Positive Universe Abstracts

PR-Inside
Unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, rival Barack Obama planned for the long haul in his quest for the U.S. presidency.
Clinton hinged her whole campaign on an early knockout blow in the Super Tuesday roudn of primaries in February, while Obama’s staff researched congressional districts in states with primaries that were months away.
What they found were opportunities [...]

The Baltimore Chronicle, MD
by Chris Floyd
The United States government is holding some 27,000 human beings in secret prisons around the world. The overwhelming majority of them are being held indefinitely, without charges, without rights, cut off from the outside world, and subject to “harsh interrogation techniques” (to use the prim locution for “torture” used by [...]

AlterNet, CA
By Guy T. Saperstein, AlterNet. Posted May 24, 2008.
Nothing reveals the Clintons’ lack of principle so clearly as their assertion that Dem Party rules should be abandoned.
Nothing reveals more clearly how utterly unprincipled the Clintons are than their assertion that rules set by the Democratic Party’s Rules Committee, and endorsed by all Clinton representatives [...]

The Reporter, WI
For The Reporter • May 21, 2008
Opening statement of U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-WI, hearing on “Exploring the Skyrocketing Price of Oil” Senate Judiciary Committee
“Americans may have a hard time believing this, as they fill up their cars, but the U.S. is the third top oil producing country in the world, exceeded only [...]

There’s no question John McCain is getting a free ride from the mainstream press. But with the power of YouTube and the blogosphere, we can provide an accurate portrayal of the so-called Maverick. We can put the brakes on his free ride!
More: TheRealMcCain.com/

ZNet
By Silvia Ribeiro
Source: Alai-amlatina, Rebelion
Food prices continue rising around the world giving rise to intolerable conditions in the most vulnerable countries like famine, often combined with drought or flooding, the perverse effects of climate change. Faced with the seriousness of the crisis, the masks slip and the speeches get emptier with biofuel prescriptions, the supposed [...]

Washington Post
Saturday, May 17, 2008; Page A16
SARNATA REYNOLDS
Refugee and Migrant Director
Amnesty International USA
The May 11-14 front-page series “Careless Detention” implicitly raised the question of what purpose is served by incarcerating some 33,000 migrants and asylum seekers in the United States each day.
The scapegoating of migrants and asylum seekers and the deliberate fueling of fear by [...]