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		<title>Georgia (and Oil) On My Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/05/03/georgia-and-oil-on-my-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 04:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Buzzanco</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush administration:  2001-2008]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In early August 2008, Russian officials ordered air strikes against Georgia, a republic directly south of it and bordered by Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, and sent tanks and troops into South Ossetia, a region in northern Georgia that had claimed its independence from the central government in Tbilisi.  The Russians explained that peacekeeping units they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who you gonna believe?  Me or your lyin&#8217; eyes?</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/04/30/who-you-gonna-believe-me-or-your-lyin-eyes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Buzzanco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog, my esteemed colleague from the great state of Lester Maddox and Saxby Chambliss [and, coming from the state that's given us Tom DeLay, George W. Bush, and the best damned secessionist movement south of Todd Palin's snow machine, I say that endearingly] talked about torture and the so-called one-percent solution, i.e. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plaintains and Fried Rice, Dollars and Yuan: Latin America, the PRC, and the United States</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/04/19/plaintains-and-fried-rice-dollars-and-yuan-latin-america-the-prc-and-the-united-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Buzzanco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Americas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Castro]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ghost in the room, Cuba, was the most important topic when President Barack Obama, in his opening remarks at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, offered a &#8220;new beginning&#8221; with Havana.  The specifics at this point are not huge: family travel, remittances, perhaps Cuban membership in the OAS, but Obama has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just One More Hit . . .</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/04/10/just-one-more-hit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Buzzanco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arms Trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[military budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just One More Hit and I&#8217;m Done . . . I Mean It This Time
President Barack &#8220;Frankie Machine&#8221; Obama asked congress on April 9th for &#8220;quick approval&#8221; of an $83.4 billion appropriation to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and other military needs, through September 30th this year.  Obama, who had pledged to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living Up to Khmer Rouge Standards?</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/03/31/living-up-to-khmer-rouge-standards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Buzzanco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush administration:  2001-2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gonzales]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[


Kaing Khek Iev, who went by the nom de guerre Duch when he ran the Khmer Rouge torture center Tuol Sleng in Phnom   Penh, where about 16,000 Cambodians were killed during the Pol Pot years, spoke to the court where he is on trial for his war crimes. &#8220;I am responsible for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dedicated Follower of Fascism . . . er, Fashion</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/03/21/dedicated-follower-of-fascism-er-fashion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/03/21/dedicated-follower-of-fascism-er-fashion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Buzzanco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Post-9/11:  2001-present]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many soldiers in the Israeli Defense Forces [IDF] get customized T-Shirts made for their units, not an unusual military custom.  Some of the slogans and images, however, are incredibly revealing about Israel&#8217;s attitudes toward Palestinians and their ongoing slaughter of Arabs, abetted by U.S. money and munitions, and facilitated by outcries of anger, but little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Cambodias</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/03/17/obamas-cambodias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Buzzanco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama administration:  2009-present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam:  1961-1975]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cambodia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama has, appropriately, announced a drawdown of the war in Iraq, and most American troops should be withdrawn by next summer.  Kudos to him.  Still, &#8220;The Chosen One&#8221; is playing with fire in the region, on a few counts.  First, his withdrawal from Iraq is not a complete one, and he anticipates U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Manchurian President</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/22/the-manchurian-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/22/the-manchurian-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Buzzanco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush administration:  2001-2008]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[economic deficits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[George W. Bush  is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I&#8217;ve ever known in my life.
Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, virtually the entire media,  intellectuals, and most members of the U.S. congress
*****
In late 2006 I wrote a piece for History News Network that was titled and asked &#8220;Is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War is Still a Racket&#8211;the U.S. and Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/18/war-is-still-a-racket-the-us-and-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/18/war-is-still-a-racket-the-us-and-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Buzzanco</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foreign aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush administration:  2001-2008]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson administration:  1963-1969]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Anti-Americanism is resurging in the Arab world,&#8221; the secretary of state reported  to U.S. embassies throughout the Middle  East.  &#8220;Recent bombings . . . vitriolic public statements by . . . high officials . . . diatribes and fantastic rumors,&#8221; he explained, &#8220;all testify to the reenkindling of Arab animosity against the United States.&#8221;  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worse than Terror</title>
		<link>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/11/worse-than-terror/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shafr.org/2009/01/11/worse-than-terror/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Buzzanco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s harder every day to read about Gaza.  I go to the sports page, do the crossword puzzle, even check out the celebrity gossip.  It&#8217;s so bad that I read about the economic cataclysm we&#8217;re facing in order to avoid confronting the daily atrocities from Palestine.   But avoidance only works for so long, and I [...]]]></description>
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