Positive Universe Abstracts

Reuters.com
By Jason Szep (h)
BOSTON (Reuters) - John Kenneth Galbraith, an influential liberal economist, best-selling author and former presidential advisor, died on Saturday. He was 97.
A Harvard professor emeritus and advisor to presidents Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, Galbraith died at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where was admitted two weeks ago, [...]

Telepolis, Germany
John Horvath 30.04.2006
The politics of overthrowing foreign governments has a cost
For much of its history, the US has been involved in the violent overthrow of sovereign governments. In almost in every case, these overthrows can be traced to corporate interests. This was blatantly obvious in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
After the defeat [...]

OregonLive.com, OR
By SARAH SKIDMORE
The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — More than 200 members of Amnesty International and supporters from across the globe gathered in downtown Portland Friday to rally against torture.
Wearing orange ponchos resembling uniforms of detainees in Guantanamo Bay and waving signs, the group spoke about torture cases in numerous countries but focused on [...]

CounterCurrents.org, India
By Irving Wesley Hall
28 April, 2006
Notinkansas.us
Bush’s impending, insane nuclear attack on Iran has provoked an unprecedented rebellion within the top leadership of the United States military. At the same time, depleted uranium (DU) is steadily taking down our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s time for the soldiers to follow the lead of their [...]

ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland
Summary (m)
Children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) endure some of the most miserable treatment found anywhere in the world, despite outward signs of progress in DRC, such as the creation of a power-sharing transitional government, the presence of the United Nations’ largest peacekeeping operation and billions of dollars granted [...]

TomPaine.com, D.C.
David Isenberg
David Isenberg is a senior research analyst at the British American Security Information Council, a member of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy, and an adviser to the Straus Military Reform Project of the Center for Defense Information. The views expressed are his own.
Is Iran’s nuclear program really an immediate threat? There [...]

Mathaba.Net, UK
By Chris Floyd (h)
Twelve hours. One circuit of the sun from horizon to horizon, one course of the moon from dusk to dawn. What was once a natural measurement for the daily round of human life is now a doom-laden interval between the voicing of an autocrat’s brutal whim and the infliction of mass [...]