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		<title>Iran’s election nuclear, but not nuked</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/06/17/irans-election-nuclear-but-not-nuked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran has to be the only country where one nuclear negotiator defeated another for the presidency. Iran’s new President Hassan Rohani/Rowhani/Rouhani* was Iran&#8217;s nuclear negotiator with Britain, France, and Germany between 2003 and 2005. One of his opponents and Supreme Leader Khameini’s candidate of choice, was Saeed Jalili, the current chief nuclear negotiator. In what other state, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=82263&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The incomplete transsexual: a small tale from the Seoul Bar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 02:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dan Ryan It was a little like the scenario in that Kinks song “Lola,&#8221; but only in passing. I met her in a little place called Seoul Bar, which is in a rundown section of northeast Tokyo called Sanya. At first I thought her was a him, and she sounded like a man but… [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=82214&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turkey Prime Minister Erdogan goes all Robert Moses on Istanbul</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/06/04/turkey-prime-minister-erdogan-goes-all-robert-moses-on-istanbul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turks are feeling steamrollered by Prime Minister Erdogan’s development projects. In the New York Times, Tim Arango reports from Istanbul: Across this vast city, a capital for three former empires, cranes dangle over construction sites, tin walls barricade old slums, and skyscrapers outclimb the mosque minarets that have dominated the skyline for centuries — all a vanguard [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=82014&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ArtSunday: Truth and beauty and death&#8230;and hope&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/06/02/artsunday-truth-and-beauty-and-death-and-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2013 18:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Booth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2013 reading list‘s next work is Chinua Achebe’s 1987 novel Anthills of the Savannah. Achebe, whom many critics would cite as Africa’s most distinguished novelist and man of letters, died in March of this year, leaving behind a body of work that gives both testimony of the African experience and explores the author’s personal history. In the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81994&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should the US export cheap energy? Will US energy stay cheap if it does?</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/29/should-the-us-export-cheap-energy-will-us-energy-stay-cheap-if-it-does/</link>
		<comments>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/29/should-the-us-export-cheap-energy-will-us-energy-stay-cheap-if-it-does/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 22:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wufnik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting and important debate is set to take place in Washington shortly—in fact, it’s already talking place, but few people are paying attention yet. Joe Nocera over at The New York Times wrote an instructive column a couple of weeks ago on the very topic that is starting to exercise any number of people—energy [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81887&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Useful Enemies”: U.S. admitted not just Nazis after WWII, but their sadistic collaborators</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/21/useful-enemies-u-s-admitted-not-just-nazis-after-wwii-but-their-sadistic-collaborators/</link>
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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>The Rest is Noise (6)—Descent into the Maelstrom</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/17/the-rest-is-noise-6-descent-into-the-maelstrom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 23:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wufnik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been leading up to this, the past several months, as we have tracked the descent of the twentieth century into its mid-century madness through the course of its music. Alex Ross’s book is quite clever in this—but it seeks to illuminate the music of the century through its intellectual and social history. The focus [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81760&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blatter &#8220;appalled&#8221; by racist abuse of Balotelli: hey Sepp &#8211; less talk, more action</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/13/blatter-appalled-by-racist-abuse-of-balotelli-hey-sepp-less-talk-more-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samuel Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Racist abuse of AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli by AS Roma fans in yesterday&#8217;s Serie A match caused the official to briefly suspend play. After an PA announcement warning the offending supporters to cease and desist, the game was resumed. While these things are hardly uncommon in Italian football (or throughout the rest of Europe, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=81679&#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>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2013/05/10/would-pakistan-respond-to-indias-use-of-conventional-weapons-with-nukes/</link>
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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>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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