Positive Universe Abstracts

Southwest News-Herald, IL
By JACON G. HORNBERGER (h)
The president and the Pentagon now wield the omnipotent power to arrest, torture, and execute any American they label an “enemy combatant.� It is impossible to overstate the significance of this power. It has totally upended the relationship of the military and civilian in the United States. The assumption [...]

From Connie
Democracy Now!
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh joins us to talk about his explosive new article in the New Yorker Magazine. Hersh reports that John Negroponte’s decision to resign as National Intelligence Director was made in part because of the Bush administration’s covert actions including the indirect funding of radical Sunni groups - [...]

Consortium News
By Peter Dyer February 28, 2007 (h)
Editor’s Note: On Dec. 30, 2006, George W. Bush and the Shiite-dominated government of Iraq took their revenge on Saddam Hussein, dropping him through a gallow’s trap door to his death dangling at the end of noose. The Bush family also was happy to know [...]

Desicritics.org
February 27, 2007
Dr Bhaskar Dasgupta
The idea for this essay was borne when several aspects came together. The first was when I heard on the Sky News channel that the Americans were complaining about the fact that several Iraqi road side bombs were either designed in or actually being constructed in Iran. The view that there [...]

by Don Nash
Julian Borger writing for the Guardian and dated February 22, 2007, says that the U.S. is full of crap. Specifically, Borger is referring to U.S. “claims” about intelligence and Iran. The U.S. has offered buckets full of innards and assorted rotting victuals to convince the world and America that Iran is axis-ing a [...]

Foreign Policy In Focus
Laura Carlsen
www.fpif.org
The titles that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attaches to its operations reveal a great deal about the logic behind current U.S. immigration policy.
Among the most suggestively titled is the ongoing Operation “Return to Sender,” one of the largest such operations in U.S. history. The program, supposedly designed to target [...]

Spero News
By Tom Barry for IRC
Ideology and faith are stirring new calls to arms among influential political factions in the United States. At a time when the U.S. public is questioning the interventionism and unilateralism of the Bush administration, leading social conservatives and neoconservatives insist that the United States needs to militarily confront [...]