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	<title>Muhammad Idrees Ahmad &#187; Democracy Promotion</title>
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		<title>Muhammad Idrees Ahmad &#187; Democracy Promotion</title>
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		<title>Instrumentalizing Press Freedom</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/07/05/instrumentalizing-press-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Todays guest feature is an important article on ‘Independent’ Journalism Organizations and the National Endowment for Democracy from Michael Barker. Most people agree that a democratic public sphere is an essential part of any nominally democratic society, however, what many disagree over are the exact ingredients of such a democratic public sphere. In large part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2063&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Uses and Abuses of &#8216;Charity&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 12:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Barker on Pacifying Civil Society. In recent times, capitalist interests have financially supported two types of revolution — helping fund the “neoliberal revolution” and supporting/hijacking popular revolutions (or in some cases manufactured “revolutions”) in countries of geo-strategic importance. The neoliberal revolution has, naturally, been funded by right-wing philanthropists intent on neutralising progressive forces within [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1842&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Capital-driven Civil Society</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/05/18/capital-driven-civil-society/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 23:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s guest editorial is the latest from regular Fanonite contributor Michael Barker. (A version of this was first published in State of Nature) According to, the once progressive, now neo-conservative commentator, David Horowitz, Professor Stephen Zunes is a member of a select group of leftist activists that he refers to as The Professors: The 101 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1805&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Media Watchdogs or Imperial Flak Machines?</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/04/23/media-watchdogs-or-imperial-flak-machines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s guest editorial from Michael Barker on Press Freedom in the Service of Polyarchy. Especially since the advent of centralised systems of mass communication, mainstream media outlets -– dominated by their corporate backers -– have served a vital role for ruling elites by enabling them to manufacture mass consent for decidedly antidemocratic policies. Even more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1682&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>
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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>How come Zimbabwe and Tibet get all the attention?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;If a government wants to abuse human rights and rig elections, it needs to have the support of &#8211; or be &#8211; the western powers&#8217;, writes Seumas Milne. There is no question that the struggle over land and power in Zimbabwe has brought the country to a grim pass. Nearly a decade after the takeover [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1649&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Rights and Media Manipulation</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/03/30/human-rights-and-media-manipulation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Pinochet to ‘Human Rights’ in China. Michael Barker on the Regime-Change Industry, its humanitarian pretenses and its nexus with the Israel lobby. When the twentieth century becomes history it will be seen as distinctive, I believe, for three developments in liberal Western societies: the growth of democracy; the rise of huge concentrations of economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1554&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tibet, the &#8216;Great Game&#8217; and the CIA</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/03/26/tibet-the-great-game-and-the-cia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard M Bennett on the new great game. For background also check out Fanonite contributor Michael Barker&#8217;s &#8216;&#8220;Democratic Imperialism&#8221;: Tibet, China, and the National Endowment for Democracy&#8216;. (thanks Dave, Mike) Given the historical context of the unrest in Tibet, there is reason to believe Beijing was caught on the hop with the recent demonstrations for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1534&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The CIA and the Media</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/03/17/the-cia-and-the-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another important contribution from Michael Barker. Here he highlights key passages from a classic Bernstein article from the &#8217;77. Writing for Rolling Stone magazine in 1977, Carl Berstein penned the classic article “The CIA and the Media” (October 20, 1977). Recently this entire 25,000 word article has been posted online on Bernstein’s website. This article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1476&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nonviolent Imperialism: Major Revision</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/03/10/nonviolent-imperialism-major-revision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A revision to Michael Barker&#8217;s earlier article. On March 8, 2008, I wrote that Professor Stephen Zunes was correct to point out that Stephen Gowans was mistaken to claim that “the governments Zunes really seems to be concerned about (Zimbabwe, Iran, Belarus and Myanmar) are hostile to the idea of opening their doors to unrestricted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1443&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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