Better than a thousand useless words is one useful word, hearing which one attains peace. Dhammapada 100 ~~~~~ You are your own master, you make your future. ...
As a fuel crisis deepened in Iraq, the government replaced its oil minister with controversial Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi, whose poor performance in...
The United States government reportedly began coordinating with NATO its plans for a possible military attack against Iran. The German newspaper Der...
(Thanks to Paul de Burgh-Day for this one.) Friends, This video clip just came to me. I'm trying to figure if it is legit, or that someone did some creative...
Seen through the eyes of the media, the world appears an evermore dangerous place. Iraq is sliding toward civil war, the slaughter in Darfur appears unending,...
There are only two weapons in the imperial tool-chest; force and deception. The brutal colonial occupation of Iraq has provided us with a lavish example of the...
Make an island of yourself, make yourself your refuge; there is no other refuge. Make truth your island, make truth your refuge; there is no other refuge. ...
The CIA refused to believe contact after contact who all told them that Iraq had long since shut down its nuclear weapons program. Also, a CIA officer...
A Q-and-A With Alan Clements on transforming personal and world consciousness. ALAN CLEMENTS WAS THE FIRST AMERICAN to have pioneered the ancient Buddhist...
January 2, 2006 2005: A Turbulent Year Revisited Last year will go down as a memorable and turbulent year on the US-Mexico border. Polarization, violence and...
Subject: Globalissues.org - January 2006 Update - WTO Hong Kong, Montreal Climate Change, Press Freedom, War on Terror, Arms Trade Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006...
Democracy talk was a sham, and realists in Washington are getting worried as the vacant character of the neo-cons is exposed for what it is: adolescent,...
The good news is that 2006 will see the effective end of the western occupation of Iraq. It will end because everyone will be exhausted: the Americans, the...
The widely trumpeted threat of another war breaking out between Ethiopia and Eritrea is an attempt to divert international attention from the growing internal...
On Kumasi's Wednesday festival day, I've seen visitors from England and the United States wince at what they regard as the intrusion of modernity on timeless,...
The Edge Annual Question — 2006 WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA? The history of science is replete with discoveries that were considered socially, morally, or...
Late on the night of December 18, Evo Morales became South America's first indigenous President. No less frightening for his detractors in the United States,,...
Just as a mountain of rock, is unwavering, well-settled, so the monk whose delusion is ended, like a mountain, is undisturbed. Udana III, 4 The Daily Words of...
[Moderator comment, not original: "Opinions are like assholes -- everybody has one." I have no idea whether the inevitable big decline in housing prices is ...
The US government is not planning to continue funding reconstruction projects in Iraq, in what appears to be a major climbdown from the White House's one-time...
A recent Washington Post article entitled "Raiding the Icebox; Behind Its Warm Front, the United States Made Cold Calculations to Subdue Canada", by Peter...