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http://www.btjunkie.org Even more torrents than The Pirate Bay!

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Jon Wiener returns to talk about his book, "Gimme Some Truth: the John Lennon FBI Files," (http://www.LennonFBIfiles.com/) which are the basis for he new movie, "The US versus John Lennon." Jon was on a few weeks ago to discuss the Chicago Eight and his book, "Conspiracy on the Streets." Jon’s Freedom of Information Act [...]

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http://www.sellaband.com An interesting new model that brings interesting new bands and their interested new fans closer together than ever before.

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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Elvis DeMorrow, Jeff Dorchen, Jonathan Steele, Joseph Stiglitz, Katharine Gunn, Kerry Pither, LaddieO.com, Todd Williams, Zaki Chehab

Kerry Pither of the Committee of Organizations Intervening at the Arar Inquiry returns to This is Hell to fill us in on what happened in the Maher Arar case this week. Arar is the Syrian-born Canadian who was the victim of US rendition. To find out more about Maher’s case, visit his web site [...]

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http://www.gregarius.net “Gregarius is a web-based RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator,designed to run on your web server, allowing you access to your news sourcesfrom wherever you want.”   Nice.

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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Carah Ong, Conn Hallinan, Dan 'The Auto Man', Felicia Gustin, Jeff Dorchen, LaddieO.com

Carah Ong is the Iran Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation (http://www.armscontrolcenter.org), Carah writes a blog on the ongoing Iran weapons controversy at http://irannuclearwatch.blogspot.com Conn Hallinan is a foreign policy analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus (http://www.fpif.org) and a provost in Journalism at the University of California at Santa Cruz. [...]

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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Brian Concannon, Elvis DeMorrow, Jeff Dorchen, Kevan Harris, Mark Weisbrot, Moazzem Begg

Human rights lawyer Brian Concannon, director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (http://www.ijdh.org). This week, Brian wrote "Justice for Haiti" with Anthony Phillips. Moazzem Begg, author of "Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guantanamo, Bagram and Kandahar" (The New Press). Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic Policy Research (http://www.cepr.net) returns to [...]

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http://www.freetheplant.com Life, liberty and the pursuit of Cannabis!  Check out the Top 10 Pot Studies the Government Wished it HadNever Funded.   It’s funny because it’s true!   Props to Danon this one.

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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: AC Grayling, Jeff Dorchen, Jeff Goodell, Jon Wiener, LaddieO.com, Michael Schwartz, Tom Hayden

Jeff Goodell, author of "Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future" (Houghton Mifflin). Jon Wiener, editor of "Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Eight" (The New Press) Michael Schwartz, professor of sociology and faculty director of the Undergraduate College of Global Studies at Stony Brook University, has written [...]

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