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Ann Neumann returns to This is Hell! to discuss her Baffler Magazine article, "Pain and Suffering: The extraordinary power of opium products to alleviate pain is complicated by the language." "The Moment of Truth" follows the interview.

Check out Ann's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/pain-and-suffering-neumann

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Award-winning investigative journalist Boyce Upholt returns to discuss his article at The New Republic, "An Everglades Scientist on Trial in Ron DeSantis’s Kingdom: A powerful nonprofit, closely allied with the Florida governor, sued one of its former scientists for stealing trade secrets. What was it really after?" "Rotten History" follows the interview.

Check out Boyce's article here: https://newrepublic.com/article/182364/everglades-scientist-trial-ron-desantis-florida

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Shannon Heffernan of the Marshall Project discusses her article, "Serving Time for Their Abusers’ Crimes: The Marshall Project found nearly 100 people who were punished for the actions of their abusers under little-known laws like “accomplice liability.”

Check out Sharon's article here: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2024/06/13/abuse-domestic-violence-survivors-liability-prison

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Recent guest Kavitha Chukuru of Al Jazeera returns to talk about her new Fault Lines documentary, 'The Night Won’t End," the product of Al Jazeera’s longstanding commitment to on-the-ground reporting inside Gaza. It was made possible by the work of brave journalists who worked for weeks in harrowing conditions to tell the story of three families who lived through horrific experiences and have been struggling to survive inside Gaza.

Check out the documentary here: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/fault-lines/2024/6/21/the-night-wont-end-bidens-war-on-gaza-2

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Astra Taylor on her new book from AK Press, "The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart." "Rotten History" follows the interview.

Check out Astra's book here: https://www.akpress.org/the-age-of-insecurity.html

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Writer and filmmaker Emma Claire Foley on her Jacobin article, "How Israel Became a Nuclear Power."

Check out Emma's article here: https://jacobin.com/2024/06/israel-nuclear-weapons-nonproliferation-iran-gaza

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Tad DeLay returns to This Is Hell! to discuss his new book from Verso, "Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview.

Check out Tad's book here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2857-future-of-denial

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Historian Gerald Horne returns to the show to discuss his new book, "Armed Struggle?: Panthers & Communists; Black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California through the sixties and seventies." "Rotten History" follows the interview.

Check out Gerald's book here: https://www.intpubnyc.com/browse/armed-struggle/

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Zac Chapman and Nairuti Shastry discuss their article at The Forge, "Will the Revolution Be Funded?," which is against big philanthropy and argues for community 'self-funding.'

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Mary Jo McConahay on her article at The Progressive, "Genocide Trial in Guatemala Brings Memories of Israel’s Role in the Killings." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. We also announce this week's Question from Hell! winner.

Check out Mary's article here: https://progressive.org/latest/genocide-trial-in-guatemala-brings-memories-of-israels-role-in-the-killings-mcconahay-20240507/

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