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		<title>July Assorted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I wrote a few pieces for The Washington Independent on Tea Party politics, found here, here, and here. In The New York Observer, I explored a new development on the city&#8217;s political fringe and a curious case of &#8220;Manhattan of the Mind.&#8221; In book news, I have an adapted excerpt of Common Nonsense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hiatus Officially Over</title>
		<link>http://www.zaitchik.com/2010/04/the-prattle-of-new-orleans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 01:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I posted here, mostly because I had little to post. Happily, that&#8217;s changing. So here&#8217;s shakes: I have a piece up at AlterNet on the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. I also have newish pieces on tax scams, the student loan industry, Roland Emmerich, America&#8217;s occult past, psychedelic psychotherapy, Van Jones, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Hiatus</title>
		<link>http://www.zaitchik.com/2009/08/on-hiatus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of you have noticed that I haven&#8217;t posted anything here in a while and written to ask if I was okay. I thought I&#8217;d post a quick explanation for the lack of activity and preempt any more kind expressions of concern. I&#8217;m taking an extended break from freelancing to work on a book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peru Dispatches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are Ashaninka Indians from the remote village of Tenkarini in the Peruvian Amazon Basin, roughly midway between the eastern ridge of the Andes and Brazil. The woman on the left is Noemi, the village shamen, who led an Ayahuasca ceremony in which I participated and wrote about for Killing the Buddha. My New Republic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Parties &amp; Astro Turf</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently on Grit TV with Laura Flanders discussing the Tea Party I attended in Morristown, New Jersey, as well as the Alternet article I wrote with my old Moscow colleagues Mark Ames and Yasha Levine. There was another Tea Party later that night in downtown Manhattan, but I didn&#8217;t have it in me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ireland Dispatch</title>
		<link>http://www.zaitchik.com/2009/04/ireland-dispatch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a new piece up at The Nation concerning a land-use conflict in remote northwest Ireland. Royal Dutch Shell wants to build a raw-gas pipeline and refinery. The small coastal community effected wants Shell to process the gas offshore. The elements and dynamics of the story are familiar enough, but the tenacity with which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Nation</title>
		<link>http://www.zaitchik.com/2009/03/twitter-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Alternet essay on Twitter has been reprinted as a cover story in the Sacramento News &#38; Review and the Santa Cruz Good Times. You can click here to see me discuss the article and roundhouse kick three Twitter defenders on French TV. If for some reason you want to read two huffy-puffy critical responses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change Comes to the Pentagon</title>
		<link>http://www.zaitchik.com/2009/03/change-comes-to-the-pentagon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a new piece up at Alternet that looks at the likelihood of defense contracting reform under the Obama administration. A lot of people are cautiously optimistic, but as one of my sources says: “Efforts to fix this flawed, complex system go back four decades with very little success. I wouldn’t get too excited.”]]></description>
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		<title>Back to the Commune?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a short piece up at Alternet today that looks at growing interest in group-living among recently bust baby boomers. From taking in roommates to buying houses with friends to full-on hippie farm villages, alternatives to maintaining big empty suburban homes are looking better than ever to those nearing retirement. These homes were never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Civil Rights Award</title>
		<link>http://www.zaitchik.com/2009/03/medical-marijuana/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was awarded the Marty Biegel Civil Rights Award by the Union of Medical Marijuana Patients, for a series of articles on drug policy published in High Times and at Alternet.org. It was an honor that I was very happy to see become somewhat obsolete a few days later, when U.S. Attorney General [...]]]></description>
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