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		<title>Strange CIA Plane &#8216;Night&#8217; Landings in Kenya</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/08/11/strange-cia-plane-night-landings-in-kenya/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/08/11/strange-cia-plane-night-landings-in-kenya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Kenya Association of Air Operators]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nairobi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Prescott Support Group]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[C130 Plane Landings at Nairobi&#8217;s Wilson Airport &#8212; Questions have been raised over US aircraft operating from the airport. 
Strange and unscheduled military planes from the US have in the last two months been making secretive night landings in Kenya, in what are feared as missions to move terror suspects from the country.

The night landings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beijing dazzles: Chinese history, athletes on parade as Olympics begin</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/08/09/beijing-dazzles-chinese-history-athletes-on-parade-as-olympics-begin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After a dazzling show that put China on display to the world and a parade featuring a record number of athlete delegations, the Games of the 29th Olympiad were officially opened Friday with the lighting of the Olympic flame at the Beijing National Stadium.
Chinese President Hu Jintao declared the Games officially open shortly before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loose Talk About Nukes - The &#8216;Race&#8217; Factor</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/08/06/loose-talk-about-nukes-the-race-factor/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/08/06/loose-talk-about-nukes-the-race-factor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[North America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[African Diaspora]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[James N Kariuki]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Nelson Mandela]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Non-Proliferation Treaty]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Bomb]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[nuclear weapons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/?p=1069</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Writes: James N. Kariuki
Obama, nuclear weapons and the race factor &#8212; Given the history of nuclear weapons relative to the non-white world, and noting the ongoing &#8216;loose talk about nukes&#8217; in the US regarding Iran, it is fitting that Barack Obama should aspire to eliminate all nuclear weapons, American and otherwise. Perhaps, he owes it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe and Western Sanctions: Motives and Implications</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/07/30/zimbabwe-and-western-sanctions-motives-and-implications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/07/30/zimbabwe-and-western-sanctions-motives-and-implications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tongkeh Joseph Fowale</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
There is nothing as glorious in the history of resistance to colonial oppression as seeing one man being able to successfully combine the will to resist, the ability to resist and the opportunity to resist, to finally win independence for his country. This is how heroes are created in a scenario of upheaval. There is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya - Tom Mboya&#8217;s fatal links with CIA</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/07/28/kenya-tom-mboyas-fatal-links-with-cia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/07/28/kenya-tom-mboyas-fatal-links-with-cia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an example of the CIA Meddling in African Affairs during the cold-war era
&#124; Other CIA activities in Africa &#124;
By Douglas Okwatch
Fresh details of a conspiracy that could have provided a motive for the assassination of Cabinet Minister Thomas Joseph Mboya have emerged ahead of the 39th year since his death.
Kenyatta
The CIA appears to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s &#8216;Luo Machismo&#8217; Inheritance</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/07/23/obamas-luo-machismo-inheritance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/07/23/obamas-luo-machismo-inheritance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Luo Machismo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As an attitude, machismo ranges from a personal sense of virility to a more extreme masculism. In many cultures, machismo is acceptable and even expected. Embedded in Luo culture (Obama&#8217;s father is a Luo from Kenya), as in other African cultures, is a certain machismo. Even in the slums, where the men are mostly unemployed, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigerian Scams - Begging Your Trust in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/06/24/742/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/06/24/742/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:08:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a scam two decades old - and it still works.]]></description>
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		<title>Frantz Fanon&#8217;s thesis of violence: What relevance for modern Africa?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/06/07/frantz-fanons-thesis-of-violence-what-relevance-for-modern-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/06/07/frantz-fanons-thesis-of-violence-what-relevance-for-modern-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tongkeh Joseph Fowale</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
The struggle against oppression was the central thesis of Frantz Fanon&#8217;s revolutionary philosophy. And colonialism was the target of this fury. Fanon condemned colonialism in the most bitter terms and advocated violence in its most extreme form to confront this plague. In his words, &#8220;colonialism is not a thinking machine nor a body endowed with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US offers human species a chance to attain post-racial Eden</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/06/05/us-offers-human-species-a-chance-to-attain-post-racial-eden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/06/05/us-offers-human-species-a-chance-to-attain-post-racial-eden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;Prof. Ali MazruiLast week in this space I posed a challenge to the United States of America: Will it realise its potential of becoming humankind&#8217;s post-racial garden of Eden, completing the odyssey from Africa as the first Garden of Eden? Or will the country waste that opportunity through bigotry, prejudice, and conflict? 
