Month March 2005

So it wasn’t a routine road check

Italian Was killed by special security detail American troops who fatally shot an Italian intelligence agent last week on the road to Baghdad’s airport were part of extra security provided by the Army to protect U.S. Ambassador John D. Negroponte,…

Unexpected allies

Evangelical leaders find biblical imperatives to combat global warming Church leaders, scientists, writers and heads of international aid agencies argue that global warming is an urgent threat, a cause of poverty and a Christian issue because the Bible mandates stewardship…

‘We are not afraid’

Northern Ireland: How the McCartney sisters took on the IRA. With their campaign for justice for their murdered brother, the McCartney sisters have provoked a deep crisis in Irish republicanism. As they prepare to take their story to the White…

The IRA is morphing into the ‘Rafia’

This L.A. Times OpEd by Anthony McIntyre, a former IRA member who spent 18 years in prison, details how the IRA has lost its way and has become a criminal enterprise and no longer fights for a unified Ireland. His website, The Blanket, A Journal…