<?xml  version='1.0'   encoding='UTF-8'  ?><rss  version='2.0'   xmlns:content='http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/'   xmlns:wfw='http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/'   xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'   xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'   xmlns:sy='http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/'   xmlns:itunes='http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd'   xmlns:slash='http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/'  ><channel><title>The Unz Review: Philip Giraldi's Articles</title><atom:link href='https://www.unz.com/xfeed/rss/pgiraldi/'  rel='self'  type='application/rss+xml' /><link>https://www.unz.com</link><description>A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media</description><lastBuildDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:16:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><language>en-US</language><sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod><sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency><generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.9</generator>
<item><title>Trump and Netanyahu Want to “Finish the Job” on Iran, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/trump-and-netanyahu-want-to-finish-the-job-on-iran/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/trump-and-netanyahu-want-to-finish-the-job-on-iran/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:01:01 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=560681</guid><description><![CDATA[If one were seeking to create something like a modern-day folk tale based on current realities and having the theme of “good versus evil” there are any number of real-life narratives available that could be exploited to invite speculation on actual environments that might have served as models for the fiction. I have found much...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>10</slash:comments></item><item><title>Are the United States and Israel in Decline-and-Fall Mode?, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/are-the-united-states-and-israel-in-decline-and-fall-mode/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/are-the-united-states-and-israel-in-decline-and-fall-mode/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:01:09 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=560517</guid><description><![CDATA[Speculation is growing over the sustainability of the United States’ model of global dominance which emerged as Washington ended the Second World War as plausibly the sole superpower. That role was first tested in the Korean War, which produced something of a stalemate in a confrontation that included China, and led to a Ceasefire Agreement...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>238</slash:comments></item><item><title>When Will This White House Madness End?, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/when-will-this-white-house-madness-end/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/when-will-this-white-house-madness-end/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:00:48 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=560342</guid><description><![CDATA[It was another horrific week in Washington with President Donald Trump actually succeeding in coming out with an apparently improvised comment that equaled or maybe even exceeded his ghastly performance at the United Nations where he speculated over whether he should “annihilate” Iran and drive it back into the Stone Age. It would seem that...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>191</slash:comments></item><item><title>America’s National Security Scam Rolls On, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/americas-national-security-scam-rolls-on/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/americas-national-security-scam-rolls-on/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:00:35 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=560151</guid><description><![CDATA[Once upon a time the United States of America was confident that it, shielded by broad oceans to the East and West and having friendly countries that it dominated economically and militarily to the North and South, was safe from any threat by any foreign nation or even any combination of nations. Washington was confident...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>111</slash:comments></item><item><title>Another Week of Dangerous Nonsense from Donald Trump, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/another-week-of-dangerous-nonsense-from-donald-trump/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/another-week-of-dangerous-nonsense-from-donald-trump/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:00:49 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=559939</guid><description><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine how President Donald Trump’s insane assertions might go beyond the point of being merely demented to something far worse, i.e. catastrophic. Last week provided one such experience when Trump reportedly rushed back from Camp David to the White House so he could contemplate the possibility of “annihilating Iran” with the...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>231</slash:comments></item><item><title>A New Washington Colossus, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/a-new-washington-colossus/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/a-new-washington-colossus/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=559741</guid><description><![CDATA[The excitement In Washington is palpable with the announcement that President Donald Trump has a new project to help beautify the city on top of the huge banners bearing his image festooning the fronts of government buildings, his billion dollar White House fortified ballroom, the paving of the rose garden, the enlarging of the helicopter...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>104</slash:comments></item><item><title>Front Row At the Revolution, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/front-row-at-the-revolution/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/front-row-at-the-revolution/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:00:54 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=559570</guid><description><![CDATA[I spent the past weekend as a participant in the annual Ron Paul Institute conference that takes place in the Washington area, in northern Virginia. This year the theme was “Front Row at the Revolution” and the circa 500 attendees that filled the Hilton Hotel ballroom certainly got what the gathering’s theme sought to deliver....]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>273</slash:comments></item><item><title>The CIA's John Ratcliffe Goes to Moscow, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-cias-john-ratcliffe-goes-to-moscow/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-cias-john-ratcliffe-goes-to-moscow/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:00:59 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=559341</guid><description><![CDATA[Last Monday the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director (DCI) John Ratcliffe and his retinue boarded a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Joint Base Andrews airfield in Maryland, stopped presumably to refuel at the Riga airport in NATO member Latvia, and then flew on to land at Vnukovo International Airport, one of the...