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By Joel S. Hirschhorn ICH 12/12/06

To be successful in overturning our elitist plutocratic system we should add economic apartheid to our semantic arsenal. Better than economic inequality, economic injustice and class warfare, because apartheid is loaded with richly deserved negative emotions. Sadly, in South Africa, economic apartheid has taken over from racial apartheid. (more…)

Fed in bind as Paulsen, Bernanke head to China

By Jerome R. Corsi on ICH from “WorldNetDaily” 12/10/06

Even as the stock market is hitting new record highs almost every day, the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department are quietly coordinating a devaluation of the dollar that the Bush administration hopes will be a slow decline rather than a dollar collapse. (more…)

“It was true then and it’s true now.” From: Information Clearing House

By John Pilger Originally published by The Mirror 1/29/03

William Russell, the great correspondent who reported the carnage of imperial wars, may have first used the expression “blood on his hands” to describe impeccable politicians who, at a safe distance, order the mass killing of ordinary people. (more…)

America’s Injustice System is Criminal

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Counterpunch 12/12/06

The Christmas season is a time to remember the unfortunate. Among the most unfortunate people are those who have been wrongly convicted and imprisoned.

The United States has a large number of wrongfully convicted. There are many reasons for this (more…)

In the fight against cruelty, barbarism and extremism, America has embraced the very evils it claims to confront

George Monbiot The Guardian 12/12/06

After thousands of years of practice, you might have imagined that every possible means of inflicting pain had already been devised. But you should never underestimate the human capacity for invention. (more…)

Foreign Office has asked ministers to ditch the phrase invented by Bush to avoid stirring up tensions within the Islamic world

Jason Burke The Observer 12/10/06

Cabinet ministers have been told by the Foreign Office to drop the phrase ‘war on terror’ and other terms seen as liable to anger British Muslims and increase tensions more broadly in the Islamic world. (more…)

ON NOVEMBER 28, A GROUP OF LATIN AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS PRESENTED THE MANIFESTO “AGAINST TORTURE” AT THE FERIA INTERNACIONAL DEL LIBRO IN GUADALAJARA MEXICO TOGETHER WITH A BOOK ON THE USE OF TORTURE IN LATIN AMERICA, AND ALSO IN THE SO CALLED WAR ON TERRORISM: CONTRA LA TORTURA (E. Subirats (editor) -Editorial Fineo, México). (more…)

Dahr Jamail and Ali Al-Fadhily uruknet.info 12/9/06

FALLUJAH, Dec 9 (IPS) – People living in areas where resistance to U.S.-led occupation is mounting are facing increased levels of collective punishment from the occupation forces, residents say. (more…)