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US Congress cheers Ukraine leader
Mr Yushchenko - who has been hailed as a hero throughout a four-day visit to the US - received a rapturous welcome on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
Members of Congress cheered and chanted his name as he walked to the platform.
The Ukrainian president - who was elected in December in a re-run of a disputed election - said US support had been "clear and unambiguous".
"The US condemned fraud and upheld Ukrainians’ right to freely elect their government," (…)

The Marine Corps is now on sale at Wal-Mart:
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. recently approved the airing of two Marine Corps public service announcements, "Family Photos" and "For Country." . . .
Bill G. Harmon Watches the Marine Corps’ ’Family Photos’ PSA "Bill G. Harmon, a Virginia native, stops to watch the U. S. Marine Corps’ ’Family Photos’ public service announcement at Wal-Mart’s home theater section in Stafford, Va. The commercial features the original footage of the (…)

Original:
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 6 April 2005. Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org
Wednesday, 6 April 2005.
Al-Anbar Province. Ar-Ramadi.
Resistance bomb kills five US troops Wednesday morning in ar-Ramadi.
An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded by a US patrol as it passed through the as-Sufiyah area north of ar-Ramadi at 10am Wednesday. A source in the local police told (…)

by Helen Back
THE MEDIA haze of kind words and rosy reminiscences about Pope John Paul II can’t change what the man was in real life—a hard-line right-winger who saw his mission as defending the most backward institutions and traditions of the Catholic Church.
Obituaries for John Paul—born Karol Wojtyla—mentioned his humble beginnings in Poland, then governed by a so-called communist government that repressed the Catholic Church. Named pope a few years before the Solidarnosc general (…)

Corporate America makes a windfall off “investment” in Washington How big business buys the politicians By Eric Ruder |
IF YOU run a big corporation, you don’t just get what you pay for from Washington. You get much, much more than you pay for.
In exchange for political contributions that amount to petty cash for them, some of America’s largest companies are reaping a bumper crop this year—in looser environmental regulations, limitations on consumer lawsuits against them, bankruptcy (…)

Let us read what the expert has written about the abuses done by the invadors and their allies with the iraqi cultural heritage.
’Biggest Cultural Disaster Since 1258’, Says Expert
Humberto MÙ„rquez
CARACAS, Feb 15 (IPS) - One million books, 10 million documents and 14,000 archaeological artifacts have been lost in the U.S.-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq — the biggest cultural disaster since the descendants of Genghis Khan destroyed Baghdad in 1258, Venezuelan writer (…)

by Philip Green
Fireproofing has been blamed for the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings collapse after the two airplanes - American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines 175 - struck the north and the south tower within minutes of each other killing 2,749 people, including those on the two jets.
The 10,000-page report prepared by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), out of which 3,400 pages were made public Tuesday, stated that the hijacked airplanes had struck the (…)

The following remarks were made by independent journalist John Pilger to a March 20 anti-war rally in Sydney.
The other day, the Aboriginal filmmaker Richard Frankland said this: “When you’ve got a voice, you’ve got freedom, and when you’ve got freedom, you’ve got responsibility. Negotiating with politicians doesn’t work. You’ve got to change attitudes.” That’s the task for all of us here today. It’s not an easy one. In fact, many good people in Australia and other countries believe their (…)

Some of us don’t trust the US media since the election on November 2, so we have taken to looking elsewhere for accurate news accounts. Since the US media doesn’t seem very interested in telling us what’s going on in Iraq, some of us have found other sources, like the one from which this story was lifted below. (The link will take you to the original, so you can judge for yourself.)
What is interesting is that the US media has reported ONE US death over the past two days. Maybe, if you’ve (…)

by Stewart Acuff
Some 57 million nonunion workers in the United States say they would form a union tomorrow if given the chance, according to new poll conducted in February by Peter D. Hart and Associates. For many of them, especially women and people of color, having a union is often the difference between living in or out of poverty. Yet the truth is that a sophisticated and systematic effort to deny workers their basic freedom of association is rampant in this country.
Employers and (…)