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		<title>This is What They Did to Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“In the first place, when I got there, I got beaten. Beaten up by five guards. And they beat me very badly on my spine. I spent a month and a half, I couldn't walk. ... Then a few months later, I got a death threat by the jail staff. Sorry, I have to say the same language because I would like you to hear what they said to me. 'You are a fucking Muslim terrorist. People like you should be killed.' ... Then he turned himself to the other detainees, saying to them, 'Guys, why didn't you kill this fucking Muslim?'”]]></description>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/05/this-is-what-they-did-to-me/</link>
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		<title>The Astroturf Muslim Leaders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of revelations that the NYPD had been engaged in an unprecedented campaign of spying on the lives of average Muslim Americans in the New York and New Jersey areas, a campaign which was not based on any specific suspicion of wrongdoing. The campaign consisted of meticulously documenting every Muslim owned school and business in the NY-NJ area, and even went as far as infiltrating a whitewater rafting trip and recording the number of times each one of the rafters prayed. ]]></description>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/05/the-astroturf-muslim-leaders/</link>
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		<title>Kidnapped in Macedonia, Tortured in Afghanistan, and Dumped in Albania: The Forgotten Case of Khaled El-Masri</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To the pitifully few who have followed him over the years, Khaled el-Masri is the man who arguably holds the world’s record of unsuccessful attempts to get his “day in court.”  He has knocked on courtroom doors all over the US and some overseas venues as well, and has each time been rebuffed. This Wednesday he will try one more time. He will pursue Justice in the Grand Chamber of the European Court, which will hold a hearing on May 16, 2012. At the last hearing of this case, Macedonia entered an unbroken series of denials – no, it did not collude with the CIA to kidnap el-Masri from Germany.]]></description>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/05/kidnapped-in-macedonia-tortured-in-afghanistan-and-dumped-in-albania-the-forgotten-case-of-khaled-el-masri/</link>
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		<title>Who Really Controls Canadian Airspace?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish I could answer the above question with absolute certainty. One thing is certain: Canada is not the only]]></description>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/05/who-really-controls-canadian-airspace/</link>
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		<title>Canada&#8217;s Stand on Human Rights Reaches Historic Low</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rather than take any meaningful action to uphold Omar Khadr's rights, the [Canadian] government has spent buckets of money looking for ways to avoid or delay complying with an astounding number of Canadian]]></description>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/05/canadas-stand-on-human-rights-reaches-historic-low/</link>
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		<title>Winds of Change Arrive to Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Netanyahu’s most virulent critics happen to be some of Israel’s most decorated army and intelligence chiefs.  For example, Yuval Diskin, recently retired as the head of Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service,]]></description>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/05/winds-of-change-arrive-to-israel/</link>
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		<title>The Mehanna Case: A New Low in Attacks on Freedom of Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[History shows that free speech is fundamental to a robust democracy, and that if the government can punish expression because of its political content, it will use that power to go after its enemies]]></description>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/05/the-mehanna-case-a-new-low-in-attacks-on-freedom-of-speech/</link>
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		<title>Rick Salutin Highlights the Role of Dissent in Media and Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rick Salutin used to be a respectable columnist at the Globe &#038; Mail. Then he got fired, and happily (as he tells it), became “unrespectable” again.]]></description>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/04/rick-salutin-highlights-the-role-of-dissent-in-media-and-politics/</link>
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		<title>Understanding the Syrian Conflict, and the Stalemate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hafez al-Assad, president of Syria, has won 99.2 percent of the re-election vote, begins an old Syrian joke. But Assad is hardly satisfied. &#8220;What more could you want?&#8221; an advisor asks. &#8220;The names of the .8 percent,&#8221; the president responds darkly. Hafez al-Assad died in 2000 and left the presidency to his son Bashar, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/04/understanding-the-syrian-conflict-and-the-stalemate/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8216;The United States of Fear&#8217; by Tom Engelhardt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Engelhardt comes from a background of traditional journalism, but for more than a decade his work has centered around his website TomDispatch—and it shows. The United States of Fear is written with the casual tone and stream-of-consciousness structure one usually sees in blogs and on websites, because it’s composed of articles published through TomDispatch1. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://prism-magazine.com/2012/04/book-review-the-united-states-of-fear-by-tom-engelhardt/</link>
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