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		<title>Sucking Up to the Bankers</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/07/30/sucking-up-to-the-bankers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert Scheer on &#8216;A Bipartisan Lovefest&#8216; with the bankers. AP photo / Jae C. Hong Sen. Barack Obama meets with his economic advisers Monday in Washington. From left: former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, Obama, Service Employees International Union Chair Anna Burger, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. This is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2271&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s to Blame for Price of Oil?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antonia Juhasz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned previously by Freeborn, the increase in oil prices may not be linked directly to peak oil.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2003&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barely Touching Base</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/06/08/barely-touching-base/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Globalization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Obama could set an earthquake under the established electoral map&#8217;, writes Gary Younge. &#8216;He has roused black and young voters as never before, but he has to maintain the rest of the Democratic base&#8217;. The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has a compelling personal and political biography. One of eight children, he could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1932&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Deficits, Cause for War</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/06/07/us-deficits-cause-for-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s guest editorial by toni solo is the latest in his Globalization and terror series. The US Congressional Joint Economic Committee&#8217;s monthly memorandum for June 2005 stated, &#8220;Without an increase in national saving, any reduction in the current account deficit would be accompanied by reduced national investment that would harm future growth.&#8221; Among the committee&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1926&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Labour&#8217;s Tax Cut Mania</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/06/05/new-labours-tax-cut-mania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;A mania for tax cuts at any cost defies public opinion&#8217;, writes Seumas Milne. &#8216;The political class wants a smaller state and clings to a free-market model that is falling apart. Who is listening to the voters?&#8217; As Gordon Brown lurches from self-inflicted crisis to crisis, the consequences of his failure to carve out an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1915&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fomenting Inflation to Pay for War</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/06/01/fomenting-inflation-to-pay-for-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s guest editorial from toni solo, the latest in the Globalization and terror series, looks at the manipulation of oil prices to foment inflation by the US establishment. Western Bloc central banks and financial and investment corporations are locked into an inflationary dynamic in order to sustain their system&#8217;s militarist imperialism. The Bloc&#8217;s European and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1893&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labour&#8217;s Time is Up</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/05/27/labours-time-is-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 20:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neoliberalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;From the start New Labour was pledged to consolidate the Thatcherite paradigm rather than offer anything different,&#8217; writes Tariq Ali. Power can shape &#8220;truth&#8221;, but not for ever. That is one lesson that could be learned from the series of electoral defeats that mark the end of New Labour&#8217;s weightless hegemony. There is something grotesque [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1855&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy Inc.</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/05/25/democracy-inc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 14:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chalmers Johnson reviews Sheldon Wolin&#8217;s new book on the US ‘Managed Democracy’. It is not news that the United States is in great trouble. The pre-emptive war it launched against Iraq more than five years ago was and is a mistake of monumental proportions—one that most Americans still fail to acknowledge. Instead they are arguing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1843&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What New Labour Wrought</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/05/20/what-new-labour-wrought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 00:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;This government has been the most rightwing since the second world war&#8217;, writes George Monbiot of the New Labour government. &#8216;The prospect of a Tory in No 10 does worry me &#8211; but no more so than another term for this cabinet of war criminals&#8217;. You can hear the wringing of hands and tearing of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1810&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Labour Strikes, a Strategy and One Reality</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/05/16/two-labour-strikes-a-strategy-and-one-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://fanonite.org/2008/05/16/two-labour-strikes-a-strategy-and-one-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 02:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s guest editorial on developments in Egypt and Lebanon from regular Fanonite contributor Alberto Cruz of CEPRID. On April 6th a general strike was called in Egypt. One month later, on May 7th, another one was called in Lebanon. The causes were the same in both countries: calls for an increase in the minimum wage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1786&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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