Positive Universe Abstracts

Independent, UK
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
Published: 31 December 2006
When they hanged him, he was America’s vanquished foe, likened to Hitler and Stalin for the murderous evil of his ways. What is forgotten is that once, for more than a decade, Saddam Hussein was staunchly supported by the US.
Indeed, it was Washington that supplied him with [...]

by Don Nash
“Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.� The Declaration of Independence July 1776
For a government to be construed as “good�, that government must exercise “just power� and that “just power� is derived from the “consent of the governed.� ‘We the people’ give American government it’s [...]

Zaman Online, Turkey
FIKRET ERTAN
While the situation in Iraq is getting completely out of control, groups and individuals who encouraged America to attack Iraq, declare war on it and occupy it are trying to disappear and make themselves forgotten.
According to news, one of the most important of these groups, the PNAC (Project for the New American [...]

Guardian Unlimited, UK
Executing Saddam will not bring peace to Iraq. That can only come when US forces leave
Burhan al-Chalabi
Thursday December 28, 2006
The Guardian
The imminent execution of Saddam Hussein is nothing but a smokescreen - a diversion in a series of diversions that will do nothing to address the price of the occupation of Iraq. If [...]

Consortium News
By Robert Parry (A Special Report)
The American Right achieved its political dominance in Washington over the past quarter century with the help of more than $3 billion spent by Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon on a daily propaganda organ, the Washington Times, according to a 21-year veteran of the newspaper.
George Archibald, who describes [...]

by Don Nash
A war rages in Palestine. That’s not exactly news. Support for the war in Palestine has surprising support in Brooklyn. That’s not exactly news. Except the war in Palestine spilled into the cedars of Lebanon. That’s not exactly news. Except when the wars come the dying comes and that’s not exactly news. When [...]

CounterPunch, CA
Cowboys Differ on Iran Attack
By GARY LEUPP
The reaction to the Iraq Study Group (ISG) report suggests that a showdown is shaping up within the U.S. power elite between two different sets of cowboys. On the one hand, there are the George W. Bush cowboys who want to expand their conquests from Afghanistan and Iraq [...]