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		<title>Haeyoung Kim on North Korea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War. The first hot proxy-war in the Cold War period, US relations with North Korea have always been marked by high tensions on both sides. Since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the stalemate between the US and North Korea has been bolstered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://backstory.org.au/wordpress/?p=682</link>
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		<title>Conn Hallinan on Politics in Latin America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent elections in Colombia saw a new president and renewed tensions with the country&#8217;s neighbours, especially Venezuela. The most stanch US ally in Latin America, we investigate the role Colombia plays as the region moves away from US influence and towards economic and political independence. Conn Hallinan is a columnist for Foreign Policy In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://backstory.org.au/wordpress/?p=676</link>
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		<title>Stephen Sizer on Christian Zionism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The conflict in Israel/Palestine is a political one but is often presented in an entirely cultural or religious framework. Christian Zionism is a religious based reading of the conflict that is a major political force in the United States. Stephen Sizer is the senior pastor at Christ Church, Virginia Water. He has spoken extensively about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://backstory.org.au/wordpress/?p=664</link>
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		<title>Stephen Kinzer on Iran and BP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although the Gulf of Mexico oil spill recently highlighted the ways in which world governments, especially that of the United States, are overly subservient to the interests of multi-national corporations, it was 50 years ago that the US overthrew a government at the behest of BP. That coup took place in Iran and was the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://backstory.org.au/wordpress/?p=665</link>
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		<title>Peter Slezak on Identity and Responsibility in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should identity or ethnicity determine our response to what is happening in Israel? Peter Slezak is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Program in Cognitive Science in the School of History &#038; Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. Dr. Slezak’s teaching areas include philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, Galileo, philosophy of mind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://backstory.org.au/wordpress/?p=655</link>
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		<title>Alex Whisson on Apartheid Israel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to say Israel is an apartheid state? Why is it justified to do so? Alex Whisson is the newly appointed public advocate for Australians For Palestine, and was previously convener of Friends of Palestine, Western Australia (FOPWA). He has taken postgraduate studies in History at the University of Western Australia, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://backstory.org.au/wordpress/?p=654</link>
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		<title>Inka Stafrace on &#8220;Hope in a Slingshot&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inka Stafrace is the director of Hope in a Slingshot, a documentary film about the realities of the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank. Inka is touring Australia promoting screenings of the film after the ABC controversially cancelled plans to broadcast it. The film is being screened in Adelaide at the Mercury Cinema on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://backstory.org.au/wordpress/?p=644</link>
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		<title>Gemma Weedall and Renfrey Clark on the Federal Election 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gemma Weedall is the Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Adelaide while Renfrey Clark is on the Socialist Alliance South Australian Senate ticket. With the upcoming Australian Federal Election, Back Story took the opportunity to speak with the two candidates about issues including environmental, refugee, aboriginal intervention and industrial relations policy. This interview was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://backstory.org.au/wordpress/?p=643</link>
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		<title>William Astore on Enduring War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back Story spoke to William Astore about the close to decades long United States military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Why is the US still involved in these countries and what kind of arguments or reasons are given for this continual state of war? William Astore is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://backstory.org.au/wordpress/?p=641</link>
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		<title>Sam Pietsch on the Australian Intervention in East Timor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In September 1999 the Howard government initiated a military intervention in East Timor as the province was emerging from under Indonesian occupation. Sam Pietsch is the author of a PhD on Australia&#8217;s military intervention in East Timor. An article based on his research recently appeared in Marxist Interventions. Back Story spoke to Sam about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://backstory.org.au/wordpress/?p=633</link>
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