I SSUE #48 S PRING 2004

Table of Contents
U.S. War Crimes, Radical Vets and the RNC	Troops -- GI Resistance Then and Now
POEM--What If You Knew	Some of the New Generation of Real Heroes
More Real Heroes -- Righteous IDF Refusniks in Prison	Open Letter From An Israeli Refusnik To An American Refusnik
On The U.S. Flag -- IT'S A WASH	Burning the Flag - July 4, 1989
Draft Creep    by David Wiggins	To Vote Or Not To Vote... Is That The Answer?
Peoples War in Nepal	Rape and Violence Against Women in the Military
To Them -- War Is A Game	Army Recruits Video Gamers
Getting It Write --   Imperialism Across the Pond	IRAQI HAIKU
Can The UN Serve The People?	Check Please
Our Troops and Theirs	Liars Lie and Soldiers Die
News Brief:   U.S. Tried to Plant WMDs, Failed: Whistleblower	News Brief:   14 Enduring Bases Set in Iraq
News Brief:   U.S. Ordered Iraq to Stop Counting Civilian Dead	News Brief:   Changing Face of Iraq, Iraq's Real WMD Crime
News Brief:   Background on Haiti	Book Review:  Oil, Power and Empire, Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda
Book Review:  Culture and Resistance, Conversations with Edward W. Said	Book Review:  Ideas for Action: Relevant Theory for Radical Change
Book Review:  Baghdad Diaries: A Woman's Chronicle of War and Exile	Book Review:  Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Book Review:  In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story	Movie Review:  Military Myths
Movie Review:   Gaza Strip	Decoding Zionism: A Glossary
Letters to the Veterans Call to Conscience	INCOMING