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		<title>Angels Invest Where Banks Dither</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsReport BERLIN (IDN) &#8211; For innovative young folks, angels are by no means mythical beings or messengers of God as depicted in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and the Quran. They are flesh-and-blood source of equity capital at the seed and early stage of [...]]]></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>IMF Seeks Asia&#8217;s Help to Tackle Eurocrisis</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN By J. C. Suresh IDN-InDepth NewsReport TORONTO (IDN) – When an international commission headed by Nobel laureate Willy Brandt drew attention to global economic interdependence in its report in 1980, the world was divided between rich North and the poor South. More than three decades later, the International [...]]]></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>GREECE: Austerity Plan Breaches Last Line of Defence of Greek Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; As the Eurozone falls deeper into its sovereign debt crisis, the labour movement in Greece is being cudgelled to its knees by an austerity programme that has so far failed to bring any positive change for the crumbling Mediterranean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GERMANY: While Some Waste, Others Feast</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Julio Godoy HAMBURG, Jan 20, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Shortly before midnight last Saturday, Alexander, a 24-year-old law student, stepped out of his small apartment in Hamburg and set off for a jaunt around the local supermarkets to pilfer their garbage containers. Alex, who did not want his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RUSSIA: &#8216;Repression May Lead to Revolt&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS PRAGUE, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; The Russian opposition movement which has risen to prominence since the Dec. 4 parliamentary elections has not said its last word, says 35-year-old Sergey Udaltsov, one of its most visible figures. Leader of the leftist political alliance Left Front and of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eurozone Crisis Enters New Phase as ECB Fights Europe for Austerity</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Will an Incompetent European Central Bank be Allowed to Wreck the World Economy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy Originally Published on The Guardian Unlimited, December 5, 2011 See this article on the original website By Dean Baker The world is eagerly waiting to see if the European Central Bank (ECB) will take the steps needed to save the euro. Specifically, is the ECB prepared to act as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA and Europe Pushing World into Trouble</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN AddThis Social Bookmark Button Credit: UNBy J. C. Suresh IDN-InDepth NewsReport TORONTO (IDN) &#8211; The United Nations has painted a rather bleak picture of the global economy in 2012, which it says will be a make-or-break year in terms of proceeding with slow economic recovery or falling back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia Between Nostalgia and Bitter Reality</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN Pilar Bonet By Pilar Bonet* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint** MOSCOW (IDN) &#8211; The 20th anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union is an occasion to share some observations about the &#34;perestroika&#34;, that revolution which meant the end of a political system and also the end of a State and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microfinance Works &#8211; For the Rich</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Raquel Martinez VALLADOLID, Spain, Nov 18, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; Jesús Guerra, a volunteer at this week’s Fifth Global Microcredit Summit in this Spanish town, was nonplussed by the expensive gold watch sported by a banker from a developing country. &#34;When I volunteered to help at the Summit [...]]]></description>
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