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		<title>GEORGIA: Tbilisi Walks Diplomatic High Wire on Iranian Nuclear Issue</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Giorgi Lomsadze* TBILISI, May 15, 2012 (IPS/EurasiaNet) &#8211; Georgia is clearly the closest U.S. ally in the South Caucasus, moving in lockstep with American interests on just about every foreign policy issue – except one: Iran. Not wanting to become embroiled in a potential regional conflict, officials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COLOMBIA-U.S.: Trade Deal &quot;Throws Country into Jaws of Multinationals,&quot; Critics Say</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Helda Martínez* BOGOTÁ, May 16, 2012 (IPS) &#8211; The entry into force of Colombia’s free trade agreement with the United States was met by student protests and opposition from a segment of the business community, small farmers, and trade unionists. The trade deal, signed in 2006 after [...]]]></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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		<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>What Americans can Learn from Eurocrisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 18:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Real News Network May 10, 2012 Michael Hudson: From the Democratic Party to European &#8220;Socialists&#8221;, they manage crisis in the interests of finance More at The Real News]]></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>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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		<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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