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By TINI TRAN Associated Press Writer
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The frail and tiny man who defeated two superpowers returned to the spotlight Friday to talk of triumphs past and deliver words of warning to the Americans at war in Iraq.
"Any forces that would impose their will on other nations will certainly face defeat," said Vo Nguyen Giap, the legendary general whose strategies wore out the French colonial regime and then the U.S. Army.
Giap is 92 now, the last of Vietnam’s giants in a (…)

By Carl Bloice
Left Margin
It’s pretty clear now why they brought Karen Hughes back from Texas. The campaign is getting rough even before it’s officially started and the Bush campaign needed someone with few - if any— scruples. Besides, she just published a book that while it hasn’t exactly earned critical acclaim, is enough to get her on cable television. The things she says about other people are the kinds of things CNN and Fox eat up. So, there she was last week, repeatedly making (…)

by Billmon
Bernhard, a Whiskey Bar reader in Germany, has made a spectacular catch or cache, I should say, since it comes from the bowels of the Google data base.
What he stumbled across is the diary of one Joe Ryan, a frequent caller and on-air personality at station KSTP, a conservative talk radio station in Minneapolis. More recently, Joe has been serving as a military interrogator at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and KSTP has been posting his diary on their web site.
For some strange (…)

More info here : http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=888
No Information on Improper Behavior Reported to Company by U.S. Government; Company Does Not Tolerate Illegal Behavior by Employees
ARLINGTON, Va., May 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CACI International Inc (NYSE: CAI) said today that with respect to the alleged improper employee behavior toward prisoners in Iraq recently reported in the media, despite inquiries the company thus far has received no information (…)

More info here : http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=888
26 April 2004
It was hot today! We flirted with triple digit heat for the first time this year and without a breeze, you can sure feel it! Things are also heating up in Al Fallujah. We are right on the flight path for the air support to the 1st Marines out there so we get to see all the different sleighs delivering packages to the bad boys. There were some intense firefights in Al Fallujah today and it will only get (…)

Nicole Colson, Chicago
There are just so many people. - Tawana Evans was overwhelmed by the estimated 1 million turnout for the April 25 march for women’s lives in Washington, DC. Travelling from Houston with a Planned Parenthood contingent of more than 350 people, Tawana said that it was the first time she had attended a protest.
Hundreds of thousands of women and men travelled from every part of the country to send the message to President George Bush that we won’t go back to the days (…)

Doug Lorimer
If the US troops leave Iraq, "violence will fill the vacuum as groups struggle for political power, and we risk all-out civil war", John McCain, a leading Republican member of the US Senate armed services committee, declared in a April 22 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, the peak US ruling-class foreign policy think-tank.
This idea - that the withdrawal of the US and other foreign occupation forces from Iraq will only lead to "chaos" and civil war - has became an (…)

Mass March & Rally at the Democratic National Convention on July 25 in Boston at the Republican National Convention on August 29 in New York City
Call to Action for Mass Marches and Rallies at the Democratic National Convention in Boston and the Republican National Convention in New York City.
Statement from the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition
The twin parties of the war machine are gathering this summer in Boston and New York City to anoint their candidates for the upcoming presidential (…)

MANILA : Filipino anti-war activists disrupted the presentation of a visiting Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) minister in a business forum, calling her a "collaborator" and an "illegitimate" representative of the Iraqi people.
The forum, entitled "Rebuilding Iraq: Challenges and Opportunities for Business," was organized by the Asian Institute of Management, a graduate school for business, and the German foundation Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. It was attended mostly by academics and (…)

Stephen Soldz
May 2, 2004 "ICH" — This week, CBS’ 60 Minutes II published the now infamous pictures of abuse and torture by US soldiers at the Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq (some of the pictures can be viewed on the New Yorker web site at http://www.newyorker.com/online/slideshows/pop/?040510onslpo_prison
Seymour Hersh has documented in the May 10, 2004 New Yorker (Torture at Abu Ghraib: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article6124.htm ) that the abuse shown in these photos (…)