Positive Universe Abstracts

Mathaba.Net, UK
From: Counterpunch
Bill and Kathleen Christison
The peace movements of the entire world should be in crisis mode right now, working non-stop to prevent the U.S. and Israel from starting a war against Iran. (See the James Petras article in CounterPunch on December 24, 2005 titled Iran in the Crosshairs for the best summary of the present [...]

Village Voice, NY
Son revisits the sins of the father on America
by James Ridgeway
December 30th, 2005 2:26 PM
WASHINGTON, D.C.The 9-11 attacks provided the rationale for what amounts to a Bush family coup against the Constitution.
From the outset, President George Bush used 9-11 to reorganize and increase the federal governments reach far beyond any existing law to [...]

Washington Post, United States
By Eugene Robinson
Tuesday, December 27, 2005; Page A25
Since the holiday season is a time of generosity and goodwill toward all — even those who torture the Constitution and hoodwink the nation into ill-advised wars — let’s do a little thought experiment.
Let’s assume that George W. Bush’s claim of virtually unfettered presidential power [...]

Independent, UK
In the midst of conflict between Palestinian militants and Israeli soldiers, committed teachers are transforming pre-school education in the occupied territories.
By Donald Macintyre
There is a little Christmas tree in the second-floor flat where Sana Dawabshe, a former nursery teacher, lives with her husband and two small sons. There is also a figure of Santa [...]

TomPaine.com
December 22, 2005
Robert Dreyfuss is the author of  Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam  (Henry Holt/Metropolitan Books, 2005). Dreyfuss is a freelance writer based in Alexandria, Va., who specializes in politics and national security issues. He is a contributing editor at The Nation, a contributing writer at Mother Jones, a senior correspondent for [...]

The New York Times, editorial
December 20, 2005
After five years, we’re used to President Bush throwing up false choices to defend his policies. Americans were told, after all, that there was a choice between invading Iraq and risking a terrorist nuclear attack. So it was not a surprise that Mr. Bush’s Oval Office speech Sunday night [...]

Here’s the Answer
Editor & Publisher
By E&P Staff
NEW YORK In recent days, E&P has monitored the overwhelmingly critical response, at major metro editorial pages, to current revelations about the Bush administration’s domestic spying program. Even conservatives such as George Will have raised issues about it, but he’s another inside-the-Beltway guy. How is the story “playing in [...]