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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

2014/11/24 · Leave a comment

Sandcastles: Buddhism and Global Finance

Tricycle promo: Now playing: Sandcastles: Buddhism and Global Finance (November 17–30) “Does Western Buddhism encourage its adherents to serenely ignore their participation in the capitalist machine? So says prominent Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, whose … Continue reading

2014/11/22 · Leave a comment

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

2014/11/20 · 3 Comments

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

2014/11/18 · Leave a comment

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

2014/11/17 · Leave a comment

Buddhists: Get F’n Real

2014/11/15 · 1 Comment

Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something

Western Buddhists are very suspicious of attachment. They feel they need to be detached . . . so don’t get upset about racism, or injustice, or the poison in the … Continue reading

2014/11/11 · 4 Comments

Energy East Mega-Pipeline: Risks to Canadians

2014/11/10 · Leave a comment

Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time

Posted on Nov 9, 2014 By Chris Hedge Numbered footnotes, with hyperlinks, appear at the end of this article. My attitude toward becoming a vegan was similar to Augustine’s attitude toward becoming celibate—“God grant me … Continue reading

2014/11/10 · Leave a comment

How To Stop An Oil And Gas Pipeline: The Unist’ot’en Camp Resistance

Over the past four years, the Unist’ot’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en nation have literally built a strategy to keep three proposed oil and gas pipelines from crossing their land. Concerned … Continue reading

2014/11/08 · Leave a comment

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