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		<title>Howard Zinn, Historian Who Challenged Status Quo, Dies at 87</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Common Dreams
By Mark Feeney
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and a leading faculty critic of BU president John Silber, died of a heart attack today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling, his family said. He was 87.
&#8220;His writings have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2010/01/27/howard-zinn-historian-who-challenged-status-quo-dies-at-87/</link>
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		<title>Remembering Howard Zinn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Progressive
By Elizabeth DiNovella
I am deeply saddened by the news of the death of Howard Zinn. He was a longtime columnist for The Progressive, and his most recent piece, “The Nobel’s Feeble Gesture,” expressed his dismay about President Obama getting the Nobel Peace Prize.
Here’s an excerpt:
“I think some progressives have forgotten the history of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2010/01/27/remembering-howard-zinn/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye Howard Zinn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Nation
By Peter Rothberg
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and the author of the seminal A People&#8217;s History of the United States, died today at the age of 87 of a heart attack in Santa Monica, California. He was in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2010/01/27/goodbye-howard-zinn/</link>
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		<title>Pentagon Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Tom Dispatch
By Tom Engelhardt
Back in 2007, when General David Petraeus was the surge commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, he had a penchant for clock imagery.  In an interview in April of that year, he typically said:  “I&#8217;m conscious of a couple of things. One is that the Washington clock is moving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2010/01/27/pentagon-time/</link>
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		<title>A Supreme Victory for Special Interests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From TruthDig
By John Dean
The conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court has given a monumental victory to special interests—i.e., the big money corporations, the folks who already dominate Washington politics—with its ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Anthony Kennedy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2010/01/22/a-supreme-victory-for-special-interests/</link>
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		<title>The Bush-Packed Supreme Court Thinks Corporations Are People Too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From AlterNet
By Scott Klinger
This week&#8217;s Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case removes all limits on large corporations to finance and influence federal elections. In its ruling the court reverses a decades-old ruling barring companies from using their general funds to fund political campaigns, and guts pieces of the popular McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2010/01/22/the-bush-packed-supreme-court-thinks-corporations-are-people-too/</link>
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		<title>Democratic Corporatism Brings Reagan Back from the Grave</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From TruthDig
By David Sirota
“After months of struggling to find their footing, it looks like the GOP has finally found an effective spokesman: Republican leaders have unveiled the reanimated corpse of Ronald Reagan (and) the undead former president has quickly emerged as the new face of the Republican Party.”—The Onion
This line from a recent satire perfectly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2010/01/22/democratic-corporatism-brings-reagan-back-from-the-grave/</link>
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		<title>Lessons from America&#8217;s Lost Decade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Consortium News
By Robert Parry
As the United States takes the measure of Barack Obama’s first year in the White House and looks beyond to what could be a difficult new decade, it might be useful to first stop and extract some lessons from the 2000s, which proved to be a lost economic decade for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2010/01/22/lessons-from-americas-lost-decade/</link>
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		<title>How Obama Lost His Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Consortium News
By Robert Parry
President Barack Obama spent his first year in office trying to reassure the Washington/New York establishments that he was not going to upset their apple carts too much, that they shouldn’t panic, that he would – despite all the speeches – be more about continuity than change.
 And he succeeded. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2010/01/21/how-obama-lost-his-way/</link>
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		<title>Justices Overturn Key Campaign Limits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The NY Times
By Adam Liptak
Sweeping aside a century-old understanding and overruling two important precedents, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.
The ruling was a vindication, the majority said, of the First Amendment’s most basic free speech principle — that the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2010/01/21/justices-overturn-key-campaign-limits/</link>
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