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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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			<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>
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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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			<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=8546</guid>
		
			<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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		<title>Racism and the American Right</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/19/racism-and-the-american-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 20:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=8538</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: From the start of the Republic to today’s Republican ranting against Barack Obama, racism has been a central element of the American Right. But this ugly feature of U.S. history has often come concealed behind words praising traditions, liberty and states’ rights, Robert Parry reports. By Robert Parry Racism has been a consistent thread weaving through the American Right from the early days when Anti-Federalists battled against the U.S. Constitution to the present when hysterical Tea...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Failing Fitzgerald’s Masterpiece</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/19/failing-fitzgeralds-masterpiece/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 15:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: As an author, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a master of subtlety in his characterizations and his style, not exactly the strengths of modern Hollywood, as is painfully apparent in the latest big-budget, 3-D adaptation of The Great Gatsby, as Jim DiEugenio explains. By Jim DiEugenio There are a number of interesting, but ignored, comparisons between Orson Welles’s cinematic masterpiece Citizen Kane and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary masterpiece The Great Gatsby. Young men, who were mature...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Reagan and Argentina’s Dirty War</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/17/reagan-and-argentinas-dirty-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 23:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: The 87-year-old ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Videla died Friday in prison where he was serving sentences for grotesque human rights crimes in the 1970s and 1980s. But one of Videla’s key backers, the late President Ronald Reagan, continues to be honored by Americans, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The death of ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, a mastermind of the right-wing state terrorism that swept Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s, means that one more of Ronald...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Argentina’s Dapper State Terrorist</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/17/argentinas-dapper-state-terrorist-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From the Archive: Ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who died Friday in prison at 87, saw the Dirty War that killed some 30,000 people as an intellectual exercise in exterminating subversive thought even across generations by transferring babies of the “disappeared” to military families, as Marta Gurvich recounted in 1998. By Marta Gurvich (Originally published Aug. 19, 1998) Former Argentine president Jorge Rafael Videla, the dapper dictator who launched the so-called Dirty War in...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Boston Suspect’s Writing on the Wall</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/17/boston-suspects-writing-on-the-wall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 17:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: Hiding and near death, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly scrawled on the inside of a boat that he did what he did to avenge innocent Muslims killed by U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a rare look at the why behind “terrorism,” writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. By Ray McGovern Quick, somebody tell CIA Director John Brennan about the handwriting on the inside wall of the boat in which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding before Boston-area police riddled it and...]]></content:encoded>
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