<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - Atticus Mullikin's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - Atticus Mullikin's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:29:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:15:25 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>My Interview With Norman Finkelstein</title><description><![CDATA[This is a transcript of an interview with Norman Finkelstein last November, which was conducted by Atticus Mullikin and arranged and filmed by Bernd Kapeller, Associate Producer at the European Journalism Centre. The video was recorded following Mr.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atticus Mullikin]]></dc:creator><link>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/06/2514959-my-interview-with-norman-finkelstein</link><guid>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/06/2514959-my-interview-with-norman-finkelstein</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:29:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/tn/atticusmullikin/2514969.jpg" width="75" height="76" /></item><item><title>Comment Deletion Policy</title><description><![CDATA[In order to more effectively and consistently moderate my own discussion forums, this Comment Deletion Policy will apply to all visitors to my column. Visitors will see a disclaimer among the first comments on my posts that includes a link to this page.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atticus Mullikin]]></dc:creator><link>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/06/2514872-comment-deletion-policy</link><guid>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/06/2514872-comment-deletion-policy</guid><pubDate>Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:25:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>How home became homeland</title><description><![CDATA[Roger Cohen laments what the American nation is quickly becoming, and what it could have been.

Whatever happened to Lincoln's "last, best hope?"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atticus Mullikin]]></dc:creator><link>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/08/1840009-how-home-became-homeland</link><guid>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/08/1840009-how-home-became-homeland</guid><category>infrastructure</category><category>bush</category><category>america</category><category>collapse</category><category>terrorism</category><category>empire</category><category>imperialism</category><category>roger-cohen</category><pubDate>Mon, 8 Sep 2008 06:39:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Bush wants to redeclare war in time for the election.</title><description><![CDATA[Tucked deep into a recent proposal from the Bush administration is a provision that has received almost no public attention, yet in many ways captures one of President Bush's defining legacies: an affirmation that the United States is still at war with Al Qaeda.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[JoulesBeef]]></dc:creator><link>http://JoulesBeef.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/30/1805539-bush-wants-to-redeclare-war-in-time-for-the-election</link><guid>http://JoulesBeef.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/30/1805539-bush-wants-to-redeclare-war-in-time-for-the-election</guid><category>us-news</category><category>politics-as-usual</category><category>boo</category><category>oh-yeah-we-never-got-bin-ladin</category><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:28:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Conservative Andrew Bacevich on the End of American Exceptionalism</title><description><![CDATA[Conservative professor of history and international relations at Boston University and twenty-three year veteran of the US Army, Andrew Bacevich, speaks with Amy Goodman about his new book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. A quote from the interview:]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atticus Mullikin]]></dc:creator><link>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/29/1800751-conservative-andrew-bacevich-on-the-end-of-american-exceptionalism</link><guid>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/29/1800751-conservative-andrew-bacevich-on-the-end-of-american-exceptionalism</guid><category>politics</category><category>iraq</category><category>bush</category><category>war</category><category>mccain</category><category>conservative</category><category>duty</category><category>exceptionalism</category><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:31:30 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Jon Stewart rips media's false sense of urgency</title><description><![CDATA[ Case in point: the recent sniping between the presidential campaigns after presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain couldn't remember how many houses he owned. As Stewart watched the campaigns trade attack ads over the comment, he said he thought of President Franklin D.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TheJonesGirl]]></dc:creator><link>http://geejay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/27/1793326-jon-stewart-rips-medias-false-sense-of-urgency</link><guid>http://geejay.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/27/1793326-jon-stewart-rips-medias-false-sense-of-urgency</guid><category>politics</category><category>jon-stewart</category><category>cable-news</category><category>election-2008</category><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:10:24 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>&quot;Contemporary Energy and Military Policies Virtually Indistinguishable&quot;</title><description><![CDATA[A new documentary based on the work of Professor Michael Klare reveals the inextricable link between American foreign policy and energy supply over recent decades. The following is a synopsis of the film from the website.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atticus Mullikin]]></dc:creator><link>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/26/1787816-contemporary-energy-and-military-policies-virtually-indistinguishable</link><guid>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/26/1787816-contemporary-energy-and-military-policies-virtually-indistinguishable</guid><category>politics</category><category>peak-oil</category><category>energy</category><category>oil</category><category>michael-kiare</category><category>war</category><category>military</category><category>documentary</category><category>bush</category><category>foreign-policy</category><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:02:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Taking Issue With &quot;Why We Fight&quot;: A Reaction From the Author</title><description><![CDATA[WARNING. This is as long as the original article, as I wanted to be as thorough as possible. However, everything is organized under convenient subtitles, so you don't have to read the whole thing if you don't want to.

