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	<title>Crikey &#187; Jeff Sparrow</title>
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		<title>Do you know what it says on the death certificate for anyone who&#8217;s executed?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/23/troy-davis-execution-and-capital-punishment-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/23/troy-davis-execution-and-capital-punishment-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 03:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troy Davis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Troy Davis execution reminds us that capital punishment in the US has an intimate relationship with race, and while plenty of US liberals are against the death penalty, three times as many Americans say they strongly favour executions.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why the Palestine Papers matter to the peace process</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/25/why-the-palestine-papers-matter-to-the-peace-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/25/why-the-palestine-papers-matter-to-the-peace-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[al jazeera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine Papers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WikiLeaks news]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=198860</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why do al-Jazeera’s Palestine Papers matter so much? Well, because they puncture the central fictions upon which the so-called peace process has always depended.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>The social significance of the Arizona massacre</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/13/the-social-significance-of-the-arizona-massacre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/13/the-social-significance-of-the-arizona-massacre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jared Loughner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Tea Party movement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=196485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are now seeing a concerted attempt to obscure and confuse the meaning of the terrorist act that took place in Tucson, Arizona.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Our moral duty to stay in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/14/rethinking-afghanistan-what-about-our-moral-duty-to-stay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/14/rethinking-afghanistan-what-about-our-moral-duty-to-stay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian defence force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rethinking Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=178276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that much of Afghanistan’s current misery can be traced back to the willingness of the Soviets and the US to fund various groups of cut-throats during the cold war. We’re doing exactly the same today.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>51</slash:comments>
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		<title>The war in Afghanistan remains out of the sight out of mind</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/23/should-politicians-attend-military-funerals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/23/should-politicians-attend-military-funerals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=156206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most Australians now oppose the conflict in Afghanistan. Yet, perversely, its very unpopularity has led to less rather than more public debate about the war.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Afghanistan: another 30 years?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/15/afghanistan-another-30-years-puts-us-in-for-the-very-long-haul/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/06/15/afghanistan-another-30-years-puts-us-in-for-the-very-long-haul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Australian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=145774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, with very little fanfare, Afghanistan became the longest war in US history. Where are the mea culpas from all the experts whose earnest predictions about Afghanistan went so terribly awry?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>War criminal to hero &#8230; a dangerous precedent</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/15/war-criminal-to-hero-a-dangerous-precedent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/15/war-criminal-to-hero-a-dangerous-precedent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boer War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breaker Morant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colin Campbell Ross]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harry Morant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Morgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rob Hulls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=116514</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A campaign of assassination of local leaders thought to be loyal to the Taliban contains an obvious potential for human rights abuses, especially since it’s almost impossible for the media to monitor what undercover troops actually do.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Monckton&#8217;s Melbourne meeting: a gathering of men in Richie Benaud blazers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/04/moncktons-melbourne-meeting-a-gathering-of-men-in-richie-benaud-blazers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/04/moncktons-melbourne-meeting-a-gathering-of-men-in-richie-benaud-blazers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizen Electoral Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emissions Trading Scheme]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lord Monckton]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=114139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What's it like to attend a Lord Monckton meeting? For the cheering crowd of Old-Australia-RSL-club climate change deniers who flocked to see him, it was like a rock concert.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/04/moncktons-melbourne-meeting-a-gathering-of-men-in-richie-benaud-blazers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>265</slash:comments>
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		<title>Future Afghan government will include Taliban</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/03/future-afghan-government-will-include-taliban/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/03/future-afghan-government-will-include-taliban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al-Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=113797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nine years of bloodshed and death, and billions upon billions of dollars spent on the Afghanistan occupation, we are facing negotiations on significantly worse terms than before the war began. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/02/03/future-afghan-government-will-include-taliban/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>ASIO, not the government, calling the shots on refugees</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/13/asio-not-the-government-calling-the-shots-on-refugees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/13/asio-not-the-government-calling-the-shots-on-refugees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nauru]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oceanic viking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamils]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilson Tuckey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=109291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ASIO says that five refugees from <em>Oceanic Viking</em> constitute a threat to national security. How can this be a healthy democratic country when a secret agency plays such a major role in a political debate, without even making its sources available? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conroy&#8217;s filter: a nude horse</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/17/conroys-filter-a-nude-horse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/17/conroys-filter-a-nude-horse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Firewall of Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Conroy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=106577</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Conroy's internet filter smells just like a campaign to put clothes upon the world's animals. It will generate headlines about decency and families, but leave the fundamentals of society entirely untouched.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who will claim patrimony over Tony Abbott&#8217;s ascension?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/01/who-will-claim-patrimony-over-tony-abbotts-ascension/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/01/who-will-claim-patrimony-over-tony-abbotts-ascension/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Turnbull]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=102207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Did any of the Right-wing pundits who fostered the denialist cause ever sit down and decide that, in the wake of Howard’s defeat, the conservative movement would best counter Kevin Rudd’s steady popularity by installing the most ferociously reactionary leader the Liberal Party has ever seen?