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        <title>Greece Must Exit</title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:48:49 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The Greek euro tragedy is reaching its final act: it is clear that either this year or next, Greece is highly likely to default on its debt and exit the eurozone. Postponing the exit after the June election with a new government committed to a variant of the same failed policies (recessionary austerity and structural reforms) will not restore...]]></description>
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        <title>Netanyahu Creates a Big New Government to Do Nothing but Survive</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:31:57 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Benjamin Netanyahu, ever the master maneuverer, has done it again. Just moments before the Israeli Parliament was to ratify the call for new elections, the Kadima Party announced that it had completed negotiations with the Prime Minister and would join the government producing Israel's largest governing coalition in history (including 94 of...]]></description>
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        <title>Is Europe on a Cross of Gold?</title>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 11:15:37 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[ROME – Increasingly, one hears predictions that the euro will go the way of the gold standard in the 1930’s. And, increasingly, the reasoning behind such forecasts seems persuasive. But does that mean that the euro doomsayers are right? Following the 1929 stock market crash, Europe was hit by a massive deflationary shock. Output collapsed and...]]></description>
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        <title>NYPD Surveillance Revisited</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 19:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[When a senior White House national security official traveled to New York City recently to praise that city's police department, he stoked the embers of a controversy between the Administration and the Arab American and American Muslim communities. The official's words, quoted by the Associated Press (AP), "I have full confidence that the New...]]></description>
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        <title>Romneynomics</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 08:00:00 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[It's great news for us Democrats that former Romney partner in Bain Capital -- Edward Conard -- is out with a new book on economics, Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy is Wrong. My first guess when hearing about the book was that some devious liberal in the publishing industry talked Conard into this...]]></description>
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        <title>If He Were President, the Far Right Would Lead Romney Around by a Ring in His Nose</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:28:07 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[  Believe that, as President, Mitt Romney would revert to his days as a “Massachusetts Moderate?”  Think again.   Every bit of evidence indicates that if he were President, the Far Right would lead Romney around by a ring in his nose.   Just last week, we saw it clearly on display.  It didn’t take but two weeks for the Far Right to force the...]]></description>
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        <title>After Austerity</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 16:59:05 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA["....there is no example of a large economy recovering as a result of austerity....But that is what Europe is doing. Indeed, its leaders’ willful ignorance of the lessons of the past is criminal." NEW YORK – This year’s annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund made clear that Europe and the international community remain rudderless...]]></description>
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        <title>Chinese Shadows</title>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 09:29:00 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA["These are interesting times in China. A senior Communist Party official, Bo Xilai, is brought down – accused of offenses that include wire-tapping other party bosses, including President Hu Jintao – while his wife is investigated for her alleged role in the possible murder of a British businessman. ------------ "Despite exhaustive press...]]></description>
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        <title>What We Owe Egypt</title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 09:33:07 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA["The protesters in Tahrir Square perceived the cause of Egypt’s poverty in its non-responsive, repressive political system, its corrupt government, and the general lack of equality of opportunity in every sphere of their lives. They saw their current leaders as part of the problem, not part of the solution. By contrast, most outsiders, asking...]]></description>
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        <title>Israel’s Continued Independence Rests On Palestinian Independence</title>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 12:35:19 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[As Israel recently observed sixty-four years of independence, it is critical that Israelis reflect on the path they have taken and ask if the current one is sustainable in the long-term. Much has been achieved since the nation’s founding and the Israelis should take immense pride in what they have accomplished in a relatively short period of...]]></description>
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