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By the second half of 2011, the Arab Spring had moved into a particularly violent phase. In Libya, the long reign of Muammar Khadafy came to an end as this own people finally killed him. Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad resorted to ever-escalating force to retain his throne of bayonets. The optimism of the early days had, by now, passed. Meanwhile, North Korea's Kim Jong-Il died, and the top job in the hermit kingdom passed to his son Kim Jong-Un, a man not yet 30. In Europe, the Greek financial situation continued to threaten the euro; a right-wing madman named Anders Breivik killed more than 70 people in Norway; and Rupert Murdoch tried to halt a phone hacking scandal by closing the News of the World, Britain's most popular newspaper. In the United States, the political shenanigans in Washington helped undermine America's Aaa credit rating; S&P actually lowered the rating a notch. Congress learned nothing and failed to pass necessary financial legislation. Also in this period, Wisconsin's political landscape was altered radically by recall elections sparked by Republican over-reach; the left had begun to fight back at the state level at last.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Economics Political economy

• Full title: Hope, Change and Recession, Volume IV
• Subtitle: Select Essays from the Kensington Review, July - December 2011
• Author: Jeff Myhre
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220
• EAN: 9783847388524
• ISBN: 3847388525
• ID: 07013970
• Publisher: Dictus Publishing
• Weight: 327 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. January 2014

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