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This Day In Hell!: Thursday, July 2nd

This Saturday, the Fourth of July, 'This is Hell!' airs a brand-new, live, unedited and completely uninterrupted, four hour show beginning at 9 AM (central) on WNUR 89.3 FM Chicago, streaming live at http://www.wnur.org and podcast in our Archives at http://www.thisishell.com.

As guests and correspondents are confirmed, they will be posted below under Saturday's Show.


Read today's Nine Circles of Hell! This week's Nine Circles features past This is Hell! guests Jake Tapper, Mark Weisbrot, Robert Scheer, Kenneth Roth, Ira Chernus, Patrick Cockburn, Reese Erlich, Greg Grandin, Laura Carlsen, Saskia Sassen, James Petras, Joseph Stiglitz and Ray McGovern.

It's all the news that gives you fits in print.


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The Events page is UPDATED!

Irregular correspondent Jeff Dorchen's new play, "Strauss at Midnight," is being performed by Theater Oobleck Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 PM, and Sundays at 3 PM at the Chicago DCA Theater, 66 East Randolph, through July 11th.

TimeOut Chicago said 'Strauss' was, “savage, inventive and very funny... Who could help loving a show in which Oscar and Felix give voice to their long-repressed longings? Oobleck’s characteristically assembled an impressive roster of fringe talent.” Chicago's Center Stage called 'Strauss', “A must-see show ... more than once."
Then, there's this Tony Adler review of 'Strauss' from last Thursday's Chicago Reader. The review was headlined, "Yom Kippur in Hell: Jeff Dorchen atones for neoconservatism in his new play for Oobleck":

  • The universe - and I mean universe - of Jeff Dorchen's dense, wild, painfully funny new intellectual farce, Strauss at Midnight, is laid out like the medieval Norse one, with an axis growing up through multiple worlds, each world occupied by a different set of beings. But where the Norse axis was a sacred ash tree called Yggdrasil, Dorchen's is a poker table ...
    The poker table here accommodates Niccolo Machiavelli; Virgil Tibbs from In the Heat of the Night; Allan Bloom, the U. of C. scholar whose The Closing of the American Mind made him a darling of conservatives; and Leo Strauss, another U. of C. don who was Bloom's mentor and is considered by many to be the godfather of neoconservatism. Bloom has devolved somewhat in death: he growls, walks on all fours, and is led around on a leash by his affectionate master, Strauss.
    Enter Saul Bellow, Bloom's close friend and colleague at the U. of C., who takes a look at hell's cold deli tray and asks, "Are they going to replenish the pastrami?" ...
    The unlikely hero of the piece, Bellow figures out that it was Bloom and Strauss's malign worldview that landed him in the land of insufficient cold cuts. How he manages his redemption - and what it has to do with The Odd Couple - makes for a weird, marvelous, and unexpectedly compassionate spectacle.
    Also a nasty and incredibly vulgar one ...
    That it works so well is partly a function of Dorchen being brilliant, and partly of his lucking out with what may be the best cast I've ever seen in an Oobleck show.

Other Events include those with past guests Taki Pantos, a memorial for past guest Franklin Rosemont, and stuff to do with This is Hell! featured groups like Critical Mass, In These Times and East Timor and Indonesia Action Network.


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Podcasters! On our last podcast, Ira Chernus returned to tell us why it's time to change the story on Israeli-Palestinian violence; Bernard Avishai looked into 'The White House and the Middle East'; Paul Rogers tallied 'the global cost of war'; and Anthony DiMaggio described 'The Iranian Elections and the Faith-Based Media.'

Irregular correspondent Dave Buchen returne with a report live from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Jeff Dorchen gave us a Moment of Truth.

To listen, just click here or click here.

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

The devolution will not be televised, but it will be podcast every Saturday right after the show.


Producer Trevor Ewen's band, the Howlin' Tumbleweeds, now has a web site at http://www.howlintumbleweeds.com.

Laura is also audio blogging at http://www.lauramayer.com.

'Radical Pessimist' Kevan Harris, one of This is Hell!'s irregular correspondents, is blogging on his current 10-month stay in Iran. You can read it at http://kevanharris.com

And another irregular correspondent Nicholas Hale, who hosts the Fool Britannia segment, has a blog at http://foolbrit.blog.co.uk.


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Saturday's Show, Today, July 4th

This is Hell! broadcasts 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."

As guests are confirmed for this Saturday's show, they will be posted here.

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.


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Today's Nine
Circles of Hell!

Go directly to each story below by clicking on the each Headline below or click on Today's Nine Circles of Hell!:

NPR censors 'torture'

Washington Post publisher opens up her home to $250,000 a ticket 'salon' for lobbyists

Israelis shun Obama's pleas to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza

John Bolton wants Israel to bomb Iran now!

Rallying online around the Dr. Tiller killing, anti-choice groups are scaring the hell out of Canadian abortion clinic personnel

Mexico's drug war leads to deadly Canadian turf battles between international coke gangs

Human Rights Watch condemns Rwanda for forced sterilization and mandatory HIV testing

From human trafficking to money laundering, soccer's global footprint runs the gamut of crime

Introducing the new one gram, one millimeter thick, one and-a-half volt printable battery


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