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		<title>What Would Martin Luther King, Jr. Say About Barack Obama and Cory Booker?</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Image of Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking &#160; We don&#8217;t have to guess. Dr. King already made his statement on such politicians in the piece &#8220;The Black Power Defined,&#8221; June 11, 1967 “The majority of Negro political leaders do not ascend to prominence on the shoulders of mass support. Although genuinely popular leaders are now [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Bernie Sanders is the Most Important Thing To Happen in American Politics Since Ronald Reagan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2017 20:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The most important thing to happen in American politics since Ronald Reagan, contrary to what people believe was not Barack Obama. It was Bernie Sanders. Sanders&#8217; 2016 presidential campaign did more to introduce mainstream Americans to real left progressive politics than any person in the modern history of American politics, and I say that as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why America Deserves Donald Trump as President</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2016 00:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[America deserves Donald Trump as a president. He is the most accurate representation of every vile and base motivation that gave birth to this White Settler Colonial Project called America. Those are the most honest motivations of course. He is literally what America would look like if embodied in a human being; with all its [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>On The Fourth of July, Thank the Most Important Founding Father: Haiti&#8217;s Jean-Jacques Dessalines</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2016 15:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[                                       Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Founder of the nation of Haiti With the rise of Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee for the 2016 presidential election, a reactionary nativism has taken hold in America. Resentment towards immigrants and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>When Haiti Defeated the British Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2016 15:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; In the wake of the BREXIT vote which has the world reeling after Great Britain decided to abandon the European Union, much has been said about the historical scope, power, and influence of the British Empire throughout history.  At its apex the British Empire was the most powerful geopolitical force on earth. What many [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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