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	<title>Plato's Beard &#187; Doublespeak</title>
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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>From freedom fighter to militant</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/337</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When Ronald Reagan spoke of the Mujahideen (the precursors to the warlords of contemporary Afghanistan) and the Contras in Nicargua, he saw &#8220;freedom fighters&#8221; equal to the founding fathers of the USA. The New York Times, however, is unable to match Reagan in such wordplay. The best they can do, to whitewash terrorists such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China: not bad enough</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/335</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewing a collection of China themed books in the NYRofB, Orville Schell unintentionally offers an insight:
China: Humiliation &#38; the Olympics - The New York Review of Books
So, partly in shock, and partly in disappointment, China responded to the demonstrations against its Olympic torch with incensed outrage, rejecting any suggestion that its own actions could have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democratic nomination circus wrapup</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/317</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/317#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In case it isn&#8217;t obvious, I am not a Hillary supporter. I am an old-fashioned leftist and I have severe problems with her positions on Palestine, the Iraq War, US foreign policy and a raft of other issues. I am not a Obama hater either &#8212;  he is only as far from (and perhaps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heckled and Slimed</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/314</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 04:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary bashing is the sport of the day and here is Barbara Ehrenreich taking her best shot:
Hillary Revealed That Women Can Be Nasty, Deceptive Candidates Too
Hillary Clinton smashed the myth of innate female moral superiority in the worst possible way &#8212; by demonstrating female moral inferiority.
In case you are tickled by this awesome scientific generalisation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Language, means and ends</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/307</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/307#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As has become the norm these days, most of the media is agog over Obama&#8217;s Race In America speech. To his credit, the man tackled some of the controversies that led to this speech more directly than employ his usual forceful repetition of uplifting trivialities. The intent of this blog post is to ponder on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving the bathwater</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/254</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/254#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a good one! Utah wants additional Congressional representation due to its growing population and the GOP is trying to hasten the addition of the seat by promising representation for the people of Washington D.C who have no representation in Congress. But some no likey the idea of DC residents getting representation. Why you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cartoon comparisons</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/242</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/242#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We all remember the Danish cartoon controversy. You remember the one? Where most of the U.S press reported, with barely concealed glee, the horrors of the protests against the cartoons, rather than the cartoons themselves? To be fair they did comment on the cartoons i.e., as a free speech issue, as in the useless freedom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billmon on Powell and McCain</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/215</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/215#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 23:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Billmon has a great post (Whiskey Bar: Flunking History) at the Whiskey Bar (what better way to spend your Sunday evening!) that covers U.S mixed history of wars and occupations, Powell and McCain&#8217;s spin on them, and ends with a timely assessment of Mr. Straight Talk:
Whiskey Bar: Flunking History
That&#8217;s one of the reasons why I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex sells, CIA leaks no big deal</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/198</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/198#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Fitzgerald investigation into national security compromise: $1.4m, 3 years. Ken Starr obsession with blowjob: $71m, 8 years. Barrett interest in Cisneros extramarital affair: $21m, 10 years. Republican faux outrage over Fitzgerald (a Republican)? Priceless!
CIA Leak Probe Relatively Inexpensive - WaPo
Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who investigated whether senior Bush administration officials illegally leaked the name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blood and gore makes Army queasy</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/86</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/86#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 01:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Doublespeak]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Army says all the horror of war as depicted in a documentary of Iraq war injured might be a bit demoralizing. Perhaps when compared to the much better version of reality presented in the ads with dudes climbing mountains and such? When asked if morale may improve among the troops if they were to be [...]]]></description>
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