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2026 Listener Favorites (so far): Imperial Boomerangs / Séamus Malekafzali

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This Is Hell!

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4.9937 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2026

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

While Chuck is away this week undergoing physical therapy, we are featuring some of your favorite interviews of 2026 so far. This time, we revisit our January 15th conversation with Séamus Malekafzali. He joined us to discuss his recent piece at The Nation, "The Assassination That Paved the Way for Trump’s Venezuela Attack: How Trump’s illegal 2020 killing of Qassem Soleimani—and the West’s indifferent response—laid the groundwork for the brazen abduction of Nicolás Maduro." Check out the article here: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-soleimani-venezuela-maduro/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell Please rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.

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Take a job

0:03.0

The Waterloo

0:04.0

The Water is

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The Water is with the

0:13.0

The water is with the

0:16.0

I let's get up power

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and a lot of

0:19.0

The government Are you good This is a big attack!

0:42.7

This This is Hell.

0:45.4

Hello, listeners.

0:47.5

Will here, producer at This Is Hell.

0:55.5

This week, Chuck is away from the usual long-form interview routine while he attends to some much-needed physical therapy.

1:03.5

I hope that brings him some relief. I know it's hard work while you're doing it, but it almost always pays off. This week, however, we are playing your favorite episodes of 2026 so far.

1:12.7

This time we revisit our January 15th interview with Seamus Malika Fassali,

1:20.6

who returned to the show to discuss his January piece at The Nation, titled The Assassinationination that paved the way for Trump's Venezuela

1:30.2

attack, how Trump's illegal 2020 killing of Kasim Soleimani and the West's indifferent response

1:37.3

laid the groundwork for the brazen abduction of Nicholas Maduro. So without further delay,

1:42.8

let's roll the interview.

1:44.3

This is hell. The more you watch the news, the less you know, because this is hell.

1:57.0

Who knew that tolerance for and normalization of violating international law would come back to haunt us, would come back to bite us in the ass?

2:04.8

Oh, yeah, everybody who has been appearing on our show for the past nearly 30 years.

2:09.4

For nearly 80 years, the West has turned a blind eye when an ally violates international law.

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