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		<title>If You Have to Ask Why, the Answer is Usually ‘Money’</title>
		<link>http://original.antiwar.com/thomas-knapp/2012/02/09/if-you-have-to-ask-why-the-answer-is-usually-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas Knapp</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://original.antiwar.com/?p=2012038817</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One major problem with writing political commentary is that it&#8217;s often difficult look at something that seems … well, crazy … and find a rational explanation for it. It&#8217;s easier to just write off what looks like craziness as craziness and move on. But in the real world, there is in fact method to most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silent State: The Campaign Against Whistleblowers in Washington</title>
		<link>http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2012/02/09/silent-state-the-campaign-against-whistleblowers-in-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2012/02/09/silent-state-the-campaign-against-whistleblowers-in-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Engelhardt</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://original.antiwar.com/?p=2012038819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing is obvious.  No one ever joins the government in order to be a whistleblower or leaker.  Whistleblowers are created, not born.  To offer an example, as Peter Van Buren is happy to admit, before he spent a year on two forward operating bases in Iraq running a State Department provincial reconstruction team, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ‘Cairo 19′ Got What They Deserve</title>
		<link>http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/09/the-cairo-19-got-what-they-deserve/</link>
		<comments>http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/09/the-cairo-19-got-what-they-deserve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Raimondo</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://original.antiwar.com/?p=2012038822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Regime-changers up against the wall in Egypt ]]></description>
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		<title>The Sky Is Falling</title>
		<link>http://original.antiwar.com/pena/2012/02/09/the-sky-is-falling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles V. Peña</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://original.antiwar.com/?p=2012038802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gordon England, deputy secretary of defense under Donald Rumsfeld and Robert Gates, has opined in The Washington Post that the sky is once again falling as a result of proposed Pentagon budget cuts. According to England, “Further budget cuts will erode our security and put the country back on a path leading to another ill-equipped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HRW Urges Iraq To Stop Executions, Two Men Later Hanged</title>
		<link>http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2012/02/09/hrw-urges-iraq-to-stop-executions-two-men-later-hanged/</link>
		<comments>http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2012/02/09/hrw-urges-iraq-to-stop-executions-two-men-later-hanged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Griffis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://original.antiwar.com/?p=2012038814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A U.S.-based human rights group urged Iraq to stop executing detainees, at least until a "flawed criminal justice system" is repaired. Despite the call, two more executions took place today. Four people were killed in other violence, and four Iraqis were wounded.]]></description>
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		<title>The World Turned Upside Down</title>
		<link>http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/02/08/the-world-turned-upside-down-2/</link>
		<comments>http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2012/02/08/the-world-turned-upside-down-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Giraldi</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://original.antiwar.com/?p=2012038805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the British Army of Lord Cornwallis boarded its ships to depart from Yorktown after being defeated by the Continental Army and the French under the command of General George Washington, a regimental band supposedly played an old ballad called “The World Turned Upside Down.” The music was intended to convey that the established order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Global Empire, Yet a United States of Fear</title>
		<link>http://original.antiwar.com/charles-davis-ips/2012/02/08/a-global-empire-yet-a-united-states-of-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Davis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[book review]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://original.antiwar.com/?p=2012038807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By the end of 2011, the United States had elite special operations forces in around 120 of the 192 countries recognized by the United Nations, with U.S. military bases in more than half of the world&#8217;s nation-states. Yet despite this global empire — some would say because of it — the United States is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq To Limit Foreign Contractors, As Violence Continues</title>
		<link>http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2012/02/08/iraq-to-limit-foreign-contractors-as-violence-continues/</link>
		<comments>http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2012/02/08/iraq-to-limit-foreign-contractors-as-violence-continues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Margaret Griffis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a government spokesman spoke against foreign contractors, at least two Iraqis were killed and 19 more were wounded in new attacks. Also, fourteen people found guilty on terrorism charges were executed despite recent international condemnation of Iraq's justice system and it use of the death penalty. ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Super-Bowl Fumble on Iran</title>
		<link>http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2012/02/07/obamas-super-bowl-fumble-on-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2012/02/07/obamas-super-bowl-fumble-on-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray McGovern</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://original.antiwar.com/?p=2012038796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before President Barack Obama’s interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, aired before the Super Bowl on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu probably hoped that, if Obama discussed Iran, he would give him the strong backing that Israeli leaders crave, freeing them to lash out at Iran — militarily, if they so choose. Few could have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Bloodstained Hands</title>
		<link>http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/07/our-bloodstained-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/02/07/our-bloodstained-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Raimondo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The stage is set, the actors are in their places, and the orchestra strikes up the prelude: all that remains is for the curtain to rise on Act One of “World War III in the Middle East.” The stage set: a street somewhere in Syria, where mysterious armed gangs [.pdf] roam freely, attacking civilians, kidnapping [...]]]></description>
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