'This is Hell' lineup includes Andrew Cockburn - streaming now

[Bozita]

THIS WEEK'S SHOW: Saturday, May 22nd, 2004
This Is Hell airs live every Saturday from 9 AM to 1 PM (US central time) on WNUR 89.3 FM in Chicago, and live all over the rest of the world via RealPlayer and Windows Media Player. Just go to WNUR's website (http://www.wnur.org) and click on either the RealAudio or Windowsmedia button found just beneath the heading, "Listen Online."

Our guests this week include:

* Reed Brody, special consul to Human Rights Watch (http://www.hrw.org), will return to our show to talk human rights - and wrongs.

* journalist Andrew Cockburn will discuss his latest Counterpunch piece, "The Truth About Ahmed Chalabi" (http://www.counterpunch.org/chalabi05202004.html)

* Jim Thindwa, executive director of Chicago's Jobs with Justice (http://www.chicagojwj.org/) will discuss the potential threat Wal-Mart poses to Chicago. Our City Council is to vote on a potential Wal-Mart presence within the city on Wednesday, May 26th.
Tell your alderman what you think. You can find their contact information by clicking here: http://www.ci.chi.il.us/CityCouncil/

* Maher Nasser, a representative of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (http://www.unrwa.org) will talk about this week's events in Gaza

* and Charles Knight, co-director Project on Defense Alternatives at the Commonwealth Institute (http://www.comw.org/pda/) and he will talk with us about his two most recent articles, "Outsourcing Torture and the Problems of 'Quality Control'," and "The New Occupation: How Preventive War is Wrecking the Military."

[hedda_foil]

1. Cockburn coming up now

[alcuno]

2. Interesting guy.

I love "this is Hell."