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		<title>Santos claims lead in first round of Colombian Elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Israeli Piracy on the High Seas: Murder of Activists attempting to break the Siege of Gaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The attack of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla by the Israeli Defense Forces and the subsequent killing of between 10-20 activists with upwards of 50 injured has sparked protests and outrage around the globe.  Israel has taken one more step down the road of de-legitimization in the eyes of the world.  Whatever the power calculations were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedmatt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9376299&amp;post=428&amp;subd=tedmatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Colombian Elections draw nearer</title>
		<link>http://tedmatt.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/colombian-elections-draw-nearer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 23:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The upcoming election in Colombia on May 30th has been surrounding by an expectation of change in the country.  This atmosphere has been growing over the past few months as current president Alvaro Uribe was denied the possibility to run for a third term in office due to a ruling by the constitutional court.  His [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedmatt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9376299&amp;post=425&amp;subd=tedmatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou Talks with Al Jazeera</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 22:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>BP attempts to stop oil leak with mud, Could actually worsen leak</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 00:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Jazzera English reports: A flotilla of rigs, barges and other heavy machinery stood ready at the site on Tuesday [Reuters] Amid an investigation into just how cosy the relationship between a government oversight department and the oil industry was, BP is getting ready to attempt a so-called &#8220;top kill&#8221; manoeuvre to choke off the gushing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedmatt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9376299&amp;post=416&amp;subd=tedmatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Documents reveals Israeli possession of nuclear weapons</title>
		<link>http://tedmatt.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/secret-documents-reveals-israeli-possession-of-nuclear-weapons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 17:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The secret military agreement signed by Shimon Peres, now president of Israel, and P W Botha of South Africa. Photograph: Guardian The Guardian reports: Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state&#8217;s possession of nuclear weapons. The &#8220;top-secret&#8221; minutes of meetings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedmatt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9376299&amp;post=411&amp;subd=tedmatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1,000 US dead in Afghanistan; Taliban attack Kandahar base, Parliament on Strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 14:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Theo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US and its NATO allies continue to prepare the upcoming Kandahar offensive scheduled for later this summer.  In the meantime it Taliban/resistance attacks on the US/Nato have been on the rise both in frequency and audacity.   The recent attacks have targeted three major centers of US/NATO power in Afghanistan: Bagram Base, the US&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedmatt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9376299&amp;post=405&amp;subd=tedmatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and Clinton&#8217;s choice: humility or humiliation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 21:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following was written recently by Paul Woodward on his War in Context blog: This week the Obama administration made what may come to be seen as a blunder of historic proportions. At a moment when tactical agility was a must, it stayed on course because it lacked the diplomatic finesse to show or perhaps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedmatt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9376299&amp;post=402&amp;subd=tedmatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The other debt crisis: Climate debt</title>
		<link>http://tedmatt.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/the-other-debt-crisis-climate-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 23:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this excellent program about climate change and the effects it is having on Bolivia. These effects, aside from raising all kinds of economic and environmental difficulties for the Bolivian people, has also propelled Bolivia to the forefront of the world stage on advocating for radical and global solutions to climate change. The center of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedmatt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9376299&amp;post=400&amp;subd=tedmatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Spill 19 times larger than BP, US government claim?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 18:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the oil continues to pump into the Gulf of Mexico the amount of oil being released is subject to dispute.  The official estimates of BP and the US government of 5,000 barrels a day seem to be seriously underestimated size of the spill.  The best and latest estimates, based on video footage released by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tedmatt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9376299&amp;post=396&amp;subd=tedmatt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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