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		<title>“Useful Enemies”: U.S. admitted not just Nazis after WWII, but their sadistic collaborators</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why did the United States feel the need to admit Baltic and Eastern Europeans who at times exceeded the Nazis in brutality? Lost count of the sordid episodes in America’s past? In Useful Enemies: John Demjanjuk and America’s Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals (Delphinium Books, 2013), Richard Rashke chronicles one that few of us [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81789&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expand nuclear weapons programs to protect missileers’ tender psyches</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 10:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nuclear missile officers’ jobs weigh heavy on them but not for the reasons you’d think. On May 8 we posted about an article by Robert Burns of the Associated Press, in which he reported that the Air Force removed authority to control – and launch – nuclear missiles from 17 officers of the 91st Missile Wing in Minot, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81725&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit of boondoggle departs quashed Los Alamos project, finds new one to possess</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/13/spirit-of-boondoggle-departs-quashed-los-alamos-project-finds-new-one-to-possess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 13:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The construction of an expensive new plutonium pit facility has been abandoned. Will it be replaced a collection of smaller buildings? Thanks in large part to lawsuits filed by the Los Alamos Study Group, last year the Obama administration halted the construction of the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Nuclear Facility (CMRR-NF) at Los Alamos [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81677&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Would Pakistan respond to India&#8217;s use of conventional weapons with nukes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 12:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theoretically Pakistan is poised to respond to Indian military retaliation for a terrorist strike with tactical nukes. It’s debatable how much nuclear weapons add to national security. But what&#8217;s undeniable is that they add layer upon layer of complexity, sprinkled with convoluted and even counterintuitive thinking (such as how missile defense systems are seen as [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81639&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minot&#8217;s launch control fail: Reason #532 why nuclear deterrence is a fragile foundation for peace</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/08/minots-launch-control-fail-reason-532-why-nuclear-deterrence-is-a-fragile-foundation-for-peace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 12:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To concerns about human error in nuclear launch control add moodiness. Robert Burns of the Associated Press reports that the Air Force removed authority to control – and launch – nuclear missiles from 17 officers of the 91st Missile Wing in Minot, North Dakota after they were given a poor review for a series of mistakes. The [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81605&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Next step for Assad – exile to a rump state?</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/06/next-step-for-assad-exile-to-a-rump-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 11:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syria has become the weak leg of its tripod with Iran and Hezbollah. &#8220;A Syrian official called an attack Sunday on the nation&#8217;s military research facility a &#8216;declaration of war&#8217; by Israel,&#8217;&#8221; reports CNN. In an interview with CNN, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al Mekdad said the attack represented an alliance between Islamic terrorists and Israel. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81560&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emphasis added: the foreign policy week in pieces</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/05/emphasis-added-the-foreign-policy-week-in-pieces-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 15:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if Iran Isn&#8217;t Noticing [Philip Coyle of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation] worries that the overall effect of the White House&#8217;s about-face on nuclear weapons policy could prove counterproductive. “We don&#8217;t want more nuclear weapons in the world,” he says. “We&#8217;re asking North Korea to stop its program. We&#8217;re asking Iran to stop [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81541&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. explores engagement with Burma&#8217;s brutal military</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/02/u-s-explores-military-engagement-with-burmas-brutal-military/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 11:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The European Union revoked its economic and political sanctions against Burma on Monday,” reports Erica Kinetz for the Associated Press. She continues: Australia revoked its travel and financial sanctions in June 2012. . . . The US has moved more slowly than the European Union and Australia in normalizing relations, which some business groups argue puts [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81499&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Americans will never fear everyday gun violence like they do terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One they view as the cost of living in a free society, the other as war. &#8220;Not that the events weren&#8217;t shocking and brutal,&#8221; concedes Scott Atran at Foreign Policy about the Boston Marathon bombing. But … this law enforcement and media response, of course, is part of the overall U.S. reaction to terrorism since [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81447&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emphasis added: the foreign policy week in pieces</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/04/26/emphasis-added-the-foreign-policy-week-in-pieces-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq&#8217;s War for Terrorists Sets up Branch Campus in Syria Of especially grave concern is the movement into Syria of bomb makers and military tacticians. As Iraq’s jihad was for much of the past decade, Syria’s is now becoming the “destination jihad” du jour. Iraq: Where Terrorists Go to School, Jessica Stern, the New York [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81376&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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