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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>Hopes To Heal Economy Through Devaluation, Which Has Hit Poor Hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 21:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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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>U.N. Warns of Social Fall-Out from Spain&#8217;s Austerity Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>Business20 Makes Its Weight Felt at G20 Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Emilio Godoy PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, Apr 19, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; The concerns of the business community basically monopolised the first day of the meeting of trade and economy ministers of the G20 group of industrialised and emerging countries in this Mexican resort city Thursday. The meeting of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S.: A Credit Union to Bail Out People, Not Big Banks</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Judith Scherr SAN FRANCISCO, California, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Occupy activists from Wall Street to San Francisco&#8217;s financial district have dramatised their anger with big financial institutions by blocking JP Morgan Chase Bank doorways, dancing atop Wells Fargo counters, pitching a tent in a Bank of [...]]]></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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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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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>INDIA: Advancing Economy Reveals a Hungry Underbelly</title>
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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>Banks Holding 1.4 Trillion, Could Create 19 Million Jobs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Real News Network December 21, 2011 Bob Pollin: Study looks at impact of 1.4 trillion in excess liquid asset holdings if put in productive investments More at The Real News]]></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>INEQUALITY DESTROYS LIVES</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies Originally presented on  TEDtalksDirector  &#8211; Oct 24, 2011 We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when… Editor&#8217;s Note: Nothing could better reflect the purpose and orientation of this [...]]]></description>
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