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		<title>Revive the Drachma, Keep the Euro &#8211; Why the hell not?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 19:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some past suggestions for Greeks to bear in mind&#8230;. From the New Economics Foundation: A dual-currency solution to the Greek debt crisis The single currency is strangling the Greek economy, but there is no reason why it can&#8217;t introduce another&#8230;Austerity is not the answer to Greece’s problems. Like blood-letting, it will only lead to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szamko.wordpress.com&#038;blog=656145&#038;post=1561&#038;subd=szamko&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Gotta Get Down To Get Up: Creatively Destroying the Growth Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growth fever is rife. Everyone, it seems, wants to &#8220;restore&#8221; growth, increasing production, incomes and profits. Francois Hollande has come to power in France counterposing the politics of &#8220;austerity&#8221; to his own politics of &#8220;growth.&#8221; The British Labour Party seeks to portray itself as the party of growth and the coalition, as disciples of austerity. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szamko.wordpress.com&#038;blog=656145&#038;post=1559&#038;subd=szamko&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Student Movement in Quebec</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Rabble.ca A crowd estimated at 250,000 people or more wound its way through Montréal April 22 in Quebec&#8217;s largest ever Earth Day march. They raised many demands: an end to tar sands and shale gas development, opposition to the Quebec government&#8217;s Plan Nord mining expansion, support for radical measures to protect ecosystems, and other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szamko.wordpress.com&#038;blog=656145&#038;post=1549&#038;subd=szamko&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Austerity: The Democratic Horizon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although many voices have expressed dismay at the advent of austerity measures, few people outside of the commentariat appear to know about any possible actions that government, other groups or individuals could take to constitute an alternative. By far the most common critique of austerity has been a kind of post-Keynesian &#8220;demand for demand&#8221; &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szamko.wordpress.com&#038;blog=656145&#038;post=1537&#038;subd=szamko&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Austerity and the Need for Nightmares</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supporters of austerity measures often carp that you &#8220;can&#8217;t have your cake and eat it too&#8221; meaning that renewed economic growth and rising employment has to be supported by cuts in government expenditure and short-term job losses as the economy is restructured. Austerity itself is described in medicinal terms, as if the nation is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szamko.wordpress.com&#038;blog=656145&#038;post=1535&#038;subd=szamko&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is the news</title>
		<link>http://szamko.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/this-is-the-news-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social justice related stories for today: 2.6 million jobseekers face competition for 234,000 full-time vacancies from people in temporary or part-time work (Guardian) Asylum seekers get half of what a comparable British family would receive in income support (Guardian) Only half the vacancies advertised in UK jobcentres [guarantee] enough hours to allow jobseekers to qualify [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szamko.wordpress.com&#038;blog=656145&#038;post=1520&#038;subd=szamko&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ditch the Nuclear Illusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy, justice and the nuclear industry, do not seem to sit well together at all. This week, both E.On and RWE decided to pull out of deals to build two new reactors, citing concerns about their viability following the decision of Germany&#8217;s government to halt all new reactor construction in response to the Fukushima disaster [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szamko.wordpress.com&#038;blog=656145&#038;post=1516&#038;subd=szamko&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Haiti and the Rest of the World: Loving their Time of Cholera</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 21:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UN&#8217;s man in Haiti, Nigel Fisher, is not happy, and neither should you be. Of all the peoples of the world requiring urgent assistance, surely the Haitians rank fairly high &#8211; what with the devastating earthquake in 2010, regular hurricanes and ongoing political turbulence. But, as Fisher complains, the level of aid reaching Haitians [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szamko.wordpress.com&#038;blog=656145&#038;post=1510&#038;subd=szamko&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ready For Take Off: Airport Expansion is Back in Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 23:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suddenly, members of the government and key energy and climate change select committee have begun to urge the public to accept the rapid expansion of airport capacity in London. According to the Guardian, both David Cameron and George Osborne have become convinced by the entreaties of &#8220;overseas leaders and business figures&#8221; that airport expansion is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szamko.wordpress.com&#038;blog=656145&#038;post=1505&#038;subd=szamko&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>David Cameron&#8217;s Garden City Delusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Cameron wants us to resurrect the garden cities movement, retooled for the twenty-first century. But he misunderstands what that movement stood for and the kind of places that the visionaries behind it wanted to create. Speaking to the Institution of Civil Engineers today, he argued that &#8220;Some people feel we&#8217;ve lost the art of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=szamko.wordpress.com&#038;blog=656145&#038;post=1500&#038;subd=szamko&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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