Positive Universe Abstracts

Black Agenda Report, NJ

by Kevin Alexander Gray

As the “Black primary” in South Carolina approaches, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton “talk as if” John Edwards, “the more populist Southern white man in the race were invisible.” Heretofore, this strange campaign has seen the Black candidate “ignoring what should be his natural base - black voters. That [...]

CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush and his top aides publicly made 935 false statements about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following September 11, 2001, according to a study released Tuesday by two nonprofit journalism groups.

President Bush addresses the nation as the Iraq war begins in March 2003.

“In short, the Bush [...]

Japan Focus, NY

Chalmers Johnson

The military adventurers of the Bush administration have much in common with the corporate leaders of the defunct energy company Enron. Both groups of men thought that they were the “smartest guys in the room,” the title of Alex Gibney’s prize-winning film on what went wrong at Enron. The neoconservatives in the [...]

BuzzFlash, IL

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION by Peter Michaelson

The Republican Party’s great success of recent years has been its production of “The Grand Old Pretense,” the theatrical parody showing in the nation’s capital and starring Benito Bush and Franco Cheney.

From its opening night, the production has been praised in the corporate media. Several scenes are especially acclaimed, [...]

Atlanta, GA | January 20, 2008

Barack Obama gave a stirring speech at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s church in Atlanta, Georgia on Sunday morning.

Watch this video of the event and share it with someone you know:

The Scripture tells us that when Joshua and the Israelites arrived at the gates of Jericho, they could not enter. [...]

DesMoinesRegister.com, IA (letter to editor)

I read how “A teary-eyed U.S. President George W. Bush stopped in front of an aerial photo of Auschwitz …and said the United States should have sent bombers to prevent the extermination of Jews there.”

One reason Auschwitz wasn’t bombed was pressure exerted by powerful U.S. bankers who invested heavily in operations there. [...]

Bay Area Indymedia, CA

by Marc Batko

Ours is a brave new world where countries don’t need dollars as in the past. Maybe the unparalleled life-and-death crisis from endless wars and the melting dollar will lead us to accept partnership and exchanging roles as we accepted the total and absolute market and corporate beneficence.

ELECTING CANADA AS PRESIDENT: [...]