Positive Universe Abstracts

The Australian, Australia

Sian Powell | September 27, 2007

THE tyrants of Burma have lashed out at the protesters, but the time for democracy finally may have arrived, writes Sian Powell.

IT didn’t take long for the Burmese junta to show its teeth. Eight days of protests had passed without reprisals; mass marches of 100,000 people led by [...]

Note: While Pat Buchanan frequently exhibits racist tendencies and abhorent opinions — usually directed at immigrants and people of color — he provides some salient points and facts in this article that could be useful in discussions of how to mitigate the march to war against Iran.

Tracy Press, CA

A column by Pat Buchanan

WASHINGTON — It [...]

CounterPunch, CA From Support the Troops to Condemning MoveOn

By DONNA SAGGIA

Alarm bells should be ringing louder than ever in progressive circles as Congress, not content with forfeiting its powers to the unitary executive, has now decided to let the military plan foreign policy. Bush’s interminable and ubiquitous “war on terror” has achieved in six years what [...]

Salon.com

Demonizing the Iranian president and making his visit to New York seem controversial are all part of the neoconservative push for yet another war.

By Juan Cole

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad waves as he leaves Tehran Sept. 23 to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York.

Sept. 24, 2007 | Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to New [...]

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by Don Nash

One could suppose that the war, the real war, began in November of 2000. American democracy and the very foundation of the American political process gave way under the weight of political corruption and the sheer apathy of the American people.

The U.S. Supreme Court capitulated to party politics and tossed our Constitution in [...]

New California Media

Washington Afro-American, News Report , Valencia Mohammed

More than 100,000 people, according to Louisiana State Police, predominantly African Americans, swarmed on a little-known community called Jena, La., on Sept. 20 to demand justice for six Black teenagers convicted as adults for aggravated assault of a White student. The cheers of the crowd echoed across [...]