Positive Universe Abstracts

Bay Area Indymedia, CA

by Move-On MoveOn is making an appeal for help in their campaign to prevent a war with Iran.

Dear MoveOn member,

To be honest, I don’t even like to think about the possibility of war with Iran. But here’s the unfortunate truth—plans for an aerial attack have been drawn up.1 There’s nothing stopping Bush from [...]

Raw Story, MA

Nick Juliano

New book says US uses ‘methods of the most tyrannical regimes’

More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents demonstrate how US military interrogators “abused, tortured or killed” scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept. 11, 2001, including some who were not even suspected of having terrorist ties, according to a just-published [...]

Foreign Policy In Focus

At the corner of 18th and K Streets in Washington, DC, a banner keeps a running tally of U.S. casualties in Iraq. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union updates the banner daily so that “corporate lobbyists and the foreign policy think tanks that dominate the canyons of K St. NW as [...]

Online Journal, FL

By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman Online Journal Guest Writers

Oct 22, 2007

With record low approval ratings for the Bush/Cheney regime and the albatross of an unpopular war hanging from the GOP’s neck, do you think that a Democratic presidential candidate will win the White House, get us out of Iraq, and end our long [...]

Boston Globe, United States

Tom Keane’s humor column

AFTER A new national poll showed Mitt Romney stuck in fourth place, the former Massachusetts governor vowed to shake up his campaign by taking new positions on hot-button issues on which he had previously taken new positions. “Abortion, gay rights, immigration - you name it. I’m ready to be [...]

This was posted several weeks ago by the Shalom Center. It is reposted here for research and archival purposes.

The Shalom Center

Interreligious Relations | War, Peace, & the Jewish Community Remarks as prepared to the Islamic Society of North America 44th Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois Friday, August 31st, 2007

By Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie President Union for Reform Judaism

I am deeply [...]

ZNet, MA

by Michael Leung

Grand Theft

The violence that constitutes the majority of human rights abuses is a result of the dominant powers using force to maintain a status quo of vast inequality. Of the six billion people in the world, half live on less than $2 a day, and a billion of those live on less [...]