This week we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Xenophobia: Is South Africa the exception?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/06/03/xenophobia-is-south-africa-the-exception/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/06/03/xenophobia-is-south-africa-the-exception/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Khamati Shilabukha
In the past few years, there have been efforts to re-position Africa in the globalising world to take care of relationships among its states and the rest of the world.
The association of African states was restructured from the Organisation of African Unity, to the African Union. Many would argue that this is merely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes Africa Can: An African Talks To Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/05/31/yes-africa-can-an-african-talks-to-barack-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/05/31/yes-africa-can-an-african-talks-to-barack-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 17:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What Barack Obama Can Do For Africa — and Vice Versa
The first time Barack Obama came home to his father&#8217;s village of Kogelo in western Kenya, it was as a 26-year-old backpacker exploring his family roots. In 1987, he and half-sister Auma rode a dilapidated old bus from Kisumu, the provincial capital, 60 miles away. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The African Biases of Jendayi Frazer</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/05/15/the-african-biases-of-jendayi-frazer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;By: Dr. Megalommatis Muhammad Shamsaddin (Pictured Below)A great number of readers throughout Africa would like to know more about the reasons for the injustices done to so many nations and the disasters caused to so many peoples in the Black Continent. Whereas it would take a monumental encyclopedia to enumerate the unfair deeds and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus on Seun Kuti &#124; Fela Kuti and Egypt 80</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/05/13/focus-on-seun-kuti-fela-kuti-and-egypt-80/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Séun Anikulapo Kuti has made sure that his late father&#8217;s (Fela Anikulapo Kuti) &#8216;Afro beat&#8217; musical brilliance and his band Egypt 80, are kept alive. 
Séun performs music from both his father&#8217;s repertoire and his own. He is an exact replica of his father &#8212; Fela Anikulapo Kuti (born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, October 15, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aime Cesaire emphasized Africa&#8217;s dignity</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/04/29/aime-cesaire-emphasised-africas-dignity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/04/29/aime-cesaire-emphasised-africas-dignity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Poet Aime Cesaire
Poet Aime Cesaire of Martinique passed away last week. He was an iconic co-founder of Black consciousness, long before Steve Biko. 
Surprisingly, of all the non-French speaking African heads of state, only South Africa&#8217;s Thabo Mbeki sent a message of condolences to the Cesaire family. 
Why the silence?
In the realm of ideas, Mbeki [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third World Order VS New World Order: Sino-African economic cooperation, challenges to globalisation</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/04/27/third-world-order-vs-new-world-order-sino-african-economic-cooperation-challenges-to-globalisation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tongkeh Joseph Fowale</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction
 
Africa&#8217;s rise to prominence in the geopolitics of the 21st century is explained largely by the renewal of great power interest in the region of the world once dismissed as the &#8220;forgotten continent.&#8221; This great power concern reproduces the same power-play which is reminiscent of the Cold War when inter-locking and overlapping interests of great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Africa You Don&#8217;t See on Western TV - Nairobi, Kenya</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/04/01/the-africa-you-dont-see-on-western-tv-nairobi-kenya/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Song Lyrics &#8216;Roughly&#8217; Translated: Swahili TO English
Song Name: Jambo - Hakuna Matata
Jambo, Jambo Bwana - Jambo, Jambo Bwana, Hakuna Matata.
Jambo, Jambo Bwana - have a good time, enjoy the samba.
Jambo, Jambo Bwana - you are welcome, Hakuna Matata.
Jambo, Jambo Bwana - have a good time, enjoy the samba.
