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August 11, 2015 by Ted Leave a Comment

Latest Foreign Policy News

For Venezuela, Election Monitoring With a Wink and a Nod
As voters confront soaring inflation, an acute cash crunch, and a soaring crime rate, the last thing he and his United Socialist Party want are foreign election monitors constraining them prior to the crucial vote. “We will not accept them,” Maduro ...
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How to Destroy a War Economy
“If African governments and international partners step up with strong support, we can transform how we work together to promote security and peace in Africa,” Obama said in a July 28 speech in Ethiopia. He also threatened ... A collaborative effort ...
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The United States of Myanmar?
A federal system of government may be Myanmar's best step forward towards national unity and a more robust democratic process. By Brandon TensleyBrandon Tensley is a freelance journalist. He holds an M.Phil. in politics from Oxford University. Follow ...
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Germany Drags Its Feet on Third Bailout as Debt Payment …
By David FrancisDavid Francis is a staff writer for Foreign Policy, where he oversees FP's breaking news blog, The Cable. An award-winning journalist, David has reported from all over Europe, Nigeria, Kenya, Mexico, and Afghanistan on terrorism ...
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August 10, 2015 by Ted Leave a Comment

Latest Shadowstats News

The unemployment rate rose for all of the right reasons
Economists agree that the May jobs report was good all around. US companies added 280,000 nonfarm payrolls, which was much higher than the 226,000 expected by economists. But the unemployment rate climbed to 5.5% from 5.4% in April. How is that a ...
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Is the tide turning for Precious Metals? Part II
The labor market continues to worsen in spite of a few “headline news releases” with December U.6 above 11.00% and that which takes into account everything regarding employment put together by John Williams of Shadowstats at 23.00%. January U-6 ...
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The Fed Can Be Patient About Raising Interest Rates
As the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee prepared to meet last month, no one was wondering what the Fed would do. Everyone knew it would do nothing. There would be no rate hikes, no balance sheet shrinkage, nothing. Instead, financial eyes ...
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August 9, 2015 by Ted Leave a Comment

Indonesia unlikely to meet govt's 2015 outlook for growth: stats bureau

Indonesia unlikely to meet govt's 2015 outlook for growth: stats bureau
[JAKARTA] The Indonesian economy will find it hard to meet the government's expectation for 5.2 per cent growth this year, an official at the statistics bureau said on Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday, the bureau reported Southeast Asia's largest ...
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Consumer Price Index down by 0.66% in July: government
Falling fruit prices due to lower-than expected demand during the Dragon Boat Festival were also cited as a reason for the contraction of local consumer prices in July, the Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (DGBAS) said. It was ...
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Canadian oil exports hit low mark for year
The government's statistics office said last week real gross domestic product in Canada slipped 0.2 percent in May, the fifth straight month for declines and a sign the Canadian economy is moving into formal recession. "The decline in May was mostly a ...
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August 8, 2015 by Ted Leave a Comment

Alternative democracy

Alternative democracy
That is precisely what Alternative Democracy offers the populous. The internet, smartphone apps and modern technology as a whole has given us the ability to participate and comment on current political issues. Alternative democracy takes this notion a ...
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Kenya's rampant corruption is eating away at the very fabric of democracy
It is highly unusual for even nominally democratic governments in developing countries to start fighting corruption midway through their term. This is in part because if you haven't put the infrastructure in place to deal with graft in your first 24 ...
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