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		<title>Iran continues to consider proposal from international community</title>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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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		<title>Dennis Ross rises to prominence in Obama Administration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dennis Ross, a longtime Washington insider, has recently moved from the State Department where he served as a senior advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the White house where his official title is Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for the Central Region, as part of the National Security Council. 
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti cries for the universe</title>
		<link>http://www.politicallore.com/writers/shaun-booth/haiti-cries-for-the-universe/998</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Author’s Note: I&#8217;m going to try something a little out of the norm here. I wrote out an entire article in a traditional form for this post. However my notes are much more raw and visceral, so here they are,  unedited. Please indulge me by reading this post while listening to the song posted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran on the brink</title>
		<link>http://www.politicallore.com/writers/shaun-booth/iran-on-the-brink/994</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is certain urgency in the rhetoric coming out of Washington towards the Iranian election protests that worries me.
We have to be patient enough as a country and stand by and let the protests in Iran play out. We have to let them have their own revolution if that is truly the democratic voice of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Administration wins one and loses one in recent Middle East elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You win some you lose some has to be the thinking of the Obama administration given the recent outcomes of the nationwide elections in Lebanon and Iran.
In Lebanon the US and Saudi backed March 14th coalition maintained their majority in the Lebanese parliament and is now in the process of assembling a nationwide unity government, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan on the Brink</title>
		<link>http://www.politicallore.com/writers/shaun-booth/pakistan-on-the-brink/918</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fighting continues in the northwest region of Pakistan as the Pakistani army attempts to neutralize the Taliban. Isolated reports of fighting in tribal region of South Waziristan have begun to be reported, while the Pakistani government has announced that they plan on launching a full blown offensive in that region in the coming months. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attack in the Pakistan city of Lahore kills 30</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 06:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday in Pakistan militants carried out an attack in the eastern city of Lahore killed 30 and injured more than 200 people. This is the third attack carried out in Lahore in recent months, however it was the first attack in the eastern city since the Pakistani army began their offensive earlier this month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama could make surprise visit to Lebanon before elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 23:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parliamentary elections are scheduled to take place in Lebanon on June 7th. The coming elections have already received considerable attention from the Obama administration with visits to Lebanon by both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden. And now there is increasing speculation that President Obama may make a surprise visit to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US-Iran talks likely to start in mid-June</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 01:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the EastWest Institue published a joint US-Russian report on the development of Iran’s nuclear capability. In short the report concluded that Iran is still approximately six years away from having the capability to attach a nuclear warhead to a long range missile that could reach Israel.
One of the reasons this report is noteworthy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Washington and Islamabad see eye to eye?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 03:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shaun Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday’s car bomb attack that killed 7 and injured 21 in Khost, a town near Afghanistan’s eastern border, serves as a reminder of just how volatile the security situation has become in Afghanistan and Pakistan. 
Just a day earlier in the same city of Khost 11 suicide bombers attacked government buildings. These developments greeted President [...]]]></description>
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