Jambo, Jambo Bwana - take it easy, Hakuna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya&#8217;s J.M. Kariuki&#8217;s forgotten prophecy of ethnic strife</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/04/01/kenyas-jm-kariukis-forgotten-prophecy-of-ethnic-strife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Josiah Mwangi Kariuki (March 21, 1929–March 2, 1975) was a Kenyan socialist politician during the administration of the Jomo Kenyatta government. He held different government positions from 1963, when Kenya became an independent country, to 1975, when he was assassinated. &#124; More Here &#124;
By Njonjo Mue
Had he lived a full life, Josiah Mwangi Kariuki [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ogaden Communities Petition the EU against the &#8216;Ethiopian&#8217; Gulag</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/03/31/ogaden-communities-petition-the-eu-against-the-ethiopian-gulag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/03/31/ogaden-communities-petition-the-eu-against-the-ethiopian-gulag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Megalommatis Muhammad Shamsaddin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;By: Dr. Megalommatis Muhammad Shamsaddin (Pictured Below)Worse than the Soviet archetypes, the African Gulag is identified with the vast cemetery of peoples – &#8216;Ethiopia&#8217;; false state from name to education, and from A to Z, &#8216;Ethiopia&#8217; is a monstrous Neo-Nazi fabrication of the racist Amhara and Tigray Abyssinian elites who have subjugated and, due to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morgan Tsvangirai: Former village headman set to oust Africa&#8217;s strongman, Robert Mugabe</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/03/29/morgan-tsvangirai-former-village-headman-set-to-oust-africas-strongman-robert-mugabe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Sebastian Nyamhangambiri In Harare, Zimbabwe
Morgan Tsvangirai
Click PIC For Larger Image
 
From the humble beginnings of a headman in a dusty village to a mine plant foreman, Morgan Tsvangirai remains one of the most important political figures in Zimbabwe.
His quest to become Zimbabwe&#8217;s President has been on for eight years, a dream that has eluded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya Violence &#8212; British Colonial &#8216;Land-Grabbing&#8217; a Major Originator of Current Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/03/25/kenya-violence-british-colonial-land-grabbing-a-major-originator-of-current-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes Barrack Muluka 
Isaak Denisen, also known as Karen Blixen, begins her world famous story, Out of Africa, with a description of the mammoth farm she once owned in Kenya. 
She says: &#8220;I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.&#8221; 
Karen Blixen In Kenya - Click PIC For Larger Image
She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ali Mazrui - Embrace debate as a critical component of democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/03/21/ali-mazrui-embrace-debate-as-a-critical-component-of-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/03/21/ali-mazrui-embrace-debate-as-a-critical-component-of-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes Prof: Ali Mazrui
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are the two remaining candidates for nomination by the Democratic Party for the US Presidency. 
If finally elected to the White House in November, Clinton would be the first woman President of the US. If it were Obama, who enters the White House in January next year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Bush, Closest Thing To A Black President?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/03/11/president-bush-closest-thing-to-a-black-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/03/11/president-bush-closest-thing-to-a-black-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes Dr. Ethiopia 
Clinton is supposedly the closest thing to a black President or whatever. I ask myself time and again, is that really true. What is it Clinton has done for blacks that they’re willing to go out on a limb for him?
Bush had the greatest effect on the African continent and its people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samuel Peter, &#8216;The Nigerian Nightmare&#8217;: Who Wants This?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/03/09/samuel-peter-the-nigerian-nightmare-who-wants-this/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/03/09/samuel-peter-the-nigerian-nightmare-who-wants-this/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, March 8, 2008
CANCUN, Mexico
Peter stops Maskaev, claims portion of heavyweight championship
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Samuel Peter showed killer instinct and brutal punching power in stopping Oleg Maskaev to win a portion of the world heavyweight title in Cancun, Mexico.
Peter used a heavy jab and hard right hands to chop down Maskaev.
Sam Peter was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya - Power Sharing Agreement Reached</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/02/29/kenya-power-sharing-agreement-reached/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/02/29/kenya-power-sharing-agreement-reached/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenyans cheered and danced as they witnessed the opposition leader Raila Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki signing a power-sharing agreement in Nairobi. The police used tear gas and batons to clear the group from the area shortly after the ceremony ended.
Kenyans Cheered &#038; Danced
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&#8230;..while Kibaki(left) &#038; Odinga(right) signed on the dotted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Migration: The African thorn in European flesh</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/02/28/migration-the-african-thorn-in-european-flesh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/02/28/migration-the-african-thorn-in-european-flesh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 09:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Tongkeh Joseph 
The African continent today is a showcase for poverty, misery, disease and all the taints and hallmarks of underdevelopment. Way back in 1983, futurist author Paul Kennedy described Africa’s future as being “extraordinarily gloomy.” Paul D. Kaplan on his part concluded that Africa was “at the end of the abyss.” This situation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stride Through Amsterdam</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/02/19/stride-through-amsterdam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bankole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Amsterdam is a hub for trafficking children asylum seekers into sex slavery
What I didn’t like was the way the people hogged the whole sidewalk along the Amstel river. It seemed to get worse and worse the closer I got to seven hundred year old inner Amsterdam.