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It includes interviews with Richard Armitage, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, John Ashcroft,  Condoleeza Rice and many others.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atticus Mullikin]]></dc:creator><link>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/06/1726530-bushs-war</link><guid>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/06/1726530-bushs-war</guid><category>politics</category><category>frontline</category><category>pbs</category><category>iraq</category><category>afghanistan</category><category>bush</category><category>war</category><pubDate>Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:27:04 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Thomas Frank's Indictment Of Conservatism</title><description><![CDATA[Thomas Frank, discussing his new book, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule. Frank's perspective is that Conservatism has corporatized American government, transforming it into an enormous apparatus for channeling national assets into the private sector.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atticus Mullikin]]></dc:creator><link>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/06/1726453-thomas-franks-indictment-of-conservatism</link><guid>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/06/1726453-thomas-franks-indictment-of-conservatism</guid><category>politics</category><category>conservatism</category><category>corporatism</category><category>cronyism</category><category>bush</category><category>neoconservatism</category><category>book</category><category>thomas-frank</category><pubDate>Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:04:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>An Uneasy America :&quot;Why We Hate Us&quot;</title><description><![CDATA[The following are excerpted from a sample chapter on NPR.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atticus Mullikin]]></dc:creator><link>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/05/1723400-an-uneasy-america-why-we-hate-us</link><guid>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/05/1723400-an-uneasy-america-why-we-hate-us</guid><category>politics</category><category>why-we-hate-us</category><category>dick-meyer</category><category>npr</category><category>hate</category><category>culture-war</category><category>book</category><category>right-vs-left</category><category>9-11</category><pubDate>Tue, 5 Aug 2008 21:46:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>State of the Vine: What the @!$%# is wrong with everyone?</title><description><![CDATA[So, in case you missed it, Newsvine has gone insane.  I'm not going to catch you up on everything, if you don't know what I'm talking about then please just walk away - you'll thank me.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mykola Bilokonsky]]></dc:creator><link>http://darkside.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/05/1722263-state-of-the-vine-what-the-is-wrong-with-everyone</link><guid>http://darkside.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/05/1722263-state-of-the-vine-what-the-is-wrong-with-everyone</guid><category>technology</category><category>newsvine</category><category>state-of-the-vine</category><pubDate>Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:31:56 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Should organizations anonymously seed Newsvine?</title><description><![CDATA[The title of the article was The rise of Obama, the "democratic" Party and hate - Where we went wrong with our children and our friends, and I went into the conversation to address the opening sentence...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atticus Mullikin]]></dc:creator><link>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/29/1704861-should-organizations-anonymously-seed-newsvine</link><guid>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/29/1704861-should-organizations-anonymously-seed-newsvine</guid><category>anonymous</category><category>newsvine</category><category>privacy</category><category>newsvine-community</category><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:32:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/tn/atticusmullikin/1705045.jpg" width="75" height="100" /></item><item><title>Berzelius &quot;Bush&quot; Windrip and the March of the Toady Patriots</title><description><![CDATA[In 2000 I read a battered library copy of Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here.  I lived in Vermont, where the novel was set. It was February, snowy and very cold.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atticus Mullikin]]></dc:creator><link>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/27/1698974-berzelius-bush-windrip-and-the-march-of-the-toady-patriots</link><guid>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/27/1698974-berzelius-bush-windrip-and-the-march-of-the-toady-patriots</guid><category>bush</category><category>fascism</category><category>toady-patriotism</category><category>patriotism</category><category>nationalism</category><category>right</category><category>left</category><category>despotism</category><category>history</category><category>third-reich</category><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:01:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/tn/atticusmullikin/1699061.jpg" width="75" height="118" /></item><item><title>It CAN Happen Here</title><description><![CDATA[Article by Joe Keohane]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atticus Mullikin]]></dc:creator><link>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/27/1698970-it-can-happen-here</link><guid>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/27/1698970-it-can-happen-here</guid><category>politics</category><category>sinclair-lewis</category><category>it-cant-happen-here</category><category>bush</category><category>fascism</category><category>dictator</category><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:24:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt</title><description><![CDATA[A 1995 selection from the article Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Atticus Mullikin]]></dc:creator><link>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/27/1698964-eternal-fascism-fourteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackshirt</link><guid>http://atticusmullikin.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/27/1698964-eternal-fascism-fourteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackshirt</guid><category>politics</category><category>umberto-eco</category><category>fascism</category><category>despotism</category><category>philosophy</category><category>nazis</category><category>fascist</category><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:17:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Nation 2.0</title><description><![CDATA[This article was written by Atticus Mullikin and was originally published on the European Journalism Center's Magazine section on March 12, 2008

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