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http://www.machinima.com/ A good place to get aquainted with a veryinteresting new artform born out of MMRPG worlds. Don’t know whatMMRPGs are? Go there and find out.

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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Carolyn Nordstrom, Dr. Edward Rhymes, Jeff Dorchen, LaddieO.com, Pauline Baker, Roger Morris, Tim Dickinson

Roger Morris talked with us about his three-part TomDispatch.com history of Defense Secretary Robert Gates and American intelligence. Click here, here and here for each successive part, respectively. Roger served in the Foreign Service and on the Senior Staff of the National Security Council under Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Before resigning over [...]

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http://bayimg.com A brand new service from our favortie criminals at The Pirate Bay… an image hosting service like Flickr, but without the censorship!

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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Chris Toensing, David Bacon, Elvis DeMorrow, Jeff Dorchen, Jehangir Pocha, Sarah Posner

live from New Delhi, Jehangir Pocha returned to This is Hell to discuss his most recent piece in The Nation, "The Last ‘Competitive Advantage": Letter From China." Sarah Posner is a freelance journalist who regularly writes for the American Prospect. Sarah’s book, "God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters," will [...]

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http://archive.org/ After a flurry of posts by Dr. Biggs about the amazing content in their moviessection, I decided it was high time for a tip of the hell hat to thisvenerable web institution. Before wikipedia, there was archive.org.

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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Eric Lotke, Jeff Dorchen, LaddieO.com, Marjorie Cohn, Paul Rogers, Stephen Zunes

Paul Rogers is professor of peace studies at Bradford University, northern England. Paul wrote, "The United States vs. Russia, Again," and "Afghanistan: low level, high impact" which both appeared in his weekly column on global security for openDemocracy. Paul is also a consultant to the Oxford Research Group, and the second edition of his [...]

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http://www.slackerastronomy.org/ Why?  Mostly just for the name, butthere’s also good stuff too, including a collection of amusing andgeeky podcasts with episode titles like “Lite Brite Supernovae” and”Dirty Rotten Astronomers”.  Also be sure to check out theirSlackerpedia Galactica!

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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Dan 'The Auto Man', Dr. Krys Bigosinski MD, Jeff Dorchen, Neil Watkins, Robert Dreyfuss, Sujatha Fernandes, Thomas Palley

Robert Dreyfuss (http://www.robertdreyfuss.com) is Rolling Stone’s national security correspondent, and the author of "Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam." Robert’s work also appears in The American Prospect, The Nation, Mother Jones, and the Washington Monthly. We talked with Robert about his piece at TomDisppatch, "Financing the Imperial Armed Forces." Neil [...]

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By Chuck Mertz in Shows with 0 comment  Tags: Chris Carlson, Elvis DeMorrow, Frida Berrigan, Jake Ward, Jeff Dorchen, Mark Danner, Pratap Chatterjee, Stephen Eric Bronner

Frida Berrigan returned to discuss her recent writing including The In These Times piece, "Is Bush Leading Us to Nuclear War?" which she wrote with past guest Bill Hartung, and her TomDispatch story, "We’re Number 1!" Frida is a Senior Research Associate with the Arms Trade Resource Center of the World Policy Institute (http://www.worldpolicy.org). [...]

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