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>113</slash:comments></item><item><title>Dumb and Dumber, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/dumb-and-dumber/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/dumb-and-dumber/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 04:00:25 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=559178</guid><description><![CDATA[As I have observed in the past, it is possible to be entertained nearly every week by the antics of President Donald J Trump, though one’s amusement often changes to annoyance or even to disgust when the consequences of the behavior become clear. To be sure, it would be difficult to top the just surfaced...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>106</slash:comments></item><item><title>Switching Presidential Planes in Ankara, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/switching-presidential-planes-in-ankara/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/switching-presidential-planes-in-ankara/#comments</comments><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:00:50 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=558947</guid><description><![CDATA[Hardly a week goes by when Donald Trump is not the centerpiece and source of a lie so outrageous or an accusation so heinous that one has to sit back gazing at one’s computer screen, stunned by the audacity and shaking one’s head in disbelief. But even after what is now more than a year...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>191</slash:comments></item><item><title>Another Strange Week in Trumpland, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/another-strange-week-in-trumpland/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/another-strange-week-in-trumpland/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:15:29 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=558759</guid><description><![CDATA[Some weeks it is difficult to pick out the most shocking stories symptomatic of decline and fall of American governmental integrity both in Washington and often at state levels. The White House and Congress frequently lead in that reckoning given the complete abandonment of any United States government’s effort to make its policies and legislation...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>159</slash:comments></item><item><title>Washington May Be Learning to Live with Iran, Ukraine and Israel, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/washington-may-be-learning-to-live-with-iran-ukraine-and-israel/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/washington-may-be-learning-to-live-with-iran-ukraine-and-israel/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:10:05 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=558526</guid><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump met with both President Volodymyr Zelenski of Ukraine and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Tuesday in private sessions lacking the usual fanfare, photo ops and press releases. The men were in town to participate in the funeral services for recently departed Senator Lindsey Graham, who was a great friend of...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>162</slash:comments></item><item><title>They Are Coming to Take Us Away, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/they-are-coming-to-take-us-away/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/they-are-coming-to-take-us-away/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:02:14 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=558285</guid><description><![CDATA[In Donald Trump’s America it is always possible to wake up in the morning and peruse online the overnight headlines to discover something new and exciting. Over the past week it has been a medley of going to war (again) with Iran coupled with a complicated performance on other issues as President Trump apparently takes...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>158</slash:comments></item><item><title>A Delusional Trump Has Another Exciting Week, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/a-delusional-trump-has-another-exciting-week/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/a-delusional-trump-has-another-exciting-week/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 04:00:37 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=558044</guid><description><![CDATA[There is a good thing about having Donald J Trump as president and that is how during a normal week he will say or do a number of incredibly stupid things that make one want to smile or even laugh outright. Unfortunately, however, the fun stops shortly after that point when one recalls that the...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>154</slash:comments></item><item><title>Is America Truly Becoming a “Zionocracy?”, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/is-america-truly-becoming-a-zionocracy/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/is-america-truly-becoming-a-zionocracy/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:02:59 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=557813</guid><description><![CDATA[The country that once was the United States of America is now, in its 250th year, led by a president whose ignorance of history and policy is so profound that almost anything goes, including the initiation of wars fought for a foreign nation that is widely regarded as manifestly evil. I am of course speaking...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>169</slash:comments></item><item><title>Are There Really Iran-US Peace Talks?, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/are-there-really-iran-us-peace-talks/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/are-there-really-iran-us-peace-talks/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:04:48 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=557657</guid><description><![CDATA[No week goes by in Washington without another display of Trumpism, i.e. the expressed desire by the president to turn our constitutional republic into an expression of Trump-world that honors and glorifies, as he put it recently, “me.” Trumpean conceit has included his Tr(i)ump(hal) Arch in Arlington, his bid to rename the Kennedy Center, his...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>112</slash:comments></item><item><title>Another Week from Hell, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/another-week-from-hell/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/another-week-from-hell/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:08:38 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=557453</guid><description><![CDATA[The week started on a positive note with President Donald Trump uncharacteristically declaring that a “memorandum of understanding” (MOU) had been achieved by US and Iranian negotiators assisted by Pakistani and Qatari mediators to suspend military action and begin sixty days of discussions in pursuit of a peace agreement. The move was based on a...