Positive Universe Abstracts

Center for Research on Globalization, Canada

by Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay Global Research

“The leader whose thinking process most resembles [Adolf] Hitler’s is our own president. —Like Hitler, (George W.) Bush’s ideological beliefs have blinded him to reality, and like Hitler, he seems impervious to advice that conflicts with his beliefs.” — Charley Reese

“When the tyrant has disposed of [...]

NEW JERSEY: Harbinger of Things to Come

NEW JERSEY Bans the Death Penalty!

“A Harbinger of Things to Come” –Maybe to come–even in TEXAS?

December 13-14, 2007

Of special interest to Journey of Hope (JOH) folk:

…Among those testifying for abolition (in New Jersey) was Vicki Schieber. Her daughter, Shannon, was murdered in 1998. She and her husband stunned prosecutors [...]

CounterPunch, CA

Blank Check Democrats

By RON JACOBS

Okay. I’m going to state the obvious here. After all, somebody needs to say it. In fact, everybody who sees it needs to say it. Are you ready? Then here goes. The men and women calling themselves Democrats and sitting in Congress are the biggest bunch of liars this country [...]

Asia Times Online, Hong Kong

By Greg Grandin

The world is made up, as Captain Segura in Graham Greene’s 1958 novel Our Man in Havana put it, of two classes: the torturable and the untorturable. “There are people,” Segura explained, “who expect to be tortured and others who would be outraged by the idea.”

Then - so Greene [...]

Consortium News By Ray McGovern

[excerpt]

The 15th & 16th century Spanish inquisitors were not squeamish, and had little need for circumlocutions or euphemisms like “alternative set of procedures” that are part of President George W. Bush’s lexicon.

The Spanish called this procedure, quite plainly, “tortura del agua.”

Lacking cellophane, they inserted a cloth into the victim’s mouth, forcing the [...]

Online Journal, FL

By Michael Payne Online Journal Contributing Writer

In the elections of 2006, the American electorate spoke loud and clear in rejecting the Bush Iraq War policies and the lapdog GOP-controlled Congress, and then installed the Democrats as the majority with the very specific mandate to bring our troops home. This election was a message from [...]

Online Journal, FL

By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Online Journal Contributing Writer

The Real NWO

In part 1, we reviewed the emergence of the modern world system through a process of systematic genocidal violence conducted across disparate continents, killing in total thousands of millions of indigenous peoples in Africa, Asia and America.

But this “hidden holocaust” didn’t end with the demise [...]