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		<title>The Face That Launched a Thousand Drones?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The much talked about August 9 Time magazine cover, unabashed in its aim to shore up support for the war effort in Afghanistan, has left many still shaking their heads [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1738</link>
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		<title>Zahra’s Paradise: An On-line Graphic Novella</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Set in the aftermath of Iran’s fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra’s Paradise is the fictional story of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has disappeared in the Islamic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1709</link>
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		<title>Open Letter to The Pulitzer Center and Mr. Vernaschi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I should like to take the time to address some of the issues raised in Marco Vernaschi’s response to his critics on the Pulitzer Center’s website. Both Jon Sawyer, director [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1639</link>
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		<title>Interview with Marco Vernaschi Retracted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who check in regularly, you may have noticed that I have removed two posts on the subject of child sacrifice in Uganda by the photographer Marco [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1615</link>
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		<title>New Video Emerges From Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A video likely shot by a plain clothes basij has been acquired by the BBC showing the arrest and beating of Tehran University students on June 15 after the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1516</link>
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		<title>Letter from Tehran 22 Bahman Anniversary of Islamic Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was a very difficult day. Not only for the Green movement, but because the government had used all it had to show off today. There are two main analyses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1528</link>
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		<title>Piecing a Scene Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I featured this photograph in a previous post. It was heavily circulated over the weekend and purported to be a Basij joining the demonstrators. Now that more images have come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1472</link>
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		<title>Letter From A Turkish Prison</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turkey&#8217;s decision to arrest hundreds of Kurdish public officials and activists over the course of 2009, and the recent Supreme Court ruling to dissolve the leading Kurdish Democratic Society Party, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1453</link>
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		<title>Armed Forces Mutiny Reports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(UPDATE: Please read this POST regarding the image below. It clarifies the circumstances of the event pictured, and is a key example of how much of the information we receive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1434</link>
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		<title>Eye-witness Account from Ashura Protests in Tehran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday Decmber 27, 2009 What I experienced yesterday is beyond me. I can&#8217;t describe it in words. it was the worst experience and at the same time amazing. People are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1416</link>
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		<title>Martial Law in Iran as Revolutionary Guards Jockey for Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unverified report from reliable source: The Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) is seeking support from Majlis National Security &#38; Foreign Affairs commission to approve martial law powers. Martial law is already [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1413</link>
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		<title>Iranian Security Forces Running Trucks Over Human Beings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Be warned, this is quite disturbing footage but really needs to be seen to fully understand the extent of the abuses going on in the streets of Iran these past [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1406</link>
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		<title>Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party Issues Open Letter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of Turkey decided to close down the pro-Kurdish party, DTP, for alleged ties with the PKK, the armed Kurdish rebels who have been engaged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/1394</link>
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		<title>Rethinking Coal (Multimedia)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Rebecca Carroll for Chuck Nelson mined coal seams deep below the Appalachian hills of Boone County, West Virginia, for nearly 30 years before dark powder and chemical particulates drove [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vigilantejournalist.com/blog/archives/975</link>
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		<title>Hacked!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Vigilante Journalist was hacked sometime in September. It&#8217;s not clear who is behind the episode, and we&#8217;re sorry to have been off-line so long. There&#8217;s a new theme up [...]]]></description>
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