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		<title>Private Prisons Lobby for Harsher Sentences</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 02:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re looking for one of the reasons why the United States imprisons more people &#8212; by miles &#8212; than any other nation, you can look to the development of private prisons as a means of making some people rich. Those people spend millions of dollars to lobby elected officials to do two things: Convert [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&#038;blog=11747241&#038;post=1554&#038;subd=thetbf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginning of the End of the Unpaid Internship</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 23:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JOSH SANBURN In August 2011, when Diana Wang began her seventh unpaid internship, this time at Harper’s Bazaar, the legendary high-end fashion magazine, she figured that her previous six internships – at a modeling agency, a PR firm, a jewelry designer, a magazine, an art gallery and a state governor’s office – had prepared her for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&#038;blog=11747241&#038;post=1551&#038;subd=thetbf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;capitalism&#8221; we protest &#8211; response to Seattle Times author Jon Talton</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/05/03/the-capitalism-we-protest-response-to-seattle-times-author-jon-talton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 07:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author Jon Talton wrote two interesting pieces for the Seattle Times yesterday, one in anticipation of the May Day anti-capitalist march, and the other reflecting on it afterwards. The latter was precisely what you would expect from the Times. Lazy, poorly researched non-sense which, had it been written on any other subject, would have been considered unpublishable. The previous article - although equally uninformed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&#038;blog=11747241&#038;post=1530&#038;subd=thetbf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Isn&#8217;t Closing 40 Philadelphia Public Schools National News? Where Is the Black Political Class?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Black Agenda Report managing editor Bruce A. Dixon: In what should be the biggest story of the week, the city of Philadelphia&#8217;s school system announced Tuesday that it expects to close 40 public schools next year and 64 by 2017. The school district expects to lose 40% of current enrollment to charter schools, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&#038;blog=11747241&#038;post=1521&#038;subd=thetbf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jailed for $280: The return of debtors&#8217; prisons</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/04/23/jailed-for-280-the-return-of-debtors-prisons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alain Sherter, April 20, 2012 How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn&#8217;t pay a medical bill &#8212; one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn&#8217;t owe. &#8220;She got a $280 medical bill in error and was told she didn&#8217;t have to pay it,&#8221; The Associated Press reports. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&#038;blog=11747241&#038;post=1518&#038;subd=thetbf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. Poured So Many Toxic Weapons on Falluja in 2004 That Residents Still Pay the Price</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/04/18/the-u-s-poured-so-many-toxic-weapons-on-falluja-in-2004-that-residents-still-pay-the-price/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Kelley Apr. 18, 2012. Business Insider   The increases in cancer, infant mortality and perturbations in birth sex ratio in Fallujah are significantly greater than those recorded for survivors of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasakiin 1945, according to a study and reported by Karlos Zurutuza of Inter Press Service (IPS). The study, released by the Switzerland-based International [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&#038;blog=11747241&#038;post=1511&#038;subd=thetbf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/04/18/gulf-seafood-deformities-alarm-scientists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dahr Jamail 18 Apr., 2012. Al Jazeera New Orleans, LA - &#8220;The fishermen have never seen anything like this,&#8221; Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera. &#8220;And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30,000 fish, I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this either.&#8221; Dr Cowan, with Louisiana State University&#8217;s Department of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&#038;blog=11747241&#038;post=1506&#038;subd=thetbf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Campaigning for Democrats Cripples Labor Unions</title>
		<link>http://thetrialbyfire.org/2012/04/12/why-campaigning-for-democrats-cripples-labor-unions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 07:21:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Shamus Cooke of Common Dreams: As labor leaders across the U.S. shift resources away from defending workers and into Obama’s re-election campaign, millions of organized and non-organized workers remain unemployed and hopeless. Contrary to the &#8220;optimistic&#8221; government jobs numbers, the jobs crisis grinds onward. Some labor leaders will argue that getting Obama elected is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&#038;blog=11747241&#038;post=1497&#038;subd=thetbf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Obama&#8217;s JOBS Act Couldn&#8217;t Suck Worse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone Magazine: Boy, do I feel like an idiot. I&#8217;ve been out there on radio and TV in the last few months saying that I thought there was a chance Barack Obama was listening to the popular anger against Wall Street that drove the Occupy movement, that decisions like putting a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&#038;blog=11747241&#038;post=1494&#038;subd=thetbf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ex-Cops Sentenced in Katrina Killings Case</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 23:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Jacobsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, from the New York Times. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge sentenced five former police officers to years in prison for the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge in the chaotic days following Hurricane Katrina but not before lashing out at prosecutors for allowing others involved to serve lighter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetrialbyfire.org&#038;blog=11747241&#038;post=1481&#038;subd=thetbf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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