Positive Universe Abstracts

Media Monitors Network

by Bernard Weiner

“Given the complexities associated with a global economy, and the unsupervised power of financial entities to do harm to themselves and others, in a sense it doesn’t really matter whether it’s McCain or Obama in the Oval Office. Both would have to concern themselves with righting the ship of state and the financial institutions that keep [...]

guardian.co.uk

The degradation of intelligence and learning in American politics results from a series of interlocking tragedies

George Monbiot The Guardian,

How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the US come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind’s closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How [...]

History News Network

By Joseph Palermo

Mr. Palermo is Associate Professor of American History at CSU, Sacramento. He’s the author of two books on Robert F. Kennedy: In His Own Right (2001) and RFK (2008).

John McCain is running one of the most divisive, negative, and dishonorable presidential campaigns in modern history. By spreading the Big Lie that Barack Obama is a [...]

Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ycu0sy5RW8

RollingStone

Will the GOP’s campaign to deter new voters and discard Democratic ballots determine the next president?

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. & GREG PALAST

These days, the old west rail hub of Las Vegas, New Mexico, is little more than a dusty economic dead zone amid a boneyard of bare mesas. In national elections, the town overwhelmingly votes Democratic: More than [...]

Center for Research on Globalization

by Chris Floyd

Global Research, October 20, 2008

Perhaps the most striking fact revealed by the global financial crash — or rather, by the reaction to it — is the staggering, astonishing, gargantuan amount of money that the governments of the world have at their command.

In just a matter of days, we have seen literally trillions [...]