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		<title>U.S. Could Very Well be in Haiti for the Oil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Nobles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[America answered Haiti&#8217;s call and helped the disaster-stricken country. Few can argue that America&#8217;s aid to Haiti was unjust. The only problem, America may never leave. President Bush was attacked for going into Iraq for the oil, now it is Obama&#8217;s turn to receive some of the heat. If there is one constant in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another real reason for the Afghanistan/Pakistan war</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what may be an early move toward a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline, officials in Washington are putting pressure on the Pakistan central government to allow agricultural goods to pass through Pakistan on their journey from Afghanistan to India. 
The official line out of Washington, via US Agriculture Sectary Tom Vilsack, is that the pipeline [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama knows the US can never leave Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 15:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking back to the ominous firing of Barack Obama’s lead security advisor, Samantha Power, during his primary fight with Hillary Clinton the country was at that moment given a taste of what was to come.
Samantha Power gave a television interview in which she stated that US forces leaving Iraq in 16 months after Obama’s inauguration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia opens oil port that will supply China Japan and South Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended the ceremonial opening of what will become Russia’s third largest oil port. The port is on the Pacific Coast of Siberian Russia, just north of South Korea and Japan. 
The port will serve as the final Russian land destination for a multibillion dollar oil pipeline that runs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Next up in Obama’s War on Terror: Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese receive 7% of their oil supply from Sudan. Given this fact, if the US could go into Khartoum and throw out the Sudanese President Bashir under the pretext of a human rights mission and gain control of the oil supply, they could then greatly weaken China. 
The great thing about Yemen for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unconventional war on Pakistan by the Obama Administration</title>
		<link>http://www.politicallore.com/writers/shaun-booth/the-obama-administrations-unconventional-war-on-pakistan/1438</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taliban leadership is claiming that the recent triple agent suicide bomb attack that killed seven CIA agents was in response to over 700 dead Pakistani civilians by way of predator drones in 2009. 
Pakistan officials claim that out of 44 strikes in the northwestern tribal areas only five of the missiles hit their intended Taliban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Yemen the staging ground for a US/Iran proxy war?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is public knowledge that the Houthi insurgency in Northern Yemen is accused of being backed by the Iranian government lead by President Ahmadinejad. The Houthis, whose fighters now number in the 10’s of thousands, are Shiite as is the majority of Iran. 
The Yemen central government, which is backed by the US both financially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Janet Napolitano: Clueless About Home Security</title>
		<link>http://www.politicallore.com/foreign-policy/janet-napolitano-clueless-about-home-security/1432</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Painter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When President-elect Barack Obama announced a little over a year ago that Janet Napolitano was his choice to be the head of Homeland Security, it wasn&#8217;t just conservatives who were asking, &#8220;What was he thinking?&#8221; As governor of Arizona, Napolitano&#8217;s record wasn&#8217;t exactly one which would encourage those with concerns about our nation&#8217;s security. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Prepares a Pop Quiz for President Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Painter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran has insisted for years that it has only the best of intentions with its nuclear program. Skeptics have been asking for the same number of years why the nation with the world&#8217;s third largest deposits of crude oil and the second largest estimated proven natural gas reserves feels the need to build a series [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran continues to consider proposal from international community</title>
		<link>http://www.politicallore.com/writers/shaun-booth/iran-continues-to-consider-iaea-proposal/1404</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in Istanbul, Turkey for an Organization of The Islamic Conference, a group of 57 Muslim countries that promotes religious solidarity in national and international matters. 
When addressing the conference Ahmadinejad said, &#8220;One of the most important issues of today is definitely nuclear cooperation at the international level, whether in building a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is motivating the most recent Sy Hersh sources?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicallore.com/writers/shaun-booth/what-is-motivating-the-most-recent-sy-hersh-sources/1401</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the New Yorker magazine ran a piece by renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, which posed the question of whether or not the US military would guard Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.  
US officials say there is no evidence that the Taliban will take over the Pakistani government and therefore it is sufficient to boost Pakistan’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The real reason Iran wants to go nuclear</title>
		<link>http://www.politicallore.com/writers/shaun-booth/the-real-reason-iran-wants-to-go-nuclear/1378</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talks begin today between Iran and the world’s most powerful nations in Geneva. The talks will be the first direct talks between the US and Iran in over thirty years. The US delegation will be headed by William Burns, the under secretary of state for political affairs. While Iran’s lead representative in the talks will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rhetoric out of Israel heats up before talks with Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.politicallore.com/writers/shaun-booth/rhetoric-out-of-israel-heats-up-before-talks-with-iran/1341</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked controversy in Israel when he secretly made a visit to Moscow and had his aids lie to the Israeli press.
Netanyahu could have urged Russia to stop selling anti-aircraft missiles to Iran, weapons that would make an Israel air strike more difficult. 
Another possible reason for the visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lesson for America from the Inglourious Basterds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a direct lesson that the American citizens can learn about what this White House has continued to call “the war on terror,” by watching Quentin Tarantino’s latest film,
Inglourious Basterds There is a scene at the end of the film where a theater full of German Nazis watches a Goebel&#8217;s propaganda film and laughs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Important week in Israel/US relations ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 07:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To begin the week, today Hillary Clinton will appear on Meet the Press where she will have the opportunity to publicly set the tone for the coming week.
Then hours later on Monday in Israel, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will meet with Israeli leadership on the issue of Iran. The administration believes that it is [...]]]></description>
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