Articles by Huffington Post
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What Would the Buddha Do?
David Loy | Huffington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
Interdependence is not merely an insight to be cultivated on our cushions. A suffering world calls upon us to realize interdependence—to make it real—in the ways we actually live. If Buddhists do not want to do this or cannot find ways to do this, then Buddhism is not the spiritual path that the world needs today.
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More Than a Quarter of the World’s Countries Helped the CIA Run Its Torture Program
Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Ryan Grim and Lauren Weber – Huffington Post,
10 Jun 2019
These countries made the CIA program possible in two ways: by enabling rendition, which involved transferring U.S. detainees abroad without due legal process, and by providing facilities far beyond the reach of U.S. law where those detainees were subjected to torture.
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The Authorization for Use of Military Force Created an ‘Open-Ended War’
Paul Blumenthal – Huffington Post,
17 Sep 2018
The 2001 AUMF has now been used to justify U.S. military efforts in more than 20 countries.
→ read full articleChina Extends Her Silk Road to Haiti
Georgianne Nienaber – The Huffington Post,
7 Aug 2017
4 Aug 2017 – China plans to invest $30 billion in Haiti’s infrastructure according to the Haitian Press Agency. The agreement includes the construction of a 600 megawatt power plant to electrify Port-au-Prince, the construction of a new City Hall, markets, thousands of apartments, and eventually a railway from Port-au-Prince to the countryside.
→ read full articleYou Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia (Part 1)
Alastair Crooke – The Huffington Post,
17 Apr 2017
Those who would not conform to this view should be killed, their wives and daughters violated, and their possessions confiscated, he wrote. On the one hand, ISIS is deeply Wahhabist. On the other hand, it is ultra radical in a different way. It could be seen essentially as a corrective movement to contemporary Wahhabism.
→ read full articleYou Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia (Part 2)
Alastair Crooke – The Huffington Post,
17 Apr 2017
“In political and financial terms, the Saud-Philby strategy has been an astonishing success. But it was always rooted in British and American intellectual obtuseness: the refusal to see the dangerous ‘gene’ within the Wahhabist project, its latent potential to mutate, at any time, back into its original a bloody, puritan strain. In any event, this has just happened: ISIS is it.”
→ read full articleWag the Dog — How Al Qaeda Played Donald Trump and the American Media
Scott Ritter – The Huffington Post,
17 Apr 2017
The other winner in this sorry story is ISIS, which took advantage of the American strike against Al Shayrat to launch a major offensive against Syrian government forces around the city of Palmyra. The breakdown in relations between Russia and the USA means that the kind of coordination that had been taking place in the fight against ISIS is a thing of the past, a fact that can only bode well for the fighters of ISIS. Meanwhile, responsibility for the chemical event in Khan Sheikhoun is still very much in question.
→ read full article(Italiano) La nonviolenza oggi, tra crisi del pacifismo e legittima difesa
Mao Valpiana – Huffington Post Italia,
3 Apr 2017
27 mar 2017 – Lo scorso ottobre il servizio di consulenza linguistica dell’Accademia della Crusca, ha sentenziato che “la lessicografia contemporanea considera la forma univerbata “nonviolenza” come un’unità lessicale: esito che senza dubbio è stato favorito dalla spinta del Movimento Nonviolento, che ha attribuito un nuovo valore alla parola”.
→ read full articleKahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders
Magda Abu-Fadil – The Huffington Post,
6 Feb 2017
22 Jan 2017 – In an age of rising populism, fear and xenophobia, what better time to read a rich enlightening book on love, multiculturalism, inspiration and beauty chronicling the life and work of a man who transcends borders and generations.
→ read full articleInstead of the Two-State Solution: An Alternative Vision for Peace in Israel-Palestine
Robert L. Herbst and Jonathan Kuttab – The Huffington Post,
26 Dec 2016
We are of the view that the liberation of both peoples – Jews from being occupiers and dominators, and Palestinians from being occupied and dominated – in two separate states has now been rendered virtually impossible by the facts on the ground. “Ending the occupation” is therefore no longer sufficient to create a viable future for both.
→ read full articleWhy Fighting Donald Trump on Climate Change Is a Waste of Time
Captain Paul Watson | Sea Shepherd – The Huffington Post,
21 Nov 2016
Donald Trump’s denial of Climate Change is irrelevant. It is a scientific reality and its denial as a problem does not make the threat go away. The reality cannot be changed by the personal beliefs of the president of the United States. This is akin to King Canute demanding that the tide cease to rise. When he failed to force the ocean to his will, he proclaimed, “let all men know how empty and worthless the power of kings is.” Presidents, like kings, have no authority over Nature.
