Positive Universe Abstracts

CounterCurrents.org, India By Bruce Dixon 22 August 2006 The Black Commentator

Imagine, if you will, a modern apartheid state with first, second and eleventh class citizens, all required to carry identification specifying their ethnic origin. First class citizens are obliged to serve in the armed forces, kept on ready reserve status until in their forties, and accorded an impressive [...]

One Thousand Reasons, CA by Ahmed Amr (m)

On the Arab Street, the United States is getting a well-deserved share of vilification for promoting the orgy of violence that has already claimed the lives of over a thousand Lebanese civilians. That figure might be no more than a statistic in America. But, due to extensive live coverage [...]

Is George W. Bush about to install a dictator in Iraq, asks Andrew Sullivan

The Australian August 21, 2006

THE NEWS was buried in a New York Times report last week, but it confirmed what others in the Washington media have been observing lately.

The context is that the White House has been inviting outsiders in to the Oval [...]

by Ted Rall www.rall.com

Surrender, already. For America’s sake, let the terrorists win!

Hours after a ceasefire halted a five-week war between Israel and Iranian-backed Islamic militias in Lebanon, reported the New York Times, “hundreds of Hezbollah members spread over dozens of villages across southern Lebanon began cleaning, organizing and surveying damage. Men on bulldozers were busy cutting [...]

Geoffrey R. Stone The Huffington Post

On August 17, federal judge Anna Diggs Taylor held that President Bush’s NSA surveillance program violates both the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 and the Constitution. Although I agree wholeheartedly with Judge Taylor’s conclusion, I was surprised by the decision. It takes a good deal of courage for a judge [...]

Guardian Unlimited, UK

By ERIK SCHELZIG Associated Press Writer

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Legislatures around the country are passing state laws to get tough on illegal immigration, but legal experts say many of those laws will turn out to be unconstitutional.

More than 550 bills relating to illegal immigration were introduced in statehouses this year, and at least 77 [...]

The Nation., NY (m)

When Russ Feingold first argued that the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program was in clear violation of federal law and the spirit of the Constitution, and that the Senate must censure the president for his wrongdoing, the maverick senator was condemned by the White House, ridiculed by Republicans and given the cold [...]