Positive Universe Abstracts

Mother Jones, CA
COMMENTARY: America used to call Bush’s style of government by another name—autocracy.
By Steven Hill (m)
In the post-World War II period, America was seen by many as the “City on the Hill,” an imperfect yet nonetheless shining beacon of government of, by, and for the people. But President George W. Bush’s harsh criticisms of the [...]

One Thousand Reasons, CA
by Ahmed Amr
Friday June 30, 2006
Take a good look at Gaza and become a witness to what amounts to collective punishment administered to a small people by the rest of the planet. Israel’s sadistic army is not alone in laying siege to the densely populated strip of land that has become a [...]

consortiumnews.com
By Robert Parry
Since the 1980s, when the neoconservatives burst onto the Washington scene, they have always understood the power that comes from controlling the flow of information that passes from the U.S. government to the news media and then to the American people.
This transmission of information through Washington was to these savvy neoconservatives what a [...]

Democracy Now, NY
We host a debate on the situation in Gaza with Norman Finkelstein, a professor of political science at DePaul University in Chicago and author of “Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History” and Josh Block, the Director of Media Affairs for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Norman [...]

The Progressive
By Greg Palast
July 2006 Issue
You’d think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chávez’s behind. Not only has Chávez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katrina. In my interview [...]

The Independent (World)
By Andrew Buncombe in Washington
Published: 30 June 2006
The future of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay was last night in doubt after the US Supreme Court delivered a striking blow to the administration of George Bush and undermined his way of dealing with prisoners from the so-called war on terror.
In a powerful rejection of [...]

Financial Times, UK
By Ferry Biedermann
Published: June 29 2006
Palestinians from across the political spectrum accused Israel on Thursday of using the crisis to bring down the Hamas government.
“This will return us to point zero, to when there was no [Palestinian] Authority,” said the deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Hassan Khreishe, an independent close to [...]