Living and Reliving the U.S. Invasion of Iraq / Rasha Al Aqeedi
After a tongue-twister of a Danish hangover cure, Chuck interviews Rasha Al Aqeedi about her New Lines Magazine article, "Living — and Reliving — the US Invasion of Iraq." Rasha Al Aqeedi, formerly a ...
10 Apr 20231h 22min
The Lost Pandemic Tapes: Dissent at a Dead End / Malcolm Harris
Our mystical foray into the This Is Hell vaults, retrieving never-before-aired interviews from early covid times, has reached its satisfying conclusion. Today we play an interview with Malcolm Harris,...
5 Apr 20231h 14min
Pandemic Tapes: Cuban Healthcare Shames Us / Helen Yaffe
Our series of lost pandemic tapes continues: an interview from early covid times that was never aired on our home station WNUR: Helen Yaffe explains the ideological threat that Cuban's healthcare syst...
4 Apr 20231h 16min
On Coerced Labor and Work Without Employment
Sociologist Erin Hatton explores the nature of coerced labor in America - as prisons, welfare programs and universities push workers outside the protection of traditional legal employment, employers w...
3 Apr 20231h 26min
The Tragic Legacy of the Iraq War / Murtaza Hussain
We welcome Murtaza Hussain, a reporter at The Intercept who focuses on national security and foreign policy to discuss the horrendous aftermath of the Iraq War
30 Mar 20231h 22min
The Lost Cause Against Reconstruction / Kidada Williams
Just as there is a lost cause narrative for the South White Northerners and Westerners have spun a related tale, and it's that they're all abolitionist.
27 Mar 20231h 22min
Weapons of Mass Distraction / Chris Toensing
Today's episode takes us into the archives 20 years ago to the day. Less than a week after the United States military invaded Iraq, Middle East Report editor Chris Toensing spoke with Chuck about the ...
23 Mar 20231h 21min
Freedom Dreams of Feminism / Robin D. G. Kelley
Historian Robin D. G. Kelley returns to This is Hell! to talk about his essay titled, “Buried History: The Death and Life of Donald S. Kelley” Part of a collection of essays called “After Life: A Coll...
21 Mar 20231h 18min
