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		<title>Government Surveillance and Selective Outrage</title>
		<link>http://raniakhalek.com/2013/06/13/government-surveillance-and-selective-outrage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rania Khalek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the NSA spying story broke last week, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about this Martin Niemöller saying: First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out&#8211; Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out&#8211; Because I was not a Jew. Then they came [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raniakhalek.com&#038;blog=19524965&#038;post=3291&#038;subd=raniakhalek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Classified Documents Show CIA Has No Clue Who It&#8217;s Killing In Targeted Drone Strikes</title>
		<link>http://raniakhalek.com/2013/06/05/classified-documents-show-cia-has-no-clue-who-its-killing-in-targeted-drone-strikes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rania Khalek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Engel and Robert Windrem of NBC News published a horrifying report today revealing that the CIA doesn&#8217;t always know the identities of the people it&#8217;s executing in drone strikes. Their findings are based on a review of 14 months worth of classified documents that describe 114 drone strikes in Pakistan and Afghanistan beginning in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raniakhalek.com&#038;blog=19524965&#038;post=3283&#038;subd=raniakhalek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Philadelphia is Closing 23 Schools While Building A $400 Million Prison</title>
		<link>http://raniakhalek.com/2013/06/05/philadelphia-is-closing-23-schools-while-building-a-400-million-prison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rania Khalek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philadelphia School District&#8217;s (PSD) state-run School Reform Commission voted in March to close 23 public schools, nearly 10 percent of the city&#8217;s total, in a move they say is necessary to plug a $304 million budget deficit. Last month that same Commission followed up with a &#8220;doomsday&#8221; education budget (more like austerity on steroids) that if [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raniakhalek.com&#038;blog=19524965&#038;post=3268&#038;subd=raniakhalek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VIDEO: 26 Cops Violently Arrest Nonthreatening Black Man In Harlem Subway Station</title>
		<link>http://raniakhalek.com/2013/06/03/video-26-cops-violently-arrest-nonthreatening-black-man-in-harlem-subway-station/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rania Khalek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video shows a remarkable scene of police overkill in a Harlem subway station on the afternoon of May 13. What begins as two cops from the NYPD trying to handcuff a seemingly unthreatening black man quickly spirals into over two dozen officers flooding the station to arrest him. The video opens with one of the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raniakhalek.com&#038;blog=19524965&#038;post=3261&#038;subd=raniakhalek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black Honors Students Shot 25 Times By St. Louis Police</title>
		<link>http://raniakhalek.com/2013/05/29/cary-ball-jr-was-unarmed-with-hands-in-air-when-shot-25-times-by-police-say-witnesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 21:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rania Khalek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The way St. Louis streets work, we’re afraid out here. We’re afraid of the police. We’re afraid of other youth who may want to pull a gun and fire on you. So, sometimes people have guns just to protect themselves, not with the intentions to do a criminal act with it.” Those are the words [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raniakhalek.com&#038;blog=19524965&#038;post=3249&#038;subd=raniakhalek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Protestors accuse St. Louis Police of shooting an “unarmed” man, Cary Ball Jr. (Source: KMOX)</media:title>
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		<title>First U.S. Drone Strike Since Obama&#8217;s Drone Speech Kills Easily Replaceable Militant In Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://raniakhalek.com/2013/05/29/first-u-s-drone-strike-since-obamas-drone-speech-kills-easily-replaceable-militant-in-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 16:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rania Khalek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States isn&#8217;t officially at war with Pakistan. But that hasn&#8217;t stopped the U.S. government from bombing whoever they want whenever they see fit. Nor has it stopped  the U.S. media from dutifully following up with celebratory applause as was the case this morning when news broke that a U.S. drone strike may have [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raniakhalek.com&#038;blog=19524965&#038;post=3243&#038;subd=raniakhalek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Possessing A Pressure Cooker A Crime? Only If You&#8217;re Arab</title>
		<link>http://raniakhalek.com/2013/05/22/is-possessing-a-pressure-cooker-a-crime-only-if-youre-arab/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 18:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rania Khalek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hussain Al-Khawahir, a 33-year-old Saudi Arabian man and father of three, was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport on May 11 after Border and Customs Patrol found a pressure cooker in his luggage. Al-Khawahir will remain jailed until his preliminary hearing on May 28. Pressure cookers have been under increased scrutiny since they were used  to make homemade [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raniakhalek.com&#038;blog=19524965&#038;post=3231&#038;subd=raniakhalek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Lawmakers Pass Bill To Speed Up Executions</title>
		<link>http://raniakhalek.com/2013/05/14/florida-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-speed-up-executions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 23:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rania Khalek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a state with 24 death row exonerations under its belt (the highest in the country), you would think Florida might want to slow down its execution process to avoid putting innocent people to death. But Florida lawmakers are doing just the opposite Late last month both the Florida House and Senate passed the “Timely [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raniakhalek.com&#038;blog=19524965&#038;post=3223&#038;subd=raniakhalek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glenn Greenwald Schools Muslim-Basher Bill Maher in U.S. Foreign Policy</title>
		<link>http://raniakhalek.com/2013/05/11/glenn-greenwald-schools-muslim-basher-bill-maher-in-u-s-foreign-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 16:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rania Khalek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to Glenn Greenwald for tearing Bill Maher a well deserved new one last night on &#8220;Real Time&#8221;. Sure, Maher is funny most of the time but his Islamophobic bigotry taints whatever laughs he has to offer. That&#8217;s why I was thrilled to see the always brutally honest Greenwald on the show. The segment begins [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raniakhalek.com&#038;blog=19524965&#038;post=3210&#038;subd=raniakhalek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Calif. Man Begged for His Life as 9 Police Officers Beat Him to Death</title>
		<link>http://raniakhalek.com/2013/05/10/unarmed-father-of-4-pleaded-for-his-life-as-police-beat-him-to-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 03:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rania Khalek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Sal Silva, a 33-year-old father of four small children between the ages of 4 and 10, was beaten to death by as many as nine police officers in Bakersfield, California, early Wednesday morning. Police say Silva was intoxicated and fighting officers. But this was contradicted by several eyewitnesses. Grainy security camera footage obtained by [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raniakhalek.com&#038;blog=19524965&#038;post=3191&#038;subd=raniakhalek&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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