Positive Universe Abstracts

Truthdig, CA
By Amy Goodman
It is appropriate that a person from Australia, home of the kangaroo, should be the first one dragged before the kangaroo court at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. David Hicks, imprisoned there for more than five years, pleaded guilty Monday to providing material support for terrorism.
The case of Hicks offers [...]

Columbus Free Press, OH
by Chuck Zlatkin
March 26, 2007
Friends, Romans, Countrymen,
I’m sorry that I haven’t been up-to-date with every ebb and flow of this disaster, but believe me I have been following it all. A little background, please forgive me if you have heard this before. At my neighborhood peace group, Chelsea Neighbors United to End [...]

ZNet, MA
by Noam Chomsky
Counterpunch

Tanya Reinhart

It is painful, and hard, to write about the loss of an old and cherished friend. Tanya Reinhart was just that.
Tanya was a brilliant and creative scientist. I can express my own evaluation of her work most concisely by recalling that years ago, when I was thinking about the future of [...]

BlogHer
By Kim Pearson
Shaquanda Cotton, 15, of Paris Texas, is entering the second year of a 7-year prison term for pushing a hall monitor at her high school 2005. There were no injuries in the incident and this was her first arrest. Cotton is black. The same judge had recently sentenced a white teenager to probation [...]

The sum-bitch is just nuts!
by Don Nash
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pulling one of those extra special “secret� visits to Baghdad. You know, that United Nations guy that took over for Kofi Annan. Secretary-General Ki-moon is having a grand soiree with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq fame. You know, in that “secure� Baghdad Green Zone. [...]

Global Research
by Chris Floyd
Atlantic Free Press
Rarely has the imperial hubris that lies at the basis of U.S. foreign policy — the unspoken, unquestioned assumption of America’s right to global domination by force — been so nakedly revealed than in the recent Washington Post story decrying the degraded state of the Pentagon’s military preparedness. (”Military is [...]

by Don Nash
waste |wÄ?st| |weɪst| |weɪst|verb [ trans. ] use or expend carelessly, extravagantly, or to no purpose
sacrifice |ˈsakrəˌfīs|noun• an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy : we must all be prepared to make sacrifices.
murder |ˈmÉ™rdÉ™r| |ËŒmÉ™rdÉ™r| |ËŒmÉ™Ë?dÉ™|noun; the unlawful premeditated killing of [...]