Month February 2005

Iraq car bombing causes carnage, 114 dead Iraq’s northern oil pipeline destroyed With the elections over, and thus the massive US presence pulled back a bit, the insurgents have resumed their attacks, which appear to be increasing markedly in ferocity. Remember…

Anti-Syrian protesters fill Beirut streets The assassination of Hariri has intensified world and Lebanese opposition pressure for Syria to withdraw its 15,000 troops from Lebanon. Update. Lebanon government resigns Israel launches PR campaign against Syria Islamic Jihad leaders in Damascus…

Investigations by Greenpeace and Rainforest Action Network have confirmed that JP Morgan Chase client BlueLinx, America’s largest building products distributor, is smuggling legally disputed, undocumented timber out of Indonesia’s critically endangered rainforests and flooding the U.S. marketplace with artificially cheap…

County school officials are backing a principal’s decision to bar a picture of a lesbian student dressed in a tuxedo from the high school yearbook. Others applauded Ward’s decision, including Karen Gordon, who said, “When uniformity is compromised, then authority…