Positive Universe Abstracts

Political Affairs Magazine, NY

By Michael Moore

Editor’s Note: Michael Moore is the author of Mike’s Election Guide. Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Dear God,

The other night, the Rev. James Dobson’s ministry asked all believers to pray for a storm on Thursday night so that the Obama acceptance speech outdoors in Denver would have to be canceled.

I see that You [...]

Pacific Free Press

YOU MUST BE HIGH: Popular Myths in the Presidential Race

by Jack Random

A friend of mine keeps me honest when, in my passion for politics, I go over the top in criticism of candidates or praise for independent allies. He listens to my point of view, rolls it over in his mind, and pronounces [...]

Seattle Post Intelligencer

AMY GOODMAN SYNDICATED COLUMNIST

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on a book tour, where she is being hounded by activists and questioned about her pledge that “impeachment is off the table.” She responded on the TV talk show “The View,” “If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different [...]

IRC’s Americas Program

Laura Carlsen | August 20, 2008

Americas Policy Program, Center for International Policy

The great debate on how much—or how little—Barack Obama would change our disastrous U.S. foreign policy usually focuses on the Middle East. That makes sense. Nowhere has the price of the Bush national security strategy been higher, as the violent deaths of [...]

Truro Daily News

GWYNNE DYER The Truro Daily News, Nova Scotia

The war in South Ossetia is essentially over, and the Georgians have lost. This was Georgia’s second attempt in 18 years to conquer the breakaway territory by force, and now that option is gone for good. So are the country’s hopes of joining NATO. Yet sections [...]

Editor & Publisher

What is the responsibility of reporters, editors and publishers when a candidate is the target of a campaign of attack and personal destruction employing the systematic use of lies, smears, innuendo and character assassination?

By Brent Budowsky

I am a columnist for The Hill newspaper and an early supporter of Barack Obama, but when John [...]

World Socialist Web Site

By Ann Talbot 11 August 2008

The war that erupted August 7 between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia escalated over the weekend. Some 2,000 people are thought to have been killed, according to estimates given by both sides. Tens of thousands have been injured or driven from their homes by shelling [...]