Positive Universe Abstracts

Atlantic Free Press, Netherlands
by Chris Floyd
Day after day, almost hour by hour, fresh confirmation comes of the impending American attack on Iran. Yet the same surreal malaise that hung over public affairs before the war of aggression against Iraq has descended again. Everyone knows the war is coming and nothing will stop it, but the [...]

Online Journal, FL
By Sunsara Taylor
Online Journal Contributing Writer
What’s up with a country where a torturer — and let’s call a spade a spade — an architect of a police state and fascist laws can be forced to resign and no one in a position of power calls for the reversal of everything he’s done and [...]

Tucson Citizen, AZ
JOHN W. WHITEHEAD
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.” - Richard Nixon
Since 9/11, George W. Bush has been trampling all over the Constitution. Unfazed by public opinion, the law or Congress, Bush seems to think he can get away with anything.
His most recent attempt (that we know of, [...]

Yahoo! News
A Torturer Takes a Victory Lap
by Ted Rall
NEW YORK–Al Capone served six years at Alcatraz–for tax evasion. The true Original Gangsta was never held to account for the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre that left seven men cut in half by machine gun fire. Or the two disloyal wiseguys he ordered beaten to death with [...]

Atlantic Free Press, Netherlands
by Larry C. Johnson
America and the world are entering an extremely dangerous and volatile period and it will be up to senior U.S. military officials and members of Congress to stop the rush to a new war with Iran. The evidence is alarming and disturbing and today’s speech by President Bush before [...]

Atlantic Free Press, Netherlands
Written by Dave Lindorff
Let’s be clear. Alberto Gonzales is resigning as attorney general not because he’s become an embarrassment to the Bush administration — which has repeatedly shown itself to be beyond embarrassment — but because he is no longer useful. Exposed as a serial liar and an administration hack, he can [...]

by Don Nash
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