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	<title>Muhammad Idrees Ahmad &#187; Big Business</title>
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		<title>Muhammad Idrees Ahmad &#187; Big Business</title>
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		<title>The Military-Industrial Complex</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/07/27/the-military-industrial-complex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;It&#8217;s Much Later Than You Think,&#8217; Chalmers Johnson reminds us. (from the excellent TomDispatch) Most Americans have a rough idea what the term &#8220;military-industrial complex&#8221; means when they come across it in a newspaper or hear a politician mention it. President Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced the idea to the public in his farewell address of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2240&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Days for Newsrooms—and Democracy</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/07/21/bad-days-for-newsrooms%e2%80%94and-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The decline of newspapers is not about the replacement of the antiquated technology of news print with the lightning speed of the Internet&#8217;, writes Chris Hedges. The decline of newspapers is not about the replacement of the antiquated technology of news print with the lightning speed of the Internet. It does not signal an inevitable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2187&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hope for Corporate America</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/04/30/hope-for-corporate-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton, of course, was corporate America&#8217;s original choice for the presidency. But as Chris Hedges demonstrates, Obama would not have made far, had his views not been equally amenable towards big business. The corporate state is our shadow government. Candidates who aspire to higher office get corporate money if they promote corporate interests. They [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1717&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rendition Airlines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Independent has a frontpage story on the world of casual racism on British Airways services. &#8216;BA should be broken up and left with a core institution,&#8217; writes Robert Fisk. &#8216;Deportation or Rendition Airlines&#8217;. Oh, those wretched &#8220;disruptive&#8221; passengers! Poor British Airways. They can&#8217;t even ship off a crying man to Nigeria with the boys [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1692&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lay off Ralph Nader</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/03/14/lay-off-ralph-nader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Nader deserves a pulpit to speak the truth&#8217;, writes Chris Hedges. He is the only candidate who has not lined his pockets with tens of millions of dollars of corporate campaign money, talked out of both sides of his mouth about the war in Iraq, NAFTA and health care, and has dedicated his life to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1466&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want a McDegree with that McJob?</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/02/15/want-a-mcdegree-with-that-mcjob/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[London (UK), February 2008 &#8211; The British Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) has awarded McDonald&#8217;s, Network Rail, and Flybe awarding-body status. For the first time, commercial companies are now able to award nationally accredited qualifications to employees. The move was announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown at an event attended by McDonald&#8217;s CEO and President, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1339&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>After School Arms Club</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/02/10/after-school-arms-club/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a country as obsessed with &#8216;security&#8217; as Britain, surely there must be stringent rules regulating the sale of arms. Not quiet, as Mark Thomas finds out by getting a small band of Schoolchildren to exploit loopholes in Britain&#8217;s arms controls by importing torture equipment from China and selling tanks to Africa.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1322&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commanding Heights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Battle for the World Economy Here is an excellent three part series from PBS that presents a rather celebratory but interesting account of globalization. 1. The Battle of Ideas A global economy, energized by technological change and unprecedented flows of people and money, collapses in the wake of a terrorist attack &#8230;. The year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1297&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Sicko&#8221; Gets the Oscar High-Five</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/01/26/sicko-gets-the-oscar-high-five/</link>
		<comments>http://fanonite.org/2008/01/26/sicko-gets-the-oscar-high-five/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;a note from Michael Moore January 25, 2008 Friends, I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know (if you didn&#8217;t already) the good news that &#8220;Sicko&#8221; has been nominated for this year&#8217;s Academy Award for Best Documentary. It was a pleasant surprise when we got the news on Tuesday. Of course, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1259&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not All Is Debated in Love and War</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/01/19/not-all-is-debated-in-love-and-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So NBC uses its muscle to stifle democratic debate. Funny I didn&#8217;t hear a bleat from the champions of &#8216;free speech&#8217; like Article 19. One pundit called the Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas “a lovefest.” It may well have been, but only because the corporate sponsor of the debate, General Electric-owned NBC News and its cable [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1236&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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