 100 miles away.

[Bozita]

4. Hint: tune in a few minutes early

A while back, it was common to get a "no room at the stream" message.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. Great tunes so far....

Now playing "Gus, the duck-billed platypus."

[buckeye1]

6. There is good radio. 24/7

Our own Gloria has a list.

http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical/radio.htm Additions are most welcome.

[Bozita]

8. Gloria's page is definitely worth a bookmark

So up-to-date and well organized.

[Mika]

7. A..

:kick:

[Bozita]

10. This discussion on Haiti is excellent

love this program

[Bozita]

11. Scott Ritter is on LIVE now

[buckeye1]

12. Thanks alot.

The server is overloaded and I am missing one of my favorites. Its a nonprofit so you can count on this being regular.

[Bozita]

13. I've always been able to eventually get in

Keep trying. Once it took a half hour.

[Bozita]

14. Danny Schechter is on LIVE now

great stuff

Danny ripping on the media.

[Bozita]

16. Schecter: Soon all US media will be owned by 3 corporations

And look at what Berlusconi has done in Italy. He bought the media and now runs the country.

[Bozita]

15. Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame is up next

coming on now

[Bozita]

17. "Fog of War" - Ellsberg gives it one thumb up and one down