→ read full articleBoycott Nestlé, Says Petition after Company Outbids Town for Water
Jesse Ferreras - The Huffington Post Canada,
26 Sep 2016
23 Sep 2016 – A national boycott of Nestlé is launched just one day after it emerged that the company bought a supply of safe drinking water out from under a small town. Activist group The Council of Canadians launched the boycott on Thursday [22 Sep] amid news that Nestlé outbid the Township of Centre Wellington, Ont. for a well that could have given it a new water supply.
→ read full articleWorld to Japan: Stop Killing Whales
Taryn Kiekow – The Huffington Post,
5 Sep 2016
31 Aug 2016 – The World Conservation Congress passed with overwhelming support a motion today denouncing the killing of whales under the guise of science. The motion censures Japan’s “scientific research” whaling, which Japan uses to evade the international ban against commercial whaling.
→ read full articleThe Big Problem with the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s Super Court That We’re Not Talking About
David Dayen – The Huffington Post,
5 Sep 2016
Financiers will use it to bet on lawsuits, while taxpayers foot the bill.
→ read full article29 Pages Revealed: Corruption, Crime and Cover-up of 9/11
Kristen Breitweiser – The Huffington Post,
18 Jul 2016
First and foremost, here is what you need to know when you listen to any member of our government state that the newly released 29 pages are no smoking gun — THEY ARE LYING. Read the 29 pages and know the facts.
→ read full articleBan Ki-moon Slams Western Leaders for Missing World Humanitarian Summit
Sophia Jones – The Huffington Post,
6 Jun 2016
24 May 2016 — Sixty-five heads of state and governments, along with thousands of aid workers, politicians, civil society members journalists and celebrities, descended on Istanbul this week for the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit. While Germany was represented by its Chancellor Angela Merkel, the other great powers were essentially absent: Canada, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia and China.
→ read full articleIn an Age of Discovery, It Takes Real Guts to Be Optimistic
Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna – The Huffington Post,
30 May 2016
Who will dare to stoke our optimism? To accept responsibility, to start fixing the mistakes we’ve made, and with bold actions remind us all that, while we may be more vulnerable, our collective potential has never been greater? Goliath is waiting.
→ read full article[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Asks for ‘Space’ as Kerry Presses Her on Rohingya Treatment
Reuters – The Huffington Post,
23 May 2016
22 May 2016 – Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi asked to be given “enough space” to address the plight of her country’s Rohingya Muslim population, as visiting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pressed the Nobel peace laureate to promote respect for human rights.
→ read full articleHow Water Corruption Leaves Millions Mired in Misery
Callum Clench – The Huffington Post,
16 May 2016
While corruption permeates every walk of life, its impact on water is particularly pernicious. Corruption in the water sector is widespread, hugely underestimated and little understood. It has a profound impact on economic progress, provision of water and, in the final resort, costs million of lives. Given the complexity of water, then, and its vulnerability to graft, there are three measures which could easily be adopted at Prime Minister Cameron’s summit.
→ read full articleThe Life and Death of Daniel Berrigan
John Dear – The Huffington Post,
9 May 2016
Dan was my greatest friend and teacher, for over thirty five years. We traveled the nation and the world together; went to jail together; and I edited five books of his writings. But all along I considered him one of the most important religious figures of the last century, right alongside with Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day and his brother Philip.
→ read full articleIndian-American Scientist Has Discovered a Way to Eat Meat without Killing Animals
The Huffington Post, The Times of India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2016
14 Mar 2016 – An Indian-American scientist-led team has developed contamination-free meat from animal cells in a laboratory that could be harvested in 9 to 21 days, a new technique that could help in stopping large scale slaughtering of animals globally.
→ read full articleOxford College Takes Down Plaque of Cecil Rhodes, Colonial Imperialist
Krithika Varagur - The Huffington Post,
21 Dec 2015
Rhodes was a mining magnate and ardent advocate of colonialism who founded the colonial territory of “Rhodesia,” now Zimbabwe and Zambia.
→ read full articleTorture, Psychology, and Daniel Inouye: The True Story behind Psychology’s Role in Torture
Bryant Welch – The Huffington Post,
27 Jul 2015
Despite being an organization of psychologists, the American Psychological Association has been subjected to considerable manipulation but to very little analysis. The people who run APA have “reverse engineered” the very field of psychology itself and used it against its own membership.
→ read full articleHow Highly Sensitive People Interact with the World Differently
Lindsay Holmes - The Huffington Post,
15 Jun 2015
Those with an empathetic personality are actually biologically wired to behave the way that they do. As a result, they also have an entirely different approach to their physical environment — and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
→ read full articleOur Cross to Bear
Sean Penn – Huffington Post,
15 Jun 2015
I am provoked by the recent criticism from ProPublica and NPR of the American Red Cross’ activities and expenditures related to their response to Haiti’s 2010 earthquake through this day, in a June 3rd, 2015 article headlined “How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti — and Built Six Homes.”
