Positive Universe Abstracts

Foreign Policy In Focus (m) By Phyllis Bennis | April 19, 2006 Foreign Policy In Focus www.fpif.org

The airwaves and the headlines are full of talk of a U.S. military strike against Iran. That is as it should be–the danger of such a reckless move is real, and rising, and we should be talking about it. The Bush administration [...]

In These Times, IL By SUSAN J. DOUGLAS (m)

One of the deep consequences of the relentless Bush propaganda is that millions of people now struggle daily to figure out what actually are facts.

The crowning achievement of the Bush administration’s first term was public relations, spin and salesmanship. So how can it be that now, in addition [...]

CounterCurrents.org, India By Mirza A. Beg (h) 20 April, 2006

Dear Mr. Bush - I know you do not tolerate criticism, so this letter is written with understanding. The mid term elections are around the corner. Some retired generals are demanding Rumsfeld’s head. Predictably the Democrats have joined in and even some Republicans, afraid of loosing their seats [...]

The Independent (World) By Andy McSmith and Anne Penketh Published: 19 April 2006

Refugees fleeing persecution or civil war are becoming the hidden victims of the West’s obsession with combating terrorism, the United Nations will warn in a report published today.

Only a fraction of the world’s 9.2 million refugees have the means to reach the industrialised world to seek [...]

EPA.net, CA April 29th

EPA screening of film on Ugandan children forced to hide nightly to avoid abduction as soldiers in brutal war

How to take action to end 20 years of violence against children

Invisible Children is a documentary-in-progress exposing the tragic and amazingly untold story of thousands of children in Northern Uganda who flee their homes nightly [...]

Financial Times, UK

By Haleh Afshar, Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Elaheh Rostami-Povey Published: April 17 2006 03:00

Sir, As three Iranian British academics, we are writing to express our grave concerns about the growing threat of war against Iran. It is essential that we do whatever is possible to prevent such a disaster.

We would like to clear a number [...]

Neo-Crazy Plans for Iran Antiwar.com, CA by Gordon Prather (h)

If you haven’t already read Seymour Hersh’s stunning article, “The Iran Plans,” in the New Yorker magazine about President Bush’s plans to preemptively “take out” what the Israelis claim is an Iranian secret nuke-oriented uranium-enrichment program, you’d better do it soon, because Hersh claims the plans are already [...]