Robert Fisk&s World: The truth about the Middle East...
Rated • 1 review • politics • independent.co.uk
ROBERT FISK: Chomsky was wrong. It's not about consent. It's about the manufacture of social, political and historical denial.
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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.
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WHERE IS THE COUNTERCULTURE WHEN WE NEED IT by Sam Smith
Rated • 3 reviews • counterculture, politics, society • prorev.com
If we think of our rebellion as only a means of destroying the evil around us we will go down with that evil. We must not only bring an end to the wrong but give birth to the good, the community, the culture and the values that will replace it. We can't wait for the former to begin the latter. And if we do, we will have failed.
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WHOSE LAND IS IT, ANYWAY? Reflections on patriotism by...
Rated • 1 review • politics, society • prorev.com
"In short, America is not the answer; it is only a good place to look for the answer. America has never been perfect; it's just been a place where it was easier to fix things that were broken. The ability to repair ourselves has long been one of our great characteristics as a people and a nation."
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The Reformed Buddhist: The Dharma Paycheck
Rated • 5 reviews • buddhism, politics • blogspot.com
One cause, one very important cause I do share with my 'Red' Marxist fellow bloggers (about the only cause) is the shared disgust of the commercialization of Buddhism. I'm talking about The Dharma Paycheck crowd, the ones who charge $50-600 a ticket to hear them talk just because they wrote a book or have a famous name; Or the glossy magazines filled with shitty articles written thirty times over by the same fucking people, and are filled to the brim with ads for worthless crap for sale that have nothing to do with exploring Buddhism; or worse, the complete lack of resources for the poor and middle class for Buddhism because of the siphoning by those profiteers seeking to make their 30 pieces of silver.
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Obama Zaps E. Europe Star Wars
Rated • 2 reviews • military, politics • thenation.com
"The truth is that the decision to put a missile defense system was both stupid and needlessly provocative. Stupid, because the system doesn't work and because the threat from Iran is nonexistent. And provocative, because it was part of the Bush administration's neo-Cold War effort to bolster and expand NATO, pressure Russia militarily in south and central Asia, back adventurist states such as Georgia, and otherwise poke the Russian bear with sharp sticks."
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Sociopathy on the Right: Ayn Rand and the Triumph of...
Rated • 25 reviews • literature, politics, society • dirk-johnson.com
What is the difference between Ayn Rand style capitalism and satanism?
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Shambhala SunSpace & David R. Loy: "The Nonduality of...
Rated • 2 reviews • buddhism, economics, politics, society • shambhalasun.com
The ultimate irony is that money in itself is literally worthless: whether pieces of paper or numbers in bank accounts, money has value only because it is our socially-agreed medium of exchange. A $100 bill is just a piece of paper. We can't eat it, drink it, ride on it, etc. We forget that money is a social construct -- a kind of group fantasy. The anthropologist Weston LaBarre called it a psychosis that has become normal, "an institutionalized dream that everyone is having at once."
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Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog...
Rated • 2 reviews • politics • cnn.com
JACK CAFFERTY: "Some believe that the president's selection of an overweight candidate for the nation's top doctor sent the wrong message. Now we find out she works for Burger King."
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Op-Ed Columnist - Is Obama Punking Us? - NYTimes.com
Rated • 3 reviews • politics • nytimes.com
"What disturbs Americans of all ideological persuasions is the fear that almost everything, not just government, is fixed or manipulated by some powerful hidden hand, from commercial transactions as trivial as the sales of prime concert tickets to cultural forces as pervasive as the news media. "
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Spitzer for Treasury?
Rated • 1 review • economics, politics • thenation.com
"Spitzer took on Wall Street's metastasizing corruption before the meltdown. He defended consumers' and taxpayers' rights. He speaks with passion and clarity about what went wrong and what needs to be done to restore integrity to our system. He is chastened by personal scandal, yet untouched by complicity in Wall Street's public scandals which have obliterated peoples' savings and devastated our country. "
