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3-19-08 - Washington Monthly -
No More, No Torture, No Exceptions includes links to many other
statements on torture. Also see:
National Religious Campaign Against Torture
3-17-08 -
Statement of Senator Barack Obama on the situation in Tibet - Chicago,
IL | March 14, 2008
3-16-08 - So
much now in the crazy dream-realm of social/political historical
space-time happening. Don't know what to say. Here, this is what
I'll suggest:
AlterNet and
Salon.com and Bill
Moyer's Journal and Talking Points Memo
and The Huffington Post and
Crooks and Liars and
Media Matters and
Common Dreams and
Truthout
and
Truthdig.com and
Thom Hartmann and Joe Conason
and
Air America Radio and
Daily Kos and
Eschaton and
James Wolcott and
Juan Cole and
Max Blumenthal and
Tapped and Greg Palast and
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
and is there any site
you'd like to add?
3-13-08 -
Spitzer &
America's Perverse Ethics by Rabbi Michael Lerner known for Tikkun
Magazine. Check out Tikkun dot org.
He's also a co-founder of
The Network of Spiritual Progressives. Anyway, this brief article by him on the
recent Eliot Spritzer scandal states my thoughts more eloquently than I
did to Clay last night when I said that
if Spritzer had just supported corporate pilfering, mass murder, and
mayhem he'd not be in trouble. Our leaders with our permission
through war and pollution born of individual and corporate greed are
causing millions to die, millions more to suffer disease and homelessness,
brutalizing and torturing many more - the most extreme stuff on and on. We
barely pay attention. But if they get caught kissing and hugging the wrong
person then they must be banished! Clay said I was guilty of hyperbole.
"How so?" I asked. "They do more than kiss and hug," he said.
-dc - (thanks Gregory) filed
in
CurrentEvents\EngagedBuddhism
Greg
Palast on the Spritzer mess
2-12-07 -
The Folly of Attacking
Iran - from Just Foreign
Policy dot org See their brief
and informative
video on the folly of attacking Iran
2-10-08 -
Global Warming: Nine
Things that Will Put us Over the Edge
2-08-08 -
A World Without Armies
Report on the international conference
“Remembering
Nanjing (Nanking)”
70th anniversary of the Nanjing Tragedy
See the PDF
of the report with photos
Read more
thanks Kaz
Tanahashi, a participant, for alerting cuke of this
2-06-08 -
The Tenacity of
American Militarism
What Progressives and Other Critics Don't Get about the U.S. Military
By William J. Astore
2-05-08 -
National Popular Vote - States join forces
against electoral college: A piecemeal approach may be the only way to
kill the anachronistic institution - Los Angeles Times Editorial.-
from last June but appropriate for this election day. Thanks to MK - dc
Two recent articles sent by Taigen (see
Taigens' Peace and
Justice Page:
The
Gulag Comes To The USA: A Political Prisoner: The Don Siegelman
Case By Ernest Partridge
Creeping Fascism: History's Lessons By Ray McGovern
1-23-08 -
James Carroll on the nonsense and danger of the term Islamo-fascism -
1-18-08 -
National Religious Campaign Against Torture - Sign the
Statement of Conscience, check on pending legislation in the News
About Torture and What You Can Do About It box.
See Countdown:
Torturers Like Us
1-16-07 - Arnie Kotler's
Koa
Books strikes again with:
Oakland
•
Santa Rosa
•
Santa Cruz
•
Berkeley
January 17 - 21, 2008 - SCHEDULE-times
Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright -- Joined by Daniel Ellsberg
in Oakland
and Berkeley --
Will
Read from her new book,
Dissent: Voices of Conscience
- read more about it on the
Koa Books web site.
1-13-08 - More on THE
CONSPIRACY WORTH PAYING ATTENTION TO in the Election Fraud
section.
1-11-08 - Burma Witness: Journey
to a Land Cloaked in Fear by Hozan Alan Senauke - sent in by Taigen
Dan Leighton. Found links to it in
Atrocity News,
Urban Travelers,
Russian Girls CQ (really),
Berkeley Zen Center for a PDF, among others.
1-01-08 -
What will
be the big story this year?
Is this the big story?
Creeping Fascism
- Ray McGovern interview or Naomi Wolf's interview on
The End of America -
thanks Taigen
How about election
fraud? It's incredibly under-reported.
On the other hand, maybe GLOBAL WARMING will render the loss of our
democracy insignificant. There's info everywhere on that. How about
Al Gore's site, especially his speech
accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. -
thanks Kelly
But I'd better link to
these contrasting views
to save myself the trouble later.
