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      <title>Insulting the Turkish nation</title>
      <description>Turkey's brutal treatment of protesters occurs within a context of neoliberal oppression, writes author.</description>
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      <title>Chasing Islamic 'terrorists' in Paraguay</title>
      <description>The search for the Islamic bogeyman terror organisation in South America is fruitless because none exist.</description>
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      <title>Rape culture in the US military</title>
      <description>There is a lot of talk but little action when it comes to combating rape in the American military.</description>
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      <title>Paraguay's rightward spiral</title>
      <description>The "new direction" newly-elected Horacio Cartes has promised for Paraguay is hardly new at all.</description>
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      <title>Breeding mental illness in the US</title>
      <description>Rampant over-prescribing of drugs contributes to a system that is better at producing disorders than rectifying them. </description>
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      <title>How to write about Muslims</title>
      <description>Media depictions of Muslims kill two birds with one stone, justifying oppression at home and imperial devastation abroad</description>
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      <title>Facebook and the disintegration of the human</title>
      <description>Is Facebook a boon or cause for concern for the mental health industry? </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:53:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hasbara tourism in Israel</title>
      <description>Hasbara tours want to "excise every bit of Palestinian reality from the landscape" to showcase a fantastic Jewish state.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:22:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bolton celebrates Iraq War</title>
      <description>Bolton may "celebrate Iraq", but how many US citizens support the volume of financial resources spent on that war? </description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:07:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Wanted: Arab Tom Friedmans</title>
      <description>The columnist appears to want nothing more than to remake the Arab/Muslim world to fit his neoliberal ideas. </description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:50:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The caudillo and the columnist: O'Grady on Chavez</title>
      <description>The Wall Street Journal's Mary O'Grady trashes Chavez yet hypocritically pours lavish praise on Uribe.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 13:08:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Chavez's 'polarising' death</title>
      <description>Although villainised as "polarising" by the media, Chavez enjoyed broad support at home, especially among the poor.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:43:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Charter cities: Neoliberal viagra </title>
      <description>If Lobo wants to promote a "democratic image of Honduras", he should refrain from presiding over "illegitimate regime".</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:05:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Framing Hezbollah for the Bulgaria bombing?</title>
      <description>Effort to incriminate Hezbollah in murderous activity against Israeli citizens abroad seems to be politically motivated.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:24:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Towards a police state in New York</title>
      <description>Muslims in the New York City area experiencing major violations of their civil and human rights, says author. </description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:53:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dershowitz fights academic freedom at Brooklyn College</title>
      <description>Alan Dershowitz's call to boycott a Political Science department should be dismissed by anyone concerned with justice.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:23:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Birthright project: relocation and procreation</title>
      <description>A "birthright" programme that sends youth to Israel promulgates a sense of "fabricated entitlement".</description>
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      <title>Black-and-whitewashing the US military</title>
      <description>Championing the US military as a catalyst for social change and development seems a touch disingenuous, writes author. </description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:37:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel's insecurity industry</title>
      <description>Israel thrives in the security market by taking advantage of the insecurity of some developing nations.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:42:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Reviving the cold war</title>
      <description>Iran is lurking along the southern fringes of the US, necessitating Obama to "address the growing hostile presence". </description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:25:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>'Foreign Policy' magazine's 'distinguished' Global Thinkers</title>
      <description>FP purports to "present a unique portrait of 2012's global marketplace of ideas and the thinkers who make them".</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:16:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>France's Le Pen battles 'Islamonazi occupation'</title>
      <description>Le Pen lays the blame for France's retreat from its position as "one of the richest countries" on "immigration".</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 07:39:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The disproportionate value of Israeli life</title>
      <description>Israel's history has constituted one steady reaffirmation of the inferior value of Arab life.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:03:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Connecticut massacre and America's estrangement from reality</title>
      <description>In the wake of the Connecticut school massacre, gun control is just one of many issues requiring attention in the US.</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:23:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Humans and prima donnas in the Lebanese civil war</title>
      <description>Photographer George Azar's experience in documenting the Lebanese civil war was pointedly different than Friedman's.</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/12/2012121171929581299.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 14:13:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Honour crimes and Islamophobia</title>
