GLW issue 622, published 2005-04-13.

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VIETNAM: Booming economy reduces poverty

Allen Myers, Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City is booming. As you approach from the outskirts, signs of economic growth are all around you. Buildings and roads are under construction everywhere. Neat three to five storey dwellings line the roads,

UNITED STATES: Pentagon's green light for murder

Nicole Colson, Chicago Getting away with murder. There's no other way to describe the Pentagon's announcement that it is refusing to prosecute any of the 17 US soldiers who contributed to the deaths of three prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan in

UNITED STATES: Students fight the military machine

Dani Barley Two years after the invasion of Iraq, which generated the biggest protests in history, the anti-war movement in the United States is re-gathering strength. At the forefront of this movement has been the families of soldiers in Iraq, and

Loose cannons

Permanent war will bring peace "We're talking about a part of the world in which, uhh, you know, our foreign policy was, let's just hope for the best and tolerate the fact there's no free societies. And — what ended up happening was, there was a
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