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		<title>Operation Cast Lead and a 2012 Deja Vu</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/30/operation-cast-lead-and-a-2012-deja-vu/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=operation-cast-lead-and-a-2012-deja-vu</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eileen Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exactly three years after Operation Cast Lead, Israel is threatening another invasion on Gaza while Hamas leaders order a halt to all attacks on Israel.]]></description>
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		<title>The Cost of Israel to Americans</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/11/23/the-cost-of-israel-to-americans/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-cost-of-israel-to-americans</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veterans Today</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most serious dangers facing Americans today stem from our "special relationship" with Israel. by The Council For The National Interest]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Powers Have Dangerous Designs In Balochistan</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/09/08/foreign-powers-have-dangerous-designs-in-balochistan/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=foreign-powers-have-dangerous-designs-in-balochistan</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 20:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brig Asif H. Raja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Balochistan has figured high on the agenda of USA because of its geo-strategic importance. Former USSR too had toyed with the idea of Balochistan getting separated and coming under its influence since it provided the shortest route to warm waters. ]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey/Israeli War of Words</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/09/04/turkey-israeli-war-of-words/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=turkey-israeli-war-of-words</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lendman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=137330</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A previous article discussed release of the leaked UN Palmer Commission's report on Israel's May 2010 Mavi Marmara massacre, killing nine Turkish nationals in cold blood.]]></description>
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		<title>The Business of America Is War</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/06/29/the-business-of-america-is-war/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-business-of-america-is-war</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/06/29/the-business-of-america-is-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lendman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=118499</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Noted trends analyst Gerald Celente said it, and it's true. In fact, America's business is war, more war, multiple wars, permanent wars, pillaging one nation after another for wealth, power, and dominance, while homeland needs go begging.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Slipping Popularity</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/06/12/obamas-slipping-popularity/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=obamas-slipping-popularity</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lendman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Except for bankers, war profiteers, other corporate favorites, and America's super-rich, it's hard imagining why anyone supports a president backing policies harming so many at home and abroad.]]></description>
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		<title>Escalating an Asian Arms Race</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/06/02/escalating-an-asian-arms-race/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=escalating-an-asian-arms-race</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lendman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.veteranstoday.com/?p=110313</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Together with South Korea, America's military plans expanding its Asian footprint on Jeju Island with a strategic naval base for Aegis class attack ships.]]></description>
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		<title>Worldwide sanctions can erode Israel&#8217;s fanaticism: Dr. Lawrence Davidson</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/20/worldwide-sanctions-can-erode-israels-fanaticism-dr-lawrence-davidson/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=worldwide-sanctions-can-erode-israels-fanaticism-dr-lawrence-davidson</link>
		<comments>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/20/worldwide-sanctions-can-erode-israels-fanaticism-dr-lawrence-davidson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh Ziabari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born in 1945 in Philadelphia PA, Dr. Lawrence Davidson is professor of history at West Chester University in West Chester PA. His academic work is focused on the history of American foreign relations with the Middle East. He also teaches courses in the history of science and modern European intellectual history.]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKING NEWS:  UN Vote on Full Libya Intervention &#8211; Veterans Today Tried To Head It Off</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/17/breaking-newsny-times-reveals-veterans-today-was-right/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=breaking-newsny-times-reveals-veterans-today-was-right</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim W. Dean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Folks, This additional 'we told you so' piece is not about stroking our egos, but about saving the Libyan revolution and the momentum of ridding Libya of its Neanderthal dictator and his corrupt regime. This be no means guarantees that democratic reform will keep them free, as elite corruption has rendered that institution a sock puppet for international  mobsters, loyal to no country, or people...only to themselves.]]></description>
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		<title>GILAD ATZMON: American Bloody Pragmatism</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/05/gilad-atzmon-american-bloody-pragmatism/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=gilad-atzmon-american-bloody-pragmatism</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 03:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gilad Atzmon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Gilad Atzmon After  killing hundreds of thousands of Muslims in the name of democracy, the  White House has now decided that ‘stability in the region’ is by far,  much  more important. On Saturday, The Wall Street journal  reported that the Obama administration is devising a new Middle East  strategy in the face of ongoing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. Supports Brutal Regimes of the World</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/03/the-u-s-supports-brutal-regimes-of-the-world/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=the-u-s-supports-brutal-regimes-of-the-world</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kourosh Ziabari</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interview by Kourosh Ziabari ﻿Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and board member of the Third Coast Activist Resource Center in Austin. Jensen joined the UT faculty in 1992 after completing his Ph.D. in media ethics and law in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama’s Conflicting Policy in South Asia</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/11/07/obama%e2%80%99s-conflicting-policy-in-south-asia/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=obama%25e2%2580%2599s-conflicting-policy-in-south-asia</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 02:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Raja Mujtaba</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sajjad Shaukat:
