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Tomorrow 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’ll also speak with Barbara Ehrenreich on ‘Preying on the Poor.’ Producer Spencer ‘Thunderball’ Thayer will be giving us live reports from the Mental Health Movement’s March on Mayor Emanuel’s home. Irregular correspondent Danny Muller gives a ‘Wasted Energy Report,’ Kate O’Donnell says, ‘Thank You, Science!, and Jeff Dorchen delivers 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.

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Welcome to the Moment of Truth: our queer old dean, as Rev Spooner had it. Vice President Joe Biden got a little out over his skis, says President Obama. Actually what happened was Biden was in his tight ski pants, and he was bending over his skis to check the bindings, which reminded Obama of [...]

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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.

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.

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.