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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>U.S.: Tea Party Loses in Fight with Big Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 21:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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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>The Political Drones Get Louder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 21:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Ashfaq Yusufzai PESHAWAR, May 17, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; Growing numbers of activists are beginning to counter U.S. Drone attacks into Pakistani territory. The activists are confronting the U.S., but increasingly now the Pakistani government for allowing such attacks to continue. The Tehreek Insaf party led by former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pirate Party Knows Where the Money Is</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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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>Austerity, the Euro Crisis and the US</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 18:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 18:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 18:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
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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>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>Tangled Web of Corruption Debilitates Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 02:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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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>China: Behind and Beyond Bo Xilai&#8217;s Sacking</title>
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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>Lebanese Groups Arming Syrian Unrest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Zak Brophy BEIRUT, May 3, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; The Lebanese army seized a ship last weekend carrying three containers filled with weapons reportedly intended for Syria’s rebel fighters. Although Lebanon has remained relatively stable throughout the sustained violence next door in Syria, this discovery is the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greeks Gear Up to Cast &#8216;Protest Votes&#8217; Against Austerity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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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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