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		<title>The Whitening of Marianne Pearl</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More scary crap from Angelina Jolie, the great voyeur (euse) of &#8216;third world&#8217; suffering and queen of white supremist charity&#8230;
By MARGARET KIMBERLEY
When Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Pakistan in 2002 his wife, Marianne, became a fixture in international media. The first time I saw her I made a very simple observation. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carter says US, EU must bring Hamas and Fatah together in Palestinian territories</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DUBLIN, Ireland: The United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy of favoring Fatah over Hamas, or they will doom the Palestinian people to deepening conflict between the rival movements, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday.
Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was addressing a conference of Irish human rights officials, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talk about the fox guarding the chicken coop&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.rootsie.com/blog/?p=4800</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course it had dropped out of the news by the end of the day, but this morning it was reported on BBC that among the purported &#8216;guards&#8217; of the shrine at Samarra were &#8220;American contractors&#8217;.
It&#8217;s something how an attack on a symbol can fill one with grief, all of the grief and horror of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Behind the Violence in North Lebanon</title>
		<link>http://www.rootsie.com/blog/?p=4799</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 18:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gee take a guess.
Given Bush administration debacles in Iraq and Afghanistan and its encouragement for Israel to continue its destruction of Lebanon this past summer, the situation in Lebanon mirrors, in some respects, the early 1980&#8217;s when groups sprung up to resist the US green lighted Israeli invasion and occupation. But rather than being Shia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kucinich Reveals Dem Funding Bill Includes Privatization of Iraq Oil &amp; Carte Blanche to Invade Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 21:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a meeting with the West Los Angeles Democratic Club on Saturday, May 5, Presidential candidate and Ohio Congress Representative Dennis Kucinich revealed that the Democrats in Congress had made some secret concessions to the Republicans in the initial Bill to continue funding the Iraq War that was vetoed, and in a subsequent version that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cho</title>
		<link>http://www.rootsie.com/blog/?p=4797</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[msnbc April 18, 2007
watch the commentators
dance around the hidden fears:
he was a psychotic psychopath
listen to him&#8212;
but don&#8217;t listen to him he was crazy
he was unhappy
so we shouldn&#8217;t listen
&#8220;Hardball goes inside the mind of the guy,
the man who&#8230;&#8221; not the boy
don&#8217;t say the boy
not our boy, not one of us
call him Ishmail
outcast in the desert
the gunman
talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Gun Culture&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.rootsie.com/blog/?p=4795</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most self-critical the U.S. ever gets is in instances like the Virginia Tech massacre, when certain people (liberal) reflect that the wide availability of guns might be at least in part responsible. Of course the NRA (National Rifle Asssociation) is immediately asked to weigh in, and does its usual prattle about how it&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imus and the Duke Lacrosse team</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don Imus got toppled off his throne for making a comment which has been typical of him for years. Why now? Maybe because he&#8217;s also calling Cheney a war criminal these days? Or suggesting that he might up the ante on his criticism of Bush and start talking on his show about 9-11? Another of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divide and Rule &#8211;America&#8217;s plan for Baghdad</title>
		<link>http://www.rootsie.com/blog/?p=4793</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Fisk
04/11/07 &#8220;The Independent&#8221; &#8212; &#8211; Faced with an ever-more ruthless insurgency in Baghdad - despite President George Bush&#8217;s &#8220;surge&#8221; in troops - US forces in the city are now planning a massive and highly controversial counter-insurgency operation that will seal off vast areas of the city, enclosing whole neighbourhoods with barricades and allowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq conflict &#8216;must not deter UK&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK must not shy away from trying to resolve international crises despite the &#8220;terrible misadventure&#8221; in Iraq, a report from charity Oxfam argues.
It warns that it would be disastrous if the country was put off sending troops to future humanitarian crises like those seen in Sierra Leone and Kosovo.
bbc.co.uk
Really. Lord forbid the world should [...]]]></description>
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