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Today’s Nine at Noon! gives you a link to a live blog following the NATO protests, tells us the Obama administration doesn’t want people to sue over government eavesdropping, there’s a new study on income inequality and teen births, Greek families are in trouble, deadly violence in Beirut and Sanaa, death at the workplace, 14 hanged, over 2,000 wrongly convicted, and then there’s the Lockerbie ‘bomber.’

Podcast for May 19, 2012 [ 4:19:16 | 237.36 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (444)

Today on This is Hell! Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly, who is just back from Afghanistan, and German peace activist Reiner Braun, both of whom will be speaking at Chicago’s Mass Rally and protest against NATO taking place Sunday. We also spoke with Barbara Ehrenreich on ‘Preying on the Poor.’ Producer Spencer ‘Thunderball’ Thayer gave us live report on his way to the Mental Health Movement’s March on Mayor Emanuel’s home. Irregular correspondent Danny Muller gave a ‘Wasted Energy Report,’ Kate O’Donnell said, ‘Thank You, Science!, and Jeff Dorchen delivered a Moment of Truth.

In between NATO protests … Saturday night, May 19, Cary’s Lounge, 2251 West Devon in Chicago, at 8 PM … it’s #OccupyBarstool!

The Nine! at Noon! features indefinite detention, cyber attacks, the new ‘Axis of Evil,’ scary China, Mitt loves Keystone XL, possible Greece euro exit, anti-austerity Obama, the ‘Iron Dome,’ and Bahrain protests.

Today’s Nine! at Noon! has a Spanish collapse, JPMorgan’s gambling losses, US unpreparation for nuclear accident, a US war in Yemen and another in Honduras that’s pissing off Hondurans, a dead reporter, a potential US war in Iran and another reason for it.

The Nine! at Noon! includes TO PD protester abuse, foreclosures, US pay-off to Pakistan, poison letters, Bahrain crackdowns, Syrian fighting in Lebanon, the end of the EU and Greece’s collapsing banks.

Today’s Nine! at Noon! includes the latest Greek collapse, Europe’s austerity-driven collapse spreads, austerity threatened, NATO disputes civilian deaths allegation, drone strikes kill Yemeni civilians, Americans oppose military spending, making a killing collecting student loan debts, cops coming in from everywhere for NATO protests, and NYPD forced to fingerprint immigrants.

Today’s Nine! at Noon! includes mutilated bodies, US and Saudi concerns over Bahrain, while Lebanon, Israel and Russia worry about Syria, insurgent deaths in Dagestan, China’s “moral crisis,” and Britain’s binge drinking.

The Nine Circles of Hell!: Sunday Morning Edition! includes writing from the past week by past This is Hell! guests Pratap Chatterjee, Noam Chomsky, Jonathan Cook, Richard Falk, Richard Heinberg, Michael Klare, Robert Pollin, Robert Scheer and Matt Taibbi.

Episode #693: Podcast for May 12, 2012 [ 4:02:34 | 222.08 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1524)

Host Chuck Mertz interviewed United for a Fair Economy executive director Brian Miller on ‘The Self-Made Myth,’ author Ravi Palat live from Spain on the ‘Indignados,’ and CANG8′s Andy Thayer live from the People’s Summit, a week prior to next weekend’s NATO Summit protests here in Chicago.

The Nine! at Noon! features dying hunger strikers, Syrian protests, Syrian peace eroding, Syrian terror, more Afghan war dead, the Sino-Philippine near-war, the drug war, pirates, and American fat.

Today’s Nine! at Noon! features Russia pissed at US missile and Syrian mess, UN pissed at Guinea-Bissau, World Bank pissed over natural capital and the end of Afghan aid, Sudan’s opposition pissed about oil, a pissy CIA counterterrorism chief, and pissed off cops in Chicago and England.