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		<title>Not sure I sanction this, either</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/01/not-sure-i-sanction-this-either/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC News reports that some Western companies continue to work in Burma despite pressure from governments and activists. The European Union bans and penalizes commercial activity that clearly supports the Burmese military regime and its repression. The United States and a few other countries impose sanctions that make business in the country nearly impossible. On [...]


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		<title>No cheers for austerity?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to revolution Europe Ask any youngster&#8211;eating vegetables is no fun.  Or ask Europeans for that matter.  Major European economies have begun to make tough choices to rein in public benefits and curtail government programs in order to reduce their debt burden.  Much of the attention has been on Greece, partly because their austerity measures [...]


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		<title>Who are you, Israel?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/11/who-are-you-israel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communitarianism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Israeli cabinet has approved a motion requiring new citizens to declare their loyalty to a “Jewish and democratic state.”  The controversial amendment to the citizenship law has been denounced as discriminatory by some. […]Arab Knesset member Hanin Zoabi said that Israel is &#8220;discriminative in its policies and laws against all who are not Zionists.&#8221; [...]


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		<title>I don’t sanction that</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/30/i-don%e2%80%99t-sanction-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that the United States has imposed sanctions on key Iranian officials for human rights abuses dating from the crackdown on anti-government protesters in the summer of 2009. The sanctions consist of travel bans and asset freezes. As far as diplomatic tools go, sanctions like these –small, targeted ones- are mostly symbolic in [...]


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		<title>Police and thieves</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/28/police-and-thieves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rise of China and America’s military responsibility A piece in The Atlantic reports on a joint US/Japan rehearsal to defend Japan from a possible Chinese invasion.  According to the article, while there is no immediate threat of any Chinese invasion, there is no doubt that China is a rising power that one day will [...]


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		<title>The trolley problem at West Point</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/19/the-trolley-problem-at-west-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophy for soldiers David Edmonds at BBC News reports that all West Point cadets are now required to study moral philosophy and &#8220;the trolley problem.&#8221; He outlines the famous thought experiment nicely: Imagine there is a runaway tram, known in America as a trolley, heading towards five people tied to the track. You are a [...]


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		<title>We buy their drugs and sell them our guns</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/02/we-buy-their-drugs-and-sell-them-our-guns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[US responsibility for Mexican drug lords cont. In today’s Christian Science Monitor, I expand upon an argument I began in an earlier post about the United States’ moral responsibility for the vicious Mexican drug lords.  In the Monitor I wrote: Mexican drug lords exist to feed the US drug market. And they get their guns [...]


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		<title>Trading values</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/30/trading-values/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Project Syndicate has an ongoing series by Columbia University economist Jagdish Bhagwati on “The Open Economy and its Enemies.” There is more or less a consensus among economists that free trade promotes economic growth; the law of comparative advantage still holds nearly two centuries after it was formulated. But the opinions of both the public [...]


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		<title>Can you send me a telegram?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/02/can-you-send-me-a-telegram/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Blackberry is blocked Most global BlackBerry users are comfortably addicted to their wireless devices, which are email and Internet capable.  But for those in the United Arab Emirates, BlackBerrys are about to become obsolete.  Not because some better device has come along, but because the government has decided to block online data usage through [...]


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		<title>WikiLeaks: a new breed of leak?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/28/wikileaks-a-new-bread-of-leak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WikiLeaks and its documents are here.  What do we do now? On Monday, Sam highlighted WikiLeaks’ enormous release of secret documents concerning Afghanistan and Pakistan, and US efforts in and relations with both countries.  As he noted, one of the first questions we should ask is whether or not WikiLeaks’ document release is legal. Obviously, [...]


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