This is Hell, this week se 1/19/08

Guests on this week’s guests This is Hell:

*  Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, will
talk about his latest writing "Presidential Hopefuls Need
a Reality Check on Iraq."
(http://alternet.org/election08/72214/) His last book was
May's, “*Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Anti-War
Movement"
(http://www.nationbooks.org/book/147/Waging%20Peace)(Nation
Books) 
*  Ira Chernus, Professor of Religious Studies at the
University of Colorado at Boulder and author of "Monsters
To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin"
(http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=143468)
(Paradigm). He recently wrote the TomDispatch.com article,
"Is Religion a Threat to Democracy?: Faith Talk on the
Campaign Trail"
(http://tomdispatch.com/post/174880/ira_chernus_faith_talk_2008)
*  Thomas Geoghegan, author of "*See You in Court: How
the Right Made America a Lawsuit Nation"
(http://www.thenewpress.com/) (New Press). Thomas is a Chicago
attorney who has written several books including the National
Book Critics Circle award finalist, "Which Side Are You
On?" 
*  Chris Hedges, former Middle East bureau chief for The New
York Times and he was part of Times team that won the 2002
Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of global terrorism. He also
received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human
Rights Journalism. His most recent book is, “*American
Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America"
(http://www.simonsays.com/content/book.cfm?tab=1&pid=585888&er=9780743284462)
(Free Press). He writes a column, every other Monday, on
Truthdig, the most recent being, “*The End of the Road for
George W. Bush.
(http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080113_the_end_of_the_road_for_george_w_bush/)
This week, Chris also posted the Nation piece,
"Christianizing US History"
(http://www.thenation.com/docprem.mhtml?i=20080128&s=hedges)


This week’s irregular correspondents will be:
"Kevan Harris", (http://www.kevekev.com/) 'The
Radical Pessimist'  
"Jeff Dorchen* (http://www.mejeffdorchen.oblivio.com/)
delivers a Moment of Truth 
and "Elvis DeMorrow" (http://www.nodoctors.com/)
will take a break from his Konspiracy Korner to present a
little travelogue on his Holiday trip to Beijing