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		<title>War Talk: The Obama Administration and Iran</title>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/01/war-talk-the-obama-administration-and-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shiva Balaghi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Let there be no doubt,” President Obama declared in his 2012 State of the Union address. “America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal.” The comment drew a rousing and sustained standing ovation from the US Congress. “But a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robin Hood Tax: Will it Save the Day?</title>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/01/robin-hood-tax-will-it-save-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monia Mazigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mario Monti, the Italian prime minister, who studied at Yale with the respected economist James Tobin, the first to propose the financial transaction tax, said that his one-time mentor likened the tax’s popularity through history to the Loch Ness Monster. “You see it, it disappears, then reappears…” Indeed, depending on the market situation, the future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawfare and Targeted Killing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Hajjar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last decade, the term lawfare, an amalgamation of “law” and “warfare,” has been adopted and popularized among people engaged in monitoring, judging and debating the legality of a state’s wartime behavior vis-à-vis enemies on and off the battlefield. Today, the dominant theme in debates about lawfare turns on the contested legitimacy of litigation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tahrir One Year Later: The Fight for Egypt&#8217;s Future</title>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/01/tahrir-one-year-later-the-fight-for-egypts-future/</link>
		<comments>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/01/tahrir-one-year-later-the-fight-for-egypts-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharif Abdel Kouddous</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 19, Ahmed Harara, a 31-year-old activist who lost his right eye during the uprising against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, lost his left eye while protesting the military junta that replaced him: the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF). Blind, Harara has become a hero of the revolution—and a symbol of a fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bashar al-Assad in State of Desperation</title>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/01/bashar-al-assad-in-state-of-desperation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maher Arar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The signs are clear: Bashar al-Assad is in a state of desperation, and his latest speech in front of Syrian parliament proves it: having played most of the cards at his disposal in attempting to crush the Syrian uprising (including the murder of peaceful protesters), he is now playing his final card, the “patriotism” card, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guantánamo: Sad Anniversary and Shameful Legacy</title>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/01/guantanamo-sad-anniversary-and-shameful-legacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Monia Mazigh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the 10th anniversary of the creation of the infamous Guantánamo Bay detention camp. This place created by G. W. Bush but still in existence today under the presidency of Barack Obama is a symbol of of blatant human rights injustice and human rights violations. The first images that come to mind when Guantánamo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Rights and Security on the Bizarre Case of Abousfian Abdelrazik</title>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/01/video-rights-and-security-on-the-bizarre-case-of-abousfian-abdelrazik/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maher Arar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This episode of Rights and Security deals with the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen of Sudanese origin who was detained and tortured while visiting his native country. It was later revealed that CSIS was implicated in his detention as it clearly asked the Sudanese Intelligence Agency to arrest him. The Canadian government fought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bahraini King and America&#8217;s Spin Doctors</title>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/01/bahraini-king-and-americas-spin-doctors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Fisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was going to be a real long-shot, with million-to-one odds. It was going to be the first time in living memory that the King of a country commissioned and funded a truly independent report on the widespread civil strife taking place in his country, personally heard the authors tell him his army was killing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perimeter Security, Information Sharing and RCMP Oversight</title>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/01/perimeter-security-information-sharing-and-rcmp-oversight/</link>
		<comments>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/01/perimeter-security-information-sharing-and-rcmp-oversight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Cavalluzzo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 7, 2011 Prime Minister Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama jointly announced the Action Plan on Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness. The Canadian government praised this Action Plan because it will speed up legitimate trade and travel across the Canadian Border while enhancing security. Under this plan, Canada and the U.S. will conduct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guantánamo: Ten Years and Counting</title>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/01/guantanamo-ten-years-and-counting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 11 it will have been a decade since the first of the men we once called “the worst of the worst” were brought to Guantánamo Bay, a location handpicked by the Bush administration so that it could detain and interrogate terror suspects far from the prying eyes of the law. In the intervening [...]]]></description>
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