And let's not forget
Burma.
12-18-07 -
Comparing Climate Change
Policy Networks
by Jeffrey Broadbent,
University of Minnesota - what one Suzuki student is doing to save
our collective ass.
11-08-07 -
Here's a
neat quick video that explains the writer's strike - please support it
if there's any way you can. Check out
Huffington Post for more on
this. The writers have a little problem in that they're striking against
the folks who control the news, media in America becoming more and more
controlled by a few jumbo corporations.
11-06-07 - Block
Burmese JADE (Junta's Anti-Democratic Efforts) Act of 2007:
Get Your Representative to Co-Sponsor! - in the
Burma Crisis info and action page
A "Paper Coup," and Blackwater Eyes Midtown Manhattan By Naomi Wolf
Silence is Complicity - Address by Mayor Ross C. "Rocky" Anderson on
October 27, 2007
both those from
Taigen.
10-24-07 -
Don't Let the World
Forget About the Saffron Revolution - This Wednesday, October 24th, is
an important day for Burma. It is: 1) United Nations Day, 2) The day when
Aung San Suu Kyi will have been under house arrest for a total of 12
years, and 3) One month since the uprisings in Burma were at their peak.
The US Campaign for Burma will be marking this day with a host of actions
around the world.
Burma Crisis info and action page.
10-18-07 -
16 things we can all do to
help the Burmese monks and citizens
10-17-07 -
Don't forget Burma!
10-14-07 - Andrew Main sends
A Grand
Misjudgment, another side of the Al Gore getting the Noble Prize
story. And look beyond that to the site it's on, Counterpunch.
And here's more comment on Gore's prize -
Of Spoils and Spoilsports - with lots of links to even more commentary
and opinion on what it's Al about.
And to add yet a third link to today's
CurrentEvents\EngagedBuddhism
offering, read
The 'Good Germans' Among Us By FRANK RICH
in The New York Times, October 14, 2007 in which he contends: "BUSH lies" doesn't cut it anymore. It's time to confront the
darker reality that we are lying to ourselves. It's about torture and how we
know it's happening and can't say we don't.
10-13-07 - Hurray for Al Gore winning the Noble Peace Prize! It could
turn out that through a bizarre twist of events, Ralph Nader saved the
world. Nah - it's probably too late anyway, but good try Al and all!
(Idea stolen from Josh at
Talking Points Memo) - DC
Read
what Scott Ritter has to say about stopping the rush to war with Iran
in Robert Scheer's Truthdig.com.
See Iran Attack page.
10-08-07 -
Two views on why doesn't the government do
anything about Burma.
10-06-07 -
TARA - A poem by
Philip Whalen we recite for the Burmese today (and
for all others).
10-04-07 - More on Burma - to read and
to do
10-02-07 - Burma update
- and it's not good
9-30-07 -
Our rosy
future, according to Freeman Dyson - thanks to jr. And thank goodness
there's no more reason to worry.
9-28-07 - Myanmar soldiers attack Buddhist Monks. The
latest from the US Campaign for
Burma. Reuven passes on this link to Avaaz with their efforts to
stand with the Burmese
protesters. And, thanks to, swallowing, President Bush for focusing on these
events.
Taigen's report has more
links plus an unconfirmed report of the brutal slaughter of monks.
 9-25-07 -
Read Taigen Dan Leighton's brief comments
and suggestions on the events in Burma
(which include the following).
On the Buddhist Peace Fellowship site:
Two Actions
You Can Take to Support the Monks and Nuns of Burma
People link hands as they accompany
monks marching in a protest against the government in Yangon, September 24,
2007. Tens of thousands of people joined streams of Buddhist monks on marches
through Myanmar's capital on Monday in the biggest demonstration against the
ruling generals since they crushed student-led protests nearly 20 years ago.
REUTERS/Democratic Voice of Burma
May we not see a repeat of the slaughter of monks and laypeople
in '88. Pray for peace. - DC
 9-11-07
- Remembering the day six years ago when the whole world mourned with
us and now mourning how we as a nation have turned that universal sympathy
into antipathy. Since then hysteria fueled by greed, hate, and delusion
have led the way, not the way pointed to by Jesus or Buddha or any of the
great wise ones. We've poured gasoline on the fire and wander around
choking and blinded by the smoke. We seem to be determined to join with
forces of world suicide. Shiva, the destroyer, dances his eternal dance. -
DC
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9-10-07 -
Listen to Scott Ritter at a book event for his new book,
Waging Peace: The Art of War for the
Antiwar Movement. See Iran Attack page.