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>171</slash:comments></item><item><title>Time for Trump to Tell Benjamin Netanyahu to Go Away!, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/time-for-trump-to-tell-benjamin-netanyahu-to-go-away/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/time-for-trump-to-tell-benjamin-netanyahu-to-go-away/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:00:38 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=557306</guid><description><![CDATA[In addition to the regular lethal American and Israeli attacks on Iran, last week alone the Israeli military killed 13 Gazans and 13 Lebanese. Gaza is now 70% Israeli occupied, contrary to what was agreed upon in the ceasefire arrangement, as is much of south Lebanon. More than 1,000 Gazans have been murdered by Israel...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>167</slash:comments></item><item><title>Congress Moves to Institutionalize US-Israeli Relationship, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/congress-moves-to-institutionalize-us-israeli-relationship/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/congress-moves-to-institutionalize-us-israeli-relationship/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:02:22 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=557133</guid><description><![CDATA[There is near certainty that Section 224 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2027 will pass through the House of Representatives to become law this coming week after a failed attempt last Thursday in the House Armed Services Committee to pass an amendment to delete it led by Democratic Party Congressman Ro Khanna...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>122</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Israelization of the United States Military Is Proceeding, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-israelization-of-the-united-states-military-is-proceeding/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-israelization-of-the-united-states-military-is-proceeding/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 04:05:27 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=556928</guid><description><![CDATA[Few Americans know the history of how Israel’s “wag the dog” relationship with the United States developed. Israel’s 1967 successful war against its neighbors demonstrated to military planners in Washington how a qualitative edge in weapons could enable a small country to resist much larger and seemingly more powerful adversaries. Israel was largely supplied with...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>146</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Trump Administration Goes Full Speed Pro-Israel, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-trump-administration-goes-full-speed-pro-israel/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/the-trump-administration-goes-full-speed-pro-israel/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 04:00:03 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=556759</guid><description><![CDATA[If Donald Trump seriously wants a second career after he destroys the United States and a large part of the world he would be well advised to consider becoming a stand-up comedian. He already possesses a huge supply of jokes consisting of his off-the-wall ad-libs when responding to reporters and the public. Most of his...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>119</slash:comments></item><item><title>More Wars and Rumors of Wars, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/more-wars-and-rumors-of-wars/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/more-wars-and-rumors-of-wars/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 04:00:03 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=556563</guid><description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump is back from his business trip to China which had a lot of ambiguity over issues like Taiwan without having done either much discernible damage or benefit to American interests. The trip ended with the American participants dropping all the gifts that they had received from the Chinese into a large garbage...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>147</slash:comments></item><item><title>More Complications Arise In the Trump Universe, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/more-complications-arise-in-the-trump-universe/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/more-complications-arise-in-the-trump-universe/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 04:00:47 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=556372</guid><description><![CDATA[The top story last week, at least in terms of shock value, might well be the ongoing saga of the Trump White House ballroom, which started out as a $200 million development off of the building’s East Wing accommodating 300 guests and completely paid for by private donors. It then grew to 600 guests and...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>109</slash:comments></item><item><title>Trump Strikes Out Again, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/trump-strikes-out-again/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/trump-strikes-out-again/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 04:00:58 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=556162</guid><description><![CDATA[On Friday, Donald Trump was at it again. He posted on Truth Social a photoshopped picture of his face next to those of the four earlier presidents carved in stone on Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. At least he was grinning, not displaying his usual snarl or sneer with his little fist raised defiantly in...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>126</slash:comments></item><item><title>Donald Trump Goes to War, by Philip Giraldi</title><link>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/donald-trump-goes-to-war/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/donald-trump-goes-to-war/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:00:54 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Giraldi]]></dc:creator><guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=555892</guid><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a seemingly insignificant story tells one more about what is going on than the attempts being made to perceive the larger reality. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his army the big developing story was the Roman Republic’s impending Civil War pitting Caesar against the country’s Senate and Pompey the Great, but the...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/postmeta-holder/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>164</slash:comments></item></channel></rss>