Articles by Stefan Schindler
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The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katherine Gun’s Courage of Conscience
Stefan Schindler | Engaging Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
21 Apr 2021 – The prosecution would be forced to reveal the Anglo-American “dirty tricks” to drum up support for the Iraq war. On the first day of the trial, the prosecution dropped all charges. Katherine Gun’s memo caused the U.N. Security Council to deny approval for the war, depriving Bush and Blair of the U.N. blessing they were hoping for.
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A Buddhist Socialist Peaceable Kingdom
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2020
Buddha was a “soft” social revolutionary. Marx developed his notion of “species consciousness” in order to encourage a shared commitment to animal rights and a clean environment. His endeavor echoes Pythagoras, Lao Tzu, and Buddha, three of the world’s first ecological sages.
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Heart-Centered Rationality and the Peaceable Kingdom
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
The war and suffering endemic in world structure puts prosperity first, with peace (and its appearance like shadows in Plato’s cave) flickering off and on as befits economic boom and bust. Humanity’s survival depends on an inversion of values: peace and prosperity. Peace first. And peace includes redistribution of the world’s wealth.
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Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2019
A Meditation on Education, History, and Tomorrow
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The Yin & Yang of Authentic Being-In-The-World
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
A Buddhist Discourse with New-Age, Interfaith, and Peace-and-Justice Implications
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The Poisoning of American Political Discourse
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
In What Gore Vidal Calls “The United States of Amnesia”
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Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2019
14 Oct 2019 – Peterson is, one could say, an academic reincarnation of Newt Gingrich – a former media darling and Speaker of the House of Representatives, with deep roots in the state of Georgia and its racist and misogynist policies. Gingrich and Peterson are modern American archetypes of linguistic glitter and pontificating sleaze. There is, of course, an important difference between Gingrich and Peterson. Gingrich knew that he was lying. Peterson believes what he says.
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The Chomsky Poem
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2019
On the Occasion of Noam Chomsky Receiving the Peace Abbey Foundation Courage of Conscience Award–9 Dec 2016
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Lotus in the Swamp
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
Wall Street is just Las Vegas
fused with a military-industrial mafia
who tell congress and the president what to do.
And Ye Shall Inherit the Whirlwind or Learn to Live in Gratitude and Grace (Parts 1 to 3)
Stefan Schindler | Engaging Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2019
We are free to become free. This is the lesson taught by Socrates. It is also the essence of Buddhism. The word “Buddha” means “awake.” Awakening, as Plato would say, is recollecting the sanity we were born with. Nietzsche quotes Pindar: “Become who you are.” We are inextricable strands in the holistic web of being and becoming. Said the poet Byron: “Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part of me and of my soul, as I of them?” John Lennon said: “I am the walrus.”
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Enlightenment and Social Hope
Stefan Schindler – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
During America’s wars on Puerto Rico and the Philippines, Mark Twain declared: “America’s flag should be a skull-and-crossbones.” And when Mahatma Gandhi was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he replied: “I think it would be a good idea.”
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