8-31-07 - Sexy
Senators and suggested consequences
8-16-07 -
There
is no center in politics by George Lakoff
Look at this interesting grid -
Progressivism is not dead - on Blast Off.
This is one for the
It IS Happening Here page.
 Friday
August 10 - Welcome to the
Bush Blog. It's time to stop attacking him and let him speak for himself so
that we here at cuke can continue to uphold our commitment to be fair and
balanced (great how that phrase has become a cause for ridicule).
Thursday, August 9, 2007 -
Remembering Nagasaki
from the website of the
Exploratorium, a great institution in a great building in San Francisco.
8-08-07 - Saw this last night. Horrors. - DC -
Orwell Rolls in His
Grave - "About the manipulation of the media by America's ruling elites
solemnly stokes the resulting flames of angry discontent... Exploding the myth
of the American media's liberal bias." - BBC -
CurrentEvents\EngagedBuddhism
Also in the same section -
President Bush Vows To Protect Us [Crooks and Liars link]
from the Evil
Zombiefascists [my.break link]
Tuesday, August 7, 2007 - Tearing what's left of my hair
about the Protect America Act -
- vomit, scream, retch, bang head on wall.
Distraught DC email to Senator Dianne Feinstein about her voting for
this despicable bill
- the beginning of a new page called It Is Happening Here.
Also links to articles and video.
 Monday,
August 6, 2007 - It is most appropriate on this day to have received
A World Without Armies
report from Kaz
Tanahashi. It is a good day to remember and be thankful for those
who are working for peace, or, negatively, working at turning back the
doomsday
clock. Like the BPF.
Go to Space War dot com for
Current Nuclear Threat Worse Than During Cold War. Check out
PSR who brought
us the Nuclear Freeze Movement 25 years ago. Lot of people think that
ended the problem. Ha ha ha laughs the
WSC. See
Species Threats #1 here
on cuke for past posts on this. - DC
Sunday, August 5 -
all is
lost
Saturday, July 28 -
WHY DO THEY HATE US?
U.S. has chance to lessen Muslim resentment
By Mohsin Hamid
July 27, '07 -
Jimmy Breslin on Impeachment
and various links on the case for
impeachment.
July 26, '07 -
More Impeachment Links
7-24-07 - Learn more about
The Yes
Men, featured recently on Bill Moyer's Journal. Here's
The Yes Men's website. They are
naughty, throwing monkey-wrenches into globalization and mega-corporate
profiteering.
7-23-07 -
Swami
Beyondananda Calls for Impeachment
7-22-07 -
Try this
7-20-07 -IMPEACH 'EM BOTH NOW
7-17-07 - Saw Maxed Out:
Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders, a
documentary film, one of many I've seen in the last few years exposing
various evils of how our society functions, or should that be - of our
dysfunctional society?
7-09-07 -
'Supporting the troops' means withdrawing
them By William E. Odom [former head of the
National Security Agency] from
Nieman Watchdog.
Lieutenant General William E. Odom, U.S. Army (Ret.), is a Senior Fellow
with Hudson Institute and a professor at Yale University. He was Director
of the National Security Agency from 1985 to 1988. From 1981 to 1985, he
served as Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, the Army's senior
intelligence officer. From 1977 to 1981, he was Military Assistant to the
President's Assistant for National Security Affairs, Zbigniew Brzezinski.
7-08-07 - The New York Times finally states in today's powerful lead
editorial,
The Road Home, that, "It is time for the United States to leave Iraq,
without any more delay than the Pentagon needs to organize an orderly
exit."
7-05-07 -
LIFE
SENTENCES: COLLATERAL SANCTIONS
ASSOCIATED WITH MARIJUANA OFFENSES
on the CCLE website (Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics) sent by the
Marijuana Policy Project.
 cuke.com
supports Harm Reduction and an end to the war on people called the war on
drugs. See this entry from
earlier this year.
click on thumbnail to see ACLU
decriminalization ad
 7-04-07
- Happy Fourth of July from
cuke.com!
Read Howard Zinn's
Put away the flags
from the Progressive.
And check out Josh
Marshall's video editorial,
Happy
Fourth of
July from everyone at TPM! - Talking
Points Memo.
And what the heck, why not
Keith Olbermann's request.
Now here's a true
patriot - to the country of all people! - thanks to
David Cohen for this and Zinn and Keith links.
And I wish I could link to yesterday's column on the
easily solved for 50 cents a person worldwide health problem of worms by
NYTimes's unique
Nicolas Kristof but it's subscription only. He's into big picture
third world stuff that's mostly forgotten - like the world's biggest war
since WWII - in the Congo and still going.