I like to step along at a good pace. I’m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Caught in the crossfire: Africa in the oil battle between the great powers</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/02/19/caught-in-the-crossfire-africa-in-the-oil-battle-between-the-great-powers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tongkeh Joseph Fowale</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A scar on the conscience of the world.&#8221; This is how former British Prime Minister Tony Blair described Africa when he stood at the helm of the European Union. A week before his planned visit to Africa, US president George Bush has echoed a similar message of despair and frustration about Africa. &#8220;Africa has&#8230;witnessed some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unity Table</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/02/09/the-unity-table/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/02/09/the-unity-table/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bankole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Future Here and Now: China has 25% of its oil coming from Africa
There is a movement among us who are dedicated to seeing Africa free from oppression. We don’t talk too much from a point of view that isn’t both historical and forward looking. Voicing opinions, facts or inspiring rhetoric, will be in brackets: a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farmer Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/02/07/farmer-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/02/07/farmer-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bankole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Monocultural planting of corn around the world is not in the best interest of people or nature. Pesticides are used more in Africa than in Australia, Europe, North America, South America or Asia.
It was tough on my friend. His hopes had been up, recently though. He told me of his plan from his booth at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya won&#8217;t move forward until the bitter truth is told</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/02/02/kenya-wont-move-forward-until-the-bitter-truth-is-told/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/02/02/kenya-wont-move-forward-until-the-bitter-truth-is-told/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes Donald Kipkorir 
Former UN chief Kofi Annan has the support of Kenyans in his quest for a way out of the national crisis. But he must know that we will not countenance Zimbabwe-like AU-sponsored mediation which has been dancing on the spot as Mr Robert Mugabe presides over the annihilation of his country.

Zimbabwe, once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya - The Perils of Short Term Thinking</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/01/30/kenya-the-perils-of-short-term-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[election violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: John Mulaa
As the country spirals into darkness from which it may be difficult to emerge, the trauma is understandably causing amnesia inducing reactions that are impairing suggestions about the way forward.  Trauma can induce all sorts of reactions, among them denial and a lapse into victim mentality where everyone casts themselves as blameless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kenyan Post-Election Fight Down To &#8216;Bows &#038; Poisoned Arrows&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/01/26/the-kenyan-post-election-fight-down-to-bows-poisoned-arrows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/01/26/the-kenyan-post-election-fight-down-to-bows-poisoned-arrows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Young Thug Getting Ready To Shoot ArrowIn the Rift Valley province of Kenya, notably the town of Nakuru &#8212; criminal gangs, blood-drinking Mungiki thugs and sundry, are killing each other with machetes and bows and &#8216;poison-tipped&#8217; arrows.
The Kikuyu, the ethnic group of Kenya&#8217;s &#8216;president,&#8217; Mwai Kibaki have mobilized themselves to avenge attacks suffered at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kenya&#8217;s Kalonzo Musyoka weasels his way into the Vice-President&#8217;s office</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/01/21/kenyas-kalonzo-musyoka-weasels-his-way-into-the-vice-presidents-office/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Third place loser Kalonzo Musyoka &#8212; willing and ready to be used by &#8216;Election Thief,&#8217; dictator Mwai Kibaki &#8212; against opposition leader - Raila Amolo Odinga.
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Cartoon: Courtesy of GadoNet.com
RELATED ARTICLES: 
1. Kenyans Are Fighting Inequality, Not Ethnicity
2. We Are In This Hole Together, For Better Or For Worse!
3. Real Peace [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police Executions in Kenya</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/01/17/police-executions-in-kenya/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/01/17/police-executions-in-kenya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The shoot-to-kill policy adopted by dictator Mwai Kibaki after stealing last December&#8217;s presidential election, by vote rigging, must be condemned in the strongest terms.

Police officers are responding to a shoot-to-kill order issued by former Internal Security Minister John Michuki &#8212; one of dictator Mwai Kibaki&#8217;s principle thugs.
