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		<title>Onward-Marching Christian Soldiers</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/02/23/onward-marching-christian-soldiers/</link>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From the Archive: In 2008, Rick Santorum declared, “Satan has his sights on the United States of America.” Though sounding odd to many, Santorum’s Satan talk is common among right-wing Christians who have intervened in U.S. politics before, like President Clinton’s impeachment, as Frederick Clarkson noted in this 1998 article. By Frederick Clarkson (Originally published in 1998) Most attorneys who ascend into the rarefied atmosphere of media celebrity-hood are either dashing courtroom warriors,...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Santorum Abuses ‘E Pluribus Unum’</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=3022</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: In 1776, when America’s 13 colonies were uniting to fight for independence, they adopted a slogan, “E Pluribus Unum, from many, one.” Now, GOP presidential frontrunner Rick Santorum has hijacked the motto to mean that a diverse United States must live under a single Biblical code, notes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry Americans get manipulated daily by the Right’s false references to U.S. founding principles, most recently by Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum and his...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Need to Talk Sense to Netanyahu</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/02/22/need-to-talk-sense-to-netanyahu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Recalling President George Washington&#8217;s farewell advice against tying the United States too closely to any foreign nation, Veterans for Peace urges President Obama to publicly warn Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister Netanyahu against attacking Iran with the expectation of U.S. military support. MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veterans for Peace SUBJECT: You Need to Talk Sense to Netanyahu We members of Veterans for Peace have served in every war since WW II. We know war. And we know when...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Americans Abandon International Law</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/02/22/americans-abandon-international-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[After a decade of “war on terror” rhetoric – and President Obama’s failure to reverse many of George W. Bush’s extrajudicial policies – the U.S. public has come to accept that American “exceptionalism” puts the nation beyond the reach of international law, as Nat Parry explains. By Nat Parry Whether they realize it or not, Americans are increasingly embracing policies that undermine the international rule of law, with self-identified liberals, in particular, seemingly reversing their positions...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Santorum’s Anti-Environmentalism</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/02/21/santorums-anti-environmentalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: Now topping many Republican presidential polls, ex-Sen. Rick Santorum is taking aim at what he calls President Obama’s “false theology” – not “based on the Bible” – which supposedly elevates the environment of the Earth above man’s needs, a charge that Sam Parry disputes. By Sam Parry On “Face the Nation” last Sunday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum accused President Barack Obama of embracing a “phony ideal” of environmental theology that puts protection of the Earth...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Beating the Drums of War, Again</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/02/21/beating-the-drums-of-war-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The U.S. news media is in harness again, pulling the latest bandwagon for war, this time with Iran. So, Americans should expect soft coverage of U.S.-Israeli provocations of Iran and media outrage over any Iranian retaliation, as the Independent Institute’s Ivan Eland explains. By Ivan Eland The apparent Israeli-U.S. covert operations to inhibit Iran’s missile and alleged nuclear weapons programs — using assassinations, computer worms, faulty parts, exploding factories, etc. — very likely have...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>‘Night Raids’ Stall Afghan War Talks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Obama administration’s hopes for a negotiated end to the Afghan War are hung up on a dispute with the Karzai government over the future use of night raids by U.S. Special Forces, a tactic very unpopular with Afghans, as Gareth Porter reports for Inter Press Service. By Gareth Porter Nearly a year after President Barack Obama’s administration began negotiations with the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on a U.S. military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014, both sides confirmed...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Manipulating Reality; Hurting Democracy</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/02/21/manipulating-reality-undermining-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Over the past few decades in America, reality has been put in play as never before, with powerful interests using  sophisticated “perception management,” the shaping of how the public perceives the outside world, a threat that Lawrence Davidson says is again leading the nation to destruction. By Lawrence Davidson In mid-February, an array of top U.S. intelligence chiefs appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee to give their annual report on &#8220;current and future worldwide...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>America’s Road to Nowhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The fact that the American Left lacks the media outreach to the public that the Right has is proving decisive as conservatives consolidate their influence in blue-collar communities that, ironically, are suffering from right-wing excesses of the past three decades, as Danny Schechter explains. By Danny Schechter Oil prices are rocketing. Iranian warships are moving into the Mediterranean to shadow the U.S. warships already there. Propaganda news is growing with rumors of Al Qaeda links with...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Ronald Reagan: Worst President Ever?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From the Archive: On Presidents’ Day, opinion polls rate the greatest U.S. presidents, with Ronald Reagan now typically scoring at or near the top &#8212; and George W. Bush at or near the bottom. Though the Bush rating is hard to dispute, Robert Parry argued in 2009 that Reagan deserved a similar placement. By Robert Parry (Originally published June 3, 2009) There’s been talk that George W. Bush was so inept that he should trademark the phrase “Worst President Ever,” though some historians...]]></content:encoded>
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