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	<description>The weblog of Christiaan Briggs</description>
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		<title>Blair loses, audible sigh of relief heard around world</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/blair-loses-audible-sigh-of-relief-heard-around-world/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/blair-loses-audible-sigh-of-relief-heard-around-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Electoral politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herman Van Rompuy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War crimes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you subjected to the unfortunate idea of having Tony Blair as first president of the EU you’ll pleased to know the war criminal never came close. No Right Turn: The European Union has its first permanent council president—and its not Tony Blair. Instead, EU leaders have chosen Belgian Prime Minister Herman van&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Jacqui Janes is wrong about why her son is dead</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/jacqui-janes-is-wrong-about-why-her-son-is-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/jacqui-janes-is-wrong-about-why-her-son-is-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacqui Janes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Janes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Guardian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War crimes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jacqui Janes believes her son is dead because the war in Afghanistan is under-resourced. He’s not. He’s dead because he was fighting an unjust war. The stated aim of the invasion of Afghanistan was to find Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking Al-Qaeda members. On 14 October, 2001, the Taliban publicly offered to hand over Osama&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Iran should tell the West to fuck off</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/iran-should-tell-the-west-to-fuck-off/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/iran-should-tell-the-west-to-fuck-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IAEA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Atomic Energy Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia/East Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US foreign policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As part of negotiations with Iran over nuclear fuel Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency recently proposed that Iran transfer about 70 percent of its low-enriched uranium to Russia for further enrichment by the end of this year, then to France for conversion into fuel plates for medical use, effectively negating its use in alleged&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Top Things you Think You Know about Iran that are not True</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/top-things-you-think-you-know-about-iran-that-are-not-true/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/top-things-you-think-you-know-about-iran-that-are-not-true/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US foreign policy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://last-straw.net/?p=2401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With current events this is a must read for any Westerner.]]></description>
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		<title>‘No credible evidence’ of Iranian nuclear weapons</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/no-credible-evidence-of-iranian-nuclear-weapons/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/no-credible-evidence-of-iranian-nuclear-weapons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear proliferation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[‘No credible evidence’ of Iranian nuclear weapons, says UN inspector: The UN’s chief weapons inspector, Mohamed ElBaradei, said today he had seen “no credible evidence” that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, rejecting British intelligence allegations that a weapons programme has been going on for at least four years. Anyone surprised by this is just a&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>NZ National/ACT government wants option to commit war crimes</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/nz-nationalact-government-wants-option-to-commit-war-crimes/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/nz-nationalact-government-wants-option-to-commit-war-crimes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACT New Zealand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aotearoa New Zealand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NZ National Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayne Mapp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No Right Turn on the NZ National/ACT government’s opposition to a new bill that would make it a national criminal offence for any New Zealand political leader to “plan, prepare, initiate or execute an act of aggression” in violation of the UN Charter. … when Wayne Mapp says he doesn’t want our foreign policy to be subject&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Iran may not want the bomb</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/iran-may-not-want-the-bomb/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/iran-may-not-want-the-bomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 20:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsweek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria writing for Newsweek: … over the last five years, senior Iranian officials at every level have repeatedly asserted that they do not intend to build nuclear weapons. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has quoted the regime’s founding father, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who asserted that such weapons were “un-Islamic.” The country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>I can’t believe he said that</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/i-cant-believe-he-said-that/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/i-cant-believe-he-said-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine and Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silvan Shalom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Groups of people all over the world calling themselves “news organisations,” such as The Times, continue to spread myths about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, such as that he called for Israel to be “wiped off the map” or that he denies the Nazi Holocaust. In the mean time the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister has been quoted as&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Blair gets payoff from Zionists</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/tony-blair-gets-payoff-from-zionists/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/tony-blair-gets-payoff-from-zionists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine and Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War crimes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[War Crim Tony Blair has been awarded a prize from Zionist organisation Dan David Foundation, amounting to $1 million. Presumably for his efforts to ensure Israel can continue its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.]]></description>
