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		<title>Muhammad Idrees Ahmad &#187; Humanitarianism</title>
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		<title>The Politics of Free Speech</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/08/09/beijing-and-the-politics-of-free-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I am not talking about China. That is easy, and meaningless. I am not moved when some designer anarchist from California privileged enough to afford the ticket to Beijing makes a statement about &#8212; Tibet. As if things were hunky dory back home; as if being a Brit or an American grants one the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2392&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>War Crimes Paradox</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/07/18/war-crimes-paradox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the irony! The ICC for the first time moves to indict a sitting head of state for war crimes and it isn&#8217;t George Bush, Ehud Olmert or Tony Blair, but the president of Sudan! As is their wont, &#8216;Little Crimes Get Punished, Big Ones Don&#8217;t&#8216;, writes Paul Craig Roberts in this excellent piece. (thanks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=2136&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Western Delusions</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/05/27/western-delusions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanitarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperialism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jean Bricmont on &#8216;The Violent Folly of Humanitarian Interventionism&#8216;. One can understand why some people might have sincerely thought that the Iraq war would be  a &#8220;cakewalk&#8221;. First, consider WW2 ; the US mercilessly bombed Germany and Japan, including their civilian populations, then occupied those countries militarily, imposing almost total control. Yet, today, Germany and Japan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1858&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Darfur Intervention is a Mistake</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/05/24/why-darfur-intervention-is-a-mistake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 13:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex de Waal analyzes the politics and practicality of intervention on BBC&#8217;s Viewpoints. Analysts say that Darfur is Rwanda in slow motion, that we should send troops to protect African civilians from their Arab killers and disarm the infamous Janjaweed. Khartoum came under attack by rebels just two weeks ago In the Rwandan genocide, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1836&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>Africa and the West</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/04/15/africa-and-the-west/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Onion News Network: In The Know panelists discuss whether we should spare Africa&#8217;s feelings by not telling them about the global economy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1640&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Save Darfur</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/04/14/save-darfur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Can We Let Darfur Know How Much We&#8217;re Doing For Them? Panelists discuss the tragic lack of media access in Darfur and how we can help Darfurians realize how much we&#8217;re helping them.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1634&amp;subd=fanonite&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Humanitarian Aid</title>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/03/30/us-humanitarian-aid/</link>
		<comments>http://fanonite.org/2008/03/30/us-humanitarian-aid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Powerful artwork by Andy Singer. I&#8217;m not sure why but this cartoon also reminds me of the Orwellian use of the term &#8220;Humanitarian Aid.&#8221; Often the US has used it when it&#8217;s actually delivering weapons, in other words, the bombs in the top section of the drawing might have been &#8220;Humanitarian Aid&#8221; too! Here&#8217;s a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fanonite.org&amp;blog=336966&amp;post=1559&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>
		<comments>http://fanonite.org/2008/03/30/human-rights-and-media-manipulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://fanonite.org/2008/03/26/tibet-the-great-game-and-the-cia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Idrees</dc:creator>
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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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