Positive Universe Abstracts

Monthly Review, VA by Deborah Campbell

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Iran is a complex, even contradictory nation, and in the context of rising tensions and a growing threat of war, the lens through which the West and the Islamic republic view one another has become dangerously blurred.  For the West, Iran is a nation of wild-eyed zealots shouting the familiar refrain [...]

The Nation., NY (h)

What will be the largest of the ideological caucuses in the new House Democratic majority?

Why, of course, it must be the “centrists” affiliated with the Democratic Leadership Council’s “New Democrat Coalition.” Yes, that’s got to be the case because all the commentators at the Wall Street Journal keep saying that centrists were [...]

Atlantic Free Press, Netherlands Chris Floyd   

As Don Rumsfeld is tossed overboard by the panicky Bushes (who value loyalty to themselves above all other virtues but never, ever, practice it toward others; there will be many more bodies

left behind as the Family rallies to clean up Junior’s mess again), Steve Gilliard steps in below to remind [...]

CounterPunch, CA Subpoena Envy

By DAVID SWANSON (h)

Chairman John Conyers Jr. Chairman Henry Waxman. Those titles will prove to be the most important outcome of yesterday’s elections, even if the Dems get the Senate too. It’s investigation and impeachment time. Vice President Cheney has already announced his plans to “probably” refuse to obey a subpoena from Congress. [...]

Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog, WA With James Webb’s victory in Virginia (media outlets are now calling the race for him) Democrats have swept Republicans out of the majority in both houses of Congress, captured a majority of the governorships, made inroads in state legislatures, and put an end to numerous, regressive right wing ballot measures [...]

uuworld.org, MA Twelve years at the helm of Amnesty International challenged and affirmed William F. Schulz’s Unitarian Universalism.

By William F. Schulz Winter 2006 (m)

There is a smell to refugee camps that, once you have inhaled it, you never forget: goat dung and human waste; sweat and tears and unstaunched menstrual blood; but also a smell of desperation [...]

The Independent (World) Published: 06 November 2006

So America’s one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington’s best friend in the Arab world. America knew all about his atrocities and even supplied the gas - along with the British, of course - yet there we were yesterday declaring it to [...]