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		<title>CULTURE-CHINA: Now Showing &#8211; Independent Films</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By Mitch Moxley BEIJING, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; While Hollywood blockbusters and state-funded historical epics continue to dominate China’s box office, a vibrant independent film scene is quietly growing. Lacking distribution channels that lead to wide audiences, these films, which tend to focus on aspects of day-to-day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ENERGY: Is Fracking Even Worse Than Drilling?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; With cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico barely underway, energy companies are already assuming a crouching stance in anticipation of a no-holds-barred attack by environmentalists on what the industry says is the next major breakthrough in natural resource [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEXICO: Environmentalist Peasants Seek Justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global Analyst Online – Global News Blog / IPS By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; Peasant activists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera hope to find, at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the justice that eluded them in their home country of Mexico, to which they hope to return to rejoin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groups Praise U.S. Rights Report as Good First Step</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Global Geopolitics &#38; Political Economy / IPS By William Fisher NEW YORK, Aug 27, 2010 (IPS) &#8211; In the first ever U.N.-mandated self-assessment of the United States&#8217; human rights record, the Barack Obama administration has reaffirmed its commitment to closing the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay and to fixing the country&#8217;s &#34;broken immigration system&#34;. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAITI: Scraping by on Mud Cookies</title>
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