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		<title>COP15</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/cop15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The logo for COP15 is gorgeous: (NR2154)]]></description>
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		<title>Russia as Rogue</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/russia-as-rogue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says &#8220;the world can forget about&#8221; Georgia&#8217;s territorial integrity. Quite a remarkable statement from the former permanent representative to the United Nations. As a statement of purpose or justification in his country&#8217;s war, it is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/russia-as-rogue/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Recent History &#8211; Republic of Georgia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/recent-history-republic-of-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith_Indy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing this for my own benefit, as I&#8217;ve not followed the goings on in the Republic of Georgia, except to note when it&#8217;s in the news, not our Georgia. April 18, 2008 Georgia sought the backing of NATO and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/12/recent-history-republic-of-georgia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Siloviki</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/siloviki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much of the Georgia/South Ossetia/Russian conflict can be laid at the hands of a corrupt cabal of former soviet ministers bent on lining their own pockets? Perhaps a great deal. Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has handed his Russian counterpart, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/10/siloviki/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Achieving International Opposition</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/achieving-international-opposition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Angela Merkel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Traub has written a magnificent survey of the events leading up to the current war in Georgia, and the personal contest between Mikheil Saakashvili and Putin. Of particular interest to me was this paragraph: What is striking, though, is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/09/achieving-international-opposition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>giving it away</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/11/giving-it-away/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Synova</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Libertarianism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as I tend these days toward international interventionism, I see a real danger in the simple acceptance of the idea of international law. That, itself, is more of a threat to sovereignty than armies could ever be. It &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/11/giving-it-away/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Bombshell in Baghdad</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/08/a-bombshell-in-baghdad/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/08/a-bombshell-in-baghdad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video (transcript) of Angelina Jolie&#8217;s CNN interview from Baghdad on the Iraqi refugee crisis. In the UN&#8217;s often ridiculous efforts to hire Hollywood nonentities to promote various causes, Angelina was probably their wisest. Men generally rule the troublespots of the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/08/a-bombshell-in-baghdad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scrambling for Africa: A Conversation with John Ghazvinian</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/02/scrambling-for-africa-a-conversation-with-john-ghazvinian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 01:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gas flaring in the Niger Delta (photo: Ellie) John Ghazvinian is a journalist and historian of considerable insight into African affairs. He also happens to have written one of the best recent books on the emergent international struggle for African &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/02/scrambling-for-africa-a-conversation-with-john-ghazvinian/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>For a Free World Order</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2006/08/03/for-a-free-world-order/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 15:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Jackson at The Liberal Capitalist Party Project suggests that the liberal democracies of the world should form a counterpart to the UN. This has been suggested before, but I am interested in discussing the practical impact of such an &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2006/08/03/for-a-free-world-order/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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