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		<title>Israel’s Hand in Guatemala’s Genocide</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/23/israels-hand-in-guatemalas-genocide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 17:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: The Guatemalan genocide of the 1980s does not just implicate President Ronald Reagan and his senior aides but the Israeli government which secretly supplied helicopters, guns and computers that were used to hunt down and exterminate Ixil Indians and other perceived enemies of the state, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry At the height of Guatemala&#8217;s mass slaughters in the 1980s, including genocide against the Ixil Indians, the Reagan administration worked with Israeli...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Syrian Rebels Balk at Peace Talks</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/23/syrian-rebels-balk-at-peace-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Russia and the Obama administration have made some moves toward seeking a peace settlement in Syria, even as Russia bolsters its support for Bashar al-Assad’s embattled regime. But an obstacle has emerged as the deeply divided Syrian rebels balk at meeting with Assad’s representatives, ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar notes. By Paul R. Pillar Reasonable people can disagree on what to do about Syria, a problem with no good solutions, and particularly about what to do regarding aid to Syrian rebels....]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Help Us Build Investigative ‘War Chest’</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/22/help-us-build-investigative-war-chest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 18:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=8590</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From Editor Robert Parry: I often hear the complaint that Consortiumnews is not devoting enough attention to some story of particular importance to that reader. And I must admit the criticism is often valid, but the explanation is mostly our lack of resources, not our lack of interest. I&#8217;m especially concerned that we are not doing more in areas relating to war or peace. Over the years, we have invested a great deal of effort to report on wars (or near-wars) in Central and South America,...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Stuck in a Job at the End of the World</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/22/stuck-in-a-job-at-the-end-of-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 14:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=8584</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Very little sympathy is felt for Air Force personnel assigned to fire nuclear missiles that could end all life on the planet. But their grim, boring and existentially absurd job has eroded staff morale so much that their collapsing competence has added to the world’s risk, explains John LaForge. By John LaForge Some of the Air Force’s self-styled nuclear “missileers” — sitting at launch controls in Minot, North Dakota — recently earned a “D” on their intercontinental ballistic missile firing...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>What a Real Cover-up Looks Like</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/21/what-a-real-cover-up-looks-like/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=8574</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: Republicans won’t let go of their conspiracy theory about some nefarious “cover-up” in “talking points” for Ambassador Susan Rice’s TV interviews on the Benghazi attack. But they should at least have better skills for detecting a real cover-up, since they’ve had direct experience, as Robert Parry documents. By Robert Parry There have been nine public hearings and countless hours of commentary about the so-called Benghazi “cover-up” – really just some bureaucratic back-and-forth about...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Delicate Balance of Leaking</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/21/the-delicate-balance-of-leaking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=8569</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Without doubt, the U.S. government over-classifies national security information, hiding not just genuine secrets but policy debates and mistakes. This creates tensions for whistleblowers and journalists over what should be public. But there are legitimate concerns about leaking, says ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul R. Pillar Public discussion of the subpoena of telephone records of Associated Press reporters as part of a leak investigation has been impaired by widespread ignorance or...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Jackie Robinson Republicans</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/21/the-jackie-robinson-republicans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[That Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey were Republicans when they shattered baseball’s color barrier in 1947 is only surprising if you consider the changed GOP – after its Southern Strategy and unsubtle appeals to racism, leading to demonizing the first black president. But there was this other principled GOP, says Independent Institute’s Jonathan Bean. By Jonathan Bean If history were written without bias, we would mark the beginning of the U.S. civil rights movement as 1947: the year Jackie...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Scandal of Lax Government</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/21/the-scandal-of-lax-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=8556</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[For decades now, it’s been fashionable to demonize government. After all, that’s what billions of dollars invested in right-wing think tanks and media outlets will buy you. There also are genuine abuses by bureaucrats. But lax government oversight can be a scandal, too, as Bill Moyers and Michael Winship note. By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship After a week that reminds us to be ever vigilant about the dangers of government overreaching its authority, whether by the long arm of the IRS or the...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Does Woodward Know Watergate?</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/20/does-woodward-know-watergate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 18:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: Republicans are hyping the flap over Benghazi talking points by calling it “worse than Watergate,” a false narrative that Bob Woodward has helped along by ignoring new evidence connecting Richard Nixon’s sabotage of Vietnam War peace talks in 1968 to his political spying in 1971-72, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward has popped up on TV recently affirming a key Republican talking point, likening the “scandal” over the Obama administration’s...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Justice at a Guatemalan Crossroads</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/20/justice-at-a-guatemalan-crossroads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:12:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The genocide conviction of Guatemala’s ex-dictator Efrain Rios Montt has put respect for human rights at a crossroads, with one option to reverse the judgment and another to expand the investigation to Rios Montt’s accomplices in Guatemala and the U.S., journalist Allan Nairn tells Dennis J. Bernstein. By Dennis J. Bernstein In a historic decision, a Guatemalan court convicted former strong man and close U.S. ally Efrain Rios Montt of genocide and crimes against humanity, sentencing the...]]></content:encoded>
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