&#8220;The government and the police have turned this country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush and Kibaki - Certified Election Thieves</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/01/13/bush-and-kibaki-certified-election-thieves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/01/13/bush-and-kibaki-certified-election-thieves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 07:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mwai Kibaki of Kenya seems to have learnt something about Ballot Theft when he visited with the Texan Oil Man &#8212; George Bush.
From: ImpeachBush.TV[December 2000]
In 2000, a clear majority of Americans voted for Al Gore. But the winner is determined by the Electoral College, so the winner in each state must be considered. The vote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Threat of Witchcraft - Kenyans hand back &#8216;cursed&#8217; loot</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/01/11/threat-of-witchcraft-kenyans-hand-back-cursed-loot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The threat of witchcraft has scared looters into returning goods they stole during unrest which followed last month&#8217;s disputed Kenyan elections. 
TV stations broadcast pictures of people returning to places they robbed in the coastal city of Mombasa carrying beds, sofas and other items. 
A police commander confirmed the reports and said the rumours of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 reasons why President Kibaki&#8217;s Government should be overthrown by Kenyans</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2008/01/04/20-reasons-why-president-kibakis-government-should-be-overthrown-by-kenyans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Martin Ngatia
&#8220;Since the President has lost the support of Kenyans he had when he took over power, the decisive question is whether the masses can be mobilized to rebel against his regime regardless of the outcome of the referendum&#8221;
When we proposed last week that the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) should prepare the masses psychologically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Killed Democracy In Africa?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Mwai Kibaki of Kenya is a full-fledged dictator, Kenya&#8217;s few &#8220;Democratic Gains&#8221; in the last few years are headed for the dustbin.
Prof. Ali Mazrui asks: &#8220;Who killed democracy in Africa?&#8221;  &#8220;This is a question I ask myself often. A string of suspects have merged from history.&#8221;&#8230;.&#8221;Let me personify four forces at work.&#8221;&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circle of Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Captive

It&#8217;s an opinion of mine that there will never be peace without justice.
There is quite a bit of talk about anniversary dates and commemoration of the role the British state, corporations, churches and society played in the genocide of African people.
Gestures, on the part of the part of government, government funded organizations and individuals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eels, Grasshoppers Meeting In Lisbon</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/12/08/eels-grasshoppers-meeting-in-lisbon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Long before the Arabs
Septimus Severus, an African born in modern day Libya was Rome&#8217;s regional governor of Britain 208 years after Christ died. He passed on at what is now York, England, having assisted in construction of Hadrian&#8217;s Wall.
Governments of the European Union and African nations currently are in open talks in December 2007.
In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t You Call Me Brother</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/12/05/dont-you-call-me-brother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 20:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soweto, 31 years after the children rebelled. 
Don&#8217;t You Call Me Brother was the title of a searing O&#8217;Jays vinyl cut from the 1970s. 
It was &#8220;The Joint,&#8221; if you know what I mean. 
The tune reminds me of some folks I don&#8217;t want any association with, Africans on the Continent who have learned how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Afraid of Barack Obama?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/12/03/whos-afraid-of-barack-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes Frank Rich
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Part of the Republicans&#8217; difficulty in countering Mr. Obama, should they have to, is their own cynical racial politics. For the most part, race has been the dog that hasn&#8217;t barked in this campaign despite the (largely) white press&#8217;s endless fretting about whether the Illinois senator is too white for black voters and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Needs the Commonwealth?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/11/25/who-needs-the-commonwealth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Dr. Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
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The Biennial Commonwealth Summit took place in Kampala, Uganda November 22-24 amidst the usual controversies that have surrounded these summits whose importance in a world in which Britain is nothing more than post imperial middle power whose claims to global leadership is no more on its imperial past but toadying to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belgium Made of Rubber</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/11/22/belgium-made-of-rubber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;US president John Kennedy and Mobutu Sese SekoThe US arranged with Belgian colonialists the murder of Patrice Lumumba and on 24 November 1965 Mobutu stood as leader of the Congo.
The Association Internationale du Congo had been established 125 years ago when Belgium&#8217;s King Leopold II made a bid for his small state&#8217;s continued domination of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Illegal &#8216;White&#8217; Alien&#8221; Ian Smith, An Unrepentant Racist Dies</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/11/21/illegal-white-alien-ian-smith-an-unrepentant-racist-dies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The former prime minister of Rhodesia, Ian Smith, has died aged 88. 
The cause of his death is unknown but he had been ill for some time at a residential home in South Africa. 
