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		<title>How the US Press Lost Its Way</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/15/how-the-us-press-lost-its-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: People often wonder what happened to the American press after it distinguished itself in the 1970s by exposing the Pentagon Papers and Watergate. How did the U.S. news media lose its way over the past four decades, a question addressed by Robert Parry at a conference on information and secrecy. By Robert Parry Editor’s Note: From May 10 to May 12, journalist Robert Parry participated in a conference entitled, “From the Pentagon Papers to WikiLeaks: A Transatlantic Conversation on the...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Misdefined ‘Terrorism’ Hurts US POW</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 06:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[By definition, “terrorism” applies to attacks on civilians for political ends. But the U.S. government has revised the term to cover any attack on Americans, including soldiers fighting anywhere in the world, a misuse of the concept that is hampering a deal to free a U.S. POW, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul R. Pillar The only current American prisoner of war, Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, remains in captivity largely because of the mistaken equating of war fighting with...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Mitt Romney, the Bully</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/14/mitt-romney-the-bully/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 05:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[As a privileged preppy, Mitt Romney enjoyed humiliating suspected gays and other vulnerable people. But his bullying didn’t stop when he grew older. Instead, he applied similar tactics to make a fortune as a corporate raider, writes Marjorie Cohn. By Marjorie Cohn Last week, I was invited to speak to 40 high school freshman about human rights. When we discussed the right to be free from torture, I asked the students if they could think of an example of torture. They said, “bullying.” A major...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Reflecting on Mother’s Day and War</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/14/reflecting-on-mothers-day-and-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 04:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=4043</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The original idea of Mother’s Day was to promote peace so mothers would not have to suffer the grief that many American moms faced after the slaughter of the Civil War. But some of today’s most powerful women, including moms, are war advocates, writes ex-FBI agent Coleen Rowley. By Coleen Rowley Recall that Mother&#8217;s Day was originated by Julia Ward Howe not to fill restaurants or boost the stock of Hallmark cards but as an anti-militarism effort, to further the cause of peace. In her 1870...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Adding Hurdles for Iran to Clear</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/13/adding-hurdles-for-iran-to-clear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 02:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=4039</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The current head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who was essentially installed by Western powers, is adding new hurdles for Iran to clear before an agreement can be reached on its nuclear program, a standoff addressed by Gareth Porter for Inter Press Service. By Gareth Porter (Updated and corrected on May 15, 2012) In meetings with Iranian officials in Vienna this week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) apparently intends to hold up agreement on a plan for Iran&#8217;s...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Honoring a ‘Terror War’ Architect</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/12/honoring-a-terror-war-architect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 22:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=4036</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: In this season of graduations – and the rush to bestow honorary degrees on the “great and powerful” – one ironic moment will play out at Fordham University, where Jesuits are giving top billing among its honorees to White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan, notes Fordham grad (and ex-CIA analyst) Ray McGovern. By Ray McGovern Since even readers of the New York Times are aware of deputy national security adviser John Brennan’s open identification with torture, secret prisons...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Setting the Stage for More Wars</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/12/setting-the-stage-for-more-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 12:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=4032</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[U.S. news correspondents often compete to cover Americans wars with an eye to making a name or building a career. But – when the wars drag on or when problems are just festering – the news media quickly loses interest, ironically setting the stage for more wars, as Danny Schechter writes. By Danny Schechter Foreign correspondents have always been revered within journalism. That’s why covering Iraq or other wars are assignments so many reporters cultivate. Many see them as a ticket up the media...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bin Laden Files Dispel Iran-Qaeda Link</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/10/bin-laden-files-undercut-iran-qaeda-link/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 23:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[To build support for “regime change” in Iran, neocon operatives and U.S. officials have tried to link al-Qaeda to Iran by exaggerating intelligence and ignoring evidence of mutual hostility, including new data in Osama bin Laden’s captured files, writes Gareth Porter for Inter Press Service. By Gareth Porter The U.S. Treasury Department&#8217;s claim of a &#8220;secret deal&#8221; between Iran and Al-Qaeda, which had become a key argument by right-wing activists who support war against Iran,...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>To Save the Republic, Tax the Rich?</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/10/to-save-the-republic-tax-the-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 15:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From the Archive: The urgent question facing the advanced capitalistic societies of Europe and the United States is: can &#8220;free markets&#8221; still meet the people&#8217;s needs or will those needs be sacrificed to the market’s demand for “austerity” &#8212; and if so, what does that mean for democracy &#8212; as Robert Parry asked in 2009. By Robert Parry (First published on July 20, 2009) For all the laid-off “Joe the Plumbers” who share the Right’s fury about the “class warfare” of...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A ‘Treason’ Trial for Barack Obama?</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/09/a-treason-trial-for-barack-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: Right-wing propagandists have gulled many of their followers into accepting a false narrative of America’s Founding, a made-up history that now has become the basis for some extremists to call for President Obama’s trial for “treason,” an idea that Mitt Romney only belatedly rejected, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry A woman’s suggestion that President Barack Obama “should be tried for treason” for supposedly “operating outside the construction of our Constitution” has raised a...]]></content:encoded>
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