Interesting articles from various places around the internets:
Ajahn Chah, “Training the Heart.” (Buddhadharma)
“[I]f you want to transform the mind, you must know and transform the heart.”
Jayshree Bajoria, “A Different Tack on Terror.” (Counsel on Foreign Relations)
“Our most important task in the war on terrorism is not the ‘destructive’ task of eradicating enemy networks, but the ‘constructive’ task of building legitimacy, good governance, trust, rule of law, and tolerance.”
Brent Budowsky, “The next moon shot.” (The Hill)
“America should mobilize to mass-produce a patriot car within five years that achieves 100 miles per gallon or runs on entirely gasoline-free fuels.”
Aditya Chakrabortty, “Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis.” (Guardian Unlimited)
“Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% – far more than previously estimated – according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian.”
Steve Chesne, Does Music Exist? (Tricycle)
“There’s a symphony going on that we cannot perceive. We cannot even imagine what level of being could perceive this Universal Song, yet we are deeply woven into this dance of vibrations.”
Jody Corcoran, “Cowen on the rack.” (Irish Independent)
“The public’s satisfaction with Taoiseach Brian Cowen has fallen dramatically, as the country slides into recession in the aftermath of the rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, according to a new Sunday Independent/ Quantum Research opinion poll.”
Sam Dagher, “Iraqi Shiite Party rises as Sadr falls.” (The Christian Science Monitor)
“The Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq aims to capitalize on the disarray within Moqtada al-Sadr’s movement ahead of parliamentary elections planned for October.”
James K. Galbraith, “The GOP’s December Surprise.” (Mother Jones)
“Is the GOP cooking the books to avoid recession till after Election Day?”
Katje Gloger (Interviewer), “George Soros: ‘We are in the midst of the worst financial crisis in 30 years’” (Stern)
Rita M. Gross, “How American Women Are Changing Buddhism.” (Shambhala Sun)
“American women are taking Buddhism away from its patriarchal past, participating confidently as practitioners, teachers, and leaders.”
Charles R. Johnson, “The King We Need: Teachings for A Nation In Search of Itself.” (Shambhala Sun)
“He was more than just the “civil rights leader” he is remembered as today. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of America’s greatest moral and political philosphers, his life founded on deep, sophisticated and courageous spiritual conviction.”
Naomi Klein, “Disaster Capitalism: State of Extortion.” (The Nation)
“Once oil passed $140 a barrel, even the most rabidly right-wing media hosts had to prove their populist cred by devoting a portion of every show to bashing Big Oil. Some have gone so far as to invite me on for a friendly chat about an insidious new phenomenon: “disaster capitalism.” It usually goes well–until it doesn’t.”
Elizabeth Lunday, “Texas Archaeological Dig Challenges Assumptions about First Americans.” (Scientific American)
“Ancient stone artifacts reveal the day-to-day lives of Clovis people while offering tantalizing clues of an even earlier culture.”
John Marshall, “Terrible twosome.” (The Hill)
“You probably heard about that fusillade from the McCain campaign earlier this week, when his surrogates used a press conference call to call Obama ‘naïve’ and ‘delusional’ on terrorism. But let’s take a moment to look at the names of those leveling these charges.”
Colman McCarthy, “Dorothy Day’s Day.” (The Nation)
“At Dorothy Day’s death in November 1980, at 83, talk was heard that the Catholic Worker, the movement she co-founded in 1933, would vanish without her. … The talk was unfounded.”
J. R. Minkel, “Voyager 2 Finds Lopsided Solar System.” (Scientific American)
“Hurtling through space 31 years after its launch, the Voyager 2 spacecraft has sent back the most detailed view yet of the shock wave that marks the thinning of the solar wind, the charged particles streaming from the sun.”
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Noam Schaiber “Is Barack A Typical Pol?” (The New Republic) “McCain wants you to think so–which is good, in the long run, for Obama.” | ||
| Response by Jonathan Chait: “The Flip-Flop Fallacy.” “It may be wildly hypocritical for McCain to attack Obama as a flip-flopper, but that doesn’t mean it can’t work.” |
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| Counter-response by Noam Schaiber: “Shame on You Jon Chait.” | ||
Rick Shenkman, “Citizen Stupid.” (Mother Jones)
“Just how ignorant is the average American voter?”
Steven Stark, “Radical Tweak: Conservatives are missing the mark on Obama’s vulnerability.” (The Boston Phoenix)
“[I]f the company he keeps continues to be the GOP’s principal criticism through to November, it will ensure Obama’s election.”
Gao Zugui, “China can use G8 talks to reach out to others.” (China Daily)
“Whether the G8 likes it or not, a sense of equality has been growing noticeably in the dialogue in recent years as the influence of developing nations and especially of the emerging economies increases while developed countries find themselves in need of help from developing nations more than ever.”
Various authors, “The Question.” (Tricycle)
“From reincarnation to reading Proust, seventeen Buddhists tell us what they’ve changed their minds about, and why.”
Unsigned, “Mount Lebanon’s children.” (The Economist)
“A fine family memoir explores notions of emigration, identity and sectarianism.”
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