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Summary: Long-form interviews with writers, thinkers and workers from around the world and across the spectrum of experience.

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 VW’s diesel deception / Latin America moves to the right | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:34

Dan Litchfield apologizes for his tiny part in the whole Volkswagen diesel thing. / CEPR's Mark Weisbrot explains what's behind rightward gains in the Venezuelan and Argentine elections.

 Civilization must learn to die, before it’s too late | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:39

Writer Roy Scranton looks ahead to a future of mass global death, and what is left behind. Roy is author of Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization from City Lights. PLUS: Rotten History

 Breaking the Laquan McDonald case / Hillsogyny excused | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:36

Brandon Smith and Jamie Kalven talk about fighting the City of Chicago to break the Laquan McDonald story. / Jeff Dorchen exercises his Baffler-approved right to be an anti-Hillary misogynist.

 The end of the mass market and the rise of flex pricing. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:25

Authors Anna Bernasek and D.T. Mongan explain how personal data is being turned against consumers.

 Sao Paulo’s student strikers / Blue collar, white death | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 45:45

Live from Sao Paulo, Brian Mier reports on a massive student protest movement against school closings in Brazil. / Writer Barbara Ehernreich links a rise in low-income white deaths to the GOP's deathwish politics.

 Disaster Inc: Private industries are capitalising on global violence. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:38

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. http://www.versobooks.com/books/1985-disaster-capitalism PLUS: Rotten History

 A drug history of American empire / Northern privilege, checked. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:59

Historian Suzanna Reiss traces the history of American empire though the travels of its drugs. / Jeff Dorchen reports live from South Carolina on the surreal self-image of the USA.

 Bad science makes worse politics at the EPA. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 55:24

Journalists Valerie Brown and Elizabeth Grossman examine bad science and worse politics at the EPA. Valerie and Elizabeth are authors of the In These Times investigation Why the US Leaves Deadly Chemicals on the Market.  

 Detangling America’s patchwork legal system / Protesting while Black | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 53:14

Lawpagandist Brian Foley explains how America's patchwork of local laws present a barrier to legal access for everyone but lawyers. / Black Agenda Report's Glen Ford explains how Democratic money is cashing out #BlackLivesMatter.

 Jihadi Archipelago: Blood and joy in the Islamic State. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 52:09

Anthropologist Scott Atran warns that the West is giving ISIS exactly what it wants. Scott is co-author of the New York Review of Books essay "Paris: The War ISIS Wants." PLUS: This day in Rotten History.

 Beirut after the bombs / Fiscal conservatism cashes out | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:41

Live from Beirut, Rania Masri calls out Western complicity, and silence, in the wake of Middle East violence. Jeff Dorchen apologizes to fiscal conservatives for not telling them what he thinks of them sooner.

 Inside the elite’s offshore tax shelters / Escape from America | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:27

Sociologist Brooke Harrington opens the door to the hidden world of elite wealth management. Kyle Lydell Canty talks about why racism and police violence have him seeking political asylum in Canada.

 Development’s dark side / Legalization and the drug war | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 49:21

Anuradha Mittal profiles the dangerous lives of land rights activists in Ethiopia and Cameroon. Laura Carlsen explains how marijuana legalization trends are shifting US-Mexico drug war policies.

 Resisting tomorrow’s robot economy before it’s too late. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:18

Writer Curtis White sees new (and old) problems when he looks ahead to our futuristic robot economy. PLUS: Rotten History

 Episode 874: Democracy No! (Full Broadcast – November 14th, 2015) | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 58:35

On this one-hour episode of This is Hell!, author Roslyn Fuller explains why democracy lost its way, and how to restore its promise.

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