Positive Universe Abstracts

Religion Dispatches

By Gary Dorrien

For Obama to steer us back to the softer side of Empire, withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan—and negotiating with Iran—he’ll have to overrule the his key officials, HIllary Clinton and Dennis Ross, risk alienating Israel for its own good, and stand up to bracing public attacks. And he’ll need a hand from [...]

American Chronicle

David Swanson

June 22, 2009

In May 2005 we launched AfterDowningStreet.org to publicize the Downing Street Minutes. By June we’d had great, if fleeting, success. During the following months and years, mountains of new memos and statements emerged on the Iraq War lies, many of them more damaging than the Downing Street documents. But increasingly nobody [...]

Note: We can wish it were not true, but this article is evidence that the Iranian election results may be accurate. We should also be aware that Mousavi had involvement in the illegal Iran Contra affair against Nicaragua, and that all candidates for Iranian elections are selected by a religious-based governing council of six [...]

CounterPunch

By DAVE LINDORFF

If you want to fix the disaster that is called the American healthcare system, the first thing to do is to clearly point out what its major failings are, and there are two of these.

The first is cost. America is the most expensive or one of the most expensive places in the [...]

Future Changes: President Obama’s Overture Deserves Genuine Response 2009-06-05

This speech was inspiring but more importantly it was frank and urgent – an action plan. Each topic was discussed in clear and matter-of-fact terms, and concrete proposals were presented. Some are saying that his speech needs to be backed up with action; I think he made [...]