Positive Universe Abstracts

by Don Nash

Because we are not human, you send our children to fight your wars. They are maimed and worse yet it seems alright for after all, they are not human. Our children are merely pawns in the global game of oil. Exploit the oil then exploit our children. Or is it the other way [...]

By Juan Santos (m) 25 January, 2007 Countercurrents.org

2006 marked a sea change in US politics, but the decisive moment was not election day, it was March 25th, the day that over a million Mexican and Central America migrants and their Chicana/o allies marched in the streets of Los Angeles, following a march of similar magnitude in Chicago.

The [...]

Prensa Latina, Cuba

Nairobi — Participants in the seventh World Social Forum, currently underway in Kenya, have praised the educational and health programmes that Cuban professionals are carrying out worldwide.

The basic-literacy teaching method “Yo Si Puedo,” created by teacher Leonela Relys, and the Integral Health Programme (PIS), with which more than 29,400 professionals are serving in [...]

by Don Nash

Here’s a proposal that’s as old as the Old Testament and it just might work. A daringly bold premise and it could prove to be beneficial to our entire planet. It’s a theologically sound proposal and when one weighs in all the peripheral nagging little details, it could conceivably be a winner. What [...]

Foreign Policy In Focus Zia Mian | January 22, 2007

Editor: John Feffer, IRC www.fpif.org

The Iraq War is coming up on its fourth anniversary. Increasingly embattled, even desperate, President Bush has decided to send another 21,500 American troops into the fight. They will join over 150,000 U.S. soldiers already deployed in Iraq.

In the speech on January 10 explaining [...]

MWC News, Canada

By Dr. Gideon Polya, MWC chief political editor

THE LATEST data from the UN Population Division and UNICEF for the year 2005 are utterly shocking - they reveal horrendous, avoidable under-5 infant deaths (under-5 year old deaths, under-5 deaths) in a swathe of countries East from the Caribbean to South Asia that have variously [...]

From: connie nash

We can’t ignore the mirror that Rwanda should be to all of us in the “civil world” Christians murdering Christians–like minded-murdering like-minded…as well as the aftermath & the justice systems we contrive…

(New York, January 22, 2007) — Rwandan police and judicial authorities must ensure prompt and effective law enforcement to deal with recent [...]