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		<title>Myanmar Opposition Offers The Military Leaders A National Reconciliation Proposal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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Exiled politicians from Myanmar arrived in Brussels to meet with parliamentarians and others in their bid to put pressure on Senior General Than Shwe&#8217;s military rule, ahead of expected 2010 elections. The Obama administration has announced a change in policy towards the what is regarded as one of the world&#8217;s most repressive and abusive regimes. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Cry From The Heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The greatest pain any parent can suffer is to have a child die. This happened to Ismael Khatib, a Palestinian from the Jenin refugee camp. His twelve year old son, Ahmed, shot by Israeli soldiers, was one of many child casualties of conflict, but what happened next was extraordinary. In the Israeli hospital where Ahmed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sun Sets On Brown, But Rises On Blair</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harold Wilson once said that &#8220;A week is a long time in politics&#8221; and time seemed to drag for the Labour party at their annual conference. Privately,labourites are talking about the imminent election in apocalyptic tones and there are muttered conversations where a passer by can hear whispered words like &#8216;wipeout&#8217;, &#8216;oblivion&#8217; and some are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countering Extremism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a host of academics and consultants working in the field of counter-extremism, but the Quilliam Foundation is different. It was founded by Ed Hussain and Maajid Nawaz, both ex members of the extremist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir. Nawaz was a founding member of HT in Denmark and Pakistan and eventually served four years in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Hannan,The Man With The Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.andycarling.com/2009/09/dan-hannanthe-man-with-the-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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The British Conservative party has not only welcomed Dan Hannan MEP back into the fold, after his expulsion in February 2008 by Joseph Daul, but many are embracing his ideas, laid out in his book The Plan: Twelve months to renew Britain. In it Hannon lays out a series of thirty detailed and concrete proposals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lockerbie: Getting Away With Murder</title>
		<link>http://www.andycarling.com/2009/09/lockerbie-getting-away-with-murder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lockerbie, 21st December 1988. This small town became a byword for terrorism. On that cold and rainy night a Boeing 747 exploded above the town and the debris rained down, carving craters in the homes and streets and killing even more innocent people.]]></description>
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		<title>Barroso: To me, every member state has equal dignity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[European Commission President, José Barroso gave a spirited and passionate defense of his ambitions for a second term and on his recently published "Political Guidelines for the Next Commission", a document demanded by the parliament's political groups ahead of an expected 16 September vote on his presidency.]]></description>
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		<title>The Next UK Government; Between a rock and a hard place&#8230; already</title>
		<link>http://www.andycarling.com/2009/09/the-next-uk-government-between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place-already/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 05:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As David Cameron reads the opinion polls that give him a consistent 16 to 17 point lead over Brown's Labour, he may feel satisfied that the Conservatives are on the verge of victory and ending more than a decade in the wilderness. However, there is more to this picture. Cameron had to deal with one issue that could divide the party and ruin their Westminster chances, the issue of Europe.]]></description>
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		<title>War 2.0 and How To End It</title>
		<link>http://www.andycarling.com/2009/08/war-2-0-and-how-to-end-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.andycarling.com/2009/08/war-2-0-and-how-to-end-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The European Union was founded after the Second World War, where large armed forces fought each other and devastated a continent. Such wars are becoming a thing of the past and most current and future conflicts are very different.]]></description>
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		<title>When The North Wind Doth Blow</title>
		<link>http://www.andycarling.com/2009/08/when-the-north-wind-doth-blow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Carling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Glynn Ford MEP is a member of the Parliament’s Delegation with Relations to the Korean Peninsula and a noted author on North Korea, most recently with 'North Korea on the Brink' where he analyses the Pyongyang regime and how the EU can engage with them. After the recent missile launches by North Korea, he talks with New Europe on what the regime is up to.]]></description>
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