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	<title>The Pamflet</title>
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	<description>a wind to shake the world</description>
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		<title>Simplicity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been interviewing scientists and other experts for the Natural  Resources Defense Council&#8217;s Visionary Speaker Series. The pieces run online for NRDC&#8217;s magazine OnEarth. Each interview has been an education. My most recent one is with sustainability expert Jim Merkel.
The piece is online here.
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		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1680</link>
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		<title>A recurring nightmare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BP Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is a perfect Republican Party trap: Watch as a Democratic administration and Congress drown in the oil disaster while they clean up at the polls. Then Republicans return to office and begin the cycle by laying the bombs that&#8217;ll detonate under the next Democratic administration.
Does anyone remember Dick Cheney&#8217;s behind-the-door [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1675</link>
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		<title>Aspiration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wyclef Jean&#8211;&#8221;If I Was President
Election time is coming
If I was president,
I&#8217;d get elected on Friday, assasinated on Saturday,
and buried on Sunday.
If I was president&#8230;
If I was president
An old man told me, instead of spending billions on the war,
we can use some of that money, in the ghetto.
I know some so poor,when it rains that when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1673</link>
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		<title>iPad Nation!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alright, there&#8217;s no reason for this post other than that I am at the Apple Store in Tice&#8217;s Corner in Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey and I am writing this post on the iPad. It&#8217;s a pretty sweet and magical device! I am just saying, ya know!
Anyway, I am home now and my attempt at doing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1660</link>
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		<title>A violent death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian of London is reporting the violent death of one Eugene Terre&#8217;Blanche in Rustenberg, South Africa:
A notorious white supremacist who once threatened to wage war rather than allow black rule in South Africa was hacked to death at his farm yesterday following an argument with two employees. Eugene Terre&#8217;Blanche&#8217;s mutilated body was found on his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1658</link>
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		<title>Going &#8217;round . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Martin Schilde, my friend in the Northwest, sent the following passage in an e-mail. I guess it&#8217;s making the round but I don&#8217;t know what to make of it, other than it is charming:
A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her
altitude and spotted a man in a boat below [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1650</link>
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		<title>. . . and, war starts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember, at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in December no less, President Barack Obama spelled out the conditions under which and reserved for himself the right to wage &#8220;Just Wars.&#8221;
Has Iran, by its nuclear recalcitrance, tripped a condition?
This story out of Scotland said some very big munitions are on their way to a place not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1634</link>
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		<title>Howell Raines is neither a &#8216;liar&#8217; nor is he crazy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this Sunday&#8217;s Washington Post Op-Ed, he asks questions that have long needed to be asked.
Take this one, his first:
Why haven&#8217;t America&#8217;s old-school news organizations blown the whistle on  Roger Ailes, chief of Fox News, for using the network to conduct a  propaganda campaign against the Obama administration &#8212; a campaign  without [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1626</link>
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		<title>Check this out!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Write It Long, But Well By Michael O. Allen
It&#8217;s about newspapers and news writing: By all means, get rid of slipshod, encrusted and encumbered conventional  political writing (even as I needlessly encumber my sentence). Does  doing this necessarily lead to shorter news stories? Shorn of the  “conventions that don’t add to your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1621</link>
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		<title>Tortured answers</title>
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		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1585</link>
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		<title>Elizabeth Edwards&#8217; lies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Roger Simon of the Politico asks some pertinent questions of Elizabeth Edwards.
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		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1574</link>
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		<title>A tilt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine, Martin, sent me an e-mail with three pictures attached. I have not asked his permission to post this but this is the subject line of his e-mail: &#8220;Three pictures one of slang, the other of a little box, and the message from Obama to his people, apparently the world, not the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1560</link>
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		<title>Authenticity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Edwards had the right message both times when he ran for the presidency. The problem was that he himself seemed fake. The harder he sold himself, the less I was willing to buy.
One of the things he sold hardest was this idea that he had a wholesome family. And when it turned that his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1554</link>
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		<title>In a dark place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For girls, attending school in Pakistan&#8217;s northwestern region has become a life threatening prospect. Since 2007, at least 168 schools have been blown up by local Taliban militia in their campaign to enforce their extremist interpretation of Sharia law which forbids girls from going to school.
In 1960, Rockwell painted a picture called &#8220;The Problem We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1550</link>
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		<title>The Taliban threat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week the president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, signed off on a truce made in February with the Taliban in the Swat valley, which appears to have only emboldened them and increased their threat in the region.
On PBS NewsHour last night, Margaret Warner moderated a short segment about the Taliban in Pakistan. She interviewed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1542</link>
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		<title>A shameful passage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United States Supreme Court illegitimately installed George W. Bush as president of the United States after the 2000 elections. Boy George was going to while away his time in office, rewarding friends in politics and the oil and defense industries with rich contracts.
That was why Dick Cheney held those meetings with energy interests behind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1527</link>
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		<title>The Incomparable Ms. Simone</title>
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		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1519</link>
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		<title>Musings, strange</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

A Facebook friend, John Burroughs, posted this searing Langston Hughes poem today:
Song for a Dark Girl
Way Down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
They hung my black young lover
To a cross roads tree.
Way Down South in Dixie
(Bruised body high in air)
I asked the white Lord Jesus
What was the use of prayer.
Way Down South in Dixie
(Break [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1502</link>
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		<title>The Gitmos before Gitmo</title>
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Zina Saunders&#8216; illustration for &#8220;Guantanamo at Home&#8221; in The Nation magazine in which Jeanne Theoharis, with the proposed closing of Guantanamo, takes a hard look at the harsh treatment of terror suspects in prisons on American soil.
Read the article here.
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		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1496</link>
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		<title>Men&#8217;s laws for women&#8217;s bodies</title>
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Zina Saunders did this piece to accompany an article in The Nation magazine. Ordinarily, it would carry her byline but I do not want attribute to her my own thoughts on this issue. My thoughts, such as they are, are unformed and unsophisticated, incoherent even. Try this:
Isn&#8217;t it time we men stop manifesting our anxieties [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thepamflet.com/?p=1494</link>
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