Name:

Ella

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Hobbies:

International Affairs, Foreign Policy, Arts and Culture.

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.

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 Service http://www.carnegieendowment.o rg/ Carnegie Endowment for International Peace http://www.fpif.org/ Foreign Policy in Focus http://www.americanempireproje ct.com/ The American Empire Project http://www.fas.org/ Federation of American Scientists http://www.atimes.com/ Asia Times http://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 Edition http://www.informationclearing house.info/ http://www.truthout.org/ http://www.alternet.org/ http://www.dahrjamailiraq.com/ http://www.truthdig.com http://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.nationalreview.com/ http://www.forbes.com/