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		<title>War Meets Values on Campaign Trail</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Will the Big Winner of 2008 Once Again Be a Conservative Culture-Wars Narrative?&#8217;, asks Ira Chernus (from TomDispatch) By Ira ChernusWhile the Iraq war has largely faded from our TV screens, some 85% of all voters still call it an important issue. Most of them want U.S. troops home from Iraq within a couple of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2254&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood’s Terror Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I went to see the much-hyped Batman film, The Dark Knight. I find the whole idea of comic book superhero films a bit silly, but it is always the subtext that interests me. Leaving the theatre I remarked to a friend that the film could very well have been written by neoconservative guru Leo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2244&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Persepolis a Humanist Tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It looks like a wonderful film, it&#8217;s getting great notices, but be careful: you might start considering the Iranian people human beings.&#8221; Stephen Colbert More of Marjane &#124; Persepolis Trailer For a far superior, though less hilarious, interview with Marjane Satrapi follow this link to Link TV.  Where she explains that education through art, culture [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1891&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Shangri-La</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/04/19/no-shangri-la/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a letter to the London Review of Books Slavoj Žižek dispels media myths about Tibet. The media imposes certain stories on us, and the one about Tibet goes like this. The People’s Republic of China, which, back in 1949, illegally occupied Tibet, has for decades engaged in the brutal and systematic destruction not only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1659&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hiroshima Bombing &#8211; Barefoot Gen</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/03/31/hiroshima-bombing-barefoot-gen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hiroshima and Nagasaki, surely among the most unspeakable crimes in history.&#8221; Noam Chomsky The Hiroshima bombing came at a time when the Japanese were negotiating peace with the USA. The United States however wanted to test its new weapon: demonstrating its power to the world, especially to the Soviets. When Gore Vidal was asked if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1561&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Think</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/03/29/we-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 20st Century = mass production for mass consumption. The 21st Century = mass innovation. More ideas being shared by more people than ever before. Great stylish video on the culture of sharing ideas.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1550&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>El Proceso</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/03/28/el-proceso/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reclaiming culture in Venezuela (from upside down world). Carmen Pulido quietly sits on a crowded public bus in Mérida, Venezuela. The bus overflows with impeccably dressed students who tend to their tightly gelled hair and top-of-the-line clothing as they head to class on University Avenue. The bus driver&#8217;s favorite Reggaetón songs blast through the breeze [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1545&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Believe in Atheists</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/03/16/i-dont-believe-in-atheists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is amusing how some on the &#8216;left&#8217; have once again rushed to embrace the drink-soaked popinjay and implacable warmonger Christopher Hitchens (see Richard Dawkins&#8217;s fawning portrayal of Hitchens; the popinjay also features frequently on the formers website), now that he has come out with a book attacking Islam (don&#8217;t confuse it with &#8216;religion&#8217; as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1472&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commanding Heights</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/02/04/commanding-heights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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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>The Ghost of Rambo</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/01/29/the-ghost-of-rambo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The vigilante soldier is back in theaters, dragging decades of cultural baggage with him&#8217;, writes Jesse Walker.  Despite the author&#8217;s ideological leanings it is a very interesting article. Twenty years after he last sprayed bullets across America&#8217;s movie screens, John Rambo has returned in Rambo, a 93-minute feature in which Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s bulky soldier wields [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1280&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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