Today, Saturday, May 10th This is Hell! airs a live completely unedited and uninterrupted broadcast beginning at 9 AM (US central time) on WNUR 89.3 FM Evanston/Chicago. We're also streaming online via WNUR's web site (http://www.wnur.org) under the heading, "Listen Online."

This week, David Rothkopf introduces us to the 'Superclass'; Janet Redman explains carbon credits; John Perkins talks about the 'secret history of the US'; and we go back to Iraq with Dahr Jamail.

Independent of "Independent Media," alternative to "Alternative Media," This is Hell.

The Headlines from Hell have been relaunched as the Nine Circles of Hell ... with our apologies to Dante. Each day, we'll offer you nine of the most hellish news stories our staff could find.

Listeners, please send news stories that you believe best fit into this funnel of media hell by clicking here. You can also email comments you have on any specific story and we'll be more than happy to post them at the site. The Nine Circles of Hell are currently updated through Thursday, May 8th.

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THIS WEEK'S QUESTION FROM HELL! FOR OUR LISTENERS:

Why is John McCain going to be the next president of the United States?

Email your response by 11 AM (US central), Saturday, May 10th and we'll read at least a portion on the air.

Email your response by clicking here.

Saturday, June 7th, This is Hell! celebrates it's 10th anniversary by airing an all-listener request show. Every guest on our 10th anniversary show will be guests that were requested by our listeners.

We know, we know. The all-request show has now been rescheduled twice. However, due to sports programming which will likely abbreviate our broadcasts through May, and our desire to have the listener request show be a full four hours, it has had to be rescheduled again.

And what better way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of This is Hell! by doing an all-request show?

Send your request and why you want that guest to be interviewed on This is Hell! by clicking here.

If you've sent a request for a certain guest to be interviewed on This is Hell!, there's no need to re-send your suggestion.

Nicholas Hale and his 'Fool Britannia' segment, which are featured on This is Hell!, have gone digital. You can now read Nicholas's writing by going to http://foolbrit.blog.co.uk/. Nicholas will be back on our show, live from Bristol, England, on May 10th.

And irregular correspondent Mike Dvorak is currently sailing from Portland, Oregon to Santa Cruz, California on a sailboat completely powered by renewable/sustainable energy including recycled plastic bottle sails and a biodiesel fuel engine. The trip is called the "2041, Voyage for Cleaner Energy" and the trip is being run by Robert Swan who was the first man to ever step foot on both the North and South Pole. Robert is now promoting renewable energy by traveling to the five largest carbon emitters in the world, starting in the US.
To find out more about the 2041 mission, visit http://2041.com/.
For trip details, visit http://2041.com/the-voyage.

The official This is Hell listening center is located in Cary's Lounge, 2251 West Devon, in Chicago's West Rogers Park neighborhood (also known as West Ridge and Chai Town).
We will not be at Cary's following this Saturday's, April 26th, show.
Saturday, May 31st, we return to Cary's! Hang out with your bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz and producer Drew Colglazier after the show from 3 PM till 8 PM.

Yeah, we know it's a long time. But with so many upcoming shows abbreviated due to special programming, we're taking a few weeks off from post-show drunkenness.

Podcasters our last show is streaming right now. Listen by clicking here. And if you want to listen in regular MP3, just click here.

On our last podcast, Doug Gurian-Sherman 'revealed the high costs and environmental impacts of confined animal feeding operations', Bob Fitrakis explained how this week the Supreme Court may have elected John McCain president, and Paul Roberts told us about 'The Seven Myths of Energy Independence.'

Due to technical difficulties, This is Hell! was not broadcast last Saturday, April 26th.

Feel free to peruse our vast vault of past Hell podcasts by clicking on Archives.

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This is Hell broadcasts live this Saturday beginning at 9 AM (US central). You can also hear us live online via WNUR's web site (http://www.wnur.org) under the heading, "Listen Online."

This weekend, our guests include:

• David Rothkopf, author of "Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making" (MacMillan). David is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment and directed the efforts of the Carnegie Economic Strategy Roundtable. He is also the author of "Running the World: The Inside Story of the NSC and the Architects of American Power."
• Janet Redman is a researcher in the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network at the Institute for Policy Studies. Janet's attending this weekend's World Bank meetings in Washington DC. Her recent writing includes "World Bank: Climate Profiteer" and "The World Bank’s Carbon Deals."
• John Perkins, author of "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," returns to This is Hell! to discuss the new paperback edition of his book, "The Secret History of the American Empire: Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and the Truth about Global Corruption."
• Dahr Jamail, author of "Beyond The Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq," (Haymarket). He posted the article, "US presidents-to-be in denial," at Le Monde Diplomatique this week. And last Friday, he posted the story, "Corruption Eats Into Food Rations," for the Inter Press Service News Agency. Dahr was profiled at the Guardian today in an article entitled, "'I wanted to report on where the silence was'." Read Dahr's most recent writing at http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com. More information on the book and tour can be found at http://beyondthegreenzone.org/.

And our irregular correspondents will be:

• Nicholas Hale reports from the UK with his "Fool Britannia" ...
• Jeff Dorchen delivers a Moment of Truth from Chicago's south side ...
• Elvis DeMorrow tells us what's lurking in the Konspiracy Korner.

Go ahead and email us any comments on our show, suggestions for future guests, events you'd like us to post, or news stories you'd like to share with our listeners, by clicking here.

To hear past shows, including last week's, go to our Archives.