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US Bank Losses Intensify
Recession Fears
By Patrick Martin
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Two more major banks reported heavy mortgage and consumer-loan losses Monday for the fourth quarter of 2007, reinforcing fears that that US financial crisis will likely trigger a recession, not only in America, but worldwide

Traumatised Veterans ‘Have Killed 120 In US’
By Stephen Foley
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A new study has identified more than 120 killings committed by veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as psychologically troubled soldiers slip through the net of an overextended military mental health system

Afghan Prison Looks Like Another Guantanamo
By William Fisher
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It is a prison located on the U.S. military base at base in the ancient city of Bagram near Charikar in Parvan, Afghanistan. The detention centre was set up by the U.S. military as a temporary screening site after the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan overthrew the Taliban. It currently houses some 630 prisoners — close to three times as many as are still held at Guantanamo

Iraq: Awoken To A New Danger
By Ali al-Fadhily & Dahr Jamail
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The newly formed ‘Awakening’ forces set up by the U.S. military are bringing new conflict among people

Stress: In Iraq And USA
By Layla Anwar
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Stress is when you have no job because some f… backward retard came and occupied your country, pillaged it and stripped you of your livelihood. That is stress.Stress is when you run from hospital ward to hospital ward, from prison to prison, from militia to militia looking for your loved one only to recognize them from their teeth fillings in some morgue…That is stress alright

The Death Of The Stalinist Left In Palestine
By Randa Abu Naeem
www.countercurrents.org/naeem150108.htm
Empty rhetoric has turned out to be the weapon not only of “Arab reactionary regimes;” it has been adopted by the Left itself. Stalin would have been happy to see his disciples at work in Palestine

Halliburton Gang Rape Victim Finds No Justice
By David Swanson
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What does one say to a young woman gang raped by men paid by us to work for a company from which our vice president profits, men who have yet to be charged with any crime, a company yet to make amends in any way, and a presidential administration effectively granted immunity by our representatives in Congress?

European Union: A Clique Of Multinationals Or A Union Of Peoples?
By Gaither Stewart
www.countercurrents.org/stewart150108.htm
People to the East want the material wealth of the West, they want it now, but just as Dutch or French or Italians they are cautious about surrendering their separateness, the particular. That is Europe’s quandary: a super-state of multinationals or the particular and separateness

Face To Face With Hezbollah
By Dan Lieberman
www.countercurrents.org/lieberman150108.htm
The Many Faces of the Lebanese Shiite Organization

Kashmiris Are Suffering
By Gulam Jeelani
www.countercurrents.org/jeelani150108.htm
For India, Kashmir is perhaps an ‘integral part’ of the country, the only Muslim majority state and thus the bedrock of its democracy and secular preamble. For Pakistan it is not less than a ‘jugular vein’ and often supposed to be an unfinished task at the time of partition. While asserting this way both the countries have suffocated the Kashmiris in between

A Case Before The Nation
By Dr Haider Mehdi
www.countercurrents.org/mehdi050108.htm
Having admitted all that is claimed by the incumbent leader, the nation still needs some kind of criteria to evaluate the performance of its political leadership. After all, that is a common process in a democratically-run nation – and the General (retd.) asserts that present-day Pakistan is a true democracy shaped and gifted by him and supported by American benevolence

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