This Day in Hell, Saturday, July 14th

THIS IS HELL

This Saturday's live broadcast begins at 9 AM (central), on WNUR 89.3 FM Evanston/Chicago. We will also be broadcastlive online via WNUR's web site (http://www.wnur.org) under the heading, "Listen Online."

Our guests on Saturday's program include:

• live from the UK, James Kemp of the Oxford Research Group (http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk) and co-author of the new study, "Too
  Hot To Handle? The Future of Civil Nuclear Power." James is a research associate at the Oxford Research Group.


• writer Mischa Gaus will tell us about his In These Times article, "The Olympic Hustle: Chicagoans are already beginning to fear what hosting the 2016 Summer Games might do to their city."
  


• Nadia Hijab, senior fellow and co-director of the Institute for Palestine Studies (http://www.palestine-studies.org), will give us the skinny on her most recent 'policy note'
  entitled, "Reality Check on Palestinian Elections."
  


• live from Pakistan, Graham Usher is a contributing editor of Middle East Report (http://www.merip.org). Graham is the author of the February MERIP piece, "The
  Pakistan Taliban," and "Dispatches from Palestine: The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process" (Pluto Press). Graham will be on to explain to us all the things happening in Pakistan from the impact of the Taliban, the Musharaff presidency and the situation this week at the Red Mosque.
  


• Saul Landau returns to This is Hell for the first time in three years to discuss his recent writing including both "Family Jewels are Paste but Reveal Clues of Empire" and
  "Blame the Puppet." Saul is a regular columnist at both CounterPunch and progresoweekly.com. His new CounterPunch Press book is A Bush and Botox World.
  Saul also has a new film, "We Don't Play Golf Here" on globalization in Mexico. You can get details on receiving a copy by sending an email.
  


• Dahr Jamail (http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com) returns to talk with us about his latest writing, "Iraq on My Mind: Thousands of Stories to Tell -- And No One to Listen" which was posted at TomDispatch (http://www.tomdispatch.com). Dahr is an independent journalist who has covered the Middle East for the last four years, eight months of which were spent in occupied Iraq. Dahr writes for the Inter Press Service, Al-Jazeera English, and is a regular contributor to Tomdispatch. Dahr's new book, "Beyond the Green
  Zone: Dispatches from an Independent Journalist in Occupied Iraq" will be released in October on Haymarket Books.
  

And our irregular correspondents will be:

• Jeff Dorchen will deliver a Moment of Truth.


• Elvis DeMorrow returns with yet another development from
  the Konspiracy Korner