Positive Universe Abstracts

CounterPunch, CA
By DAVE LINDORFF
Do national and congressional Democrats have a death wish?
In the course of discussing Barbara Olshansky’s and my new book, “The Case for Impeachment,” I’m coming to the conclusion that they must. And that’s even before they do something stupid like support the nomination of General Michael Hayden to head the CIA.
Rank-and-file Democrats [...]

Reuters
TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2006
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia The world’s nonaligned states are likely to throw their weight behind Iran in its nuclear standoff with the West, according to a draft statement prepared Tuesday for a meeting in Malaysia.
 
The 114-member Nonaligned Movement was expected to adopt the text, which makes no criticism of Iranian nuclear activities and says [...]

The NarcoSphere, NY
By Jeremy Gordon
Presidential power grabbing and congressional cowardice have imperiled the Constitution.  If our Congress continues doing nothing to stem President George W. Bush’s consolidation of power, our country could face grave abuses of our most cherished civil liberties.  Although this is not NarcoNews’ normal beat–the drug war in Latin America–it is important [...]

History News Network, WA
By William R. Polk
Mr. Polk taught at Harvard from 1955 to 1961 when he was appointed a member of the Policy Planning Council of the US State Department. In 1965 he became professor of history at the University of Chicago and founded its Middle Eastern Studies Center. Subsequently, he also became president [...]

Media Monitors Network, CA
by Norman Solomon
(Sunday May 28 2006)
“We remember that onslaughts of media spin followed by exuberant coverage of high-tech U.S. air attacks can shift public sentiment drastically almost overnight. That’s why opponents of reckless and deadly policies should draw little comfort from the Pew Research Center’s mid-May report that at the moment “the [...]

The News-Press, FL (m)
Declaring English the official language means nothing substantially, but is a symbolic slap in the face of all Latinos.
Originally posted on May 27, 2006
SAN DIEGO — In declaring English the national language of the United States, the Senate finally did something useful.
Oh, I don’t mean the result. It was dreadful. What I [...]

Consortiumnews.com
By Robert Parry
May 26, 2006
Four years ago, when the taboo against calling George W. Bush a liar was even stronger than it is today, the national news media bought into the Bush administration’s spin that the President did nothing to bail out his Enron benefactors, including Kenneth Lay.
Bush supposedly refused to intervene, despite the hundreds [...]