Happy indeed we live, friendly amidst the hostile. Amidst hostile men we dwell free from hatred. Dhammapada 198 The Daily Words of the Buddha is a service of...
Endocrine disruptors are being recognized as a major attack our our endocrine system which in turn is contributing to cancer being the number cause of death in...
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the city of Hazleton from enforcing a pair of ordinances targeting illegal immigrants, just hours before the measures were...
by Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily Increased violence is being countered by harsh new measures across the Sunni-dominated al-Anabar province west of Baghdad,...
Two federal agencies are investigating whether the Bush administration tried to block government scientists from speaking freely about global warming and...
China, believed to carry out more court-ordered executions than all other nations combined, took a step toward human rights Tuesday by enacting legislation...
Democrats are accusing the Bush administration of holding up a report on the number of people going hungry in the United States. Since 1999, the number of...
People who participate in the arts, even if only reading literature, are twice as likely to volunteer in their communities as those who don't, according to a...
A new study has found a "substantial" drop in U.S. men's testosterone levels since the 1980s, but the reasons for the decline remain unclear. This trend also...
A recent incident in which armed riot police raided a Michigan junior and high school as part of a drill that the children were not aware was about to take...
Lawyers for alleged al Qaeda operative Jose Padilla have asked a Florida judge to dismiss the terrorism case against him, saying he was tortured and force-fed...
(from Dr. Michael Greger, M.D.) My new book, "Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching," will be released in hardcover after the mid-term elections, but in the ...
David Swanson provides us with a glimpse of the stolen election, a mere eight days away. Zooming in on an NPR transcript of a conversation between NPR's Robert...
Gagging didn't work, so the feds are trying something new. The U.S. EPA has closed four of its research libraries and cut hours at seven more. The agency says...
A GOLDEN AGE OF CREDULITY, IN POLITICS AND IN RELIGION The God That Never Failed - by Alan Wolfe Post date: 10.30.06 Issue date: 11.06.06 Tempting Faith: An...
(from Paul de Burgh-Day) Friends, To me, this from Michael Kane is as solid as you can get as an assessment of a big player conference. In the usual way, the...
Those who are devoted to the Dhamma made known by the Noble Ones are unsurpassed in speech, thought and action. They are established in peace, gentleness and...
Seven retired federal judges from both political parties have joined dozens of Guantanamo Bay detainees in urging an appeals court to declare key parts of...
The U.S. Dollar is kaput. Confidence in the currency is eroding by the day. (Thanks to Paul de Burgh-Day for this one.) http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?...
America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbours and allies, according to an international survey of public opinion published today...
Even for an administration dedicated to putting industry lobbyists in charge of the very agencies they have devoted their careers to undermining (coal and oil...
Massive innovation on the Internet since its creation is the result of pre-2005 Net Neutrality protection. All of that changed last year when the Federal...
by Michelle Fram Cohen In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the status of women improved the most in economically progressive areas dominated by Western ...
Britain has sleepwalked into becoming a surveillance society that increasingly intrudes into our private lives and impacts on everyday activities, the head of...