Month September 2005

The internationally renowned correspondent for The Independent — the great British journalist Robert Fisk — has been banned from entering the United States. Fisk has been covering war zones for decades, but is above all known for his incisive reporting…

The timing and strength of the latest storm could cause worse spike at the pumps than Katrina did. It’s because so many refineries are in Rita’s path.

A leading US human rights group accused prison officials in New Orleans yesterday of abandoning hundreds of men in the city jail in the run-up to Hurricane Katrina, leaving them locked up without food, water, electricity, fresh air or functioning…

At the 2005 Annual National Meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the Green Party arrived at a fork in the road. The delegates voted down resolutions offered by Greens for Democracy and Independence (GDI) designed to ensure proportional representation inside the party,…

Super-powerful hurricanes now hitting the United States are the “smoking gun” of global warming, one of Britain’s leading scientists believes. Hurricanes were getting more intense, just as computer models predicted they would, because of the rising temperature of the sea,…