Positive Universe Abstracts

New York Times, United States
Published: April 29, 2008
The following is a transcript of a press conference held by Senator Barack Obama in response to recent statements by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., as provided by Mr. Obama’s presidential campaign and Federal News Service.
SENATOR BARACK OBAMA: Before I start taking questions I [...]

The Real News Network
Pepe Escobar: Real story behind September air strike has never been investigated
Monday April 28th, 2008
Last week’s allegation by the US government that an Israeli air strike in Syria last September hit a nuclear facility being developed with the cooperation of North Korea has drawn strong denials from the Syrian government. The real [...]

OpEdNews
by Paul Craig Roberts
It is 1939 all over again. The world waits helplessly for the next act of naked aggression by rogue states. Only this time the rogue states are not the Third Reich and Fascist Italy. They are the United States and Israel.
The targeted victims are not Poland and France, [...]

Huffington Post
John Eskow
Obliterate.
All week this word’s been haunting me.
Ever since Hillary Clinton channelled her inner Doctor Strangelove on ABC-TV, vowing to “totally obliterate” Iran for some imagined attack on Israel in the future, that word’s hung in the air like a tiny mushroom cloud. Of course, to the corporate media, a casual threat to incinerate [...]

Bill Moyers interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in his first broadcast interview with a journalist since he became embroiled in a controversy for his remarks and his relationship with Barack Obama. Wright, who retired in early 2008 as pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where Senator Obama is a member, has been [...]

Los Angeles Times
Rosa Brooks
Forget delegates, rules, votes: I deserve it. I’m Hillary Clinton, and I approved this message.
April 24, 2008
Thank you, Pennsylvania! What an incredible margin of victory you gave me! Ten percentage points over Barack Obama. Count ‘em! Ten!
All right, 9.2 points if you insist on actually counting. But they said I had to [...]

Why the Democrats won’t have one
Slate.com
By Jeff Greenfield
It is a dream that emerges every presidential cycle, as a gaggle of candidates begin the trek. It grows as polls show no clear leader and the primaries split between the contenders. It has taken on unexpected strength this year because of the realization that neither Sen. Hillary [...]