<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> 
<rss version="2.0"> 
 <channel> 
<title><![CDATA[Michael Ames - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/27255.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Michael Ames]]></description><category domain="27255">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Gaza Famine Myth]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thefp.com/p/the-gaza-famine-myth</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.thefp.com/p/the-gaza-famine-myth]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Ames</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How lazy journalism, bad data, and skewed statistics fueled accusations of war crimes against Israel.]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Bring Them All Home]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/06/24/bring_them_all_home_151139.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/06/24/bring_them_all_home_151139.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Ames</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It was a fist bump that Almog Jan Meir is unlikely to forget. On June 8, at the moment when the 22-year-old Israeli hostage realized that the heavily armed men (and apparent women) who had just shot their way into his holding cell were, in fact, friendlies, he got it together and knocked...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[A Decade Later, How the Bergdahl Affair Predicted Today&rsquo;s Politics]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/06/02/a_decade_later_how_the_bergdahl_affair_predicted_todays_politics_151039.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/06/02/a_decade_later_how_the_bergdahl_affair_predicted_todays_politics_151039.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Ames</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This June marks 10 years since President Obama approved a lopsided and politicized prisoner trade by freeing five Taliban leaders from military detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
In early 2014, Bergdahl had been a Taliban hostage for nearly...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Cynical Exploitation and the Bowe Bergdahl Saga]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/10/cynical_exploitation_and_the_bowe_bergdahl_saga_149606.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/08/10/cynical_exploitation_and_the_bowe_bergdahl_saga_149606.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Ames</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s favorite shticks on the 2016 campaign trail was boasting about the various ways he would kill Bowe Bergdahl. Sometimes it was by flying the former Taliban hostage back to Afghanistan and pushing him out of a plane. Other days, Trump pretended to pick up a rifle...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[testing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/05/24/testing_133995.html</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/05/24/testing_133995.html]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Ames</author>
							<description><![CDATA[China'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s finance ministry chastised Moody'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s on Wednesday after the US rating agency downgraded Beijing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s sovereign credit rating, highlighting investor concerns over rising debt and the slow pace of economic reforms intended to transform the country'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s growth...]]></description>
						</item><item>
							<title><![CDATA[On the NSA's &quot;That '70s Show&quot; Rerun]]></title>
							<link>http://harpers.org/blog/2013/06/on-the-nsas-rerun-of-that-70s-show/</link>
							<guid><![CDATA[http://harpers.org/blog/2013/06/on-the-nsas-rerun-of-that-70s-show/]]></guid>							
							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Michael Ames</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The most surprising reaction to Edward Snowden'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s historic leak of top-secret intelligence documents is that anyone has been surprised at all. The National Security Agency (NSA) has brought us within view of a totalitarian America, we are told. The largest spying organization in the...]]></description>
						</item></channel>
		</rss>