He illegally declared independence from Britain in 1965 and his white minority government led the country for 14 years amid international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>African Diaspora&#8217;s potential untapped</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/11/13/african-diasporas-potential-untapped/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: James N. Kariuki
Affinity between Africa and its Diaspora has been experienced through blood ties (real and imagined), culture, shared history and a perceived common destiny in a world of racial adversity. 
The preoccupation during the era of enslavement, was individualised quest for survival, personal freedom and dignified existence. This was followed by Global Africa&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diaspora Africans need decolonisation of mind</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/11/06/diaspora-africans-need-decolonisation-of-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: James N. Kariuki
Global Africa needs a push by both the Diaspora of Enslavement and the Post-colonial Diaspora. The former has economic and political influence, especially in the US, while the latter understands Africa and Africans because of its recent connection.
The African Diaspora is not a homogenous group prone to any type of overarching collective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November Legacy</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/10/23/november-legacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#160;United Nations &#8220;Blue Helmets&#8221; and Haitian WomanIn the months and years after the 1789 French Revolution, the rumblings of an African Revolution in what would be called Haiti burst onto the world stage. By 1791, African unity had even secured that of the mulattoes (children of French male colonists and African women).
Since military men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NegroPhobia &#038; Decolonisation of The African(Black) Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/10/14/negrophobia-decolonisation-of-the-african-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Africa Should Purge Its Past 
Writes: James N Kariuki
Over the past few weeks, The Sunday Standard has been focusing on Africans, her history, impacts and the way forward. 
Of major concern has been whether the continent has looked past slavery and colonisation. 
The Black Holocaust is one of the more underreported events. It makes reference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa should handle its supremacy responsibly</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/09/30/south-africa-should-handle-its-supremacy-responsibly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Prof. Ali Mazrui
Compared to the rest of the continent, the story of South Africa is a play in four acts on the stage of history. It is a play about South Africa&#8217;s triumph, its emerging leadership, and its hazards as a new continental power.
Put in another way, South Africa&#8217;s impact on Pan-Africanism has included [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troops Due In Sudan</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/09/28/troops-due-in-sudan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;African Union&#8221; forces are paid for by Paris, Berlin and Washington DC.  
As Europe and the USA and the UN work furiously to present to the world the polystyrene reasoning for massive military entry in Sudan, it is clear that there are a heap of lies.  
Six decades ago, titan sociologist and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[African people in America getting lessons from a teacher 
In the space of time I need to write this someone will be sending me or asking me a ridiculous question.
Yes, I am complaining.
I would like to think that I have matured enough over the years to explain this.
It used to get on my nerves but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Great Blacks In The African Diaspora</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/09/18/remembering-great-blacks-in-the-african-diaspora/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[August was a landmark month in Historic African Diaspora in more ways than one. It was the month that saw James Seale sentenced to three life terms for the murder of two Black youth 34 years earlier. 
The week after, the world of tennis honoured Althea Gibson for her contribution to the game, 50 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desmond Tutu: Poverty Fueling Terror</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/09/17/archbishop-desmond-tutu-poverty-fueling-terror/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Desmond Tutu [R] &#038; Nelson MandelaHONG KONG, China (CNN) &#8212; The global &#8220;war on terror&#8221; can&#8217;t be won if people are living in &#8220;desperate&#8221; conditions, Archbishop Desmond Tutu told CNN.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu says &#8220;war on terror&#8221; will be thwarted by poverty, disease and ignorance.
 &#8220;You can never win a war against terror as long as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Campaign For Reparations - Can Africa Make Claims To The West?</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/09/09/campaign-for-reparations-can-africa-make-claims-to-the-west/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/09/09/campaign-for-reparations-can-africa-make-claims-to-the-west/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: James N Kariuki  
Calls for compensating Africa by former colonisers has gained momentum over the years. 
According to the London-based Africa Reparations Movement (ARM), the campaign for reparations is as old as enslavement itself. In Africa, the first international Conference on Reparations was held in Lagos, Nigeria, in December 1990. 
This was followed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Africa buries her head in sand as looters drain coffers</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/09/09/africa-buries-her-head-in-sand-as-looters-drain-coffers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/09/09/africa-buries-her-head-in-sand-as-looters-drain-coffers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: John Mulaa
Discussion about Africa&#8217;s prospects frequently alludes to the continent&#8217;s unique economic characteristic. Africa is the only continent in this God&#8217;s own wide world whose elite consistently registers a vote of no confidence in their birthplace. 
