NEXT LIVE BROADCAST: Saturday, June 10th, 2006
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:
* Chris Floyd (
http://www.chris-floyd.com/) is a writer for 'Empire Burlesque: high Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium.' His most recent piece is entitled "Hubub in Hibhib: The Timely Death of al-Zarqawi." Chris is an American journalist. He writes the weekly Global Eye political column for The Moscow Times and St. Petersburg Times. He is also author of "Empire Burlesque: The Secret History of the Bush Regime" which you can find out more about by going to
http://www.globaleyefloyd.com* Stan Cox (
http://www.members.cox.net/t.s/cox.html) is a plant breeder and senior scientist at the Land Institute (
http://www.landinstitute.org/) in Salina, Kansas and writes for the institute's Prairie Writers Circle. His most recent writing includes, "Lawns do beautiful job as big polluters" which was reprinted in the San Jose Mercury News.
* having just returned from East Timor, Charlie Scheiner of the East Timor Action Network (
http://www.etan.org) will tell us about the recent explosion of violence there.
* Greg Palast (
http://www.gregpalast.com), author of "Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf, China Floats and Bush Sinks, The Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left, and Other Dispatches from the Front Lines of Class War" (Dutton).
This is Hell is the official media sponsor of Greg's booksigning and discussion for his new book, "Armed Madhouse," at 3 PM in the Barbara's Bookstore at 1218 South Halsted.
* Mike Davis, author of the new book "Planet of Slums" (Verso). Mike is a leading urban theorist and author of "Prisoners of the American Dream," "City of Quartz," "Ecology of Fear," "Magical Urbanism," "Late Victorian Holocausts," and "Dead Cities."
LaddieO.com will give us a web, science and tech report from the hermetically sealed clean rooms at URL Labs. Jeff Dorchen will deliver a Moment of Truth, and Elvis DeMorrow will tell us what's happening in his Konspiracy Korner.
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