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	<description>"...for the last forty years, our thought has been trapped in hollow structures of language, a stale, dead but immensely successful rhetoric. This has represented, in my view, a defeat of the intelligence and of the will." -- Harold Pinter</description>
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		<title>Hiatus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months I have been trying to juggle the responsibilities of maintaining a current affairs blog and of writing a book length doctoral thesis. As a result I have not done justice to either (I haven&#8217;t even managed to cover the developments in Kashmir, for example). I persisted out of a sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/08/14/hiatus-2/</link>
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		<title>Georgia War a Neocon Election Ploy?</title>
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October comes early? Sen. John McCain and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.




Let me also point out that this fellow Michael Klare is a third rate hack who has been peddling the oleaginous counterpart to the millenium bug for some years. It is contra-analytical, factually challenged, monocausal analysis like this that has reduced the left to its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/08/13/georgia-war-a-neocon-election-ploy/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Pro-Palestinian&#8217; George Advises Obama</title>
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Don&#8217;t write off Hollywood just yet. &#8216;How Clooney offers good friend Obama advice on issues from body language to Iraq,&#8217; report Caroline Graham and Sharon Churcher.
George Clooney once famously declared he could never run for public office because he’d ‘slept with too many women, done too many drugs and been to too many parties’.
But now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/08/12/pro-palestinian-george-advises-obama/</link>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Israeli-Occupied Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi on US media&#8217;s platform for Israeli warmongering.
There should be little doubt that the Israeli    government is making every effort to jump-start a war against Iran sooner rather    than later. Many Israelis not surprisingly believe it is in their interest    to convince [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/08/12/americas-israeli-occupied-media/</link>
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		<title>Tel Aviv to Tbilisi</title>
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Israelis wave both Georgian and Israeli flags as they chant anti-Russian slogans during a demonstration outside the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv, 11 August. (Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)



Ali Abunimah ofThe Electronic Intifada on Israel&#8217;s role in the Russia-Georgia war
From the moment Georgia launched a surprise attack on the tiny breakaway region of South Ossetia last week, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/08/12/tel-aviv-to-tbilisi/</link>
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		<title>Avoid cliché like the plague? Never</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;We are all guilty&#8217;, writes Robert Fisk. &#8216;To my distress, I find that I thrice used the word &#8216;iconic&#8217; in my book. Ye Gods!&#8217;
Opposite my apartment in Beirut there used to live an American-born English teacher called Marion Lanson. When she departed Lebanon, I inherited her 1949 Random House American College Dictionary, edited by one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George vs the Smearmongers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This report by some tool named Michael Savage is interesting in so far as it turns the victim of a vicious smear into the victimiser. Poor character assassins &#8212; what would they do if they weren&#8217;t accorded the privilege of smearing?
London&#8217;s only Jewish community radio station has been forced to cease broadcasting after losing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/08/12/george-vs-the-smearmongers/</link>
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		<title>The laureate of all Arabs</title>
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&#8216;Mahmoud Darwish is dead, but the voice of the Palestinian resistance will live on in all of us  			               &#8216;, writes Ahdaf Soueif.
None of us really thought he&#8217;d die. Our loss is great, we tell each other. In our minds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/08/12/the-laureate-of-all-arabs/</link>
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		<title>The American Military Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Bacevich on Democracy Now:



Despite a few flaws, I found Andrew Bacevich&#8217;s last book, The New American Militarism, an extremely well argued, and for a non-fiction book on a rather bleak subject, equally well written. He has just come out with another. I can&#8217;t wait to read, but for now, here are some tasters. Here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fanonite.org/2008/08/11/the-american-military-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Cold War returns via Georgia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some time the US has been priming Georgia for a provocative confrontation with Russia. Israeli and US military &#8216;advisers&#8217; have been training and equipping the Georgian military. The US has been trying to bring it into NATO. Its military expenditures have shot through the roof. It is also the route for the long-in-planning Baku-Ceyhan [...]]]></description>
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