Monday, October 26, 2015

What If They Gave a War and Everyone Came?

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  by Peter Van Buren This post originally appeared at   TomDispatch . US Marines take cover after a mortar attack during a sandstorm...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

Joan Chittister: The Gate to Human Community

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Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gat...

Ram Dass: The Basis Of All Truthful Relationship

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Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love--for ourselves and for all life, including animals...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Rachel Carson: The Road Less Traveled

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We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we ha...

Exxon's Climate Cover-Up

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This is SO HUGE!! What should the price be paid by those at the top who have intentionally subverted the very welfare of all life on Earth? ...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Thích Nhất Hạnh: The Black Curious Eyes of a Child

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People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.  But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in...
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

You Ignore This War At Your Own Peril - And the Peril of Us All

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a rally, Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, at the Moda Center in Portl...

William Stafford: Today

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T oday   The ordinary miracles begin. Somewhere a signal arrives: “Now,” and the rays come down. A   tomorrow   has come. Open yo...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

New 2015 Wealth Data: US Inequality at Its Ugliest

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PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Four years after the Occupy uprising, economic inequality in the United States continues to soar. ...

The Dalai Lama: Compassion

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Compassion reduces our fear, boosts our confidence,  and opens us to inner strength. By reducing distrust, it opens us  to others a...