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		<title>Thousands Call for Peace in Colombia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Real News Network Thousands of victims of violence march in Bogota tell warlords they want an end to the conflict More at The Real News]]></description>
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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>Industrialised Countries Under Critical Spotlight at U.N. Meet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 21:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Julio Godoy BONN, Germany, May 18, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; The latest session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), taking place May 15-25 in the former German capital Bonn, is the perfect opportunity to reaffirm the enormous and growing body of scientific expertise on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hopes To Heal Economy Through Devaluation, Which Has Hit Poor Hard</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE, May 17, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; As Malawi’s poor struggle to afford food and other staple items since the 48 percent devaluation of the local currency against the dollar, economic commentators are optimistic that the move will provide an opportunity to boost the country’s export [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Resource Demand A Big Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Ratko Mladic Goes on Trial for Genocide</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Correspondents* DOHA, Qatar, May 16, 2012 (IPS/Al Jazeera) &#8211; The trial of General Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army chief accused of orchestrating war crimes and a campaign of genocide, has begun at a special U.N. court at The Hague in the Netherlands. Prosecutors at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pirate Party Knows Where the Money Is</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republished on Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy Al Jazeera English, May 14, 2012 See the article on the original website By Dean Baker One of the oddities of recent election results in Germany and elsewhere in northern Europe is the rise of the Pirate Party. This party received 7.8 percent of the vote in North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journalism is Not &#8216;More Fun&#8217; in the Philippines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Dennis Engbarth MANILA, May 10, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Reporters working in the Philippines, the world’s third most dangerous nation for journalists, are having difficulty identifying with the &#34;It’s More Fun in the Philippines&#34; tourism promotion campaign launched by the Liberal Party-led government of President Benigno Aquino III. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Argentine Perspective on Degrowth</title>
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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>Tangled Web of Corruption Debilitates Mexico</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, May 10, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Although Mexico has signed several multilateral anti-corruption agreements, so far these instruments have yielded few concrete results in combating the rampant bribery, extortion and embezzlement, according to experts. &#34;We have the necessary legal instruments, but they are rarely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Farming Takes Root in Brazil&#8217;s Favelas</title>
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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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