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		<title>The decline of U.S. democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-decline-of-u-s-democracy-2769</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Noam Chomsky</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court decision raises significant new barriers to overcoming the serious crisis of health care, or to addressing seriously such critical issues as the looming environmental and energy crises]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8220;progressive moment&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/a-progressive-moment-2767</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seymour</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[progressivism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the left]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[uts and jobs lesses are already being forced through several departments, which is why the civil servants have been on strike and why lecturers are also taking action, complementing a wave of strike action in private sector businesses like British Airways and Network Rail. The difference between New Labour and the Tories on this question is not enormous, but Cameron and Osborne plan to be more aggressive with cuts, and will cut taxes for the richest and pay for that with more spending cuts (an extra £5bn)]]></description>
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		<title>Bolivia, nuestro faro de esperanza</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/bolivia-nuestro-faro-de-esperanza-2764</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editors Pick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spanish]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Si la perspectiva de unas elecciones te desespera, considera al ejemplo del gobierno boliviano, liderado por Evo Morales como una fuente de inspiración]]></description>
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		<title>The people of Bolivia are rising and provide us with hope</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-people-of-bolivia-are-rising-and-provide-us-with-hope-2761</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Kennard</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bolivia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous movement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The backbone of Morales's reform programme was the creation of a new Bolivian constitution, which was ratified by a public referendum in 2009. Morales has signalled that he will make the implementation of the new constitution his main legislative priority at the start of his second term. In a country that is often compared to apartheid South Africa, as the stark divisions of poverty and inequality are marked along racial lines, this constitution represents Bolivia's Freedom Charter]]></description>
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		<title>America To The Rescue, (Not) Again</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/america-to-the-rescue-not-again-2758</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Bahour</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Editors Pick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[international law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[palestine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has taken the leap; let’s hope he finds some remaining Palestinian ground to land on. Given his new commitment, if he fails, I wonder if he is willing to lay blame where it duly resides for Israel’s continued rogue action—in Washington D.C.]]></description>
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		<title>Would the world be better without material consumption?</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/would-the-world-be-better-without-material-consumption-2755</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saleem H. Ali</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editors Pick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[earth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up in Pakistan, I was made acutely aware of income inequality at multiple levels. My earliest childhood memory of poverty comes from observing the desperation of hawkers in street crossings who tapped on the windows of every car at a stop-light, trying to sell all kinds of "stuff" from hairpins to roses. Should these street vendors have stuck to subsistence lifestyles in the fields and just have been contented with having enough to eat and leading a simple life? Who was I to ordain such simplicity on them?]]></description>
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		<title>Pity the nation of Congo</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/pity-the-nation-of-congo-2748</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vava Tampa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the past fifteen years, Rwanda and Uganda have the chief supporter of armed groups in Eastern Congo. They have twice invaded the Congo, taking control of rich mining areas and helping themselves with tons of coltan and gold (to name a few) instead of going after negative forces they claimed to have been pursuing. In 2002 and 2003, folowing intense international pressure, both Rwanda and Uganda, respectively, claimed to have withdrew their troops from Congo's soil =- but reports persist about the continued involvement of Rwandan forces in Eastern Congo]]></description>
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		<title>Congo is still the issue</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/congo-is-still-the-issue-2753</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lord Alton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mass murder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last year in Parliament I  asked about our failure to Joseph Kony to justice. He's the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, which has carried out atrocities in Uganda, Southern Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Congo. They LRA recently carried out an attack in Darfur. Kony has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.  Yet he remains at large]]></description>
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		<title>Axing BBC 6 Music will scupper chances of budding musicians</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/axing-bbc-6-music-will-scupper-chances-of-budding-musicians-2751</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/axing-bbc-6-music-will-scupper-chances-of-budding-musicians-2751#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ralph Allen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bbc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Persistence is an integral aspect of success and the frustration of a seemingly impenetrable industry leads too many potentially brilliant musicians to abandon their course.  Without radio stations and showcases like 6 Music, fewer will hold onto that drive and determination to be heard, and music’s art will suffer.  If the only viable course becomes strictly mainstream, music’s development will not only become regressive, but will lose credibility and become debased further as an art form.  I dread the day when CDs are stocked solely by supermarkets and truly great bands are left with nothing with which to establish a career]]></description>
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		<title>Living on benefits in the UK</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/living-on-benefits-in-the-uk-2749</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/living-on-benefits-in-the-uk-2749#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>miapatrick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bureaucracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minimum wage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new labour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax credits]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Near where we live there is a brand new complex of smartish looking business premises. At the time, they had just one occupant: Shaw Trust. And Chubby was possibly the first person to walk through their doors. They gave him a piece of paper outlining the change in our finances if he were to work twenty hours a week. He would gain just over £110.40 a week in pay, from which £1.14 national insurance and £1.04 income tax would be deducted. He would lose £98.45 in long term incapacity benefit]]></description>
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		<title>The British public want retribution not redistribution</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-british-public-want-retribution-not-redistribution-2745</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-british-public-want-retribution-not-redistribution-2745#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Frazer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editors Pick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inequality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redistribution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Few are aware that this Christmas past, when most of us were enjoying our extensive festive indulgences, a chronic shortage of affordable housing left 83,000 homeless British children in temporary accommodation. Over 33% of these children cannot go to school due to appalling disruption in their lives and are twice as likely to suffer poor health. In describing the appalling disruption and emotional distress that children suffered, Adam Simpson, the director of the charity Shelter, described the euphemistic term “temporary accommodation” as a “terrible parody”]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Moore&#8217;s Kapital</title>
		<link>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/michael-moores-kapital-2741</link>
		<comments>http://www.thecommentfactory.com/michael-moores-kapital-2741#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Seymour</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Capitalism: A Love Story does not involve the emotional crescendos of Moore's previous output. Think of the jarring juxtaposition, in Sicko, between the entranced exploration of European health systems and the bitterly cold treatment of America's poor by the healthcare giants. There are shocking, appalling moments in Capitalism, but these are interspersed with stories of resistance as Moore's cameras film people preventing the eviction of local families, and capture workers at Republic Windows and Doors as they force the Bank of America to back down and fund their severance packages]]></description>
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