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		<title>&#8220;Vigil-aunties&#8221;? Exporting the Worst Variety of Citizen Journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Controversial American investigative journalism is usually limited to things like Michael Jackson interviews. And when our reality television toes the line, it&#8217;s because of Fear Factor episodes where contestants come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s hot winter update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They did it. Russian activists gathered tens of thousands of people in a new anti-Putin rally in Moscow this Saturday, braving temperatures of 4F to ask for honest elections. Organizers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia&#8217;s hot winter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Russian activists promise to shake things up again in the country with a new march this Saturday, February 4th, to demand honest elections in a month, when Vladimir Putin will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More on the decline of the middle class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued in 2012&#8242;s first edition of “Foreign Affairs” that the absence of ideological competition in modern times has resulted in ultra-liberal policies that contribute to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Censorship, Technology &amp; Free Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year I’ve written pretty regularly on the value I see in technology as a tool to promote free speech.  Anyone who’s read my thoughts on the subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt on the line</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick update on the situation of americans under travel ban in Egypt, subject of a recent post: at least two of them are being sheltered at the U.S. Embassy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.democracyandsociety.com/blog/2012/01/30/egypt-on-the-line/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=egypt-on-the-line</link>
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		<title>One Problem with France</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not news that many Turks do not call what happened to Armenians at the hands of the Ottomans nearly a century ago a &#8220;genocide.&#8221; But very infrequently does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.democracyandsociety.com/blog/2012/01/29/one-problem-with-france/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=one-problem-with-france</link>
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		<title>How far should we go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent crackdown on international pro-democracy organizations in Egypt wasn&#8217;t only a cold reminder of the real dangers for those involved in the field. It also questions the limits of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Papers &#8211; After the Revolution: Looking Forward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democracy &#38; Society, Volume 9, Issue 2 We are seeking well-written, interesting submissions of 1500-2000 words on the themes below, including summaries and/or excerpts of recently completed research, new publications, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.democracyandsociety.com/blog/2012/01/26/call-for-papers-after-the-revolution-looking-forward/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=call-for-papers-after-the-revolution-looking-forward</link>
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		<title>Technology, Protest &amp; Entrenched Political Elites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless one somehow managed to avoid any interaction with the internet this week, the protests against SOPA and PIPA are likely no news at this point.   Stories on legislation aimed [...]]]></description>
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