→ read full articlePave Paradise, Put Up a Naval Base: South Korean Activists’ Extraordinary Struggle to Save Jeju Island
Medea Benjamin – Huffington Post,
1 Jun 2015
After a long journey to cross the DMZ from North to South Korea with a group of 30 peace women, some of us — including Nobel Prize winner Mairead Maguire and retired Colonel Ann Wright — stopped on Jeju Island and fell in love with this community of farmers, fisherpeople, city officials, small shop owners, florists, artists, poets, students and grandmothers.
→ read full articleWant A Healthy Brain? Better Avoid These 7 Habits
Carolyn Gregoire - The Huffington Post,
4 May 2015
Why are some people sharp as a tack at 95 years old, while others begin struggling with mental clarity in their 50s?
→ read full articleWhere Is the World… ?
Imani Michelle Scott, Ph.D. – The Huffington Post,
4 May 2015
I love the black men in my life. They are my brothers, my nephews, my cousins, my best friends. The politics of distraction successfully leads attention away from what occurs in the U.S. to focus on inhumanity in those nations beyond America’s borders. Where is the world when the collective of humanity is so needed to help end police violence against blacks in America?
→ read full articleFreedom in Martyrdom
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir – The Huffington Post,
27 Apr 2015
Reconciliation must begin by recognizing and admitting to past mistakes. Regardless of the extent of the West’s abuse and exploitation of Arab resources and people, acknowledging its long history of misguided policies is critical to establishing a dialogue that is still largely missing in the strategy of countering violent extremism.
→ read full articleThe Fantasy World of Benjamin Netanyahu: Responses to His Talk to Congress
Rabbi Michael Lerner – Huffington Post,
9 Mar 2015
3 Mar 2015 – Netanyahu’s speech to Congress was brilliantly deceitful because it played to the fantasies that Israeli propaganda and right wing militarists in the US have been popularizing for the past thirty years.
→ read full articleHow Netanyahu’s Policies Are Fueling Anti-Semitism
Alon Ben-Meir – The Huffington Post,
26 Jan 2015
Netanyahu must accept the fact that the occupation is one of the main causes (but not the source) behind the recent rise of anti-Semitism. Instead of focusing on ending it, he is calling on French Jews to immigrate to Israel only to “become oppressors” of the Palestinians.
→ read full articleThe Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think
Johann Hari – The Huffington Post,
26 Jan 2015
It is happening. I have seen it. Nearly fifteen years ago Portugal had one of the worst drug problems in Europe, with 1 percent of the population addicted to heroin. They decided something radically different: decriminalize all drugs and transfer all moneys they used on jailing drug addicts to reconnecting them — to their own feelings, and to the wider society.
→ read full articleFrom Damascus to Carnegie Hall, a Refugee Child Prodigy Plays the Piano for Peace
Sophia Jones – Huffington Post,
29 Dec 2014
18 Dec 2014 – When 15-year-old Tambi Asaad Cimuk walked into a music store in this northwestern Turkish city last year, he had never played the piano before. Now, the shy Syrian refugee from Damascus is set to perform at Carnegie Hall next month. His teachers say he could be the next Rachmaninoff.
→ read full articleMore Than a Quarter of the World’s Countries Helped the CIA Run Its Torture Program
Akbar Shahid Ahmed, Ryan Grim and Lauren Weber – Huffington Post,
15 Dec 2014
These countries made the CIA program possible in two ways: by enabling rendition, which involved transferring U.S. detainees abroad without due legal process, and by providing facilities far beyond the reach of U.S. law where those detainees were subjected to torture.
→ read full articleThe Battle for Jerusalem
David Hearst – Huffington Post,
1 Dec 2014
To be a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem is to suffer from a special form of statelessness. They are citizens neither of Israel nor of Palestine. They cannot vote. They have no official passports and cannot freely cross borders.
→ read full articleHarper’s Plan Means Canada Will Be Associated With War Crimes Instead of Peacekeeping
Mark Taliano – Huffington Post,
10 Nov 2014
Author, poet, academic, and former Canadian diplomat Prof. Peter Dale Scott recently disclosed a WikiLeaks cable indicating that the International Republican Institute, an off-shoot of the CIA, and a subsidiary of the National Endowment for Democracy helped install Stephen Harper as Canada’s Prime Minister. This was the coup.
→ read full articleHow Western Governments Have Failed Palestinian Children
Roger Waters – The Huffington Post,
20 Oct 2014
Israel’s assault on Gaza left 373,000 Palestinian children in need of direct and specialized psychosocial support. They have been so traumatized by the terror, death, and destruction that they are in urgent need of Post-Traumatic Stress Therapy. PTSD is deeply unsettling to see in our own troops, but in entirely innocent children whose land, according to international law, has been illegally settled and occupied for decades, it is grievous and unconscionable.
