Bob Morris @ Feb 28th 2005 10:03 - Category: Unfiled ;
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 when the insurgency began, when it was rock-throwing and little else? US troops probably wish for such peaceful days.
Bob Morris @ Feb 28th 2005 09:47 - Category: Unfiled ;
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 have claimed responsibility for a weekend suicide attack that killed five Israelis outside a Tel Aviv nightclub, but the Israeli government insists the Syrian government is responsible, too, because it allows the terrorists to operate in its capital.
Sounds like Israel, working with the neocons, are looking for a pretext, any excuse, to attack Syria. Was Syria responsible for the assassination and the suicide bombings? Could be, but this roiling of the waters seems a familiar pattern. The WMD’s in Iraq were imaginary, so also could be this demonization of Syria, and as we all know, the fictitious WMDs were used an an excuse for war.
And Sharon, no surprise here, is already backtracking on his announced plans for peace.
Bob Morris @ Feb 28th 2005 09:37 - Category: Unfiled ;
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 lauan plywood.
The conservation community is calling on JP Morgan Chase and BlueLinx to immediately comply with a voluntary corporate embargo of Indonesian forest products already in place at Centex Corporation, International Paper and Lanoga Corporation.
This press release is from Rainforest Action Network. Through the years their nonviolent direct action campaigns have proven to be incredibly effective in forcing recalcitrant corporations to change their errant ways.
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