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		<title>It is Summer 2009, and John McCain is President</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/06/16/it-is-summer-2009-and-john-mccain-is-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Salon 
By Michael Lind
Picture, if you will, an America apparently like our own. A country like ours bogged down in war on two fronts and suffering from the greatest economic slump since the Great Depression of the 1930s. An America indistinguishable from ours in every respect except that when you turn on the nightly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hold Your Applause</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/06/08/hold-your-applause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From TruthDig
By Chris Hedges
Did they play  Barack Obama’s speech to the Muslim world in the prison corridors of Abu Ghraib, Bagram air base, Guantanamo or the dozens of secret sites where we hold thousands of Muslims around the world? Did it echo off the walls of the crowded morgues filled with the mutilated bodies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Muslim-World Rock Star</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/06/03/obama-muslim-world-rock-star/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Salon
By Juan Cole
President Barack Obama is famously much better at playing basketball than at bowling. But to succeed in the Middle East, he needs to be good at a different game altogether: golf. There are no fast-paced victories to be had here, no dunks, no three-point shots. As in golf, the sand traps and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police State is the Wrong Venue for Obama&#8217;s Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/06/03/police-state-is-the-wrong-venue-for-obamas-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Common Dreams
By Robert Fisk
Maybe Barack Obama chose Egypt for his &#8220;great message&#8221; to Muslims tomorrow because it contains a quarter of the world&#8217;s Arab population, but he is also coming to one of the region&#8217;s most repressed, undemocratic and ruthless police states. Egyptian human rights groups &#8211; when they are not themselves being harassed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush&#8217;s Shocking Biblical Prophecy Emerges: God Wants to &#8220;Erase&#8221; Mid-East Enemies &#8220;Before a New Age Begins&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/05/25/bushs-shocking-biblical-prophecy-emerges-god-wants-to-erase-mid-east-enemies-before-a-new-age-begins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 14:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AlterNet
By Clive Anderson
The revelation this month in GQ Magazine that Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary embellished top-secret wartime memos with quotations from the Bible prompts a question. Why did he believe he could influence President Bush by that means?
The answer may lie in an alarming story about George Bush&#8217;s Christian millenarian beliefs that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;US Special Squad Killed Benazir&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/05/19/us-special-squad-killed-benazir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 19:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Nation PK
Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, which had already killed the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and the army chief of that country.
The squad was headed by General Stanley McChrystal, the newly-appointed commander [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Flash the Yellow Light</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/04/13/dont-flash-the-yellow-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Tom Dispatch
By Roane Carey
Israel has been steadily ratcheting up pressure on the United States concerning the grave threat allegedly posed by Iran, which seems poised to master the nuclear fuel cycle, and thus the capacity to produce nuclear weapons. The new Israeli prime minister, Likud Party hawk Benjamin Netanyahu, has warned President Barack Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Once You See What Truly Happened in Gaza, it Will Change You Forever</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/02/20/once-you-see-what-truly-happened-in-gaza-it-will-change-you-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AlterNet
By Medea Benjami
When I traveled to Gaza last week, everywhere I went, a photo haunted me. I saw it in a brochure called &#8220;Gaza will not die&#8221; that Hamas gives out to visitors at the border crossing. A poster-sized version was posted outside a makeshift memorial at the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel Launches Covert War Against Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/02/18/israel-launches-covert-war-against-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/02/18/israel-launches-covert-war-against-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Telegraph UK
By Philip Sherwell
It is using hitmen, sabotage, front companies and double agents to disrupt the regime&#8217;s illicit weapons project, the experts say.
The most dramatic element of the &#8220;decapitation&#8221; programme is the planned assassination of top figures involved in Iran&#8217;s atomic operations.
Despite fears in Israel and the US that Iran is approaching the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War Reporters Used To Prefer Morality Over Impartiality</title>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/02/08/war-reporters-used-to-prefer-morality-over-impartiality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2009/02/08/war-reporters-used-to-prefer-morality-over-impartiality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Independent UK
By Robert Fisk
I wonder whether we show the same power and passion as the earlier generations
The &#8220;normality&#8221; of war, part two. We had a great storm in Beirut this week, thunder-cracks like gunfire, great green waves crashing below my balcony, rain like hail. So I curled up on my balcony sofa – [...]]]></description>
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