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		<title>Book Review: American Adventurism Abroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Adventurism Abroad: Invasions, Interventions, and Regime Changes since World War II is a 267-paged book that makes a comparative analysis of 34 American interventions in the countries of the world. It&#8217;s written by Michael J. Sullivan and published in 2008 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Michael J. Sullivan is professor of history and politics at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fshafiee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5013988&amp;post=73&amp;subd=fshafiee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Mom and Dad in Tehran</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Azar Nafisi whose book &#8220;Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books&#8221; was published in the U.S. left her home country in 1997. She declared &#8220;I left Iran, but Iran did not leave me.&#8221; &#8220;When Azar Nafisi was a professor of Western literature in Tehran in the 1980s and ’90s, she told her best stories [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fshafiee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5013988&amp;post=65&amp;subd=fshafiee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Priests Wanted</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[according to NYTimes U.S. churches are in need of devoted priests who would serve in American churches. Most of these priests are wanted for the Catholic church. A majority of them are from Asian and African countries. They are going to immigrate to the United States to fill perishing priests. It is clear that American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fshafiee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5013988&amp;post=63&amp;subd=fshafiee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allies for Armageddon: the Rise of Christian Zionism is a 331-paged book that looks into the history of Christian Zionism from English Puritans of 17th century, Puritans in the Colonial era, till today&#8217;s large population of them in the United States of America. It&#8217;s written by Victoria Clark and published by Yale University Press in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fshafiee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5013988&amp;post=58&amp;subd=fshafiee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The President and the Pardon Power</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;With the Bush administration drawing to a close, it is presidential pardon season. Presidents have become increasingly shameless about issuing pardons to insulate political cronies from prosecution, even to protect themselves.&#8221; U.S. presidents are given a good means of getting out of trouble and condemnation by the constitution. Though it wasn&#8217;t aimed so from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fshafiee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5013988&amp;post=53&amp;subd=fshafiee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spiritual Journey of a &#8220;Dead man&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Director: Jim Jarmusch, Writer: Jim Jarmusch, Genre: Drama/ Western Music: Neil Young, Language: English, Color: Black and White, Running Time: 121 minutes, starring: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Mili Avital, Crispin Glover, Gabriel Byrne, Iggy Pop, Billy Bob Thornton, Jared Harris, John Hurt, Alfred Molina and Robert Mitchum. Dead Man is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fshafiee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5013988&amp;post=49&amp;subd=fshafiee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Influence Is on the Decline</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporting from Washington &#8212; A new assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies predicts that American influence in the world will decline over the next two decades as surging powers such as China and India, as well as independent entities including tribes and criminal networks, gain international clout. After the recent financial crisis in the United States [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fshafiee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5013988&amp;post=44&amp;subd=fshafiee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Victory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally the election campaigns in the U.S. finished and now the American are certain about who would be their president. Some points are interesting in this matter. First: Choosing Obama, disregarding his skin color can be considered a great victory in American society, especially for the black. They have got a good chance to prove [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fshafiee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5013988&amp;post=29&amp;subd=fshafiee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conquest of America; Holy Words for Unholy Ends</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conquest of America is four part television documentary miniseries produced by The History Channel in 2005 and premiered on Saturday April 2nd. The show documented the adventures of various European explorers who were key figures in the colonization of the Americas. Some of the featured explorers include Henry Hudson, Pedro Menéndez, Jean Ribault, Vitus Bering [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fshafiee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5013988&amp;post=23&amp;subd=fshafiee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Master and the Mistress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The master and the mistress&#8221; by Eric Foner starts with introduction of a painting called &#8220;Virginia Luxuries&#8221; which depicts a white slave owner in 1800 in Virginia. On one side he is whipping a black slave, which was common at that age and on the other side he is caressing a black woman, which again [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fshafiee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5013988&amp;post=18&amp;subd=fshafiee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DVDs on &#8220;Radical Islam&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA["Newspaper subscribers are accustomed to the sample-size boxes of laundry detergent or aspirin bottles that sometimes arrive packaged with their morning paper, courtesy of advertisers. But readers in battleground states are getting a different kind of freebie: the DVD of a controversial documentary on Islam."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fshafiee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5013988&amp;post=15&amp;subd=fshafiee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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