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		<title>Shale Gas a Bridge to More Global Warming</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Hundreds of thousands of shale gas wells are being &#34;fracked&#34; in the United States and Canada, allowing large amounts of methane, a highly potent greenhouse gas, to escape into the atmosphere, new studies have shown. Shale gas production [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BELARUS: Political Prisoners Facing Oppression</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Robert Stefanicki WARSAW, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; &#34;I had to fight to be treated like a human, not animal,&#34; dissident Nikolai Avtukhovich wrote from prison. Last month Avtukhovich, Belarusian political activist and entrepreneur, convicted to five years in the penal colony for illegal storage of five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Informal Economy Ensures Equitable Development</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Catherine Wilson PORT MORESBY, Jan 24, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Although Papua New Guinea is known as a resource-rich country, 85 percent of the population depends on the informal economy for a living. The need for a grassroots-led economic enterprise to aid equitable and sustainable development is nationally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S.: &quot;Money Isn&#8217;t Speech, Corporations Aren&#8217;t People&quot;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D&#8217;Almeida NEW YORK, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; In most mainstream media the words &#34;corruption&#34; and &#34;election fraud&#34; accompany images of makeshift polling stations manned by armed guards in Burma or burning tires beside tattered ballot boxes in South Sudan – the insidiousness of stolen elections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EUROPE: Unrest Spread Eastwards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Zoltan Dujisin BUDAPEST, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Protests in Hungary and Romania are the first signs of anti-systemic mobilisation in the Eastern half of the continent. While protests in both countries indicate dissatisfaction with their governments’ authoritarian turn, their origins differ, as does the European [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China to Aid Saudi Arabia in Nuclear Power Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republished on Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com Ever since the end of World War Two, the U.S. has come to regard Saudi Arabia as almost its exclusive oil producing enclave. In February 1945, after the Yalta Conference with Soviet General Secretary Iosif Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FUTURE OF KASHMIRI PANDITS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy B.RAMAN It is 23 years today since Jammu &#38; Kashmir saw the beginning of the ethnic-cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits, the original inhabitants of Jammu &#38; Kashmir (J&#38;K), from their homeland at the instigation of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) by a group of Kashmiri jihadi elements trained, armed and motivated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INDIA: Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By K.S. Harikrishnan THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Even a year after Rani, a three-year-old tribal girl in the backward Wayanad district of southern Kerala state, was treated in a government hospital for gastroenteritis she remains grossly underweight and suffers from frequent bouts of diarrhoea. Rani [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan to Produce Gas &#8211; by Burning Underground Coal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republished on Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com As we start a new year, consider the miserable plight of the average Pakistani electricity consumer. With about 50 per cent less electricity generation capability than the actual demand, Pakistan&#8217;s National Grid is facing more than a 5,000-megawatt shortfall in power generation, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THAILAND: Malay-Muslim Insurgency &#8211; Lessons Learnt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, Jan 17 , 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Teachers’ Day on Jan. 16 was a sombre affair in Thailand’s troubled southern provinces where memories are strong of 155 educators killed over the past eight years in an insurgency led by Malay-Muslim separatists. Yet, this grim fact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eurozone Crisis Enters New Phase as ECB Fights Europe for Austerity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Repubished on Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), December 7, 2011 Read the article on the original site. By Mark Weisbrot The house is on fire and the owners are arguing about what kind of safety regulations should be implemented in the future so as to prevent these types of fires. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INDIA: Industrial Pollution Brings Crocodile Tears</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Malini Shankar DANDELI, India, Dec 7, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; Industrial pollution from a paper manufacturing factory in one of India’s most precious biodiversity hotspots is wreaking havoc on the local ecology, driving up the population of wild crocodiles in the area while simultaneously destroying the creatures’ habitat [...]]]></description>
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