Positive Universe Abstracts

CounterPunch, CA
By GARY LEUPP
“Who Will Rid Me of My Meddlesome Cabinet?”
I read in the Drudge Report that Bush “has become isolated and feels betrayed by key officials.” Maybe Cheney and his neocon protégés are really in the dog house these days. The report asserts that “Mr. Bush maintains daily contact [...]

Vigils, Prayer Services Planned Against Execution (h)
Organizers around the state are planning to protest the scheduled execution
of Kenneth Lee Boyd at 2 a.m.
Dec. 2, with prayers, vigils and demonstrations.
Please let us know if your event is not listed, or if you need help planning
a service. Call PFADP at (919) 933-7567 or e-mail info@pfadp.org.
As of Nov. [...]

Juan Cole’s blog
Monday, November 28, 2005
US Air Power to Replace Infantry in Iraq; Distant President Trapped in
Utopianism
Veteran journalist Seymour Hersh is reporting in the New Yorker that the
Bush administration has decided to draw down ground troops in Iraq.
Knowledgeable observers strongly suspect that this step would produce a
meltdown and possibly even civil war in Iraq (which [...]

November 22, 2005
Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics at the University of San Francisco and Middle East editor for the Foreign Policy in Focus Project . He is the author of Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Common Courage Press, 2003) and scores of articles on U.S. policy toward [...]

ZNet, MA
White Phosphorus, Fallujah And Unreported Atrocities
by David Cromwell
November 28, 2005 (m)
 
Helen Boaden, director of BBC News, said earlier this year:
“We are committed to evidence-based journalism. We have not been able to establish that the US used banned chemical weapons and committed other atrocities against civilians in Falluja last November. Inquiries on the ground [...]

Join CINDY SHEEHAN, HOWARD ZINN, DAHR JAMAIL, war resisters PABLO PAREDES and CAMILO MEJIA, Progressive Democrats of America director TIM CARPENTER, Iraq Vets Against the War & Campus Antiwar Network member DAVID AIRHART, and many more in supporting this day of counter-recruitment action on December 6! (Full endorsement list below.)
* NATIONAL DAY OF COUNTER-RECRUITMENT
* December [...]

By Daniel Benjamin
DANIEL BENJAMIN served on the National Security Council staff from 1994 to 1999. He is coauthor, with Steven Simon, of “The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting It
November 24, 2005
FROM THE PEOPLE who brought you Saddam Hussein’s mushroom cloud and the secret Iraqi-Al Qaeda alliance [...]