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		<title>Austerity, the Euro Crisis and the US</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published on May 8, 2012 by TheRealNews Dean Baker: Austerity policy hitting a dead end, threat to US is a sovereign default leading to financial crisis. More at The Real News]]></description>
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		<title>Will New French President Challenge Germany?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Real News Network May 7, 2012 Mark Kesselman: The big question is whether Mr. Hollande will be a lion or the mouse that roared More at The Real News]]></description>
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		<title>Round One to Radical Left, Round Two to Europe?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Apostolis Fotiadis ATHENS, May 12, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Kosmas Bitros (29) didn’t &#34;believe in politics and in elections as a way of changing society&#34;. Still, he showed up at the ballot boxes for the first time last Sunday to cast a vote against austerity in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt&#8217;s March To Democracy Moves On</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN Collage of election pictures By Ernest Corea IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – &#34;This first round (of post-Mubarak elections in Egypt) was truly great. No violence, good participation, many candidates. Orderly queues, waiting hours if need be….It is a most promising start for a new future. The people [...]]]></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>Iran Prepares for Parliamentary Elections amid Uncertainty</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Yasaman Baji TEHRAN, Sep 11, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; Uncertainty and confusion, particularly among the highly factionalised conservatives that have dominated Iranian politics since 2005, appear to be the order of the day some seven months before next March&#8217;s parliamentary elections. Given the harsh repression that followed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RURAL THAILAND STRIKES BACK</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy B.RAMAN Rural Thailand has struck back in the general elections held on July,3,2011. And with what vehemence! 2.Since 2006, it was deprived of the&#160; leadership of its favourite son Thaksin&#160; Shinawatra, a Thai of Chinese origin, whose family belonged to Chiangmai in Northern Thailand. A cop turned businessman turned politician, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Late Spring May Come to Morocco</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Simba Russeau CAIRO, Jul 1, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; As Moroccans head to the polls to vote in a referendum on reforms offered by King Mohammed VI in the wake of the Arab Spring, the debate continues as to whether the proposed changes are merely cosmetic or will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nepal Faces Critical Days Ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IDN By Shastri Ramachandaran* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160; NEW DELHI (IDN) &#8211; Nepal has ceased to be a Hindu kingdom – and renamed itself into a federal democratic state – but it is far from certain where it is headed. Besides, though located between two turbo-charged emerging economies, India and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ELECTIONS-PERU: Leftist Winner Promises &quot;Growth with Social Inclusion&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 13:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Milagros Salazar * LIMA, Jun 6, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; For the first time in the democratic history of Peru, a left-wing candidate has won the presidency. With the support of an overwhelming majority of voters in the provinces, retired lieutenant colonel Ollanta Humala defeated his right-wing rival [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PERU-US: Washington Urged to Cooperate with Humala</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jun 6, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; The United States should seek cooperative relations with Peruvian President-elect Ollanta Humala, a number of Andean specialists urged here Monday. &#34;Humala all along has said he wants to maintain good relations with the U.S. government, and he sent nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taiwanese Ponder Democracy Deficit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Dennis Engbarth TAIPEI, May 29, 2011 (IPS) &#8211; A coalition of Taiwan social activists has warned that the island country&#8217;s democracy is now in a state of &#8221;stagnation&#8221; after three years of government under the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT) administration of President Ma Ying-jeou. During [...]]]></description>
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