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		<title>Caught Between Diarrhoea Bugs and Arsenic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Naimul Haq DHAKA, May 18, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Achieving the Millennium Development Goal of providing access to safe drinking water for its 160 million people by 2015 is a tough call for Bangladesh, which is caught between arsenic contaminated groundwater and diarrhoea-causing microbes in its ponds and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S.: Tea Party Loses in Fight with Big Business</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, May 16, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; For leaders of the right-wing populist &#34;Tea Party&#34; who have bragged about their growing influence – if not domination – of the Republican Party, the past week&#8217;s battle over the future of the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NATO&#8217;s Twin Crises</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 21:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By John Feffer WASHINGTON, May 17, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; It&#8217;s not an easy time for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The ongoing economic crisis is putting pressure on military budgets on both sides of the Atlantic. Meanwhile, the Libya conflict revealed the stark limitations of the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COLOMBIA-U.S.: Trade Deal &quot;Throws Country into Jaws of Multinationals,&quot; Critics Say</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Helda Martínez* BOGOTÁ, May 16, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; The entry into force of Colombia’s free trade agreement with the United States was met by student protests and opposition from a segment of the business community, small farmers, and trade unionists. The trade deal, signed in 2006 after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Resource Demand A Big Challenge</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN Credit: Transatlantic AcademyBy J.C. Suresh IDN-InDepth NewsReport TORONTO (IDN) – &#34;Unless the transatlantic community takes the lead in addressing the challenges arising from the unprecedented global demand for land, energy, food, water, and minerals, severe market disruptions are likely to occur, as are increased chances of violent conflict [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Argentine Perspective on Degrowth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Marcela Valente * BUENOS AIRES, May 10, 2012 (Tierramérica) &#8211; The controversial concept of degrowth receives little press coverage in a region like Latin America. But the idea of a way of life that is not aimed exclusively at GDP growth does have its proponents in Argentina. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.N. Warns of Social Fall-Out from Spain&#8217;s Austerity Plan</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Gustavo Capdevila GENEVA, May 10, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; An expert body of the United Nations has warned the Spanish government that the severe budget cutbacks it is applying must not undermine its commitment to upholding the economic, social and cultural rights of the country&#8217;s people. Austerity measures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China: Behind and Beyond Bo Xilai&#8217;s Sacking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis http://www.indepthnews.net/ NEW DELHI (IDN) &#8211; Much has been written about Bo Xilai, the charismatic party secretary of the southwestern city of Chongqing who was sacked from the 25-member Politburo of the Communist Party of China (CPC). And, much more is likely to be written in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Farming Takes Root in Brazil&#8217;s Favelas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Fabiana Frayssinet NOVA IGUAÇU, Brazil, May 2, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Women in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of this city 40 km north of Rio de Janeiro no longer have to spend money on vegetables, because they have learned to grow their own, as organic urban gardening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cashew Producers&#8217; Pain Is Intermediaries&#8217; Gain in Senegal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Koffigan E. Adigbli ZIGUINCHOR, Senegal, May 3, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Cashew nut growers in the southern Senegalese region of Casamance are complaining bitterly that intermediaries are cutting them out of a fair share of the profits. The Casamance region produced 40 million dollars worth of cashews in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S.-Afghan Pact Won&#8217;t End War &#8211; Or SOF Night Raids</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, May 2, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration&#8217;s &#34;Enduring Strategic Partnership&#34; agreement with Afghanistan and the Memorandums of Understanding accompanying it emphasise transition to Afghan responsibility and an end to U.S. war. But the only substantive agreement reached between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greeks Gear Up to Cast &#8216;Protest Votes&#8217; Against Austerity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, May 3, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Aggeliki Anagnostopoulou (30) sits in a corner of the huge room that volunteers from the new party, Independent Greeks, are using as a headquarters for their pre-election campaign in the lead up to polling day on May 6. [...]]]></description>
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