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<title><![CDATA[Simon Jenkins - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/15315.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Simon Jenkins]]></description><category domain="15315">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Trump May Be Peace's Greatest Ally. Wish Him Well]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/20/gaza-ukraine-donald-trump-stop-war-peace</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's a fool's game trying to understand the president's true motives, but do our misgivings matter if the outcome is a speedy end to war, asks Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Eye for Beauty Is a Breath of Fresh Air]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/donald-trump-beauty-wind-turbines-natural-landscape</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US president promotes classical architecture and loathes 'ugly' wind turbines. Keir Starmer would dismiss him as a nimby, but on this Trump has a point, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What Should Biden Do? Get a Peace Deal in Ukraine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/12/ukraine-joe-biden-donald-trump-us-vladimir-putin</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The end to this bloody stalemate must come with negotiation, and Putin should not wait until Trump is in the White House, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[U.S., Europe Blighted by Weak and Flailing Leaders]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/03/taiwan-nancy-pelosi-visit-ukraine-us</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s one thing to declare yourself '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'rather dead than red'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';', quite another to inflict that decision on the rest of us'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rouble Is Soaring &amp; Putin Is Stronger Than Ever]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/29/putin-ruble-west-sanctions-russia-europe</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Energy prices are rocketing, inflation is soaring and millions are being starved of grain. Surely Johnson knew this would happen, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Populism Is Gaining Ground, It Must Be Stopped]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/11/france-populism-gaining-ground-revolution</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new wave raises questions about identity, elections and how we live. Conventional politics must answer them or die'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I'm Taking Coronavirus Hype With a Pinch of Salt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/06/coronavirus-hype-crisis-predictions-sars-swine-flu-panics</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We've been here before, and the direst predictions have not come to pass, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Trump Was Right to Take Troops Out of Syria]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/14/trump-troops-syria-leave-iraq-afghanistan-us</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president's motive for abandoning the Kurds is unclear, but the continued US presence in foreign wars is a disaster, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The EU Election Changes Nothing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/27/eu-election-may-deal-results-brexit-new-prime-minister</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Forget these empty election results. There is only one solution to the Brexit challenge facing a new Tory prime minister]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Google's Huawei Ban Is Good News]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/20/google-huawei-ban-tech-giants-donald-trump-blacklist</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Big tech has gone unchallenged for too long, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Right--World Must Start Solving Its Own Problems]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/03/donald-trump-withdraw-us-troops-syria</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For all his antics on the Mexican border, the US president is right to be withdrawing troops from Syria]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[France's Political Crises Play Out in Riots - Unlike Britain]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/10/brexit-riots-france</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s the latest alternative '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'project fear'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' from hard Brexiters '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' unrest in the event of a parliamentary impasse. But it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s unlikely]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Britain Will Go Back Into European Club. History Proves It]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/21/britain-go-back-european-club-history-leave</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been in an on/off relationship for centuries. Even if we leave now, it won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be forever]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sanctions Against Iran Help U.S. Enemies, Weaken Friends]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/05/economic-sanctions-iran-trump-enemies-middle-east-us</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Economic sanctions never work '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' they are a blunt tool that will destabilise the Middle East and embolden hardliners]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Reaction to Terror? To Make U.S. Terrified Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/01/donald-trump-reaction-terror-make-america-terrified-las-vegas-massacre</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Drive a truck down a New'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' York street and knock people down, and you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'a sick and deranged person'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'. But what if you drive a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' truck'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' down a New York street, knock people down and shout, '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'Allahu Akbar'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'? You are'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a Muslim terrorist, a global news story and a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tech Giants Must Be Reined In]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/12/tech-giants-reined-in-internet-state-regulation</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The stupidest article I ever wrote, in the 1990s, forecast that the internet would benefit just two groups of people: lawyers and pornographers. I was wrong. I and millions of others have benefited vastly from this innovation. But I was right in one respect: that its blessings would be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The White Van Has Become Terrorists' Guided Missile]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/18/barcelona-attack-europe-seventh-vehicle-what-done</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/18/barcelona-attack-europe-seventh-vehicle-what-done]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Europe has endured'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' seven acts of vehicle terrorism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in the past year, and the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Barcelona killer was apparently able just to walk away. What on earth can be done?