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		<title>Double Standards on Civilian Deaths</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/30/double-standards-on-civilian-deaths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 23:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Whenever U.S. forces inflict massive civilian casualties, it&#8217;s a “mistake” or the fault of the targets because they were &#8220;hiding&#8221; in populated areas. Yet, when civilian deaths occur in the country of a “designated enemy,” all ambiguity is swept aside and no excuses are accepted, a double standard addressed by John LaForge. By John LaForge In the war fever being ramped up against Syria, there is broad public indignation over the massacre of more than 100 civilians in the town...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Moral Challenge of ‘Kill Lists’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 17:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=4191</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan has been called President Obama’s “priest” as they wrestle with the moral dilemma of assembling a “kill list” of “bad guys,” a role that recalls how established religions have justified slaughters over the centuries, writes ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern. By Ray McGovern In an extraordinary article in Tuesday’s New York Times, “Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will,” authors Jo Becker and Scott Shane throw macabre light on...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Pope Paul VI’s Error on Birth Control</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/29/pope-paul-vis-error-on-birth-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 18:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[After conservative U.S. Catholic Bishops sued the Obama administration over its health-insurance requirement for contraceptives, many assumed the Bishops were upholding settled doctrine. But Catholic theologian Paul Surlis says Pope Paul VI incorrectly removed the issue from the Second Vatican Council in 1965. By Paul Surlis At the Second Vatican Council in 1965, on the day the Bishops were to debate birth control, a message was delivered saying that Pope Paul VI had reserved the issue to...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>New Voice for Jailing Bank Execs</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/29/new-voice-for-jailing-bank-execs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2012 13:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=4181</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a new book, Predator Nation, Charles Ferguson (who directed the Oscar-winning film “Inside Job”) says banking executives implicated in the fraud that devastated the economy in 2008 should go to jail, a position applauded by Danny Schechter, who has long advocated the same. By Danny Schechter The circle of those of us crusading for a jail-out of banksters – and not another bailout for them – is widening. Our newest member is Charles Ferguson, director of the film “Inside Job,” who is out with...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Courting Failure in Iran Nuke Talks</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/28/courting-failure-in-iran-nuke-talks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2012 14:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://consortiumnews.com/?p=4174</guid>
		
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In rebuffing Iran’s concessions on its nuclear program, the Obama administration is bending to hard-line neocon pressures at home and Israeli demands abroad. But it also appears stuck on the notion of permanent U.S. hegemony in the Middle East, says national security expert Flynt Leverett at www.RaceForIran.com. By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett On Antiwar Radio, Flynt Leverett reviewed the P5+1 nuclear talks with the Islamic Republic, noting that President Barack Obama and his...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>How al-Qaeda Exploits Palestine Cause</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/27/how-al-qaeda-exploits-palestine-cause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 19:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: When U.S. Special Forces raided Osama bin Laden’s compound last year, they grabbed al-Qaeda documents describing internal debates, including how the terror group should continue exploiting Israel’s abuse of Palestinians as a crucial recruitment pitch, reports Robert Parry. By Robert Parry The documents captured in last year’s raid that killed Osama bin Laden reveal al-Qaeda’s intent to keep its propaganda focus on Western double standards and Israel’s mistreatment of...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Bible’s Vile Standards of Marriage</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/27/the-bibles-vile-standards-of-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 14:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Religious fundamentalists object to same-sex marriage as a violation of Biblical standards. But the actual Biblical marriage standards treat women as chattel and let men have multiple wives, along with concubines and sex-slaves, an inconvenient truth that Rev. Howard Bess notes. By the Rev. Howard Bess We all have in our mind’s eye the classic image of a preacher raising the Bible in hand and declaring that something is true because it is written in the Bible, the unchallengeable word of God....]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Memorial Day Gas Lower than Bush’s</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/25/memorial-day-gas-lower-than-bushs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 17:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Exclusive: A top Republican indictment of President Obama has been the surge in gas prices and his supposed inability to constrain them. But gas prices have been dropping and are now lower than they were last Memorial Day – and lower even than the last Memorial Day under President George W. Bush – notes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry Even as Republican Mitt Romney continues to chide President Barack Obama over gas prices, Americans head into the Memorial Day weekend, the traditional start of the...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Honoring Troops with the Truth</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/25/honoring-troops-with-the-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 13:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[America is awash in media detailing the lives of celebrities and the latest turns in political polls, but rarely addressing the painful questions about the dark side of U.S. foreign policy, a topic that Bill Moyers and Michael Winship say should be confronted this Memorial Day. By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Facing the truth is hard to do, especially the truth about ourselves. So Americans have been sorely pressed to come to terms with the fact that after 9/11 our government began to...]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>West Rebuffs Iran’s Concessions</title>
		<link>http://consortiumnews.com/2012/05/24/west-rebuffs-irans-concessions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 16:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So far, the West is taking a hard line in talks with Iran, responding to its concessions on its nuclear program with only modest rewards and, indeed, with new threats of sanctions. U.S. politicians, in particular, are bending to Israeli demands for either Iranian capitulation or war, a worry to ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. By Paul R. Pillar In looking at the state of play after a day of talks in Baghdad between Iran and the P5+1, one has to ask how much of what is impeding progress is the...]]></content:encoded>
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