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Just like the Libs, the Republicans face the conundrum of courting crazies</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/27/just-like-the-libs-the-republicans-face-the-conundrum-of-courting-crazies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/27/just-like-the-libs-the-republicans-face-the-conundrum-of-courting-crazies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liberal Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=101488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Republicans in the US understand too well the conundrum now facing the Liberals: You can’t run your party if you don’t heed the crazies -- but you can’t run the country if you do.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Chilcot shines a light on Blair&#8217;s Iraq lies</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/chilcot-shines-a-light-on-blairs-iraq-lies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/chilcot-shines-a-light-on-blairs-iraq-lies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chilcot Inquiry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Sparrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=100486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A leaked contribution to the Chilcot Inquiry has revealed that Tony Blair deliberately misled parliament over his intentions in Iraq, writes <b>Jeff Sparrow</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/chilcot-shines-a-light-on-blairs-iraq-lies/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beenie man is a product of entrenched homophobia in Jamaica</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/beenie-man-is-a-product-of-entrenched-homophobia-in-jamaica/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/beenie-man-is-a-product-of-entrenched-homophobia-in-jamaica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beenie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Day Out]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dancehall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamaica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rastafarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reggae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sex & Relationships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Beenie, the Jamaican DJ just dropped from the Big Day Out, may be a phenomenal talent. But he has, at various times, been openly, flagrantly -- almost murderously -- homophobic. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Capitalism cage match: Jeff Sparrow</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/capitalism-cage-match-jeff-sparrow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/04/capitalism-cage-match-jeff-sparrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film & TV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Moore]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=97302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Moore aims his new movie Capitalism: A Love Story simultaneously at the head and the heart. Therein lies its biggest problem, writes <strong>Jeff Sparrow</strong>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Asylum seekers: territorial security versus electoral suicide</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/20/asylum-seekers-territorial-security-versus-electoral-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/20/asylum-seekers-territorial-security-versus-electoral-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smuggling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamils]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/20/asylum-seekers-territorial-security-versus-electoral-suicide/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd repeatedly denounces traffickers as "the vilest form of people on the planet" but says nothing whatsoever about those governing Sri Lanka -- almost as if it’s morally worse to smuggle victims away from atrocities than it is to perpetrate them in the first place.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Golly, the Hun should be black, white and red (faced) all over</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/golly-the-hun-should-be-black-white-and-red-faced-all-over/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/16/golly-the-hun-should-be-black-white-and-red-faced-all-over/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blackface]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[golliwogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herald Sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political correctness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tabloid journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Melbourne toy shop has moved some of its products out of its display windows, and the <em>Herald Sun</em> was on hand to fan one of the oldest beat-ups in the book: "innocent children oppressed by PC killjoys".]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Texas Governor Rick Perry stalls investigation into an innocent man&#8217;s execution</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/texas-governor-rick-perry-stalls-investigation-into-an-innocent-mans-execution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/texas-governor-rick-perry-stalls-investigation-into-an-innocent-mans-execution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Todd Willingham]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2004, prison guards carried Todd Willingham into the death chamber, strapped him onto a gurney and injected him with sodium thiopental to paralyse him, pancuronium bromide to collapse his lungs, and potassium chloride to stop his heart. One problem: Willingham was probably innocent.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>A peace prize for the president of war</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-the-president-of-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/a-peace-prize-for-the-president-of-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nobel peace prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama's Nobel Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama wins a Nobel peace prize AND may escalate a war? Well, we live in post-ironical times, where we all dutifully believe six impossible things before breakfast. Like, nuclear weapons are ultimately peaceful.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Book industry has to accept the Kindle: it may be a bumpy ride</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/book-industry-has-to-accept-the-kindle-it-may-be-a-bumpy-ride/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/09/book-industry-has-to-accept-the-kindle-it-may-be-a-bumpy-ride/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian booksellers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-readers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[publishing industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australian publishers may not like it, but e-books are not going away. And with the launch of the Kindle in Australia, the industry's going to have to adapt.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Flat-screen TVs, conscription and the Left: dangerous liaisons?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/flat-screen-tvs-conscription-and-the-left-dangerous-liaisons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/flat-screen-tvs-conscription-and-the-left-dangerous-liaisons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative commentators]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Festival of Dangerous Ideas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Given the Left-liberal orientation of most people attending the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, the Rightward slant  of the topics seems distinctly odd.

]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sri Lanka and its Manik approach to human rights</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/sri-lanka-and-its-manik-approach-to-human-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/sri-lanka-and-its-manik-approach-to-human-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mohan Peiris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil Tigers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Sri Lanka, an appalling human rights tragedy continues to play out. After the wake of the military defeat of the Tamil Tigers, 250,000 Tamils have been herded into detention.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Happy Days in the White House, starring President Fonzie</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/happy-days-in-the-white-house-starring-president-fonzie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/24/happy-days-in-the-white-house-starring-president-fonzie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Greg Sheridan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happy days]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Australian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<i>The Oz</i> jumps on the "let's beat 'em up" bandwagon with support for a tougher, leather-clad Fonz in the White House.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>A bad month on death row</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/17/another-bad-month-for-the-lingering-detritus-on-death-row/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/17/another-bad-month-for-the-lingering-detritus-on-death-row/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Sparrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital punishment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executioners]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a bad time for executioners in America in the last month with revelations of a botched execution in Ohio and innocent men dying. But it’s been worse still for inmates.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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