Positive Universe Abstracts

Hawaii Reporter, HI

By U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii

I first met Senator Barack Obama’s father at the Manoa Campus soon after my arrival there following statehood in 1959. Barack, Senior had just arrived from a newly independent nation— Kenya. Everyone was drawn to his dynamic, energetic manner. His intellect was as brilliant as his smile; his [...]

Center for Research on Globalization, Canada

by Lewis Seiler and Dan Hamburg

Global Research, February 13, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle

“The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation [...]

Dissident Voice, CA

Group founded to support Bush’s surge in Iraq and encourage military action against Iran gearing up for November

by Bill Berkowitz / February 13th, 2008

In early December, Freedom’s Watch, the well-funded conservative lobbying group founded by former White House staffers and extremely wealthy longtime Republican donors, fired its first shot in Election 2008. Founded [...]

Century Foundation, NY

Tova Andrea Wang, The Century Foundation

As has been widely fretted over in the press, it is possible that the Democratic nomination race is so close that it will be determined by 800 “superdelegates.” What makes this troubling beyond the principles of popular democracy at stake is that the whole superdelegate process is utterly [...]

New California Media, CA

New America Media, Commentary, Andrew Gauldin, Posted: Feb 13, 2008

Editor’s Note: There is nothing super about “superdelegates,” writes NAM contributor Andrew Gauldin. Gauldin is a New York City-based writer, political strategist and business consultant.

I left the Democratic Party more than five years ago and I have never looked back. It all began [...]

Iniquities of war, inequities of life Aljazeera.com, UK

By Ray McGovern

“For the oppressors, what is worthwhile is to have more — always more — even at the cost of the oppressed having less or having nothing. For them, to be is to have and to be the class of the ‘haves.’ ” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Finally, [...]

Tomdispatch

I’m an innumerate, but the figures on this — the saddest story of our Iraq debacle — are so large that even I can do the necessary computations. The population of the United States is now just over 300,000,000. The population of Iraq at the time of the U.S. invasion was perhaps in the 26-27 [...]