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The slump that has swept through developed nations like the UK, the eurozone and the United States is hitting the world's emerging economies with a speed and ferocity that has shocked even the most pessimistic analysts.

http://snipurl.com/csevu



'We're Not Paying For Your Crisis!': Anger rises in Germany as the economy falls

Trade unions and globalization-critical protesters are planning demonstrations in Berlin and Frankfurt under the banner: "We're not paying for your crisis."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,610099,00.html



Thousands of Opel Workers Demonstrate against GM

Huge losses in Detroit threaten to doom the German carmaker Opel, and the workers want a divorce from the parent company.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,610159,00.html


From Information Clearing House

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After the Financial Crisis, Civil War?

Clair Gatinois, Le Monde: "Will the economic and financial crisis degenerate into violent social explosions? Tomorrow, will there be civil war in Europe, the United States and Japan? That's the rather alarming conclusion that the experts of European think tank LEAP/Europe 2020 lay out in their latest bulletin dated mid-February."

http://www.truthout.org/022709F



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