Positive Universe Abstracts

Indiana Daily Student

By Grace Low | Indiana Daily Student | Monday, January 29, 2007

In an outstanding display of the xenophobia and racism we’ve come to expect from proponents of harsher immigration policies, the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus, headed by the ever-terrifying Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., has issued a response to President Bush’s lukewarm attempt at making [...]

by Don Nash

“Those that would surrender their freedoms are mostly pathetic and are deserving of the tyranny they welcome in ignorance. Government never returns that which it takes by subversion.â€?…me

The polling staff of Okie-Dokie Polling was sent hither and yon throughout these western United States and put the really pressing questions to regular Americans to [...]

The Sunday Times, UK Jon Swain, Baghdad

THE tragedy of Iraq is written on the anguished faces of Abu Khaled’s six children. Pallid, tear-stained and haunted by fear, they shelter on the floor of a cold and draughty Baghdad classroom with their father after fleeing at gunpoint from their home. Food is scarce — they rely on [...]

Online Journal, FL

By Bill Berkowitz Online Journal Guest Writer

After six years of incompetence and cronyism, a failed war against terrorism, the quagmire that is Iraq, wars against science, the environment, corporate regulation and the public’s right-to-know, a chummy working relationship with the country’s most reactionary conservative evangelical Christians, a politicized faith-based initiative, giveaways to the energy [...]

MWC News, Canada By Ben Tanosborn

For most of us in the US, IRA stands as an abbreviation for an individual retirement account; although the initials may remind some of the Irish Republican Army and its role in Northern Ireland. To those with Latin roots (cultural or linguistic), however, IRA isn’t an abbreviation, standing in caps [...]

From: connie nash QUOTE OF THE WEEK at Sojourners Sojo.net Jan 25 2007

“The most effective answer to this leadership vacuum would be a new era of political activism by ordinary citizens. The biggest, most far-reaching changes of the past century — the labor movement, the civil rights movement, the women’s movement — were not primarily the result [...]

Empire Burlesque, UK

Written by Chris Floyd Friday, 26 January 2007 Troops Authorized to Kill Iranian Operatives in Iraq (WP)

The Bush administration has authorized the U.S. military to kill or capture Iranian operatives inside Iraq as part of an aggressive new strategy to weaken Tehran’s influence across the Middle East and compel it to give up its nuclear [...]