→ read full articleColumbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery
Eric Kasum – The Huffington Post,
20 Oct 2014
The stunning truth is: If Christopher Columbus were alive today, he would be put on trial for crimes against humanity. Columbus’ reign of terror, as documented by noted historians, was extremely bloody, his legacy unspeakably cruel.
→ read full articleDon’t Worry, Whatever It Is We’re Doing in the Middle East, It’s Totally Not a ‘War’
Sara Boboltz - The Huffington Post,
6 Oct 2014
The Obama administration has maintained that the U.S. is not “at war.” However, the country is, in fact, engaged in a prolonged military operation in partnership with an international coalition to provide counterterrorism assistance to global partners against the Islamic State.
→ read full articleYou Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia
Alastair Crooke – Huffington Post,
8 Sep 2014
“Those who would not conform to this view should be killed, their wives and daughters violated, and their possessions confiscated,” Abd al-Wahhab wrote.
→ read full articleThere Can’t Be Peace until Israelis and Palestinians Start Seeing Each Other as Humans
Lucas Bento – Huffington Post,
1 Sep 2014
Cultural diplomacy can also help tackle what Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung called “structural violence”, that is, the existence of social structures, such as institutionalized racism.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Jewish Community, Amoral Familism and the Crisis of Palestine
Steve Koppman – Huffington Post,
1 Sep 2014
A Judaism that treasures Jewish lives and devalues Arab lives is no longer Judaism. The U.S. Jewish community had its political identity hijacked by an influential minority, including many community leaders and rabbis, who advocate for Israel no matter what it does.
→ read full articleHackers Successfully Crack US Nuclear Facilities for the First Time… Twice
The Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2014
19 Aug 2014 – The United States has admitted that hackers attacking its nuclear power plants have already succeeded. Twice.
→ read full articleThe Nun Behind Bars in Brooklyn: Anti-Nuke Activist
Helen Young – The Huffington Post,
2 Jun 2014
After growing up in the shadow of Columbia University in Manhattan, serving the Catholic Church as a biology teacher in Africa for more than 40 years, and a peace activist in Nevada, 84-year-old Sister Megan Rice has landed back in New York City. She won a conviction for sabotage, which the law defines as a “federal crime of terrorism”.
→ read full article10 Reasons to Love Uruguay’s President José Mujica
Medea Benjamin – Huffington Post,
19 May 2014
Mujica’s influence goes far beyond that of the leader of a tiny country of only 3 million people. In a world hungry for alternatives, the innovations that he and his colleagues are championing have put Uruguay on the map as one of the world’s most exciting experiments in creative, progressive governance.
→ read full articleEnd the War on Drugs, Say Nobel Prize-Winning Economists
Matt Ferner - The Huffington Post,
12 May 2014
The decades-long global war on drugs has failed and it’s time to shift the focus from mass incarceration to public health and human rights, according to a new report endorsed by five Nobel Prize-winning economists.
→ read full articleThe Geopolitics of Gay Rights in Uganda
Daniel Wagner and Giorgio Cafiero – Huffington Post,
17 Mar 2014
6 Mar 2014 – Last week’s passage into law of the controversial anti-gay bill in Uganda puts the country among an elite club of nations noteworthy for their backpedaling on human and civil rights.
→ read full articleAmerica Has More Prisoners than High School Teachers
Saki Knafo – Huffington Post,
24 Feb 2014
If sitting in a prison cell was a job, it would be one of the most common jobs in the United States. In 2012, there were some 1,570,000 inmates in prisons in the U.S. By contrast, there were about 1,530,000 engineers, 815,000 construction workers, and 1 million high school teachers.
→ read full articleTransatlantic Trade Agreement Threatens Environment and Health in U.S. and Europe
Erich Pica – Huffington Post,
30 Dec 2013
24 Dec 2013 – Negotiations between the United States and European Union for a free trade agreement, which resumed this week in Washington, represent one of the biggest threats we have seen in our lifetimes to an environmentally sustainable and socially just world.
→ read full articleWhy Suffering and Spirituality Go Hand-in-Hand
Gadadhara Pandit dasa – The Huffington Post,
23 Dec 2013
As a society, we have become so dependent on material things for our happiness that our lives would become completely disrupted without them. When things are on shaky ground, we pray to God to protect what we have. This need-based spirituality is all right, but it’s a bit superficial.