Africa exports a far higher proportion of its capital than any other continent. The culprits are not who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spotlight on Kenya&#8217;s Janeth Jepkosgei - The New World 800m Champion</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/08/28/spotlight-on-kenyas-janeth-jepkosgei-the-new-world-800m-champion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/08/28/spotlight-on-kenyas-janeth-jepkosgei-the-new-world-800m-champion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Janeth Jepkosgei Celebrates Her WinKenya&#8217;s Janeth Jepkosgei celebrates with the national flag after she won the gold medal in the Women&#8217;s 800m final during the World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan, on Tuesday. Picture by AP
In a superb display of front-running, Janeth Jepkosgei won Kenya&#8217;s first women&#8217;s 800 metres global title. Janeth led from start [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speaking for the African woman</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/08/14/speaking-for-the-african-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While Kenyan women fight to have 50 seats reserved for them in Parliament, Ms Mutheu Meierhofer-Mangeli, a Kenyan living in Switzerland, has contested twice in the far away country, writes Susan Anyangu.
As women in Kenya fight for more representation, miles away in Switzerland, another woman is fighting a similar battle, albeit on another scale. 
Ms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Side To Race &#038; Immigration</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/27/another-side-to-race-immigration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/27/another-side-to-race-immigration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Bill Fletcher, Jr. of BlackCommentator.com
The problem for much of the USA with immigration is not so much immigration, but that there is so much immigration from South of the border, and specifically from Brown countries.  This immigration upsets the racial balance—that is, the domination of a &#8216;white bloc&#8217;— that the ruling elites have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Clinton Foundation - Bill Clinton Blogging From Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/26/the-clinton-foundation-bill-clinton-blogging-from-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/26/the-clinton-foundation-bill-clinton-blogging-from-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps, the biggest flop in the Clinton Administration was his failure to STOP the Rwanda Genocide. 
Classified papers show Clinton, was aware of &#8216;final solution&#8217; to eliminate Tutsis. The United States government chose to ignore Rwandan genocide.
According to Rory Carroll, of The Guardian Unlimited publication, President Bill Clinton&#8217;s administration knew Rwanda was being engulfed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South African broadcaster launches &#8216;progressive&#8217; new channel</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/22/south-african-broadcaster-launches-progressive-new-channel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/22/south-african-broadcaster-launches-progressive-new-channel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa has launched its answer to the international news channels BBC and CNN.
Run by South Africa&#8217;s public broadcaster, SABC News International says it wants to provide what it calls more positive coverage of Africa to counter tales of poverty and violence.
According to the SABC&#8217;s head of news and current affairs, Snuki Zikalala, the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Brown&#8217;s &#8216;Sex Machine&#8217; Sung in an African Village</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/20/james-browns-sex-machine-sung-in-an-african-village/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/20/james-browns-sex-machine-sung-in-an-african-village/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[African villagers performing their own version of James Brown&#8217;s hit: &#8220;Sex Machine.&#8221; &#8212; What a pleasant surprise! 
The set &#8212; probably, a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), judging by the language(s) used in the Singing: Kiswahili, Lingala [A "Lingua Franca" in the DRC], and of course &#8220;mangled&#8221; English.
James Brown&#8217;s influence stretches far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Hot Ghetto Mess&#8217; - Shameful &#8216;Blaxploitation&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/18/hot-ghetto-mess-shameful-blaxploitation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/18/hot-ghetto-mess-shameful-blaxploitation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Black Entertainment Television (BET) a.k.a  &#8220;Black Exploitation Television,&#8221; will air the show &#8220;Hot Ghetto Mess,&#8221; for the first time on July 25.
Hosted by comedian Charlie Murphy of &#8220;Chappelle&#8217;s Show,&#8221; Hot Ghetto Mess will feature blacks in their stereotypical worst &#8212; through user submitted videos.
