Positive Universe Abstracts

Beyond Chron, CA by Paul Hogarth‚ Oct. 23‚ 2006

While Democrats have a solid chance at winning the House this year, they also have a realistic shot at taking back the Senate. If the polls stay as they are between now and Election Day, four Republican Senators are likely to lose – in Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio [...]

TomPaine.com Steve Kretzman October 20, 2006

Steve Kretzmann is Executive Director of Oil Change International. He has worked on environmental and social issues surrounding the oil industry for the last seventeen years.

As gas prices continue to decline, it’s only natural to wonder about the apparent coincidence between this trend and Republican interests in the election. Indeed, a recent poll found [...]

Seattle Post Intelligencer By HELEN THOMAS HEARST NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON — President Bush has signed the law that legalizes the administration’s shameful treatment of detainees suspected of terrorism.

The same measure also empowers the president to define torture. It’s a sad legacy for the U.S. and its already-tarnished world image.

The new law — the Military Commissions Act of 2006 — [...]

San Francisco Chronicle, USA

This is, George W. Bush has declared, “National Character Counts Week.”

His own character, his admirers say, is marked by his resolute, from-the-gut, stick-to-it approach; his detractors call that quality a character flaw, better known as stubbornness.

So it is that Bush’s unexpected observation that his costly Iraq boondoggle is starting to look [...]

Guardian Unlimited, UK The US is radically rethinking its exit strategy, while Britain waits zombie-like for new instructions

Simon Jenkins The Guardian

The Baker report on an exit strategy from Iraq, leaked this week in the US, is as sensible as it is sensational. It rejects “staying the course” as no longer plausible and purports to seek alternatives to [...]

AlterNet By Yuri Loudon, The Internationalist Posted October 18, 2006 (m)

The man who changed the way we look at history explains where Iraq war resistance fits into the history of peace activism.

Howard Zinn has changed the way we read history. The People’s History of the United States pulled the mask off some of the enduring, and damaging [...]

Wide Awakes A Stranger at Our Gates: A CHRISTIAN PERSPECTIVE ON IMMIGRATION

Resolution adopted at General Conference, 1996

The Evangelical Free Church of America

During periods of rapid change and economic uncertainty, it is often the vulnerable and marginalized people who are blamed for the misfortune that everyone else experiences or expects to experience. Today a significant amount of [...]