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Staring Into the Abyss

By MIKE WHITNEY Counterpunch 12/17/07

Stocks fell sharply last week on news of accelerating inflation which will limit the Federal Reserves ability to continue cutting interest rates. (more…)

Role of Canadian Intelligence Agencies to Terrorize Citizens

By Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. Information Clearing House 12/16/07

Do cruelty, falsehood and wickedness have known faces and shapes? Only if you have experienced it, you will know it. (more…)

[KH: This article mentions Dr. Dhafir’s case.]

by Stephen Lendman Global Research, 12/17/07

Year end is a good time to look back and reflect on what’s ahead. If past is prologue, however, the outlook isn’t good, and nothing on the horizon suggests otherwise. Voters last November wanted change but got betrayal from the bipartisan criminal class in Washington. (more…)

A judge declares a mistrial for the other 6 Miami men accused of conspiring with al-Qaeda in terrorist acts. (more…)

From Latin America to Iraq

By Greg Grandin TomDispatch.com 12/11/07

The world is made up, as Captain Segura in Graham Greene’s 1958 novel Our Man in Havana put it, of two classes: the torturable and the untorturable. (more…)

Stephen Zunes Foreign Policy In Focus 12/12/07

Perhaps the most terrible legacy of the administration of President George W. Bush has been its utter disregard for such basic international legal norms as the ban against aggressive war, respect for the UN Charter, and acceptance of international judicial review. (more…)

Venezuela After the Referendum

By TARIQ ALI Counterpunch

Hugo Chavez’ narrow defeat in the referendum was the result of large-scale abstentions by his supporters. 44 percent of the electorate stayed at home. Why? (more…)

Puffs of Financial Smoke

By ALAN FARAGO Counterpunch 12/05/07

Yesterday, Bloomberg reported, “Florida: just first to face National Run on the Bank.” And it is big news (more…)