Positive Universe Abstracts

History News Network, WA (h)
By William R. Polk
Mr. Polk was the member of the U.S. Policy Planning Council responsible for the Middle East from 1961 to 1965. Subsequently, he was professor of history and director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago and later president of the Adlai Stevenson Institute [...]

San Francisco Chronicle, USA
Lies. Truth. More lies. More hard-to-determine truth.
Fresh from the mother of all disingenuous flip-flops, in which self-styled “war president” George W. Bush admitted that he was changing his strategy in Iraq instead of “staying the course” there, Vice-president Dick Cheney has now made it known, in his own way, that the [...]

National Jewish Democratic Council, DC
By Ira Forman
The word “compete� implies that two or more parties strive against each other and the outcome of that competition is in question. When it comes to the 2006 competition for the Jewish vote in America, however, there is no question of the outcome. American Jews will vote by a [...]

TomPaine.com, D.C.
President Bush used an unintentionally apt phrase in his press conference Wednesday to describe what he calls his shift of tactics in Iraq. It is the same phrase the Ford Motor Company has used in its so-far unsuccessful campaign to come out of its corporate death spiral: the “way forward.â€? Bush’s way forward in [...]

CorpWatch.org, CA
by Jane Mayer, The New Yorker
October 23rd, 2006
On the official Web site of Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company, there is a section devoted to a subsidiary called Jeppesen International Trip Planning, based in San Jose, California. The write-up mentions that the division “offers everything needed for efficient, hassle-free, international flight operations,� spanning the globe “from [...]

Seattle Times, United States
WASHINGTON — OK, now they’re just making stuff up. George W. Bush went on television Sunday and claimed that on Iraq war policy, “We’ve never been ’stay the course’ ” — as if no record survived of all the times he has used those very words. Maybe he was trying to outdo [...]

A special Halloween request from author Stephen King:
Dear MoveOn member,
If I know anything, I know scary. And giving this president and this
out-of-control Congress two more years to screw up our future is downright
terrifying. Thankfully, this national nightmare is one we can end
with–literally–a wake up call.
My friends at MoveOn.org Political Action are organizing pre-Halloween
phone parties this [...]