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By Chris Abani
By Cynthia Cohen (Editor); Roberto Gutierrez Varea (Editor); Polly O. Walker (Editor); Dijana Milosevic (Contribution by); Charles Mulekwa (Contribution by) $21.95
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Jun 16, 2012
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Jun 14, 2012
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Jun 10, 2012
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
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RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —
Posted on Jun 6, 2012
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
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Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria —
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on May 5, 2012
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Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria —
Posted on Apr 26, 2012
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Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria —
Posted on Apr 1, 2012
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Mar 3, 2012
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 Parti socialiste (CC-BY)
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By Peter Bratsis, Truthout —
The most central and constant dilemma in modern politics—whether the will of the people or that of bureaucrats and specialists should rule—is on full display in Greece.
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Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria —
Posted on Feb 26, 2012
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Barricades in Zuccotti Park have finally come down, causing protesters to immediately reoccupy; in the face of budget cuts, some teachers opt to work for free; meanwhile, Kopimism, a new religion based on file-sharing, emerges. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Posted on Jan 10, 2012
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 Wikimedia Commons
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If only we could import a little bit of Germany right now—in a good way. Unlike many of its European neighbors, Germany is enjoying a bit of an economic boost in that its unemployment rate dropped to a record low for the month of December.
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Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria —
Posted on Dec 20, 2011
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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Dec 15, 2011
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Martin Sutovec, Cagle Cartoons, Slovakia —
Posted on Dec 11, 2011
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Tom Janssen, Cagle Cartoons, The Netherlands —
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 AP / Kostas Tsironis
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After his ill-conceived eleventh-hour referendum idea fell through last week, the thread from which Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou was dangling effectively snapped. By Sunday, it was apparent that Papandreou was ready to accept defeat ... (more)
Posted on Nov 7, 2011
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 Wikimedia Commons / Department of Defense
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Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou appeared to be losing his grip on both his country and his job on Thursday, as reports circulated that he had scrapped his surprise call for a nationwide referendum on the bailout plan proposed by eurozone leaders ... (more) Updated
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Rick McKee, Cagle Cartoons, The Augusta Chronicle —
Posted on Nov 2, 2011
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An emergency economic summit in Europe brought direly needed relief to Greece and neighboring nations, but will it last—and is it enough? Meanwhile, on our side of the planet, a report from Congress showed that the richest 1 percent of Americans more than doubled their share of national income in the last 30 years.
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 AP / Daniel Roland
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This week’s European crisis summit in Brussels has produced an agreement in an effort to mitigate what was looking like an inevitable economic catastrophe, judging by the dire situation in Greece and elsewhere in the eurozone. By Thursday, international markets were registering the results.
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 bbc.co.uk
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Greece is hanging by a thread, and its European neighbors scrambled to avoid a similar fate, and stave off even harder times for the Greeks, by holding a summit in Brussels on Wednesday. Here’s a look at a couple of action items on the busy agenda for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon … (more)
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 bbc.co.uk
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While the international media zoomed in on Libya on Thursday, another important story was unfolding in Athens, where two days of strikes and protests failed to sway parliament members from passing a bill of austerity measures the Greek government insisted was necessary to avoid an even more catastrophic economic mess.
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 Flickr / Images_of_Money
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In the discussion over how to solve Europe’s financial crisis, opponents of the euro argue “that it is a monetary straitjacket and that the best reform now would be its breakup.” Not so, says Will Hutton, author, columnist and former editor-in-chief of The Observer. (more)
Posted on Sep 21, 2011
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Christo Komarnitski, Cagle Cartoons, Bulgaria —
Posted on Sep 20, 2011
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The European Union announced Saturday that it is banning purchases of Syrian oil, a first for Europe, which had thus far avoided targeting Syrian industry as a method to stem the government violence there. (more)
Posted on Sep 3, 2011
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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Aug 22, 2011
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
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The EU decides to address far-right extremism; education fails to solve poverty and inequality, while Netflix may destroy TV networks. These discoveries and more after the jump.
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico —
Posted on Jul 10, 2011
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 Flickr / World Economic Forum
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George Soros issued a dire warning to the European Union recently, stating that fundamental flaws in the design of the euro are preventing economically distressed nations like Greece from getting back on their feet and threatening the very existence of the EU. (more)
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Jun 19, 2011
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Kap, Cagle Cartoons, Spain —
Posted on Apr 16, 2011
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Luojie, Cagle Cartoons, China Daily, China —
Posted on Mar 11, 2011
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 Daniel Erwin (CC-BY)
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In the age of oversharing, we take it for granted that our every status is up to date and hanging out for all to see. Privacy, we are told, is dead. But over in Europe, they have crazy new laws that actually restrict how businesses stalk us online. Communists.
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Paresh Nath, Cagle Cartoons, The Khaleej Times, UAE —
Posted on Oct 29, 2010
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Washington Examiner —
Posted on Oct 22, 2010
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Dario Castillejos, Cagle Cartoons, Dario La Crisis —
Posted on Oct 22, 2010
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Petar Pismestrovic, Cagle Cartoons, Kleine Zeitung, Austria —
Posted on Oct 18, 2010
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 bbc.co.uk
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On Wednesday, tens of thousands of people in Spain, Italy, Greece and other European nations registered their disapproval of their governments’ moves to make them bear the brunt of the financial shenanigans that sent the global economy into a downward spiral two years ago.
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 Illustration based on an image by Bearas (CC-BY-SA)
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By William Pfaff — The excellent second quarter export and growth results reported by Germany have set that country at an increasing, and increasingly dangerous, distance from the other members of the European Union.
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 AP / Hasan Sarbakhshian
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The Iranian government is apparently of the opinion that sanctions are not “an effective tool,” particularly when those sanctions are imposed against Iran from elsewhere in the world, such as the more stringent ones that the European Union just adopted, for example.
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By William Pfaff — The European Union deliberately has chosen not to challenge the United States as a military or political superpower. This is convenient for most and saves Europe a great deal of money. It is prudent, since no one knows what the U.S. would do if the Europeans undertook a role that challenged American primacy.
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 AP / Daniel Roland
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Here’s another bit of news guaranteed to win us friends around the world: On Thursday, EU officials voted in favor of granting U.S. anti-terror investigators access to Europeans’ bank information.
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