Saturday on This is Hell!
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9:10 - Journalist Antony Loewenstein explores the merger between disaster capitalism and endless global war.
Antony is author of Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing out of Catastrophe from Verso Books.
10:05 - Live from Sao Paulo, Brian Mier reports on a massive student protest movement against school closings in Brazil.
Brian covered the protest movement in the Brasil Wire article We Rule the School.
10:35 - Writer Barbara Ehernreich links a rise in low-income white deaths to the GOP's deathwish politics.
Barbara wrote the article Dead, White, and Blue The Great Die-Off of America's Blue Collar Whites for TomDispatch.
11:05 - Authors Anna Bernasek and D.T. Mongan explain how personal data is being turned against consumers.
Anna and Dan are authors of All You Can Pay: How Companies Use Our Data to Empty Our Wallets from PublicAffairs.
12:05 - Brandon Smith and Jamie Kalven talk about fighting the City of Chicago to break the Laquan McDonald story.
Brandon and Jamie's story is covered in the Columbia Journalism Review story How a little-known, Uber-driving freelancer brought the lawsuit that forced Chicago to release a police shooting video. Follw Brandon's writing at brandonsmith.com and Jamie's work at Invisible Institute.
12:45 - Jeff Dorchen exercises his Baffler-approved right to be an anti-Hillary misogynist.
No clue how The Baffler got involved in this one, send the hate mail Jeff's way, we still want to book guests from the magazine!