→ read full articleUruguay’s President Rips Into U.N. Official Over Marijuana Law: ‘Stop Lying’
Roque Planas - The Huffington Post,
16 Dec 2013
José “Pepe” Mujica shot back on Friday [13 Dec 2013] at the president of the International Narcotics Control Board, a U.N. agency. “There’s always going to be pressure,” Mujica told Brazilian daily Folha de São Paulo before the law passed. “There’s an apparatus in the world that lives by repressing, and it costs a lot of money.”
→ read full articleWhen the Messenger Is the Killer
Joam Evans Pim – Huffington Post,
9 Dec 2013
Video games escalate lethal socialization among younger generations. Military psychologist Dave Grossman pointed out how violent video games “act just like police and military simulators, providing conditioned responses, killing skills and desensitization, except they are inflicted on children without the discipline of military and police training.”
→ read full article(Français) Quand il s’agit des animaux, pour certains, presque rien, c’est déjà trop
Aurélien Barrau – Huffington Post,
25 Nov 2013
Il y a quelques jours, vingt-quatre intellectuels saisissaient l’opinion pour qu’une réflexion collective émerge enfin sur le statut des animaux, jusqu’à maintenant considérés comme des “choses” dans le code civil français.
→ read full articleA Conversation with Jeremy Hammond, American Political Prisoner Sentenced to 10 Years
Vivien Lesnik Weisman – Huffington Post,
25 Nov 2013
On September 10 [2013] I visited Jeremy Hammond at Manhattan Correctional Center where he had been incarcerated for 18 months. Mr. Hammond, who was denied bail, was also disallowed all visitors, including family members. I am the first journalist with whom Mr. Hammond met since his arrest in March 2012. This interview was held months before sentencing. At the request of Mr. Hammond’s attorneys, who feared his words would be used at sentencing against him, I delayed publishing.
→ read full articleDo We All Worship the Same God?
Gadadhara Pandit – Huffington Post,
18 Nov 2013
I would like to think so. Something tells me that heaven isn’t divided up into a Hindu, Christian, Muslim and Jewish heaven. I would like to think that, up there, we are united regardless of our faith here on Earth.
→ read full articleNonkilling or 9mm Tacos for Breakfast
Joam Evans Pim – Huffington Post,
18 Nov 2013
Mexico’s government has teamed up with the World Health Organization’s Violence Prevention Alliance to look at stopping violence, particularly lethal violence, before it happens using the WHO’s definition of violence as “a preventable disease.”
→ read full articleA Splinter in the Mind: The Matrix through Hinduism
Gadadhara Pandit - The Huffington Post,
11 Nov 2013
How in the world could a Hollywood movie capture the state of mind of a seeker and where did they get the idea that our worldly existence is possibly an illusion? Such were the questions I was asking after seeing The Matrix. The only place I had come across these topics was in the Bhagavad-gita.
→ read full articleU.S. Government Pledges Aid to Pakistan’s Elite, Blocks Visa for Human Rights Lawyer
Mehreen Saeed – The Huffington Post,
4 Nov 2013
A majority of Pakistanis have grown increasingly angry and blame the corrupt elite for accepting U.S. aid in return for signing off on the illegal drones in their country while publicly condemning them.
→ read full articleJeremy Scahill Talks about Glenn Greenwald Website
Jack Mirkinson - The Huffington Post,
21 Oct 2013
Jeremy Scahill spoke out for the first time on Thursday [17 Oct 2013] about the much-hyped website he is launching with fellow journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras.
→ read full articleExxon Sonar Surveying Blamed for the Deaths of 100 Whales Near Madagascar
Agence France Presse – Huffington Post,
30 Sep 2013
“This is the first known such marine mammal mass stranding event closely associated with relatively high frequency mapping sonar systems,” said the report released by the International Whaling Commission. “Earlier such events may have been undetected because detailed inquiries were not conducted.”
→ read full articleTop 10 Unproven Claims for War against Syria
Dennis Kucinich – Huffington Post,
23 Sep 2013
Here are some key questions which President Obama has yet to answer in the call for congressional approval for war against Syria. This article is a call for independent thinking and congressional oversight, which rises above partisan considerations.
→ read full articleThe U.S. and Japan: Partners in Historical Falsification
Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick – Huffington Post,
23 Sep 2013
We placed the August 1945 atomic bombings at the center of our analysis of the postwar U.S. empire. The atomic monopoly gave the U.S. the confidence to impose its will on the rest of the world. Following the bombings, U.S. officials moved to quickly propound a narrative that justified these barbaric acts — a narrative that bore little resemblance to the truth.
→ read full articleNetherlands Close Eight Prisons Due To Lack of Criminals
Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2013
As prison populations surge in the UK, with overcrowded cells and repeat offenders, the opposite is happening in the Netherlands where declining crime rates mean that although the country has the capacity for 14,000 prisoners, there are only 12,000 detainees.
