Positive Universe Abstracts

Tikkun, CA
Nichola Torbett
The NSP has set out to transform all our institutions, policies, and social practices so that they encourage rather than undermine our ability to treat every human being as an embodiment of the sacred (as having “inherent worth and dignity,” in secular terms) and our ability to respond to the universe with awe, [...]

Huffington Post, NY
SEN. MIKE GRAVEL
* “Where’s Mike?” Isn’t it amazing that GE and NBC could suddenly drop me from the debates and none of my opponents would even comment on it? It’s like Stalin’s Russia when someone would just stop showing up for work but no one in the office dared to ask; “Hey, what [...]

Consortium News
By Ray McGovern
October 30, 2007
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice is at her mushroom-cloud hyperbolic best, and this time Iran is the target.
Her claim last week that “the policies of Iran constitute perhaps the single greatest challenge to American security interests in the Middle East and around the world” is simply too much of a [...]

Could Rudy Pass the Test?
CounterPunch, CA
By SHERWOOD ROSS
If Rudy Giuliani doubts that sleep deprivation and waterboarding are torture, why doesn’t he try them himself?
As the tough-talking Republican advocate of “aggressive questioning,” he thinks the “liberal media” exaggerate torture, so why not show them up?
New York City’s Finest could do to Rudy what U.S. interrogators are [...]

CPJ Press Freedom Online, NY
Felipe Calderón Hinojosa
President of Mexico
Los Pinos
Mexico City, Mexico
Via facsimile: 52-55-52772376
Your Excellency:
The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned that one year after the death of journalist Bradley Roland Will nobody has been brought to justice. Further, we are troubled by the absence of a serious murder investigation and the lack of [...]

AlterNet, CA
By Arianna Huffington, HuffingtonPost.com
Taking a page from America’s retailers, President Bush is getting a jump on the coming battle over Iraq war funding. On Monday, he added an additional $45.9 billion in supplemental war funding to the $150.5 billion he’d already requested, and then turned up the heat on Congress to sign off on [...]

Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could cost taxpayers a total of $2.4 trillion by 2017 when counting the huge interest costs because combat is being financed with borrowed money, according to a study released on Wednesday.
With President George W. Bush indicating a large contingent of U.S. troops likely will [...]