      <description>By adopting honour killings as a pet topic, Zionists and other right-wing forces seek to "delegitimise Muslim society".</description>
      <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/12/201212712188488887.html</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:51:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dirty white gold</title>
      <description>Monsanto's claim that it's a "sustainable agriculture company" doesn't hold water.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:37:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Panama and Israel: A special relationship</title>
      <description>Martinelli's efforts to intertwine his economy with Israel shows Panama will continue to "bank on Palestine denial".</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:24:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dershowitz versus Gaza</title>
      <description>Alan Dershowitz routinely defends immoral behaviour by the Israeli army by vilifying civilians killed by Israel.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:36:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Terror in Gaza</title>
      <description>The assault on Gaza does not constitute, as Israel claims, "retaliation" for an anti-tank missile fired by Palestinians.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:19:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The purity of drones</title>
      <description>Israel's drone export business to Latin America is leading Colombia to replicate the economic model.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:02:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Orientalism with a surgical twist</title>
      <description>Representation of Beirut as a "Middle Eastern Paris brimming with wealth" can function on behalf of imperialism. </description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:02:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bombs and blame in Beirut</title>
      <description>Fingers were quickly pointed towards Assad after the assassination in Beirut, but there are others with much to gain.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:34:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Meet Ayoub: The Muslim drone</title>
      <description>Israel has entered the airspace beyond the Lebanon border with impunity, yet is in uproar over the existence of Ayoub. </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:01:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Paramilitarism and the assault on democracy in Haiti</title>
      <description>Haiti's brutal paramilitary campaigns received scant media coverage, while "political violence" was decried at length.</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:20:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>'From the Ruins of Empire': Interview with Pankaj Mishra</title>
      <description>The central event of the last century for the majority of the world was the political awakening of Asia, writes Mishra.</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:25:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Neo-Nazis, gangs and criminals in the US military</title>
      <description>Escalating militarisation of the US police force to deal with "military-trained thugs" will not bode well for civilians.</description>
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      <title>The power of Cuba's free healthcare</title>
      <description>The US's notion of health care as a commodity is countered by the virtues of free health provision in Cuba. </description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:27:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Partitioning Honduras: The advent of charter cities</title>
      <description>A proposal to build 'quasi-independent city-states' appears to be an affront to democracy and civic life.</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:50:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Puerto Rico's outlaw police force</title>
      <description>Police in the US territory have been accused of civil rights abuses and overzealous crackdowns on peaceful protests.</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:51:22 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Police pseudoscience and the 'War on Terror'</title>
      <description>The New York Police Department is taking a troubling approach to perceived threats from American Muslims.</description>
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      <title>The passion of Bradley Manning</title>
      <description>Many have questioned Manning's sanity for allegedly releasing US military files, but who's questioning military tactics?</description>
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      <title>In search of the 'Islamic menace' in Bolivia</title>
      <description>One US congresswoman is convinced that the Iranian government is a danger to Latin American countries such as Bolivia.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:59:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Burning the dregs of Honduran society</title>
      <description>The fire that killed more than 300 prisoners in Honduras wasn't an accident entirely without blame.</description>
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      <title>The many faces of human rights terrorism</title>
      <description>The level of support among young Peruvians for Movadef is an effect of the state's campaign against historical memory.</description>
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      <title>A convergence of convergences: Friedman vs Parenti</title>
      <description>Christian Parenti's latest book is in stark contrast with the "convergences" discussed by pundit Thomas Friedman.</description>
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      <title>Terrorism and development in Peru</title>
      <description>If Humala wants to be re-elected, he has to look into anti-poverty, healthcare, education and other initiatives.</description>
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      <title>Israel's humane society</title>
      <description>The compassion shown for animals may well surpass that shown towards Israel's Arab population, says author. </description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:16:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ahmadinejad contemplates Latin America caliphate</title>
      <description>Belen Fernandez discusses Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad's trip to Latin America and plots galore.</description>
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      <title>Private security and 'the Israelites of Latin America'</title>
      <description>An Israeli defence consultancy is assisting with dirty work in Colombia previously monopolised by the United States.</description>
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