Stephen Lewis: Harper’s Nixonian Regime
Stephen Lewis roars once more in takedown of Stephen Harper government: Tim Harper Canada and its politics, the former Ontario NDP leader says, are in free fall. MIKE CASSESE / … Continue reading →
Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins
Let’s look to one of the saints of the 20th Century — Mahatma Gandhi. On October 22, 1925, Gandhi published a list he called the Seven Social Sins in his … Continue reading →
Dubai Royals to Rob Masai of Ancestral Homelands
Tanzania accused of backtracking over sale of Masai’s ancestral land Masai told to leave historic homeland by end of the year so it can become a hunting reserve for the … Continue reading →
Remembering Leslie Feinberg, Revolutionary Communist
Her last words were: “Remember me as a revolutionary communist.” By hir wife, Minnie Bruce Pratt. Leslie Feinberg, who identified as an anti-racist white, working-class, secular Jewish, transgender, lesbian, female, … Continue reading →
Monbiot: The age of loneliness is killing us
For the most social of creatures, the mammalian bee, there’s no such thing now as society. This will be our downfall. George Monbiot The Guardian, Tuesday 14 October 2014 19.49 BST … Continue reading →
Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something
Western Buddhists are very suspicious of attachment. They feel they need to be detached . . . so dont get upset about racism, or injustice, or the poison in the … Continue reading →
Radical Faeries: Modern Day Siddhas
[Developing story: I will be expanding on this article over the next little while, eventually to become part of a book on tantric Buddhism as engaged practice.] Danielle Levitt, photographer, … Continue reading →
Right Anger and the Path to the End of Caste
by Alan Senauke And this, monks, is the noble truth of the way of practice leading to the cessation of dukkha: precisely this Noble Eightfold Path: right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right … Continue reading →
Behind Cry for Help From China Labor Camp
Fulon Gong members and others imprisoned, tortured and abused as slave labour to make Halloween decorations. The New York Times The administrative building of the Masanjia labor camp and other … Continue reading →
Marshall Islands Poet Speaks Letter to Her Baby
on her baby’s future impacted by climate change.
