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Today’s Nine Circles! are NYPD anti-Muslim training, Wall Street’s weather profits, IMF predicts more instability, France’s “racist” Armenian genocide bill, Romania’s austerity protests, More Syrian violence, India sues Monsanto, and Japan’s fight over US military base.

Today’s Nine Circles! include Wall Street down while top execs profit, Fourth Amendment wins as Obama loses, Marine may get three months for massacre, US-Israeli exercise canceled over Iran, Yemen air force mutinies, US “factually not correct’ on Pakistan killings, Undercover cops impregnate activists, Rahm blocks corruption fighter, and Arctic freshwater’s threat to climate.

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – is posted each weekday. While we post the nine most hellish news stories we can find Monday through Friday, our Sunday Edition! features writing from the past week – including opinion pieces – by nine of our past guests [...]

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Our guests were sociologist Sarah Sobieraj on ‘The Perils of Media-Centered Activism,’ journalist Nicholas Shaxson ‘Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens,’ Historian Jo Guldi describes how ‘Britain Invents the Infrastructure State,’ and Christopher Strain will be ‘Rethinking Violence in American Life.’

  http://www.lettersofnote.com Letters of Note is what it sounds like, a collection of various entertaining historical correspondences worth a moment of your time.  This one sealed the deal for me – Laura Huxley’s letter recounting the death of her husband – http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/03/most-beautiful-death.html

Today’s Nine Circles!, including a bonus story on Afghan forces attacks on coalition forces and an extra article on ongoing Fukushima disaster are … Justice officials represented alleged foreclosure fraudsters, ‘No’ to ‘Occupy the Courts,’ Violent sex crimes by US soldiers double, Killings by ‘friendly’ Afghan army increases, Soldiers arrested for abusing Afghan kids, Israeli arrest of threatens peace talks, Syrians protest against government detentions, Japan’s “rice industry has been virtually destroyed”, and Anonymous hacks after US takes down file-sharing site.

Bitter blind broke gap-toothed radio show host Chuck Mertz posts his second weekly blog post. Today’s discusses the clash between order and freedom in a democracy.

The Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – today’s nine most hellish news stories, including two bonus stories on Newt Gingrich, an additional #Occupy link, another piece on the eurozone, and an extra article on Iran-Western tensions, are … President Gingrich overrules Supreme Court, Wisconsin plays politics with health, Shares owned for 22 seconds on average, Obama’s donors get government perks, US House investigates #OccupyDC, Hedge funds hold Greek bailout hostage, Iran says US support a “dangerous position,” Syrian monitors “in a big mess,” and Space junk a “serious risk.”

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Today’s Nine Circles of Hell! – all the news that gives you fits in print – the nine most hellish news stories, including a bonus story ‘scary’ gas and an extra article on the frightening new online-piracy bill, are … US savings disappear, Obama accepts Bank of America nomination, Old wells and fracking, EU Iran oil ban, Peace Corps recall volunteers from violence, ‘Occupy the Courts,’ The controversial online-piracy bill, and Army wants ‘D’ out of PTSD.

The staff of This is Hell! has taken today off in recognition of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Instead of reading the Nine Circles! today, spend some time online taking in the words of Dr. King. Can you imagine how Fox News Channel would have reported King’s life had the network been around while [...]