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		<title>The War on Terror: a retrospective</title>
		<link>http://zacwrites.com/2010/05/26/the-war-on-terror-a-retrospective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 19:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an article I wrote about our perpetual elephant in the room &#8211; the War on TERRORRRRR! Dun dun ba-dunnnnn.
The War on Terror: a retrospective
If wars age in dog years in a democratic society, then the War on Terror has just turned 70. Not a bad place to be, considering that at 70 you’re senior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The second coming of 101 Jesii</title>
		<link>http://zacwrites.com/2010/05/18/the-second-coming-of-101-jesii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 14:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zac</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zacwrites.com/?p=237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I dunno what it is, but every time I look back at something that I wrote days, months, years ago I think it totally blows. I just started to get my shit together and renovate Zacwrites (or at least update it) and mistook 101 Jesii as an article I never posted. Man was it verbose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women of the world, fear not! Broadview Security is here!</title>
		<link>http://zacwrites.com/2010/01/15/women-of-the-world-fear-not-broadview-security-is-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zac</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://zacwrites.com/?p=232</guid>
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		<title>Harper, pundits, &amp; democracy &#8211; oh my!</title>
		<link>http://zacwrites.com/2010/01/12/harper-pundits-canadian-democracy-oh-my/</link>
		<comments>http://zacwrites.com/2010/01/12/harper-pundits-canadian-democracy-oh-my/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once and a while something happens in Canadian politics that's just so goddamn crazy that one can't but replace their comfortable numbness with burning shame. This shame, of course, stems from Prime Minister Harper’s recent prorogation of Parliament- a move so brazenly cynical that even Harper’s former chief of staff calls it ‘childish.’ When I first heard about it on the news, I mistakenly thought the newscaster said, ‘the Prime Minister has scuttled parliament so that the government can focus on watching the Olympics,’ which, though absurd, is far better than the final rationale of needing to ‘get important work done.’ ]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq: a state divided &#8211; GPM Article &amp; Commentary</title>
		<link>http://zacwrites.com/2009/12/31/iraq-a-state-divided-gpm-article-commentary/</link>
		<comments>http://zacwrites.com/2009/12/31/iraq-a-state-divided-gpm-article-commentary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iraq is being interpreted as somewhat of a success story vis-a-vis the more apparent failure unfolding in Afghanistan. There is a kernel of truth to this- the Iraqi insurgency has ebbed and the new political infrastructure has taken a more comprehensive hold outside the capital of Baghdad. However, the overall sectarian situation within Iraq is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High noon at Copenhagen: GPM Article</title>
		<link>http://zacwrites.com/2009/12/14/high-noon-at-copenhagen-gpm-article/</link>
		<comments>http://zacwrites.com/2009/12/14/high-noon-at-copenhagen-gpm-article/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s situation report from GPM: 

Negotiations at the Copenhagen climate change summit have been long on drama and short on prospects for a feasible end result.
The task of putting together a successor to the Kyoto Protocol is nothing short of herculean. On one side, there are the developing countries who don’t want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ferguson: An empire at risk</title>
		<link>http://zacwrites.com/2009/12/01/ferguson-an-empire-at-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard&#8217;s Niall Ferguson wrote an interesting piece for Newsweek titled an empire at risk. His article touches down on several  scenarios that may come out of America&#8217;s massive deficit spending ($176 billion in October alone). According to Ferguson, as the federal budget is more and more encumbered by debt repayments, the first thing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How we made it suck: Vampires</title>
		<link>http://zacwrites.com/2009/11/27/how-we-made-it-suck-vampires/</link>
		<comments>http://zacwrites.com/2009/11/27/how-we-made-it-suck-vampires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few years, no other cultural staple has been more pummeled into retardation than vampires. Back in the day, they had the romantic depth to please the ladies while still maintaining enough killer integrity to get a nod from the men. Bram Stoker&#8217;s vampire turned the boon of immortality on its head &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medvedev dreams of economic reform</title>
		<link>http://zacwrites.com/2009/11/26/medvedev-dreams-of-economic-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://zacwrites.com/2009/11/26/medvedev-dreams-of-economic-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s this week&#8217;s situation report on the Russian economy. President Medvedev is setting about the Herculean task of luring educated Russians back to a place where dead lawyers and journalists are increasingly common. Due to space constraints, I couldn&#8217;t even touch down on Russia&#8217;s absolutely insane demographic crisis. According to conservative estimates, Russia will lose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What would an early exit from Afghanistan look like?</title>
		<link>http://zacwrites.com/2009/11/25/what-would-an-early-exit-from-afghanistan-look-like/</link>
		<comments>http://zacwrites.com/2009/11/25/what-would-an-early-exit-from-afghanistan-look-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>zac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s GPM forecaster is about what a post-NATO Afghanistan would look like. I personally think it&#8217;s an interesting topic, because the debate over whether or not we should pull out is more determined by emotional factors- not wanting to &#8216;lose&#8217; and have made such sacrifices in vain- rather than practical ones such as whether [...]]]></description>
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