Positive Universe Abstracts

Kentucky.com, KY
BY WILLIAM NEIKIRK
Chicago Tribune (h)
WASHINGTON - (KRT) - With the Midwest leading the way, the nation’s poverty rate went up in 2004 for the fourth straight year even as the U.S. economy strengthened, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.
The number of Americans without health insurance increased from 45 million to 45.8 million in 2004, the [...]

Guardian Unlimited, UK
Tony Benn
Wednesday August 31, 2005
The Guardian
Now that the US president has announced that he has not ruled out an attack on Iran, if it does not abandon its nuclear programme, the Middle East faces a crisis that could dwarf even the dangers arising from the war in Iraq.
Even a conventional weapon fired at [...]

Center for Research on Globalization, Canada
by Maher Osseiran
August 30, 2005
GlobalResearch.ca
This article traces the future steps of the Neocons in spreading their version of democracy through the muzzle of a cannon. It unveils their grand scheme and puts into context their relationships with Iraq’s neighbors.
The Middle East has been the subject of a colonial devastation since [...]

CounterCurrents.org, India
By Sheila Samples
31 August, 2005 (h)
Countercurrents.org
“Sarah, if the people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched.” Bush 41 to reporter Sarah McClendon, Dec. 1992
It’s an amazing thing. Doctors’ offices in New York and Washington will likely [...]

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Yahoo! News
Mon Aug 29, 7:56 PM ET
CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered to send food and fuel to the United States after the powerful Hurricane Katrina pummeled the US south, ravaging US crude production.
The leftist leader, a frequent critic of the United States and a target himself of US disapproval, said Venezuela could [...]

Personal message:
Do we really want to give to the America Red Cross or can we find better People-to-People ways where our money will ALL be spent FOR the People themselves, not for salaries, etc…such as maybe through Cit-Go? Locally verifiable groups? Inter-faith reliable accountable people?
Find this at Give.org which doesn’t really criticize this kind of [...]