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		<title>People lose their moral compass over Israel</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/people-lose-their-moral-compass-over-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/people-lose-their-moral-compass-over-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine and Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War crimes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://last-straw.net/?p=1583</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It surprises me to the degree that many people lose their moral compass over Israel. We’ve come to expect it from Israelis; currently they’re promising to protect their war criminals from international prosecution over their recent massacre of Gazans. But, then there’s people like Mark Thompson, the BBC’s director general, who has been instrumental in the&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>International boycott of Israel finally gaining traction</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/international-boycott-of-israel-finally-gaining-traction/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/international-boycott-of-israel-finally-gaining-traction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avi Shlaim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boycott Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naomi Klein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestine and Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://last-straw.net/?p=1580</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An international boycott against Israel, not unlike that against Apartheid South Africa, finally looks to be gaining traction. Naomi Klein has made a good case as to why is long past time and reports in Israeli media indicate that, since Israel’s recent massacre of 1300 Palestinians, the boycott is starting to have an effect. If&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Chomsky on Latin America and the Carribean</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/chomsky-on-latin-america-and-the-carribean/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/chomsky-on-latin-america-and-the-carribean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carribean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Latin America]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://last-straw.net/?p=757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chomsky speaking at the Social Summit in Venezuela a couple of weeks ago.]]></description>
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		<title>Bush invokes UN Charter</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/bush-invokes-un-charter/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/bush-invokes-un-charter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations Charter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bush Junior at today’s UN meeting invoking, I kid you not, the UN Charter: The United Nations charter sets forth the equal rights of nations large and small. Russia’s invasion of Georgia was a violation of those words. Bwahhh… haha! He’s not seriously suggesting that UN bollocks about justice means anything these days is he?]]></description>
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		<title>CNN interview with Vladimir Putin</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/cnn-interview-with-vladimir-putin/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/cnn-interview-with-vladimir-putin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia/East Europe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Transcript of CNN interview with Vladimir Putin. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Update, 2 Sep 2008: video added.]]></description>
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		<title>Never a better time to boycott U.S. goods</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/never-a-better-time-to-boycott-us-goods/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/never-a-better-time-to-boycott-us-goods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. second-quarter growth came in a little higher than expected today, on the back of exports which grew at a 13.2% annual rate, thanks to a weakened dollar. Result: fears of recession this year quelled. Seems to me there’s never been a better time to boycott U.S. goods.]]></description>
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		<title>Bush regime drops preconditions to talks with Iran</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/bush-regime-drops-preconditions-to-talks-with-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/bush-regime-drops-preconditions-to-talks-with-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It appears as if someone sensible finally has Bush’s ear. Maybe Tom Engelhardt is right.]]></description>
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		<title>The propaganda war against Iran</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/the-propaganda-war-against-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/the-propaganda-war-against-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperialism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://last-straw.net/2006/03/the-propaganda-war-against-iran/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few points to keep in mind if you're bothering to follow the current propaganda campaign being waged against Iran.]]></description>
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		<title>Armchair tough talk</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/armchair-tough-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://last-straw.net/armchair-tough-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2005 23:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Blair]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statements from your favourite armchair war criminals.]]></description>
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		<title>We bear responsibility</title>
		<link>http://last-straw.net/we-bear-responsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2005 23:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective: to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from the territory that the terrorists view as their homeland. From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West Bank, every major suicide-terrorist campaign—over 95 percent of all the incidents—has had as its central objective to compel a democratic state to withdraw."]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. invasion of Iran has already begun</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christiaan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter" title="Wikipedia &#124; Scott Ritter">Scott Ritter</a>, former UN Chief Weapons Inspector in Iraq, writing for <cite>Aljazeera</cite>, argues that the invasion of Iran has already begun, much the same way as the invasion of Iraq begun in the summer of 2002.]]></description>
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