Day February 28, 2005

The insurgency returns

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…

Syria

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…

JP Morgan Chase, BlueLinx linked to illegal logging in Indonesia

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…