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		<title>Yemen’s female anti-terrorist unit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s always more than one way to skin the proverbial cat. One of the challenges that the coalition troops face in Afghanistan and Iraq is how to marry traditional cultural views on females and effectively police the villages.  For example, there is case cited  by Dexter Filkins in ‘The Forever War‘ from Iraq where US [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mydailyclarity.com/2010/06/yemen%e2%80%99s-female-anti-terrorist-unit/</link>
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		<title>Immigration policy myopia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is hard to know whether to laugh or cry when you read the rhetoric about immigration in the US media. It is of course natural for a country to exhibit some symptoms of xenophobia at a time of economic stress; that&#8217;s the normal blame game. The populist mantra of ‘they are taking our jobs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mydailyclarity.com/2010/06/immigration-policy-myopia/</link>
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		<title>US International trade agreements – let them in or watch them go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The forces of globalization and international commerce are unstoppable. Whether you are a fan or a naysayer matters little; the genie of globalization is out of the bottle and won’t be put back in. What is amusing is that some great powers thing they can control who gets to benefit from this trend, as if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mydailyclarity.com/2010/06/us-international-trade-agreements-%e2%80%93-let-them-in-or-watch-them-go/</link>
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		<title>Iran seeks to impress and combat Turkey’s aspirations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iran announced it is sending an aid flotilla to the Gaza, and our media spins as to how this is s direct challenge to the West and a threat to Israel. While that might be a side product, the West has an inflated opinion of how much its actions shape Iran’s agendas. Iran is indeed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mydailyclarity.com/2010/06/iran-seeks-to-impress-and-combat-turkey%e2%80%99s-aspirations-2/</link>
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		<title>Even the birds get drunk in Australia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The headline’s a cheap shot (no pun intended) but as a naturalized Australian I think I can get away with it. Australians have something of a reputation as a hard-drinking crowd, but now it seems the wildlife are getting in the act. Darwin&#8217;s red-collared lorikeets are literally falling out of the trees exhibiting the classic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mydailyclarity.com/2010/06/even-the-birds-get-drunk-in-australia/</link>
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		<title>Sarkozy bans recruitment of tall guards for the Presidential detail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no way that you can read about the latest edict of French President Sarkozy and not have the phrase Napoleonic Complex spring to mind. If you need context, in 1908 psychologist Alfred Adler cited Napoleon to describe an inferiority complex in which short people adopt an over-aggressive behavior to compensate for lack of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mydailyclarity.com/2010/06/sarkozy-bans-recruitment-of-tall-guards-for-the-presidential-detail/</link>
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		<title>Ex-pats boomerang back to Syria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while back we wrote a piece about how the Lebanese economy was rebounding based in part on the fact that Lebanese entrepreneurs and workers send home to Lebanon a staggering $7.5 billion a year from overseas. Now it seems that Syria’s less centralized economy, integration of women into business, and infrastructure investment is encouraging [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mydailyclarity.com/2010/06/ex-pats-boomerang-back-to-syria/</link>
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		<title>A bad week for refugees from Libya to London…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Refugees deserve our best efforts as humans. Great events well beyond them control make them flotsam within their home nation. Extreme stresses of poverty, disease, war and oppression see fellow humans undertake epic journeys in a search for peace and prosperity. They arrive sometimes on our shores and we turn them back. They flow on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mydailyclarity.com/2010/06/a-bad-week-for-refugees-from-libya-to-london%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>A blockade too far</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a long-time critic of Israeli foreign policy, I always wondered how far Israel would have to go before it brought down the wrath of the moderate international community. It seems the flotilla debacle was one blockade too far. The Lebanon Wars weren’t apparently enough to anger Israel’s allies.  Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mydailyclarity.com/2010/06/a-blockade-too-far/</link>
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		<title>Borders and the unstoppable transnational drift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It fascinates me that some cling to securing the borders as a panacea to return the US to peace and prosperity. It is actually an inversion of the reality. The US becomes richer due to internationalization, and globalization is not a trend that can be reversed by a state or Federal legislature. There are many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mydailyclarity.com/2010/06/borders-and-the-unstoppable-transnational-drift/</link>
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