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		<title>Legalize It</title>
		<link>http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/legalize-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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Here at the Rustbelt Radical we favor the decriminalization of all drugs.   From plenty of real life experience I can say that some drugs are evil, some are potentially dangerous and some are a lovely way to spend an evening with friends.  Lives are ruined by some drugs no doubt.  But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Songs of Summer</title>
		<link>http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/seven-songs-of-summer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even on the warmest days northern lakes can be chilly.  Lake Superior is never warm enough for a long swim.  Huron and Michigan have about two weeks in early August where they are comfortable.  Tooling around the elite vacation areas we came up with an entire plan for the redistribution of summer cottages.  Sure, it may involve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Techinal Difficulties</title>
		<link>http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/techinal-difficulties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers, Comrades, Friends,
I have been having technical difficulties with my home computer.  It could be fixed in the next hour or next week.  Until then posts may be irregular.  A camping trip to Sturgeon Bay (trivia: Michigan has 3,288 miles of shoreline- more than any other state but Alaska) on the Third Coast up north this coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Legacy of Leon Trotsky and U.S. Trotskyism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>almata</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Attend the Conference on:
The Legacy of Leon Trotsky and U.S. Trotskyism:
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
FRIDAY JULY 25, SATURDAY JULY 26 &#38; SUNDAY JULY 27TH 2008.

 FLYER FOR THE CONFERENCE
Attend the Conference on:
The Legacy of Leon Trotsky &#38;
U.S. Trotskyism:
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow JULY 25, 26, 27th, 2008
Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus, Bronx, N.Y.
A diverse group of veterans of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elissa Jane Karg Chacker 1951-2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>almata</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Elissa and Neil were stalwarts of the Detroit left and the Detroit Solidarity branch. As this memorial for Elissa from Solidarity makes clear they were the iron links in a long, unbroken chain of a revolutionary working class . I first met them in the beginning days of the Detroit Newspaper strike in the mid-90&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waking up to&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Good news! No, not the Gospels.
The Lisbon Treaty got trounced in Ireland. This is the only country in the EU to have a vote of the population on the treaty. I&#8217;ve lost count of where we&#8217;re at with trying to get an EU constitution through. It keeps losing (the French and Dutch dealt the blows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attention Span: The Philippines</title>
		<link>http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/attention-spans-and-mark-twain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>almata</dc:creator>
		
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I know that the modern attention span can be short.  I seem to need a constant stream of new and unrelated trivialities to satisfy my synapses.  A disease of modernity?  Blame it on TV or MTV in particular?  I don&#8217;t know, probably.  I doubt that my peasant ancestors had the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mandel, Wheen, Lenin, Marx</title>
		<link>http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/recession-notes-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>almata</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Crisis, over production and credit

I am currently reading Francis Wheen&#8217;s Marx&#8217;s Das Kapital: A Biography. It has strengths and weaknesses.  It is rich in character and sense of time and place.  Some of the books&#8217; weaknesses are pretty profound. There are plenty of good Marxist reviews out there. Google them.
I would like to propose, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Obama and it&#8217;s all bullshit</title>
		<link>http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/its-obama-and-its-all-bullshit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>almata</dc:creator>
		
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Having to think and talk and work around bourgeois elections is the least appetizing job of a leftist.  The institutionalized Party duopoly in the US makes it down-right sickening.  I already pay way too close attention to the vagaries of US politics.  I even watch C-SPAN to make sure that I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes</title>
		<link>http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/notes-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 14:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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Good riddance to the Nepalese monarchy.  While the guillotine may have gone out of style a century ago there are occasions where it ought, in the right hands, to be wheeled back out for an encore performance.  In fact I have a few names to add to the set list&#8230;
Olmert is trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Topper Headon at 53; This Long Holiday Weekend&#8217;s Musical Birthdays</title>
		<link>http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/this-weekends-musical-birthdays-topper-headon-at-53/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 06:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>almata</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[No I don&#8217;t have bloggers bloc (well maybe) - I am just finding the political developments of the last week too depressing to write about- so thought I&#8217;d use the long holiday weekend to give birthday salutations to certain musicians who&#8217;ve made some of the music that kept me going in one way or another. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Fogerty at 63</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 06:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>almata</dc:creator>
		
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CCR- The greatest American rock band. Fogerty&#8217;s singular voice, songcraft and vivid proletarian imagination defined a mythical American South that feels as real and speaks more truthfully than any number of attempts at telling the American story could ever hope to.  If songwriting worked like baseball Fogerty hit an unbeatable .900 between 1968 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sun Ra Turns hmmmmm, not sure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 06:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>almata</dc:creator>
		
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Sun Ra was said to have been born in 1914&#8230;.but not of this earth and since he was, by his own admission, immortal I include him with the others.  Here he and his Arkestra with Don Cherry; I know it&#8217;s hard with Sun in the room, but watch Cherry play,  fly away in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Weller at 50</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 05:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>almata</dc:creator>
		
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In continuing this long holiday weekend&#8217;s birthday toasts to great songwriters and musicians- I celebrate Paul Weller&#8217;s half century  with a version of The Jam&#8217;s In The City.  The Jam found it hard to translate to American parlance.  That&#8217;s a shame.  I always felt that The Jam (and Weller) had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Little Bobby Dylan Turns 67</title>
		<link>http://rustbeltradical.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/happy-birthday-bob/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 14:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>almata</dc:creator>
		
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I came to a high place of darkness and light.
The dividing line ran through the center of town.
In the fall of 2000 as the Al Aqsa Intifada was breaking out I was in New York City. The photos of the Palestinian father shielding his son from bullets were all over the news. We were going [...]]]></description>
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