→ read full articleNSA Spied On Brazil, Mexico Leaders, Glenn Greenwald Says
Bradley Brooks, AP – The Huffington Post,
3 Sep 2013
The National Security Agency’s spy program targeted the communications of the Brazilian and Mexican presidents, and in the case of Mexico’s leader accessed the content of emails before he was elected, the U.S. journalist who obtained secret documents from NSA leaker Edward Snowden said Sunday [1 Sep 2013].
→ read full articleFrom the Lion’s Den: An Open Letter (and Invitation) to Vietnam Veterans
Mark A. Ashwill – Huffington Post,
2 Sep 2013
When all was said and done, the U.S. government scurried away, leaving behind a legacy of death, destruction and human suffering on a Draconian scale that haunts Vietnam to this day. The ghosts of the Vietnam War continue to haunt the U.S by the number of veteran suicides, considerably more than those killed in action, the broken lives of survivors, and the country’s costly inability to come to terms with its past as prologue.
→ read full articleThe 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War: Revising the Past, Revisiting the Lies
Mark A. Ashwill – Huffington Post,
19 Aug 2013
“One of our victims was searched when the shooting stopped and the bleeding continued and was found to be in possession of a medal. Our interpreter told us it was for heroism at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu fourteen years previous. While we were sent to war to fight communism, he had fought his whole life for his country’s right to self-determination. We traveled 12,000 miles to kill him for that.” — From I Would Rather Die Alone — for Peace: A Soldier’s Dream by Steve Banko, 2003
→ read full articleJimmy Carter Defends Edward Snowden, Says NSA Spying Has Compromised Nation’s Democracy
Nick Wing - The Huffington Post,
12 Aug 2013
Former President Jimmy Carter announced support for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, saying that his uncovering of the agency’s massive surveillance programs had proven “beneficial. America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time,” Carter said,
→ read full articleHow Companies Try to Keep You from Seeing Where Your Meat Comes From
Ocean Robbins – Huffington Post,
12 Aug 2013
The modern meat industry has some good reasons to fear the public finding out that Old MacDonald’s farm isn’t so happy these days.
→ read full articleMalala Yousafzai and the White Saviour Complex
Assed Baig – Huffington Post,
22 Jul 2013
A story of a native girl being saved by the white man. The Western world saves the native woman from the savage men of her home nation; an innocent brown child that was shot by savages for demanding an education. The actions of the West, the bombings, the occupations the wars all seem justified now, “see, we told you, this is why we intervene to save the natives.”
→ read full articleWhistleblower: Al-Qaeda Chief Was US Asset – Did State Department Block Sunday Times Exposé of Pentagon Terrorist Ties?
Dr Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed – Huffington Post,
27 May 2013
Abridged version based on full investigative report at Ceasefire Magazine. A whistleblower has revealed extraordinary information on links between the US government, international terrorist networks, and organised crime.
→ read full article(Français) Qui Se Soucie de la Bulgarie?
Yves Bonnet – Le Huffington Post,
11 Mar 2013
L’évanescente inquiétude des médias français se porte vers la Lybie, débarrassée d’un dictateur dont on connaissait les limites pour mieux plonger dans l’anarchie, vers la Syrie, ravagée par une guerre civile où notre gouvernement piaffe de s’impliquer aux côtés des islamistes, vers le Mali, soulagé de notre intervention musclée et heureusement décisive, mais à force de courir ces incendies, elle en oublie les belles et hautes flammes qui embrasent le ciel européen, là-bas, à l’est, en Bulgarie.
→ read full articleBhakti Yoga: In Search of a Lost Love
Radhanath Swami – The Huffington Post,
21 Jan 2013
The aroma of musk is so alluring that when the stag’s sensitive nose catches wind of it he roams the forest day and night in pursuit of its source. He exhausts himself in a fruitless quest, never realizing the bitter irony: the sweet fragrance he was chasing resided nowhere but within himself. Musk, you see, is produced by a gland in the stag’s very own navel: it was searching without for what was all along lying within. The sages of India found in the musk deer an apt description of the human condition.
→ read full articleMy Guns Are Less Regulated Than My Uterus
Shannyn Moore – The Huffington Post,
14 Jan 2013
Birth control and reproductive health services are harder to get than bullets. What is that about? Guns don’t kill people – vaginas do?
→ read full articleTwo Years of Cablegate as Bradley Manning Testifies for the First Time
Julian Assange, Editor-in-Chief and Founder, WikiLeaks – Huffington Post,
3 Dec 2012
Thu, Nov 29th [2012], Bradley Manning testified for the first time since his arrest two and a half years ago in Baghdad. Today also marks the two-year anniversary of the first front pages around the world from Cablegate, an archive of 251,287 U.S. State Department diplomatic cables — messages sent between the State Department and its embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions around the world.
