Positive Universe Abstracts

Tikkun, CA
The split among progressives as we assess the Democrats’ strategy
Michael Lerner
Progressives have been dramatically divided on how to assess the wisdom of what the Democrats are doing to challenge Bush on the war in Iraq. Spiritual progressives find elements in both positions that we can respect.
Most spiritual progressives share a fundamental agreement about the [...]

AllAfrica.com, Washington
The Nation (Nairobi)
John W. Harbeson
Nairobi
I do not like extraordinary rendition, for if we “rend” our clothes we tear them apart. This is just what “rendition” can do to countries’ social and political fabrics.
Extraordinary rendition contravenes established international conventions against torture even as its practice constitutes dishonest and irresponsible snubbing of fundamental human rights which, [...]

The Nation., NY
JEREMY SCAHILL
Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch.
The Democratic leadership in Congress is once again gearing up for a great sell-out on the Iraq war. While the wrangling over the $124 billion Iraq supplemental spending bill is being headlined in the media as a “showdown” or “war” with the White House, it [...]

by Don Nash
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by Don Nash
Alas poor America, I know ye not…anymore.
Condo’s boy Tobias up and resigned. Wow, go figure. Monica ‘bug’s butt’ Goodling up and resigned. Wow, that figures. Movers and shakers in the upper echelons of American government are tripping the light fantastic directly out the door. Exit stage right and double quick time get gone. [...]

From: connie nash
Hello both Fellow DP Abolitionists and a few “Consistent Life Ethic” folk:
Re: Recent attention to both violence and death penalty issues in our country…
May I raise the question at this time–if there is no abolitionist group working on prevention, might there be before the Texas Journey of Hope trip?
The most moving experiences, dialogues [...]

From: connie nash
RE: Bob Herbert NYT
“Only a lunatic could seriously believe that more guns in more homes is good for America’s children.”
Op-Ed Columnist By BOB HERBERT
Two days after the massacre at Virginia Tech, a mentally disturbed man with a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun opened fire in a house in Queens, killing his mother, his mother’s disabled [...]