Positive Universe Abstracts

Swans, CA by Deck Deckert

(Swans - July 31, 2006)  It’s long past time that we stopped referring to our wars against Iraq and Afghanistan, and now Israel’s war against Lebanon, in dispassionate terms involving differing views of geopolitics, strategic interests, mistaken foreign policy, rights of self defense, etc.

We are talking about crimes against decency, crimes against [...]

Ha’aretz, Israel By Gideon Levy

In war as in war: Israel is sinking into a strident, nationalistic atmosphere and darkness is beginning to cover everything. The brakes we still had are eroding, the insensitivity and blindness that characterized Israeli society in recent years is intensifying. The home front is cut in half: the north suffers and the [...]

Lebanese Lobby, Lebanon

By Anthony Shadid Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, July 29, 2006 (m) Shiite Pilgrimage Leads to Church

RMEISH, Lebanon — The word went out — there was refuge in a Christian village — and thousands came.

In a pilgrimage of fear, Shiite Muslims from the towns most ravaged along the Lebanese border fled for Rmeish, a hilltop hamlet [...]

CommonDreams.org by Jonathan Tasini

When I announced that I was entering the race for the US Senate, I began with a quote from Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” I am not a professional politician whose sole goal is to accumulate power, so I have [...]

SocialFunds.com

by Bill Baue

The resolution goes to vote next week at Alliant Techsystems, and already received more than double the support needed to re-file next year at Lockheed Martin and Textron.

SocialFunds.com — Depleted uranium (DU), the radioactive byproduct of uranium enrichment, is in the headlines as the US recently agreed to send 100 Guided Bomb Unit-28 [...]

Open letter, Various, 22 July 2006

This letter was written to coincide with the opening of the Arab Film Biennial in Paris 22 July 2006

We, the undersigned Israeli filmmakers, greet the Arab filmmakers who have gathered in Paris for the Arab Film Biennial. Through you, we wish to convey a message of camaraderie and solidarity with [...]

Seattle Post Intelligencer By ROBERT L. JAMIESON Jr. P-I COLUMNIST

When it comes to Israel, there seems to be precious little room for free discussion.

To suggest anything critical of the country puts one at risk of being labeled the worst kinds of things.

Seen through another prism, it is like a white person being called racist for wondering why [...]