→ read full articleOvercoming the Scars of Our Caste Past
Anuttama Dasa for The Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2012
Recently, a religion scholar wrote an article on the Huffington Post questioning the legitimacy of non-Indian converts to Hindu/Vedic traditions. The essence of the Vedic culture, today known as Hinduism, teaches that none of us are white, black, brown, red or yellow. We are spiritual beings, eternally lovers and servants of God, who have forgotten our spiritual nature and are wandering through this material world seeking happiness via money, power, sex, fame and other temporary will-o-wisps.
→ read full articleU.S. Government Hacked Nicolas Sarkozy, Former France President’s, Office in 2012, l’Express Claims
Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2012
The United States government reportedly hacked into the office of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy shortly before he was voted out of office earlier this year [2012], according to French newsmagazine l’Express. France’s cyberwar agency reportedly made the discovery after a major security breach in May, which, l’Express says, was caused by a “very powerful worm” developed jointly by the American and Israeli governments, called “Flame.”
→ read full articleJimmy Carter: ‘Israelis’ Policy Is to Confiscate Palestinian Territory’
Elisabeth Braw, Metro - Huffington Post,
26 Nov 2012
I think the big change is that the Israeli leaders have decided to abandon the two-state solution. Their policy now is to confiscate Palestinian territory.
→ read full articleCalifornia: Prop 37 Fails – Why We Can’t Rely on Policy to Change Our Food System
Kristin Wartman and Erika Lade – Huffington Post,
12 Nov 2012
On Tuesday [6 Nov 2012], Californians voted on Proposition 37, which if passed, would have required the mandatory labeling of genetically-modified foods (GMOs). According to public health lawyer Michele Simon, Big Food companies like Monsanto, Coca-Cola, ConAgra, Nestle, and Kraft, which donated funds to “No on 37” engaged in lying, scare tactics, misrepresentation, and various dirty tricks to protect their profits and keep California voters uninformed about their food choices.
→ read full article7 Mexican American Studies Books Banned From Tucson, Arizona Classrooms
Roque Planas - The Huffington Post,
8 Oct 2012
Paulo Freire’s ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ included on the list.
→ read full articleMichael Sinan, Mr. Gay Denmark 2012, On Being Out and Proud As a Muslim
Huffington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Oct 2012
Mr. Gay Denmark, who is also Muslim, says “it’s not easy, but it’s certainly easier” for him than it is for fellow immigrants who must live with a sexual orientation that fits with neither their religious principles nor their families’ values.
→ read full articleRoswell UFO Was Not of This Earth and There Were ET Cadavers: Ex-CIA Agent Says
Lee Speigel – Huffington Post,
16 Jul 2012
Happy anniversary, Roswell-New Mexico. It was 65 years ago today [8 Jul 2012] that the Roswell Daily Record blasted an infamous headline claiming military officials had captured a flying saucer. And now, a former CIA agent says it really happened. “It was not a damn weather balloon” said Chase Brandon, a 35-year CIA veteran. “It was a craft that clearly did not come from this planet, it crashed and I don’t doubt for a second that the use of the word ‘remains’ and ‘cadavers’ was exactly what people were talking about.”
→ read full articleSquelching Secrets: Why Are Obama’s Prosecutors Pursuing John Kiriakou?
Dan Froomkin – Huffington Post,
9 Jul 2012
John Kiriakou is a 14-year CIA veteran who, until his indictment, was best known for publicly rejecting the Bush administration’s Orwellian doublespeak about “enhanced interrogation.” In a 2007 ABC News interview, Kiriakou became the first person directly involved in the handling of terror suspects to call waterboarding at the CIA’s hands what it was — torture.
→ read full articleThe Hidden Face of Indian Democracy
Sumeet Grover - The Huffington Post,
23 Apr 2012
Every day the police beat some of these non-violent protesters, file legal cases against shop-keepers for not opening their shops in protest, and force fishermen to go by the sea to send out a message of normalism to the world. Meanwhile, hundreds still remain arrested for demanding transparency and democratic involvement, and the government has filed legal cases of “waging a war against the State” against its non-violent leaders. Is this not déjà vu? China or Burma?
→ read full articleDeadly Silence on Fukushima
Vivian Norris – Huffington Post,
16 May 2011
People need answers, data and honest information to help them deal with what is going on. Media blackouts, propaganda and greedy self-interested industries, of any kind, that allow human beings’ health to be affected, and deaths to occur, must be stopped now. The senior TEPCO man and the leading nuclear academic in Japan did not break down crying and resign their positions because all was well at Fukushima. Think about it, world, and act now before it is too late.
