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This Is Hell airs live every Saturday at 9 am (US central time) - 3 PM GMT - 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 the button that says "live webcast."

This week's show will be the Best of 2003 as determined by our listeners and the staff of This is Hell. The interviews selected to be played include:

*Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, the author of "Endgame: Solving the Iraqi Problem Once and For All" told us exactly how the war with Iraq would play out, back on March 29th. Scott was eerily accurate. The Question from Hell posed to Scott was one of the most hellacious we ever asked

*historian Paul Street who recently wrote on the troubles in Benton Harbor, Michigan for Z Magazine

*Cindy and Craig Corrie (http://www.rachelcorrie.com) parents of Rachel Corrie, an activist with the International Solidarity Movement who was killed by the Israeli military earlier this year.

*Loretta Napoleoni, author of "Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks" (Pluto Press) was live in our studio during this early October interview. Loretta was the first person ever to interview Italy's Red brigade and that relationship led her to this reporting on how the new terror economy really works

*Bob Pollin, author of "Contours of Descent: US Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity" (Verso). This is the kind of interview that pisses off both Republicans and Democrats. Why? Because it challenges myths perpetuated by big media with oft-ignored facts. Bob is also a professor of economics and founding co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (http://www.umass.edu/peri/)

*just before the US Federal Communications Commission approved even more corporate conglomeration of the media, we talked with
Robert McChesney http://www.mediareform.net, author of "Rich Media, Poor Democracy". In this interview, your host played an advocate of Big Media.

And Jeff Dorchen will deliver a live, never heard before, Moment of Truth. Be sure to listen live, either over the air on WNUR 89.3 FM in the Chicago area, or online at http://www.wnur.org, because this week's show will not be archived online here at the website.

I think Ritter may have already been on....just tuned in

this is one of the best shows on the web....check their archives for the quality of guests....Palast has been on many times, and spoke at Northwestern earlier this year.....I bought his book and tape after being greatly entertained by his talk...only moderately informed, as most of what he said was in previous articles, almost all linked at DU.

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1. Ritter coming up in a half hour

Loretta Napoleoni on now, talking about where the money for terrorism goes.

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2. love the huge interest.......

"Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, the author of "Endgame: Solving the Iraqi Problem Once and For All" told us exactly how the war with Iraq would play out, back on March 29th. Scott was eerily accurate. The Question from Hell posed to Scott was one of the most hellacious we ever asked "

for all those not listening.......the interview can be reached at the archives here

http://www.thisishell.com/archives_2003.html

scroll way down, through 2003, temporally, till you get to March 29th.

it's really worth listening......promise.

makes you wonder why Ritter gets NO airtime anymore

I know about the internet kiddy thing, btw.

whatever happened to that? you can be sure if there was anything to it, there'd have been lots and lots about it.

seriously, though, listen

seriously

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3. don't strain yourselves.....Robert McChesney on right now

http://www.mediareform.net

he wrote what should have been a bestseller,

Rich Media, Poor Democracy, which details just HOW bad things have gotten, globally, since big media started taking over.....like 70 years ago, and just how difficult achieving political democracy will be, without first reaching a state of economic democracy.

he shows very clearly how the greatest obstacle in this ever happening IS the concentration of media throughout the world......

"how can people realize they have any choices if said choices are NEVER presented to them?"

right now discussing government-created monopolies, propped up by so-called 'regulatory bodies,' which exist only to maintain the cash flow/power of the huge congloms that control media in this country, and world-over.

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4. since everybody here knows everything, to the exclusion of listening or

commenting.......

what does Clinton's appointee to head the FCC, replaced by Michail Powell, do now to put bread on the table?

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5. great question, buycitgo! what's the answer?

forgot, but if you'd been listening, you'd know

and if you went to McChesney's media reform website, you'd know the very surprising source for this quote:

"When the movies you watch, the music you listen to, the products you buy and the ideas you're sold are all screened and censored and presented by the same source, you lose. . . The airwaves belong to the American people, and the FCC's job is to protect the public interest — not big media barons who want a monopoly on public discourse."

Hint: now that I think of it, there's a rumor regarding the above quote's source's umbrella organization, putatively acting upon the situation commented upon

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6. the moment of truth the moment of truth the moment of truth the moment....

with Jeff Dorchen on now.

don't miss.......

http://www.thisishell.com/esays_mot.html

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7. hey, citgo, given the hearty response to this fantastic show, an idea.....

why not bookmark it, so you can bring it up again next Saturday?

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8. great idea!

.....right up there with the Guy James show