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Craig is a guy from Tibet, Tennessee, USA

recluse; born NYC, ex-international development (NGO) worker, vegan, musician, father of six, lover of wilderness and high places.

I keep an irregular blog, a Buddhist website, Twitter a Yahoo group called PADMA and am married to Tonyadechen. You can hear some of our buddhist rock&roll right here.

  • Armistice Day: The Great War and the words we mustnt...

    Rated Nov 14 • 2 reviews • history, literature, journalism • independent.co.uk

    Fisk on the Great War and the general degeneration of our ability to read and understand the words authored by those who experienced this conflict first-hand.
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    Armistice Day: The Great War and the words we mustnt forget - World, News - The Independent

  • WebFaction - Coming soon: Another fine website hosted by...

    Rated Mar 08 2009 • 1 review • journalism, society • designriffs.com

    Why Twitter? Because the microblog format restricts the size of a status update or post to 140 characters, users gradually find ways to add more power to their content. This means rethinking one's message and giving it maximum impact, forcing people to be more concise; in an age of info overload this approach is just what is needed.

    As far as vehicles for surfing, Twitter is a motorcycle compared to SU's 'bus'; it carries less but can be a valuable means of augmenting connections once you locate the right neighborhood.
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    WebFaction - Coming soon: Another fine website hosted by WebFaction

  • Gideon Levy / My hero of the Gaza war -...

    Rated Jan 11 2009 • 1 review • middle east, journalism • haaretz.com

    "At age 29, he has already seen one war, in Iraq, but he says this war is more intense. He is frustrated that his broadcasts are carried virtually everywhere in the world except the United States, his own country, the place he thinks it is most important that these images from Gaza be seen. "
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    Gideon Levy / My hero of the Gaza war - Haaretz - Israel News

  • http://robert-fisk.com/book_extracts_serial1.htm

    Rated Dec 23 2008 • 2 reviews • middle east, journalism • robert-fisk.com

    Excerpts from chapter one of journalist Robert Fisk's incredible GREAT WAR FOR CIVILISATION:

    "The Taliban gunmen had grown up as refugees in these diseased camps in Pakistan. Their first 16 years of life were passed in blind poverty, deprived of all education and entertainment, imposing their own deadly punishments, their mothers and sisters kept in subservience as the men decided how to fight their foreign oppressors on the other side of the border, their only diversion a detailed and obsessive reading of the Koran - the one and true path in a world in which no other could be contemplated. The Taliban had arrived not to rebuild a country they did not remember, but to rebuild their refugee camps on a larger scale. Hence there was to be no education. No television. Women must stay home, just as they stayed in their tents in Peshawar. "

    *****

    "Stop! Stop!" As the brakes were jammed on, I almost hit my head on the windscreen. "Sorry, sorry," the bespectacled man said, putting down his rocket-launcher. He pulled a metal detector from the pocket of his combat jacket, the red light flicking over my body in another search. The road grew worse as we continued, the 4x4 skidding backwards towards sheer cliffs, the headlights playing across the chasms on either side. "Toyota is good for jihad," my driver said. I could only agree, noting that this was one advertising slogan the Toyota company would probably forgo.

    *****

    And I shall always remember Osama bin Laden's last words to me that night on the bare mountain: "Mr Robert," he said, "from this mountain upon which you are sitting, we broke the Russian army and we destroyed the Soviet Union. And I pray to God that he will permit us to turn the United States into a shadow of itself."
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    http://robert-fisk.com/book_extracts_serial1.htm

  • CNN's Prisoner of War&|&Men's Journal

    Rated Dec 13 2008 • 4 reviews • iraq, war, journalism • mensjournal.com

    CNN correspondent Michael Ware had been hunted, kidnapped, and told he was filming his own execution. But had no plans to leave Iraq. Now, it won't leave him. "I am not the same fucking person. I am not the same person. I don't know how to come home."
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    CNN's Prisoner of War&|&Men's Journal

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    Rated Aug 15 2008 • 3 reviews • politics, journalism • gregpalast.com

    "Is this federal law? Is it state law? No, it's Bush law; it's Rove law. The nice thing about elections for vote thieves: there's a 'Fuck you' clause in vote theft. If you win, you control the review. You own the police."
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  • The Dominion | news from the grassroots

    Rated Feb 27 2007 • 6 reviews • journalism • dominionpaper.ca

    Once a month, this 'incipient network of independent journalists in Canada' bring us ° The Dominion ° examining global politics, and culture with a view to understanding the exercise of power, often with a keen eye for its effects on the daily lives of people.
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    The Dominion | news from the grassroots

  • amira hass - Google News

    Rated Dec 17 2006 • 1 review • politics, middle east, journalism • google.com

    According to UK Independent journalist Robert Fisk, Amira Hass is a 'brilliant Israeli journalist on Ha'aretz newspaper whose reports on the Palestinian territories have outshone anything written by non-Israeli reporters.'
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    amira hass - Google News

  • Amira Hass: The Occupier Defines Justice

    Rated Nov 19 2006 • 1 review • middle east, journalism • counterpunch.org

    It is no wonder that the Palestinians support every action --such as kidnapping soldiers --that tries to break the rules of this discrimination game. Every Palestinian prisoner's personal history is an expression of the freedom Israel allows itself in the implanting of an extreme subculture of double standard, discriminating blood from blood, human being from human being, nation from nation.

    Tracking the IDF's insurgency into Gaza;
    this article is a great example of the even-minded and compassionate view reflected in the fine journalistic work of Amira Hass who regularly contributes to the Israeli Daily Ha'aretz.
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    Amira Hass: The Occupier Defines Justice

  • http://www.tibetwrites.org/articles/buchungd_sonam/bhuchu...

    Rated Nov 07 2006 • 1 review • buddhism, asia, journalism • tibetwrites.org

    The Young Ones
    The confrontation against writers and intellectuals in any society generally comes from two sections - the mob and the authority. While the former is a congregation of the ultra orthodox who are untouchable by winds of change, the latter is a force all out to silence creative voices, since creativity means change and the change signifies danger to those in power. History is filled with such incidences - lack of societal receptacle for fresh thoughts and rule of thumb by those in power, a toxic cocktail that often drives the intellectuals into exile, social ostracism and in many cases to their demise. Over and above these conditions there seems to be, in our society, a trace of collective karmic result that by a freak twist of fate hammers the heads that rise above others.
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    http://www.tibetwrites.org/articles/buchungd_sonam/bhuchungdsonam02.html