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mike Flynn Has a Gripping Story to Tell]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/31/michael-flynn-trump-russia-immunity-prosecution-putin</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/31/michael-flynn-trump-russia-immunity-prosecution-putin]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From Russia to Donald with love is a story that just keeps giving. The latest explosive revelation is that sacked security chief Michael Flynn is seeking immunity from prosecution to come clean on Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s links with Moscow. It has Democrats on the congressional committee salivating...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Westminster Attack Tragic, But Not a Threat to Democracy]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/22/westminster-attack-tragedy-not-threat-democracy</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/22/westminster-attack-tragedy-not-threat-democracy]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The current bout of global terrorism came to the heart of London today in a fatal attack outside the Palace of Westminster. The symbolism is impossible to escape. An assault on the home of democracy induces a peculiar sense of outrage. That people, including a policeman, should die in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Tweet About Nuclear Weapons Is Daft &amp; Dangerous]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/23/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/23/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[After post-truth comes post-sense. The curt utterances of Donald Trump recall those of the oracle at Delphi, except that its enigmas were clever. The president-elect'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s latest 140-hieroglyph message on nuclear weaponsis either daft or dangerous '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and therefore both.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Scariest Thing About Brussels Is the Reaction to It]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/24/scariest-brussels-reactoin-paranoid-politicians-isis-atrocity-belgium</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/24/scariest-brussels-reactoin-paranoid-politicians-isis-atrocity-belgium]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Think like the enemy. Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s suppose I am an Islamic State terrorist. I don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t do bombs or bullets. I leave the dirty work to the crazies in the basement. My job is what happens next. It is to turn carnage into consequences, body parts into politics. I am a consultant terrorist....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Brussels Response Requires Patience and Restraint]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/22/response-brussels-bombings-patience-restraint</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/22/response-brussels-bombings-patience-restraint]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The purpose of terrorism is not to destroy or kill. It is to pursue a political cause through the massive publicity that is attached to terrifying incidents. Today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s bombs in Brussels, apparently related to the attacks in Paris last year and the capture of Salah Abdeslam last...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NATO Swills Champagne, Putin Calls the Shots]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/nato-vladimir-putin-summit-ukraine</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/02/nato-vladimir-putin-summit-ukraine]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This week'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s lavish Nato summit won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t change the fact that it has been outmanoeuvred and humiliated in Ukraine by a puffed-up Putin]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Eurozone Is Facing a Waterloo Moment]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/27/eu-financial-waterloo-eurozone</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/27/eu-financial-waterloo-eurozone]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This really matters. It matters more than party conferences or Libyan wars or terrorist scares or Olympic games. Europe faces a Waterloo moment, perhaps even a Munich one, as 17 of its finance ministers dither over whether to rescue its economy from the financial wreckage of the past...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The EU Faces a Crisis of Legitimacy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/15/europe-national-identity-debt-crisis</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/15/europe-national-identity-debt-crisis]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I was wrong, after'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' all. I thought Europe's governments would spend any amount of money and impose any amount of austerity to rescue any number of banks from their recklessness and folly. All banks were too big to fail. No debt was too big to bail. Europe was in the grip of a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[If I Were a Greek, I'd Be Out on Streets Too]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/21/eurozone-greece-debt-crisis</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/21/eurozone-greece-debt-crisis]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What would you do this morning if you were a Greek? Would you agree to your government cutting public sector jobs, pay and pensions, and increasing taxes? Or would you do what thousands of Greeks are doing and take to the streets, calling the bluff of Germans and French and making them...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We've Slid Into Interventionist Fallacy in Libya]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/17/bombing-libya-gaddafi-exit-strategy</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/17/bombing-libya-gaddafi-exit-strategy]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[As the RAF roams Tripoli seeking Gaddafi homes to attack, the pretence of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' protecting civilians is'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' exposed each night.That should bring him to his knees. The international criminal court in The Hague wants to arrest Colonel Gaddafi for "crimes against humanity". He and his sons...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Free Speech Can't Exist Unchained]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/13/free-speech-us-politics-obama</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/13/free-speech-us-politics-obama]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The ugly American is back. Can the handsome one do anything about it? When Barack Obama addressed  a shocked nation in Tuscon, Arizona, yesterday, he deployed the only  weapon left to a crippled presidency: the power of rhetorical cliche. He  deployed it brilliantly."Together we thrive,"...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hysteria Did the Real Damage in the Gulf]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/aug/17/deepwater-horizon-spill-barack-obama</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/aug/17/deepwater-horizon-spill-barack-obama]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The saddest sight this week has been of America's first family taking a quick one-day holiday in Florida. Crashing visitor numbers and plummeting fish sales have devastated the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. There is talk of an 80% drop in revenues in some resorts....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A City Built on Sand - and Debt]]></title>
							<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/27/dubai-desert-lessons</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Simon Jenkins</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Turn autoplay offTurn autoplay onPlease activate cookies in order to turn autoplay offBefore the desert sands close over its luxury follies, lessons should be learned "'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' number one, don't believe the hypeWas anywhere heading for a fall so obviously as Dubai? Yet why did no one ever...]]></description>
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