Positive Universe Abstracts

The Nation David Cortright

Living conditions for the people of Iraq, already poor before the war, have deteriorated significantly since the US invasion. This is confirmed in a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Iraqi Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation. Based on a survey of 21,000 households conducted in 2004, the [...]

HUMAN RIGHTS NEWS AND BREAKING PEACE ACTIVITIES (see iraq human rights report after the breaking news)

FROM: Al-Mendhar News Center www.almendhar.com/english

24/07/2005 18:23:47 News from Al-Mendhar -

The leadership of the Democratic Party - Reid, Pelosi, even Howard Dean - has been absolutely AWOL during the past six months, driving local Democrats and activists to despair and confusion.

Thanks to local [...]

Editor & Publisher

By Greg Mitchell

Published: July 23, 2005 6:00 PM ET

NEW YORK: So what is shown on the 87 photographs and four videos from Abu Ghraib prison that the Pentagon, in an eleventh hour move, blocked from release this weekend? One clue: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Congress last year, after viewing a large cache [...]

CounterPunch Weekend Edition July 23 / 24, 2005

Meet the New McCarthyites

By DAVE LINDORFF

McCarthy-style witch hunts are coming back, and the first place we’ll be seeing them is at Pennsylvania’s public colleges and universities.

Under the innocent-sounding name “Academic Bill of Rights,” a gaggle of right-wing “culture warriors” in the Republican-led Pennsylvania House recently passed HR 177, a [...]

Sunday Herald, UK

Ian Bell

THE White House is in trouble. In this weather, that counts as good news. The reason for the trouble is that George W Bush may be about to lose his brain. Better still, the cause of the trouble goes to the heart of a subject that makes George and all those in [...]

EGYPT: More than 2,500 people are still being detained…reports of torture.

(…in Egyptian prisons in connection with the Taba attacks, according to Zvi Bar’el )

Haaretz

www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/603679.html w w w . h a a r e t z . c o m

Last update - 06:31 24/07/2005 Analysis/ A Taba-Sharm link? By Zvi Bar’el

The trial of the three defendants charged with the bombing of [...]

Axis of Logic, MA By Kim Hawkins and Robert Shetterly Jul 23, 2005, 20:14

As the controversy swirls around Karl Rove and how blatantly or surreptitiously he disclosed the identity of Valerie Plame to the press, it’s important to remember that the preceding issue was the question of whether Iraq was importing yellow cake uranium from Niger to [...]