Most alarming point in this respect is that Indian sinister strategic designs under the pretext of so-called Islamic terrorism are not only creating obstacles in the East-West cultural cooperation, but are also taking the world to the brink of clash of civilizations.]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Policy Briefing 6/7/10</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/07/foreign-policy-briefing-6710/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=foreign-policy-briefing-6710</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel has become a "strategic liability" for the U.S., suggests Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Cordesman adds the attack on the Turkish ship to a series of "major strategic blunders," by Israel. [Cordesman and CSIS are impeccably "hyper-centrist," so this is a good sign - JFP.]]></description>
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		<title>Time For The World To Get Serious on Israel</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/03/dr-alan-sabrosky-israel-says-no-the-us-agrees-time-for-the-world-to-get-serious/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=dr-alan-sabrosky-israel-says-no-the-us-agrees-time-for-the-world-to-get-serious</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sabrosky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So the predictable dynamics are unfolding. Anywhere the US does not have a veto, Israel is being condemned for its latest atrocities and for its illegal blockade on Gaza. Israel as usual has its puppets in the US Congress and the US mainstream media coming to its defense. ]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Policy Briefing 6/2/10</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/06/02/34174/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=34174</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine high-profile experts, including former weapons inspector David Kay and former Under Secretary of State Tom Pickering, said world powers should seriously consider the Iran nuclear fuel swap, Reuters reports. "We urge the so-called Vienna Group (Russia, France, the United States, and the IAEA) to seriously pursue this proposal as an opening for further diplomatic engagement with Iran on outstanding issues of concern," the experts said.]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Policy Briefing 5/24/10</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/05/24/32817/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=32817</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[WarZone]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brazil says the US and other Western powers prodded Brazil to try to revive the U.N. fuel swap deal proposed last October. "We were encouraged directly or indirectly ... to implement the October proposal...and that's what we did," said Foreign Minister Amorim. In a letter to Brazilian President Lula two weeks ago, President Obama said an Iranian uranium shipment abroad would generate confidence. "From our point of view, a decision by Iran to send 1,200 kilograms of low-enriched uranium abroad, would generate confidence and reduce regional tensions by cutting Iran's stockpile," Obama said.]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Policy Briefing 4/20/10</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/04/20/foreign-policy-briefing-42010/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=foreign-policy-briefing-42010</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[94 percent of Kandaharis interviewed last December prefer negotiating with the Taliban to military confrontation, Gareth Porter reports for Inter Press Service. Ninety-one percent supported the convening of a "Loya Jirga", or "grand assembly" of leaders as a way of ending the conflict. Interviewers conducted the survey only in areas which were not under Taliban control. An unclassified report on the survey was published in March by Glevum Associates, a "strategic communications" company under contract for the Human Terrain Systems program in Afghanistan. All this undermines the U.S. claim that the Kandahar offensive will be supported by locals, Porter notes.
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		<title>Foreign Policy Briefing 4/9/10</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/04/09/foreign-policy-briefing-4910/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=foreign-policy-briefing-4910</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of whether U.S. Special Forces removed bullets from the bodies of the Afghan women they just killed, as charged by the victims' relatives - and if they did, what their motivation was for doing so - spreading the story that the women's bodies had been found "tied up" and "gagged," as NATO did in a Feb. 12 press release still posted on its web site, if that was not true, would meet any disinterested observer's definition of the word "coverup."]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Policy Briefing 4/7/10</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/04/07/25796/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=25796</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fight over the war supplemental is tremendously important, because Congressional pressure can move Administration policy, even when critics of Administration policy don't command a majority of votes. This is especially true when, as in this case, critics are in the majority in the President's own party, and when, as in this case, the policy under pressure is an international policy which is also under significant international pressure.]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Policy Briefing 3/31/10</title>
		<link>http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/03/31/foreign-policy-briefing-33110/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=foreign-policy-briefing-33110</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Higgins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Energy Independence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. forces hope to control Kandahar and surrounding areas by late summer, the Washington Post reports. Officials have pressed local leaders to eject the Taliban or their areas will be the focus of expanding military operations. Among those specifically warned by U.S. military commanders is Ahmed Wali Karzai, the elected head of Kandahar's provincial council, the unquestioned power broker in the province and brother of President Hamid Karzai [and also President Karzai's representative in talks with Taliban leader Mullah Baradar weeks before Baradar's arrest, a fact curiously unmentioned by the Post or the very similar New York Times story - JFP.]]]></description>
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