The new Google Toolbar alters your webpages

That’s right, the new Google Toolbar has a feature called AutoLink which rewrites the content of webpages you are viewing by adding links. How helpful of them. But what if you don’t want your webpages changed? Google, in a distinctly…

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…

Lesbian’s picture in tux cut from yearbook

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…

Podcast: Cuban Five movie forum, Speakers

Los Angeles premiere of the new documentary film, Mission Against Terror, on the Cuban Five, Feb 26, 2005. Speakers: Ian Thompson – Committee to Free the Five. Father Geoff Bottoms: Awarded Cuban Friendship Medal, Cuba solidarity organizer in England Bernie…

Podcast: Cuban Five movie forum, Q and A

Father Geoff Bottoms, Cuba solidarity organizer in England, and filmmaker Bernie Dwyer, who co-directed Mission Against Terror, a documentary about the Cuban Five, answer questions from the audience after the Los Angeles premiere of the film on Feb. 26, 2005.…