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		<title>Remembering the Fall of the Berlin Wall</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I celebrate my birthday. Well, not really. I should call it my re-birthday. You see, I grew up in East Berlin, and today twenty years have passed since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. I was 8 years old, living in Moscow on that day. Little did I know that it would not only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism and the poor</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In her book Where We Stand: Class Matters, bell hooks claims to show how class intertwines with race and gender to exacerbate the economic and psychological plight of the poor. Yet, it&#8217;s riddled with worn-out clichés, myths, unsubstantiated claims, and downright falsehoods. Before I launch into my criticisms, I want to point out that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drug Prohibition is Immoral</title>
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The Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that drug offenders account for about 25 percent of local jail inmates, 21 percent of state prisoners and 55 percent of federal prisoners. Since 1980 the number of drug offenders in state prisons has increased by 1,200 percent, more than four times the increase in violent offenders. ... 
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		<title>Does this remind you of something?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Venezuela is slated to <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7076076.stm" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7076076.stm?referer=');">vote on profound constitutional reforms in December</a>, among them abolition of presidential term limits. 
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