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Books: Too many to mention...but recent stuff included both fiction and non-fiction. Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq and Singvogel by Thommie Bayer for fiction, and Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg and The New Military Humanism by Chomsky.My sources of information, in terms of global and political issues, include the following:http://ipsnews.net/ Interpress Servicehttp://www.carnegieendowment.o rg/Carnegie Endowment for International Peacehttp://www.fpif.org/Foreign Policy in Focushttp://www.americanempireproje ct.com/The American Empire Projecthttp://www.fas.org/Federation of American Scientistshttp://www.atimes.com/Asia Timeshttp://www.gulf-times.com/Qatar Daily Newspaper (English)http://www.eurotrib.com/European Tribune -- Blog -- (Economics)http://www.spiegel.de/internat ional/Der Spiegel - German -- English Editionhttp://www.informationclearing house.info/http://www.truthout.org/http://www.alternet.org/http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/http://www.truthdig.comhttp://antiwar.com/http://www.counterpunch.org/http://www.dailykos.com/http://www.globalresearch.ca/http://www.consortiumnews.com/http://www.chris-floyd.com/http://www.votesmart.org/Project Vote Smart http://www.weeklystandard.com/http://www.nationalreview.com/http://www.forbes.com/

Movies: Movies: Dr Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (Kubrick); Apocalypse Now (Coppola); Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder); Wings of Desire (Wenders); Voyager (Schloendorff); A Dry White Season (with Marlon Brando, Susan Sarandon, Donald Sutherland); Network. Documentaries: Lessons of Darkness by Werner Herzog, a film about Gulf War I and the ensuing oil-fires; The Fog of War by Errol Morris.Docudramas: Threads (first shown on BBC), later banned, now on google video (britain + elsewhere)- about nuclear war and aftermath. TV Shows: Colbert Report, Jon Stewart, and of course, most old Twilight Zone's and MASH episodes.

Music: too eclectic to mention...almost anything but pop music.

Hobbies: International Affairs, Foreign Policy, Arts and Culture.

Sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.