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		<title>New Afghan Law Comes as No Surprise: Women&#8217;s Rights Have Always Been Traded for Political Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[published in Commondreams.org on April 6, 2009 The proposed new Afghan law requiring (among other things), women to have sex with their husbands on demand and not leave home unescorted, has shocked the West. But for women in Afghanistan whose rights have always been bargaining chips to be given or taken away for political gain, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://loveandsubversion.net/?p=274</link>
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		<title>Palin Not Ready Now, Or Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two Montreal-based radio hosts pulled a prank so obvious on Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin that I almost felt sorry for her. Almost. The Masked Avengers, comprising comedians Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel convinced the gullible governor that she was being graced by a personal call from the French premier Nicolas Sarkozy. Not several seconds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://loveandsubversion.net/?p=254</link>
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		<title>Even More Republican Hypocrisy &#8211; Spending, Earmarks, and Taxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A nice piece of reporting in USA Today exposes yet another aspect of Republican hypocrisy: with all of McCain&#8217;s talk of &#8220;reigning in spending,&#8221; &#8220;cutting taxes,&#8221; and &#8220;eliminating pork barrel legislation,&#8221; it appears as though his running mate has done exactly the opposite during her tenures as mayor of Wasilla and governor of Alaska. Apparently [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://loveandsubversion.net/?p=250</link>
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		<title>More on Republican Hypocrisy &#8211; Sarah Palin&#8217;s Outrageous Clothing Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Someone needs to remind Sarah Palin that chief on the Republican talking points memo are the words: &#8220;reigning in spending.&#8221; By now everyone who pays any attention to the news has heard of Palin&#8217;s outrageous $150,000 fashion tab at the RNC&#8217;s expense (read the sickening breakdown of expenses here). It seems as though her smugness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://loveandsubversion.net/?p=226</link>
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		<title>Will Republican Hypocrisy Know No Depths?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama has a cult of celebrity but Sarah Palin&#8217;s popularity is legitimate because she&#8217;s just &#8220;one of us.&#8221; Barack Obama &#8220;pals around with terrorists, but John McCain, who has links to a group that supported terrorist death squads in Central America, is above board. Barack Obama is a &#8220;Chicago politician,&#8221; with implied ties to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://loveandsubversion.net/?p=220</link>
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		<title>Someone Sit Obama Down and Make him Watch &#8216;Boogieman&#8217;!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure this morning of interviewing Stefan Forbes on my radio program, Uprising, about his new documentary, Boogieman: The Lee Atwater Story. I had only heard vague mentions of the name Lee Atwater but really had no idea how influential to American political campaigning he was, until I watched the film. This young [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://loveandsubversion.net/?p=202</link>
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		<title>Bombing Pakistan: Candidates Debate a Moot Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama said last year that air strikes against Pakistan were a viable option, much controversy was made of it. The Senator was called naive and inexperienced in foreign policy. But Obama&#8217;s mistake was not the strategy he proposed, but expressing that strategy out loud. That&#8217;s what his rival John McCain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://loveandsubversion.net/?p=196</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Take Out&#8217; Proves Movie Making On a Dime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The newest indie film, Take Out, about an undocumented Chinese worker and his struggle to make ends meet, is proof positive that telling a good story is far more crucial to the success of a film than props, set design, or even quality of film used. Shot entirely on a digital hand-held camera, writers and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://loveandsubversion.net/?p=174</link>
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		<title>Killing Afghan Civilians: A Little Context</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much attention has been paid to the numbers of US troops being killed in Afghanistan this year &#8211; surpassing the numbers killed in Iraq despite there being about a third as many troops in Afghanistan as in Iraq. But what of the Afghans killed? The Taliban and the US/NATO forces were competing with one another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://loveandsubversion.net/?p=164</link>
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		<title>Feds Try Afghan Drug Lord, Former US Ally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A suspected Afghan druglord went on trial this week in New York for attempting to smuggle tens of millions of dollars worth of heroin from Afghanistan into the US. Afghanistan is currently the world&#8217;s most prolific producer of heroin. Not coincidentally, Afghanistan&#8217;s drug trade has gone hand-in-hand with US policy in that country. In the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://loveandsubversion.net/?p=154</link>
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