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		<title>&#8220;Taxed Enough Already&#8221;: A Case for the Tea Partiers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“[Those in the Tea Party movement, who are frustrated and fed up with American government] shouldn’t be laughed at. It’s not a joke. Ridiculing the Tea Party shenanigans is a terrible mistake. Why are those voices of discontent being mobilized by the extreme Right?”  &#8211;Noam Chomsky, 8 April 2010 A correspondent sends an apposite description [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2010/04/16/taxed-enough-already-a-case-for-the-tea-partiers/</link>
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		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2010/03/23/212/</link>
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		<title>Although the Media and the President Seem to Ignore it, Americans Continue to Kill and Die in the Middle East. Why?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Text of the flyer for the regular monthly demonstration by the Anti-War Anti-Racism Effort of Champaign IL, 6 Feb 2010) It&#8217;s not &#8220;because of 9/11&#8243; or to &#8220;stop terrorism,&#8221; as President Obama now says. The war is neither just nor legal: the real reason for it seems to be the long-standing U.S. policy of control [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2010/02/06/197/</link>
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		<title>Anti-War Republicans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether or not the Republicans do well in the 2010 congressional elections by mobilizing the general dismay with the Obama administration, it seems clear that the Republican opposition to Obama in 2012 will include opposition to his war policy. The question is what form it will take. I&#8217;m coming to doubt that it will consist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2010/02/01/anti-war-republicans/</link>
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		<title>News From Neptune on TV for Friday, November 20, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A spontaneous and unrehearsed discussion of the news of the week and its coverage by the media, cablecast each Friday at 7pm on Urbana Public Television (cable channel 6 in Urbana, Illinois). Joining C. G. Estabrook this week are E. Wayne Johnson and Ron Szoke. Each participant takes up to ten minutes to talk about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2009/12/05/news-from-neptune-53/</link>
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		<title>Setting the Agenda for the Intelligentsia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NYT today publishes a more candid than usual article in its campaign to set the terms of public discussion of US war policy &#8212; in a way that will favor that policy. &#8220;Where Is U.S. Foreign Policy Headed?&#8221; appears on the inside back cover of the book review. The article &#8212; by a well-known [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2009/10/25/setting-the-agenda-for-the-intelligentsia/</link>
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		<title>Securing Liberty: A Bailout for the Rest of Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following are preliminary notes for a talk I was invited to give at the Midwest Liberty Fest in Du Quoin, IL , 9th-11th inst. The meeting included a wider variety of views than might have been predicted; I think it testifies to the failure of the Republicans and Democrats to constrain political debate within [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2009/10/13/securing-liberty-a-bailout-for-the-rest-of-us/</link>
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		<title>Misrepresenting Germany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The German election has been seriously misreported in the US &#8212; an accident I&#8217;m sure. The real story is the breakdown of support of the major parties, and it may presage what&#8217;s to happen in US politics. First, it&#8217;s been represented as a victory for the party of Angela Merkel (who&#8217;ll continue as chancellor), the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2009/09/28/misrepresenting-germany/</link>
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		<title>Liberal line on the empire&#8217;s wars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frank Rich has a disgusting piece in the NYT today, an attempt to establish the limits of allowable debate for Obama&#8217;s Great Decision on Afghanistan. What are the (only) alternatives? McChrystal or Biden. God help us. McChrystal &#8212; tens of thousands more US troops; Biden &#8212; air war against our real enemy in the region, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2009/09/27/liberal-line-on-the-empires-wars/</link>
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		<title>Why are we in Afghanistan?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[William Pfaff, who&#8217;s been writing from Paris roughly since the German army left, has a piece in the International Herald Tribune (alias European edition of the NYT) &#8220;Presidents Need a War to Call Their Own — Now Obama Has His&#8221; . Pfaff is an ex-CIA employee and a long-time member of the Hudson Institute, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2009/09/17/122/</link>
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		<title>Oh, Canada&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canadian PM Stephen Harper has 42 minutes of face time with Barack Obama in Washington today. While Canadian institutions (notably healthcare) are being compared favorably with those of the US, quite rightly, here are some other things to remember: 1. On dozens of occasions since 1915 Canadian gunboats have been deployed to the Caribbean and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2009/09/16/oh-canada/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;You lie!&#8221; &#8212; about Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The much-predicted demise of newspapers can&#8217;t happen too soon, so it seems to me, if we want a well-informed citizenry. It was a 19th-century gibe that &#8220;newspapers are half advertisements &#8212; and the rest lies between them.&#8221; But the lies can be subtle &#8212; and usually lie (sorry) in the unstated assumptions (unstated, they&#8217;re harder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2009/09/16/you-lie-about-afghanistan/</link>
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		<title>Advance text of President&#8217;s speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery Address to Joint Session of Congress Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Madame Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, and the First Lady of the United States: I come before you tonight in a spirit of remorse &#8212; which, I find, requires more audacity than hope [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2009/09/06/advance-text-of-presidents-speech/</link>
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		<title>Lincoln Cult &#8211; February 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Lincoln birthday celebrations seem to have included little attempt to learn from the past. Lincoln is celebrated &#8212; by few more than the current president, who insists upon a resemblance &#8212; but there&#8217;s little critique of the devastation over which Lincoln presided. The end of chattel slavery is taken to be a retrospective justification [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2009/02/13/lincoln-cult-february-2008/</link>
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		<title>Real(ist) Washington Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Green writes to recommend &#8220;How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe&#8221; by Avi Shlaim in The Guardian, Wednesday 7 January 2009. (&#8220;Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state&#8217;s legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2009/01/10/realist-washington-politics/</link>
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		<title>Co-opting the Antiwar Movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it betrays my essentially reformist rather than revolutionary disposition to think that there is something wrong with what Eliot has Abp. Becket say in Murder in the Cathedral &#8211; The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. However much that may be a guide for oneself, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2008/12/31/co-opting-the-antiwar-movement/</link>
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		<title>News from Neptune, the TV Edition, cablecast October 17, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a sample of the new video version of News from Neptune (radio with pictures), from the studios of Urbana (IL) Public Television, with thanks to Jason Liggett.  It features CGE and David Green. Topics include *elitism and contempt*, *class in America*, and *the Pareto principle*. New programs will be posted inshallah in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2008/10/26/news-from-neptune-the-tv-edition-17-october-2008/</link>
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		<title>Tax and Expend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t tax productive economic activity, tax wealth. Remove all corporate taxes (that&#8217;s practically been done) but also remove the civil rights of corporations as &#8220;legal persons.&#8221; But wealth owned by corporations should be assigned to individuals (principally shareholders) for accounting purposes and then taxed. (We do that now informally &#8212; that&#8217;s why we say Bill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2008/10/25/tax-and-expend/</link>
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		<title>Left or Right?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday&#8217;s NYT has an obit for an Italian anti-fascist, Vittorio Foa, who recently died at 98. Jailed by Mussolini, he led a left-wing labor union after WWII and was a socialist senator. The Times describes him delicately as &#8220;a leading intellectual of the non-Communist left [who] in the 1960s inspired some extra-parliamentary leftist groups.&#8221; La [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2008/10/25/left-or-right/</link>
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		<title>The Democrats and Obama have co-opted the anti-war movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Barack Obama said Wednesday he would order a surge of U.S. troops – perhaps 15,000 or more – to Afghanistan as soon as he reached the White House [Globe &#038; Mail 20081022]. Obama&#8217;s position has been clear for some time. But it&#8217;s been expressed in such a way that he and the Democrats have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://newsfromneptune.com/2008/10/25/the-democrats-and-obama-have-co-opted-the-anti-war-movement/</link>
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