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		<title>Salmaan Taseer and the Crisis of Pakistani Liberalism</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/salmaan-taseer-and-the-crisis-of-pakistani-liberalism</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 05:10:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BHASKAR SUNKARA Mumtaz Hussain Qadri was grinning minutes after he ripped twenty-seven bullets through Salmaan Taseer, the liberal governor of Punjab, last month. He was not alone. While Taseer’s funeral was sparsely attended, Qadri was embraced as a national hero by many, showered with garlands before his first court appearance, and offered free council by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Venezuela’s Cooperative “Revolution”</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/on-venezuelas-cooperative-revolution</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News and Views]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cooperatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BHASKAR SUNKARA Among the tens of thousands of embassy cables and government documents included in the latest Wikileaks release, it&#8217;s striking how unenlightening and insignificant most of the “revelations” are. Some of the most bizarrely phrased memos came out of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas. One begins: “President Chavez made socialism taste better with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoroughly Modern Tory</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/thoroughly-modern-tory</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neoliberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Seymour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the meaning of david cameron]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Meaning of David Cameron by Richard Seymour Zero Books, 2010, 114 pp $10 BHASKAR SUNKARA The ruling class doesn’t meet every month in smoke-filled rooms, waited on by Honduran man-servants, chomping cigars and discussing the latest American Enterprise Institute report.  Like Baudelaire (and Kevin Spacey) said of the devil, the production of hegemonic conceits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Coda on Solidarity: Iran, the Left and Noble Savages</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-coda-on-solidarity-iran-the-left-and-noble-savages</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-coda-on-solidarity-iran-the-left-and-noble-savages#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BHASKAR SUNKARA Praise be to Nero’s Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody’s shouting “Which Side Are You On?” It doesn’t take a tremendous appreciation of the dialectic to grasp this contradiction: some of the groups with the most stridently “revolutionary” and “anti-imperialist” politics are, in practice, reactionary and orientalist.  It was today, just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Collage of Lies</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-collage-of-lies</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/a-collage-of-lies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zionism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BHASKAR SUNKARA I was in the process of finishing up a middling piece on the Turkish government&#8217;s feigned outrage over Monday’s Israeli commando raid.  It seems callously opportunistic coming from a party that refuses to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide, has a long history of cooperation with Israeli intelligence, and an even longer one of brutality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missa pro Defunctis: Fred Halliday (1946-2010)</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/missa-pro-defunctis-fred-halliday-1946-2010</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/missa-pro-defunctis-fred-halliday-1946-2010#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fred Halliday]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BHASKAR SUNKARA Fred Halliday, political analyst, celebrated scholar of international relations and committed foe of tyranny and inequality, died in Barcelona today after a prolonged struggle against cancer.  He was 64 years old.  Born in Ireland, but educated in England, it was the Middle East that would dominate Halliday’s research.  He was no glib commentator, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Anatomy of Teabagging</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-anatomy-of-teabagging</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-anatomy-of-teabagging#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 01:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fascism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Nation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BHASKAR SUNKARA Professor Chomsky is afraid.  And he’s not the only one.  My television, stuck on MSNBC until it’s late enough for Cinemax to get libidinous, is blaring about Timothy McVeigh and right-wing militias.  My email inbox is bombarded with calls from liberal groups and publications like The Nation who invoke the specter of “Jim [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Death of a Nation</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-death-of-a-nation</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-death-of-a-nation#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Cockburn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doug Henwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melissa Harris-Lacewell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naomi Klein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Nation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Navasky]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BHASKAR SUNKARA I’m often rattled by manifestations of my own intellectual impotence.  A conversation with a professor who mentions whole genres of literature I’m unfamiliar with. An acknowledgment that I’ve been mispronouncing Die Linke and pronouncing Alexander Cockburn’s name a bit too correctly for a good year and a half. That stretch after reading Sula [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>On the French Regional Elections</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/on-the-french-regional-elections</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/on-the-french-regional-elections#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BHASKAR SUNKARA Sunday&#8217;s round one French regional election results: At stake are the presidencies for each of France’s 26 regions, which don’t have legislative autonomy, but manage significant budgets.  Last time these elections were held in 2004 a broad center-left, ‘left’ coalition consisting of the Socialist Party (PS), Communist Party (PCF) and Greens (EE) won [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unconventional Wisdom: An Interview with Doug Henwood</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/unconventional-wisdom-an-interview-with-doug-henwood</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/unconventional-wisdom-an-interview-with-doug-henwood#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bhaskar Sunkara</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lead Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doug Henwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brooklyn-based Doug Henwood has been among the few articulate voices on what Perry Anderson likes to call &#8220;the vanquished left.&#8221; Doug has been publishing an irreplaceable newsletter, Left Business Observer, which examines politics and economics with a scientific rigor and without the moral exhortations or hyperbolic spasms of his contemporaries, since 1986.  He also hosts [...]]]></description>
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