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	<description>Force the frozen circumstances to dance by singing to them their own melody</description>
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		<title>Obama: Raw Racism Fanned in Election</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/obama-hate-boils-to-the-surface/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>n3wday</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared in the Washington Post.

Hate Groups&#8217; Newest Target White Supremacists Report an Increase in Visits to Their Web Sites
By Eli Saslow
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sen. Barack Obama&#8217;s historic victory in the Democratic primaries, celebrated in America and across much of the world as a symbol of racial progress and cultural unity, has also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philippines: Report on Advancing Hunger</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/philippiines-report-on-advancing-hunger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Philippines: Spiraling rice prices bring hunger to millions
By Dante Pastrana
19 June 2008 (reprinted from WSWS)
An Asian Development Bank report published in May estimated that food price increases in the Philippines could send an estimated 2.72 million people into absolute poverty. This was the best-case scenario, based on an assumption that the cost of food would [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Mike E</media:title>
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		<title>McCain and the State of the Religious Right</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/mccain-and-the-state-of-the-religious-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, obviously the Religious Right will rally to McCain &#8212; both its leadership and its rank and file. But between now and the Republican Convention we can see the tug of war within their political coalition. We can see the debate over policy, and the measuring of relative weight.
Yes, obviously, there is an on going [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Mike E</media:title>
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		<title>Throw-Away Nations: Victims of Climate and Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/throw-away-nations-the-victims-of-climate-and-capitalism/</link>
		<comments>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/throw-away-nations-the-victims-of-climate-and-capitalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>n3wday</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared in Green Left Weekly issue #756 25 June 2008.

Global warming and climate refugees
Katie Cherrington, Melbourne
21 June 2008
Contaminated wells, dying marine life and crops being destroyed by extreme weather are just a few of the challenges facing the 11,000 residents of Tuvalu, a Pacific nation that is the second smallest in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mugabe and the Land Hunger in Zimbabwe</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/mugabe-and-the-crisis-in-zimbabwe/</link>
		<comments>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/mugabe-and-the-crisis-in-zimbabwe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I received the following analysis from Joseph Ball (who has often written on this site from britain). And I will post it because i think this point of view should be available for readers here.
But I would like to preface this, briefly, with my own views and experience which are sharply opposed to the approach [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Mike E</media:title>
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		<title>Democracy Now: Zimbabwe and Imperialism</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/democracy-now-zimbabwe-and-imperialism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This link was passed on to Kasama by a member of the platypus1917 discussion group in Chicago.
June 26, 2008 Democracy Now!

 AMY GOODMAN: Today, we host a discussion on Zimbabwe. We&#8217;re joined in Washington D.C. by Professor Gerald Horne, Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and the author of [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Mike E</media:title>
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		<title>Video: Teshigahara’s 1962 “Pitfall”</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/video-teshigahara%e2%80%99s-1962-%e2%80%9cpitfall%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Louis Proyect posted the following commentary:
For an interesting mixture of Marxist politics and surrealist film-making techniques, I recommend Hiroshi Teshigahara’s 1962 “Pitfall” (Otoshiana) that I rented from the estimable Netflix. Teshigahara is best-known for “Woman in the Dunes”, the movie that followed this, his first feature. “Pitfall” is based on a stage play by Kobo [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Mike E</media:title>
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		<title>Art &#38; Culture: Who Do We Learn From? Who Decides?</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/art-culture-who-do-we-learn-from-who-decides/</link>
		<comments>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/art-culture-who-do-we-learn-from-who-decides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Linda D.
Must the artist have direct experience in order to better express and communicate their art? What role does art and culture play in society? How do we unleash the masses in this sphere? Is all art automatically stamped with a class outlook, or is there not room for various forms of expression?
Regarding the [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Mike E</media:title>
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		<title>AWTW: Sex Scandal in Iran&#8217;s Zanjan University</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/awtw-video-sex-scandal-in-irans-zanjan-university/</link>
		<comments>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/awtw-video-sex-scandal-in-irans-zanjan-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike E</dc:creator>
		
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An extreme fundamentalist professor was recorded demanding sex from a student at Zanjan University &#8212; and the scandal escalated as Iran&#8217;s religious authorities tried to hush it up.
30 June 2008. A World to Win News Service. Events at Iran&#8217;s Zanjan University two weeks ago shocked the whole country. Not because people were unaware of the [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Mike E</media:title>
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		<title>Video: Flobots don&#8217;t need &#8220;Handlebars&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/video-flobots-dont-need-handlebars/</link>
		<comments>http://mikeely.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/video-flobots-dont-need-handlebars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>onehundredflowers</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When people think of political music, we are often looking for an overt message, a statement of principle, an indictment of injustice, a portrayal of struggle.  These things are valuable and we need more of them, but we often fail to appreciate how aesthetic can reflect political sentiment as well.  Music, like other [...]]]></description>
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