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1. guerrilla, (from "little-war": irregular, insurgent — (a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment)
"The pivot of war is nothing but name and righteousness. Secure a good name for yourself and give the enemy a bad name; proclaim your righteousness and reveal the unrighteousness of the enemy. Then your army can set forth with great momentum" - Tou Bi Fu Tan, A Scholar’s Dilettante Remarks on War
"The clever combatant imposes his will on (…)

The hagiography started as soon as they announced Reagan’s death. How he ended the cold war, how he was a decisive leader, all this nonsense about Reagan which is just ridiculous.
The British have a tradition: when someone dies, their newspaper obituary tells the truth. Americans like to say something kind about the dead, no matter how scummy they were. Even Nixon got a halo in death, where only Hunter Thompson reminded people of who exactly he was and how the honors given him were, well, (…)

By PHIL GASPER
Ronald Reagan has finally died at age 93. Predictably, politicians from both major parties have issued gushing tributes to this venal and vicious man, who was happy to slash workers’ wages, see families thrown onto the street, support sadistic death squads and bomb other countries, if this was in the interests of the American ruling class.
Meanwhile, if recent history is any guide, the mainstream media will steer well clear of providing an accurate portrayal of Reagan, the (…)

Toward a Universal Declaration of Human Wrongs
By C. DOUGLAS LUMMIS
A talk given at the symposium, "The World Today", sponsored by Forum Barcelona 2004 12 May, 2004
Let me begin by saying that as an American citizen I want to express my congratulations and my gratitude to the people of Spain for instructing their government to withdraw from the illegal and unjustified catastrophe called the occupation of Iraq. This not only a great gift to the people of Iraq, it is also (whether they (…)

By Norman Solomon
This year, Ralph Nader’s presidential campaign has two trains running that will collide at an unfortunate intersection — the Green Party’s national convention in Milwaukee. The collision course is bad news for all concerned.
Nader, one of the great progressive reformers of the 20th century, has been clear and consistent for months in saying that he will not seek or accept the national Green Party presidential nomination for 2004. Yet he has made it known that he would (…)

The religious right has conspired to cut federal funding to AIDS conference.
By Laurie Garrett
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-garrett30may30,1,709759.story
Laurie Garrett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning health reporter, is now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The Bush administration and some members of Congress appear to be playing a nasty game of political football with AIDS and global health issues. In recent days, the administration has (…)

He died at his home in California.
The White House was told his health had taken a turn for the worse in the last
several days.
Reagan was dogged by revelations that he authorized secret arms sales to Iran
while seeking Iranian aid to gain release of American hostages held in Lebanon.
Some of the money was used to aid rebels fighting the democratic government
of Nicaragua.
05.06.2004
Collective Bellaciao

by Angela Bertz http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=3748
Dear Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Mr. Peter Hansen,
I wonder if you are familiar with Aesop?
He was accredited with writing some very well-known fables. I am sure you are familiar with them, so let me remind you of one of his most famous tales.
It’s called the "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".
Its main character, as you may recall, is a shepherd boy, (…)

( Omar Karmi, correspondent for the Jordan Times and managing editor of Palestine Report ) June 4, 2004 Early in the morning on May 21, on a road into the neighborhood of Tal al-Sultan in the Gazan town of Rafah, 71 year-old Muhammad Salama swung his walking stick at a blade of grass. Some 100 yards ahead of him an Israeli army bulldozer rumbled along, apparently clearing the road of obstacles. Twice the bulldozer moved in the direction of a Red Crescent ambulance parked on the roadside, (…)

ROME, Italy (CNN) — After inspiring antiwar protests in Italy, President Bush heads to France Saturday to meet in Paris with President Jacques Chirac who opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
The two leaders will join others at a ceremony in Normandy Sunday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion that dealt a decisive blow to Nazi Germany.
While in France, Bush also will meet German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who joined Chirac in opposing the Iraq war.
Britain’s Prince (…)