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		<title>Zimbabwe: Failure of Power-Sharing Government</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/zimbabwe-failure-of-power-sharing-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[civil war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dictatorial powers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sham of a democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tsvangirai]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe’s economic woes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The government of the much-beleaguered country of Zimbabwe has been in a power-sharing agreement between the two opposing factions of Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party and Tsvangirai’s MDC party. People hoped that such a much-awaited turn of events not too long ago will mean that the country would be able to surmount its massive economic woes, health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Botswana: model for democratic Africa</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/botswana-model-for-democratic-africa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Botswana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democratic elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dictatorship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethnic tribes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homogeneous culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mineral industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[one-party states]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peaceful elections]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=29753</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not all of Africa is desolate as fundraisers and NGOs would prefer to portray the continent. There are some successful African nations. Botswana is one of Africa’s most successful countries. It also sets a trend for the rest of Africa, as a model to emulate. Based on polls, Botswana is continental Africa’s best-run country. ‘Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Afghanistan a Western-style Democracy is a Futile Effort</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/making-afghanistan-a-western-style-democracy-is-a-futile-effort/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/making-afghanistan-a-western-style-democracy-is-a-futile-effort/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abdullah Abdullah]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan hinterland regions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan runoff elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghan-style democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy at the village level]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democratic elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections not a source of legitimacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karzai rigged election results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karzai’s political rival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pure Greek democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tribal culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[warlordism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Democracies make elections, elections don&#8217;t make democracies.’ This applies particularly to Afghanistan that has been trying to be a democracy since the Bonn Agreement that created the country’s post-Taliban government in 2001. Even more desperate than this attempt are the never-tiring efforts of the West, especially the United States, to approach Afghanistan as a Western-style [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Aung San Suu Kyi be Denied Freedom Again?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/will-aung-san-suu-kyi-be-denied-freedom-again/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/will-aung-san-suu-kyi-be-denied-freedom-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mariza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aung San Suu Kyi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[house arrest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[military regime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political prisoners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[verdict]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=20417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This question seems totally meaningless. Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of her life between prison and house-arrest. The verdict at the end of this week will again be one of the two. Freedom and justice will again be denied to world’s most popular brave Burmese opposition leader and to the people of Burma. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eroding Democracy in Somaliland</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/eroding-democracy-in-somaliland/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/eroding-democracy-in-somaliland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[circumvent the courts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[circumvent the rule of law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democratic processes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electoral crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights violations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights Watch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infringement of rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[low-level harassment pf journalists and opposition members]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rights of criminal defendants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somaliland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[young democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[‘Hostages to Peace: Threats to Human Rights and Democracy in 
Somaliland’]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=20178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 56-page report entitled ‘Hostages to Peace: Threats to Human Rights and Democracy in Somaliland’ affirms that the government in Somaliland has, indeed, instituted a semblance of democratic stability in the country despite the existence of armed conflict. However, the government continues to disregard the rule of law and undermine democratic processes. A crisis in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can China use Confucianism to Cure its Environmental Woes?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/can-china-use-confucianism-to-cure-its-environmental-woes/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/can-china-use-confucianism-to-cure-its-environmental-woes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balanced environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China’s environmental problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China’s pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleaner coal technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cleaner energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal-backed economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal-fired power plants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confucian kinship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confucian thought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confucius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[harmony between humans and nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interest of future generations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reduce emissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world’s biggest greenhouse gases emitter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=20037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A leading Confucian intellectual in China makes the proposal for a political system that will give equal emphasis to the otherwise ignored sectors of modern democracies: foreigners, future generations, and ancestors. “Is democracy really the best way to protect future victims of global warming?” he asks. Confucianism is premised on human kinships that eventually find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WTO: new sheep’s coat for same old cunning wolf</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/wto-new-sheep%e2%80%99s-coat-for-same-old-cunning-wolf/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/wto-new-sheep%e2%80%99s-coat-for-same-old-cunning-wolf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Voice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consensus building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global economic pyramid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global trade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[influence peddling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lobbying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new world order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trade transparency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=19687</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Supporters of the World Trade Organization have sung praises on how the organization is the institution of even the smallest countries and the most inconsequential economies. They evoke an impression of a welcoming congregation where everybody has an equal footing, equal voice, equal presence, and equal significance. That’s an impossible scenario, of course. There’s nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iran: lull before the storm?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/iran-lull-before-the-storm/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/iran-lull-before-the-storm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayatollahs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahmoud Ahmadinejad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[militia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mir Hussein Musavi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Turmoil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Revolutionary Guards]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=17594</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Weeks after the disputed elections, the fiery pro-democracy protests in Iran are almost off. However, arrests continue on more than 400 journalists and 40 politicians. The infamous militia of the Revolutionary Guards who are in charge of the dirty work are barely visible on the streets of Tehran, Isfahan, Kerman, Shiraz, and Tabriz. They have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hugo Chavez: Autocrat</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/hugo-chavez-autocrat/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/hugo-chavez-autocrat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 05:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autocracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autocrat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial of property rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patronage politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political protest ban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suppression of checks and balance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suppression of political opposition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Venezuela]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=15948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s government is definitely not democratic. He has been on a rampage to limit private capital in his country, expropriating several private properties to nationalize them &#8211; arbitrarily. Last month, Chavez announced over national television that in Venezuela, “there is no private land.” This means that in his country, there is no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Socialism: Impending Reality or Hype?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/us-socialism-impending-reality-or-hype/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/us-socialism-impending-reality-or-hype/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Market Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bailout fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cash reserves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freddie Mac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free market economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[means of production]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nationalization of assets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Socialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[state ownership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a few months now, we have been hearing about the scenario that socialism is gradually but surely inching its way well into the social, political, and economic processes of the greatest superpower on earth, the United States of America. The federal government would have been loath to make these US businesses fail. Neither will [...]]]></description>
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