Positive Universe Abstracts

Please write something.

For forty years my friends have been screaming into the night as their communities have been slaughtered by a foreign military for the benefit of a mining company that pays for their slaughter.

PLEASE HEAR THEIR VOICE

West Papua: March/2005 news.sbs.com.au/dateline/index.php?page=transcript&dte=2005-03-16&headlineid=940 Rev. Yoman tells of the continuing ethnic cleansing & replacement, and the Papuan people in Feb/2005 continue [...]

In These Times Tests on returning troops suggest serious health consequences of depleted uranium use in Iraq (h)

By Dave Lindorff

Gerard Matthew thought he was lucky. He returned from his Iraq tour a year and a half ago alive and in one piece. But after the New York State National Guardsman got home, he learned that a [...]

CPJ News Alert 2005

New York, August 25, 2005The editors of Nepal’s two leading daily newspapers believe police plan to arrest them for their coverage of political unrest in the Himalayan kingdom, whose leadership has imposed widespread curbs on press freedom this year.

Narayan Wagle, editor of Kantipur, and Prateek Pradhan, editor of the Kathmandu Post, were [...]

Working for Change Will Durst (m) Pat Robertson’s quotes on Hugo Chavez call Rev’s sanity into question

You got to feel sorry for poor Pat Robertson. This guy has put his foot in his mouth so many times in the last week, he’s probably learned how to floss with his shoelaces. First, he goes on his television show [...]

Editor & Publisher Death creeps up on you in Iraq, writes a longtime Baghdad correspondent for Reuters. But in recent months, the deaths have grown more personalized. It’s not just random people who die anymore, but people you’ve met, people you’ve interviewed, some you know quite well, colleagues you work with everyday, friends even.

By Luke Baker

(August [...]

Electronic Iraq Report, IRIN, 24 August 2005

BAGHDAD, 24 Aug 2005 (IRIN) - International human rights groups have condemned the passing down of the first death sentence in Iraq since US-led forces invaded the country in April 2003 and ousted former leader Saddam Hussein.

Three men will be executed in the first week of September, officials said.

The death [...]

The Independent, UK

American ambassador seeks to scupper UN’s global strategy with 750 amendments after just three weeks in the job By David Usborne in New York Published: 26 August 2005 (h)

America’s controversial new ambassador to the United Nations is seeking to shred an agreement on strengthening the world body and fighting poverty intended to be the highlight [...]