→ read full articleFacebook’s Proposed Privacy Plan Puts Users at Great Risk
Al Franken, U.S. Senator, Minnesota – The Huffington Post,
14 Mar 2011
In January, Facebook made a troubling announcement that it plans to allow third-party developers to request access to the home addresses and phone numbers of users. Despite Facebook’s insistence that it will protect its users, I believe this policy will place users at great risk… And even more alarming, Facebook’s new privacy policy would endanger the privacy and safety of children as young as 13. Under Facebook’s policy, 13 million users under the age of 18 may be allowed to share their personal information just like adult users.
→ read full articleColumbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery
Eric Kasum - Huffington Post,
18 Oct 2010
Question: Why do we honor a man who, if he were alive today, would almost certainly be sitting on Death Row awaiting execution? If you’d like to know the true story about Christopher Columbus, please read on. But I warn you, it’s not for the faint of heart.
→ read full articleAn Alternative to Cutthroat Capitalism
Georgia Kelly – The Huffington Post,
18 Oct 2010
Praxis Peace Institute (my Sonoma, CA non-profit organization) brought a group of 25 people for a 5-day seminar and tour of the Mondragón Cooperatives in the Basque region of Spain, September 13-18, 2010. There was a popular phrase among some politicians a few years back that proclaimed, “there is no alternative” (TINA) to the status quo of neoliberal capitalism. After spending one week at the educational center of the Mondragón Cooperatives in the Basque Country of Spain, it is crystal clear: There is an alternative! And, the Basques have proven it with their model of worker-owned businesses that has flourished over the past 55 years.
→ read full articleA Real Truth Commission for Honduras
Bertha Oliva – The Huffington Post,
17 May 2010
The fact is, Lobo’s proposal in no way resembles our idea of a truth commission, or indeed any other truth commission that has played a role in healing the wounds provoked by repressive regimes, such as those of El Salvador, Argentina or South Africa. If we were not dealing with such a tragic situation, the Lobo proposal could be considered laughable. To begin with, this so-called Truth Commission has been given no mandate to examine the human rights violations that have taken place since the coup. The presidential decree that establishes the commission does not even recognize that a coup took place on June 28th and makes no mention of the victims of the subsequent repression.
→ read full articleMorocco: U.S. Lawmakers Support Illegal Annexation
Stephen Zunes – The Huffington Post,
19 Apr 2010
In yet another assault on fundamental principles of international law, a bipartisan majority of the Senate has gone on record calling on the United States to endorse Morocco’s illegal annexation of Western Sahara, the former Spanish colony invaded by Moroccan forces in 1975 on the verge of its independence. In doing so, the Senate is pressuring the Obama administration to go against a series of UN Security Council resolutions, a landmark decision of the International Court of Justice, and the position of the African Union and most of the United States’ closest European allies.
→ read full articleGLOBALIZATION IS KILLING THE GLOBE: RETURN TO LOCAL ECONOMIES
Thom Hartmann – The Huffington Post,
11 Feb 2010
Globalization is killing Europe, just as it’s already wiped out much of the American middle class.Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring with healthy benefit packages, but the younger workers who are paying for those benefits aren’t making anything close […]
→ read full articleTHE SOURCE OF CORPORATE POWER
Robert C. Koehler - The Huffington Post,
31 Jan 2010
“If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech.”The words are those of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority in last week’s landmark Supreme Court decision marking some sort of culmination in the long corporate trek to […]
→ read full articleMIDDLE EASTERN AND LATIN AMERICAN MEDIA A THORN IN THE SIDE OF THE U.S. MILITARY IN HAITI
Nikolas Kozloff – The Huffington Post,
26 Jan 2010
Watch the U.S. media and its coverage of the crisis in Haiti, and you get the impression that Washington is a benevolent power doing its utmost to help with emergency relief in the Caribbean island nation. But tune into al-Jazeera English or South American news network Telesur and you come away with a very different […]
→ read full articleLOSING THE INTERNET AS WE KNOW IT
Megan Tady – The Huffington Post,
12 Jan 2010
How much have you already used the Internet today?We don’t think twice about how much we rely on the Internet. Imagine not being able to map directions on Google or check the weather online. A business that doesn’t have a Web site? Forgettable. Or rather, unsearchable. Remember when we didn’t have e-mail? Would you want […]
→ read full articleTHE STARTLING EFFECTS OF GOING VEGETARIAN FOR JUST ONE DAY
Kathy Freston, Huffington Post,
3 Apr 2009
I’ve written extensively on the consequences of eating meat — on our health, our sense of "right living", and on the environment. It is one of those daily practices that has such a broad and deep effect that I think it merits looking at over and over again, from all the different perspectives. Sometimes, solutions […]
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