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		<title>All Gaza Freedom Flotilla Participants Released!</title>
		<link>https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/05/21/all-gaza-freedom-flotilla-participants-released/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Marc Leas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 20:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Under widespread condemnation for its vicious treatment of Flotilla activists, the Israeli government released and deported all 430 participants it had abducted from sailboats earlier in the week. They arrived in Istanbul at around 10:30 am EDT today, Thursday, May 21. On Tuesday evening, Israeli forces finished illegally seized the Lina, the last of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ron Paul says Desperate for a Win, Trump Indicts Cuba&#8217;s Raul Castro</title>
		<link>https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/05/21/ron-paul-says-desperate-for-a-win-trump-indicts-cubas-raul-castro/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 19:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: As the Trump Administration sinks further into the mire of its ill-advised war on Iran, the &#8220;victory&#8221; of its quick snatch of Venezuela&#8217;s Nicolas Maduro is leading it to seek another easy &#8220;win.&#8221; The indictment of 94 year old former president of Cuba, Raul Castro this week for an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Indictment of Raúl Castro: A New Low in US Cuba Policy</title>
		<link>https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/05/21/the-indictment-of-raul-castro-a-new-low-in-us-cuba-policy/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Medea Benjamin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 16:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So apparently the Trump administration has decided that what Cuba really needs right now — after decades of economic strangulation, CIA assassination attempts, sabotage campaigns, invasions, sanctions, blackouts, shortages, and more than half a century of failed regime-change policy — is the indictment of 94-year-old revolutionary icon Raúl Castro. The United States and Cuba do [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ Has Only Brought More Death and Suffering to Gaza, Says Rights Group</title>
		<link>https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/05/21/trumps-board-of-peace-has-only-brought-more-death-and-suffering-to-gaza-says-rights-group/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 13:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Six months in, US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” has failed to deliver on its promise of a “secure and prosperous future” for Palestinians in Gaza, who are still being killed, maimed, and deprived of food and other crucial supplies by Israel’s ongoing genocide. “The humanitarian infrastructure sustaining life in Gaza remains in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Iran War as the Dumbass War</title>
		<link>https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/05/20/the-iran-war-as-the-dumbass-war/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Astore]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 22:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. It’s increasingly hard to remember how and why America is supposed to go to war. First, war is supposed to be a last resort, not a knee-jerk reaction to Israeli actions. Second, war is supposed to be a deliberative process, a constitutional one, involving Congress and needing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ron Paul asks: Did Massie Lose&#8230; Or Was He Pushed?</title>
		<link>https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/05/20/ron-paul-asks-did-massie-lose-or-was-he-pushed/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 17:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Thomas Massie&#8217;s opponent in the Kentucky 4th GOP primary ran a Biden 2020 campaign — from his basement. No debates, no rallies, no interviews. So how did he achieve an historic number of votes from the district? People are talking&#8230; Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &#38; [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>‘Aiding and Abetting Genocide’: US Sanctions Peaceful Gaza Flotilla Organizers</title>
		<link>https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/05/20/aiding-and-abetting-genocide-us-sanctions-peaceful-gaza-flotilla-organizers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett Wilkins]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Palestine defenders decried Tuesday’s announcement by the Trump administration of US sanctions targeting four nonviolent campaigners involved in the recent humanitarian flotillas that tried to break Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza. The US Department of the Treasury said in a statement that its Office of Foreign Assets Control “is taking action against four individuals associated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Watch Thomas Massie&#8217;s Awesome Concession Speech</title>
		<link>https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/05/20/watch-thomas-massies-awesome-concession-speech/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Garris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 12:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am very sad at the news that Thomas Massie has been defeated by Donald Trump and AIPAC in the most expensive Congressional primary in US history.   Estimates are that between $40-45 million dollars was spent. Massie&#8217;s speech was gracious, funny, and encouraging.   I urge you all to start your day watching this.   You won&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Six Flotilla Boats Are Still Sailing Toward Gaza; 64 Were Illegally Intercepted</title>
		<link>https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/05/19/six-flotilla-boats-are-still-sailing-toward-gaza-64-were-illegally-intercepted/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Marc Leas]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 02:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This post, finally edited at 6:03 pm EDT on May 19, was initially written during the final hours of the flotilla campaign while Israeli gunmen were illegally seizing and boarding one sailboat after another of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and the Global Sumud Flotilla. When initially written, 6 boats were still sailing freely and 64 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ron Paul on The Real Cost of the Iran War</title>
		<link>https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2026/05/19/ron-paul-on-the-real-cost-of-the-iran-war/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 16:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: According to a new study by Brown University, President Trump&#8217;s war on Iran has cost the American consumer $40 billion in increased fuel costs. But it does not end at higher fuel prices. That price increase also fuels inflation in every other sector of the consumer economy. The longer [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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