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	<title>Briarpatch Magazine &#187; 2006 &#187; December</title>
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	<description>Fiercely independent (and often irreverent) news &#38; views.</description>
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		<title>We didn&#8217;t disappear: Arabs in Israel speak out</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2006/12/30/we-didnt-disappear-arabs-in-israel-speak-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Ahram
14 - 20 December 2006
Issue No. 824
Arabs in Israel call for a &#8220;state of all its citizens&#8221; to replace Jewish-only policies, writes Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
The official political leadership of Israel&#8217;s more than one million Palestinian citizens issued a manifesto in Nazareth last week demanding a raft of changes to end the systematic discrimination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dominion: Afghan MPs Predict &#8220;Very Big War&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2006/12/19/the-dominion-afghan-mps-predict-very-big-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fierce anti-American and anti-NATO rhetoric can be heard almost everywhere in this country now. Even moderates who support the presence of foreign troops are predicting catastrophe.


Civilian deaths, corruption, occupying troops leading to &#8220;jihad&#8221;  against foreigners, say leaders


By Chris Sands
The Dominion
December 19, 2006
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN&#8211;As a former senior Taliban commander and  associate of Osama bin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Army might break Goodyear strike</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2006/12/19/us-army-might-break-goodyear-strike/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bernard Simon in Toronto
MSNBC
December 15, 2006
The US Army is considering measures to force striking workers back to their jobs at a Goodyear Tire &#38; Rubber plant in Kansas in the face of a looming shortage of tyres for Humvee trucks and other military equipment used in
Iraq and Afghanistan.
A strike involving 17,000 members of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The case for an informal coalition</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2006/12/19/the-case-for-an-informal-coalition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canadians will have to be exceptionally alert when approaching the next election. There is such a strong desire to rid the country of the arrogant and condescending Stephen Harper that people may not think past this short-term goal.

By Murray Dobbin
TheTyee.ca
December 18, 2006
The Tyee debate about who to vote for in the next election is missing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RCMP spied on Tommy Douglas, newly released files show</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2006/12/18/rcmp-spied-on-tommy-douglas-newly-released-files-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JIM BRONSKILL
CNews
December 17, 2006 
OTTAWA (CP) - RCMP spies shadowed Tommy Douglas, the fabled Prairie politician, for more than three decades, from his early days as a young firebrand through a tumultuous tenure as NDP leader.
A newly declassified file on Douglas shows the Mounties surreptitiously attended the witty orator&#8217;s speeches, dissected his published articles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan war nears &#8216;tipping point&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2006/12/13/afghanistan-war-nears-tipping-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government support is flagging, NATO is split on strategy, and Taliban fighters are revitalized.
By Laura King and David Holley, Times Staff Writers
December 9, 2006
&#8216;People previously were repelled by the fanaticism of the Taliban, but anger at Americans is growing.&#8217;
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		<title>Call for submissions: Briarpatch tackles the politics of gender</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2006/12/07/call-for-submissions-briarpatch-tackles-the-politics-of-gender/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Briarpatch magazine invites contributions to our March/April 2007 issue focusing on the politics of gender. We are looking for feature articles, op-eds, investigative reports, news briefs, interviews, profiles, reviews, poetry, and artwork that explore how gender intersects with other social issues and affects the lives of individuals and of society. 
Particular attention will be given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter from the Editor: On navigating the challenges of true independence</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2006/12/05/letter-from-the-editor-on-navigating-the-challenges-of-true-independence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Oswald Mitchell
Briarpatch Magazine
December 2006/January 2007
When your intention is to challenge the status quo and provoke debate and discussion, you&#8217;re likely to ruffle some feathers now and then&#8212;and not always those of the people you set out to unsettle.
In a recent issue of Briarpatch we ran an article that mentioned, in the context of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15-month Sobey&#8217;s strike ends in victory</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2006/12/05/15-month-sobeys-strike-ends-in-victory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trish Elliott, Regina Media Collective
ActUpInSask.org
Monday, 04 December 2006
Exclusive to ActUp

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		<title>UNDERESTIMATING THE GREEN POWER OF STEPHANE DION</title>
		<link>http://briarpatchmagazine.com/2006/12/04/underestimating-the-green-power-of-stephane-dion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2006 17:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ceri Au
Maisonneuve MediaScout
December 4, 2006
From the moment he arrived in Ottawa in 1996, a brown leather backpack slung across his shoulder, people began underestimating Stephane Dion
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