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		<title>Great expectations</title>
		<link>http://escapeindifference.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/310/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Osman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to wait to blog my personal thoughts regarding Obama being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 until it became apparent the nature of the reaction. I had an idea and it seems that my own perception seemed to be correct.
Much of the rhetoric is that the committee that awarded the prize was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeindifference.wordpress.com&blog=2896168&post=310&subd=escapeindifference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A major boost to international cooperation and diplomacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Osman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has just been announced that Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. This will without a doubt reenforce his international standing and position in promoting international cooperation and the United Nations in resolving disputes.
I also presume that this fast tracks the Israeli/Palestinian peace process, and will put pressure on both leaders, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeindifference.wordpress.com&blog=2896168&post=303&subd=escapeindifference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Podcasts I&#8217;m listening to</title>
		<link>http://escapeindifference.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/podcasts-im-listening-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Osman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[EI]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anderson Cooper's 360º Podcast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BBC Global News Highlights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Die Zeit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fareed Zakaria's GPS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of ways to acquire information about world affairs. A fun way I&#8217;ve found is through podcasts. When they first came out I didn&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; them. Then they started to become more sophisticated and some of your big publications, such as CNN, the New York Times, Washington Post, and the BBC got [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeindifference.wordpress.com&blog=2896168&post=292&subd=escapeindifference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting two wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Osman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Climate Change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting in a coffee shop in Hong Kong (no it&#8217;s not Starbucks) and reading the September 22, 2009 edition of the International Herald Tribune. Two articles caught my interest: The first, titled E.U. is increasingly skeptical of U.S. on climate and the second, titled Commander seeks more troops for Afghanistan, are both linked. How [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeindifference.wordpress.com&blog=2896168&post=285&subd=escapeindifference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enough Project and a great Fareed Zakaria interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Osman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fareed Zarkaria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gorbachev]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Medvedev]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uguanda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I actually have a lot to discuss today regarding access to good material.
The main theme of this web-site is to promote interest in world affairs. One essential tool for achieving this is to expose relevant web-sites and good sources of information to our readers. Enough is one of those web-sites.
The Enough Project is a project [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeindifference.wordpress.com&blog=2896168&post=279&subd=escapeindifference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just bad timing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Osman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big news of the day is that that United States abandoned its plans for establishing a missile defense shield in Europe. The change was expected but the timing was not. Obama is facing a lot of criticism at home for moving to the left, especially regarding health care reform. He has made concessions with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeindifference.wordpress.com&blog=2896168&post=272&subd=escapeindifference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beating a bad rap</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Osman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Mearsheimer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MAD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Conservatives]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Realists have a bad rap. They are portrayed as those who are always beating the war drum out of the false belief that war is the best and only way to improve a state&#8217;s security. Many point to the advocacy of mutual assured destruction (MAD) by realists who observed that the reason for peace between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeindifference.wordpress.com&blog=2896168&post=261&subd=escapeindifference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons learned from the past</title>
		<link>http://escapeindifference.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/lessons-learned-from-the-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Osman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NATO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Berlin Wall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Iron Curtain Diaries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine passed along a link to The Iron Curtain Diaries, a project undertaken by journalists, photographers, and a cartoonist who travelled along the former &#8220;iron curtain,&#8221; interviewing people about their feelings of the past and their prospects for the future. I&#8217;m usually not a big fan of flash sites, but this one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeindifference.wordpress.com&blog=2896168&post=256&subd=escapeindifference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing with the dragon</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Osman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Counter-Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tibet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has stated that China and the U.S. are starting a dialogue on issues of counter-terrorism. This reveals the nature of the Chinese / American relationship regarding foreign issues.
Indeed, each country&#8217;s respective foreign policies are a result of very different domestic pressures and political goals. China&#8217;s foreign policy is based solely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeindifference.wordpress.com&blog=2896168&post=250&subd=escapeindifference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And the wheel goes round and round</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Osman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Camp David]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Egypt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Occupied Territories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yom Kippur War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite pressure from the Obama administration Israel is still planning to build 455 new housing units in the West Bank, according to this report. This move by defense minister Ehud Barak is seen as a slap in the face to Obama&#8217;s new hardline approach to the Middle East. Obama rightly believes that the U.S. image [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=escapeindifference.wordpress.com&blog=2896168&post=245&subd=escapeindifference&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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