From what I have gathered so far, the show will feature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spotlight on Franco - One of Africa&#8217;s Best, Ever!</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/16/spotlight-on-franco-one-of-africas-best-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/16/spotlight-on-franco-one-of-africas-best-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The late Franco [a.k.a L'Okanga La Ndju Pene Luambo Luanzo Makiadi] and his T.P. OK Jazz is arguable the best musician Black Africa has ever produced. Some have called him &#8220;The James Brown of Africa,&#8221; the &#8220;Godfather of Soul.&#8221; 
Performing in French, Lingala, Kiswahili and other native Congolese languages, Franco was a master of Rumba [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8216;United States of Africa&#8217; - African Leaders Debate Regional Integration</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/15/a-united-states-of-africa-african-leaders-debate-regional-integration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/15/a-united-states-of-africa-african-leaders-debate-regional-integration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports - Macharia Gaitho
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		<title>Black Literacy: Truth To Power At A Low Ebb</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/03/black-literacy-truth-to-power-at-a-low-ebb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/03/black-literacy-truth-to-power-at-a-low-ebb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bankole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In her 40s, Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) organized Freedom Schools.  By 1964, she was speaking on international television condemning racism in the US Democratic Party. She had to leave school at age 12 in 1929 to pick Mississippi cotton.   
Literacy is a funny idea, isn&#8217;t it?
Just about anyone who operates a computer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vision for a continental language policy in Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/01/vision-for-a-continental-language-policy-in-africa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/07/01/vision-for-a-continental-language-policy-in-africa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 05:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Prof. Ali Mazrui
&#8220;The South African population is not as diverse as that of the US. But while South Africa has fewer &#8220;tribes&#8221; than Nigeria, it has more distinct &#8220;races&#8221; than any other African country.&#8221;
&#8220;The US is neither linguistically tolerant nor culturally pluralistic. Historically, the country has been a great asylum for diverse peoples running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kwame Nkrumah&#8217;s widow dies a neglected ex-First Lady</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/06/13/kwame-nkrumahs-widow-dies-a-neglected-ex-first-lady/</link>
		<comments>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/06/13/kwame-nkrumahs-widow-dies-a-neglected-ex-first-lady/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
First Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah&#8217;s widow, Fatiha, passed away last week in Cairo, her home town, where she has lived for most of the years since her husband was overthrown in February 1966.
As to be expected, all kinds of tributes have poured in from all corners, including people and institutions that have never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zolos in America and a Burden of Proof</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/06/10/zolos-in-america-and-a-burden-of-proof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bankole</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A European scratched his head and said in a memory searching tone, &#8220;What was that about a Black man getting shot 50 times by police?&#8221;
I felt he was treating the Sean Bell situation lightly. Even here, the coverage of a young man being killed in a  November, 2006 barrage of New York City police [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of affirmative action in South Africa</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/06/10/state-of-affirmative-action-in-south-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 07:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes James N. Kariuki
Do the wheels of history always turn towards greater justice? Apparently so considering that whenever Black and White people have interacted, some form of racism has emerged. Equally persistently, the societies in question have often evolved some programmes to remedy the inequities derived from the self-inflicted racism.
But a built-in problem within the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World Bank must be returned to the world</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/06/05/the-world-bank-must-be-returned-to-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes &#8212; Dr. Adil Najam
Mr Paul Wolfowitz, the outgoing World Bank president, has been forced to resign in disgrace.
Technically, his resignation comes because of &#8216;ethical lapses&#8217; concerning favouritism and financial benefits to his girlfriend, Ms Shaha Ali Riza.
But in reality, this is not just the story of a bad manager reviled by staff and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oromo Intellectuals to Demolish Colonial Academia</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/06/04/oromo-intellectuals-to-demolish-colonial-academia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 15:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Writes: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Following two earlier articles focusing on the problems ensuing from the colonial – tyrannical educational system in Abyssinia, and on the noxious role of criminal European pseudo-scholars, who try to eternalize the illiteracy, the ignorance, and the lack of National Historical Dogma among oppressed nations (intentionally, viciously and inhumanly strangling their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush using Darfur, Aids to salvage failed Presidency</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/05/30/bush-using-darfur-aids-to-salvage-failed-administration-presidency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 19:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Opiko</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Rap Artist Kanye West had this to say: &#8220;George Bush doesn&#8217;t care about black people!&#8221; &#8212; Said during  a Hurricane Katrina telethon.
After the Katrina disaster many polls indicated that large majorities of blacks believed that the federal response to Hurricane Katrina would have been considerably speedier had those trapped in New Orleans been rich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Conversation</title>
		<link>http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2007/05/29/the-conversation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 13:38:07 +0000</pubD