See his
Wikipedia page.
6-13-07 - Go to
Colbert Nation to
see
Liz Wolf's son
Josh Wolf
on the Colbert Report - June 12. Way to go Josh.
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on thumbnail to enlarge
5-31-05 - Much more juicy light shed
on the real conspiracy to rig US elections.
 Left:
cuke.com staff at work
Where cuke.com staff goes for our
current events news.
Some old, some new - not necessarily in this order:
Bill
Moyers Journal. Bill says he starts his day with Joshua Marshall's
Talking Points Memo and
ends it with Jon Stewart's
Daily Show. That's TV of course, but they do have their web site as
does another cuke favorite, Stewart's protégé, Steven Colbert in his
Colbert Report. While we're on TV, must plug the recently truly
unleashed fanatic, Keith Olbermann with his MSNBC show,
Countdown. Here's
Keith's blog. I don't
have TV but get clips off these shows from the first site I go to on the
Internet, the excellent
Huffington Post and the next one,
Crooks and Liars with its
pithy daily video feeds and news updates plus some neat music videos.
Let us not forget to mention David Brock's
Media Matters - great analysis of daily mass media mush,
Robert Scheer's
Truthdig.com, Truthout.org., and for
some old-fashioned info - BBC News - International Version
(online pull-down menu comes w/Firefox). I
also find Taigen's almost daily e-mailed articles to be an excellent
addition to what I get off the Internet.
Get on Taigen Dan Leighton's social/political
forwarded article email list by emailing him at
Taigen's
Peace and Justice Page on this site. In the car, I have XM
satellite radio and, when I'm not listening to jazz, blues, comedy, or
50's music, I tune in to Air America
Radio, channel 167. My favorite talk show
host there is Thom Hartmann.
His new book (of 20 or so) is
Screwed: The
Undeclared War Against The Middle Class. This guy is very level-headed.
There are many other excellent web sites and blogs for news and commentary
and the links for them can be found on these sites. Go forth and inform oh
great beings of planet earth and may we all benefit. - DC
 4-24-07 - Election Fraud vs Voter Fraud
- Brief email chat between Taigen and DC, links to various reports and
articles on one of the key and mainly disregarded stories behind the
firing of the attorneys by Gonzales. The conspiracy most worth bringing to
light - that of Republican or Roovian election stealing and voter
suppression. Just another day's addition to the growing section in
Current Events on
rigged elections (previous posts).
4-17-07 - Save Small and Independent Publishers
threatened by new postal rate hikes that will give them huge increases,
reversing traditional rates that helped them to survive. Go to
www.stoppostalratehikes.com.
Time Warner seems to be behind this. If so, shame.
 4-05-07
- Anyone who's following the news knows that it's no longer "Free Josh
Wolf!" Now it's Josh Wolf's Free! Go here to see the last
post with many links herein on the plight of America's longest jailed
journalist as he's been called. It's all over the news and the web.
Here's a LA Times article - Blogger freed after 226 days in prison.
Here's the First Amendment Center's article,
Now-freed Josh Wolf went to jail ... why? And here is the
SF Bay Guardian's summation of the whole thing which, from his mom, Suzuki
student Liz Wolf (see
cuke.com interview), who worked non stop on his case - getting people to
sign petitions, write judges, newspapers, legislators, sending out
constant links to articles, and so forth. I
don't know his father, Len Harrison, but he too was on the case,
maintaining a daily vigil in front of the federal building at Larkin and
Golden Gate in San Francisco. Anyway, welcome back to the outside Josh!
3-03-07 -
Free Josh Wolf! Go to Josh Wolf in
Jail page.
2-22-07 - See
Thoughts on the
DVD of An Inconvenient Truth in DC Misc.
2-17-07 - A link to a slide show with pictures of Tehran, Iran, and a song
by Cat Stevens. In Iran Attack.
 2-10-07
- More on the US coming ever closer to acting on the long held Bush
administration plan to attack Iran. See the new
Iran Attack page, a special section in
the Current Events section of the
Digressions section of
cuke.com. The inclusion of this section is
vehemently opposed by our dharma siblings, Buddhists in favor of Neocon
Wet Dreams. They are working up a position paper as I type. - DC
Iran Attack
2-9-07
And now, since it's
my birthday, some more treasonous links sent to me by fellow traitor
Taigen Dan Leighton who's now in Chicago.
But first read
Chalmers Johnson
on Robbing the Cradle of Civilization sent by Gregory Johnson.
The rest of these links were moved to Iran
Attack page.
For what it's worth - Shunryu Suzuki on War
and Peace
DC comments on this page.
IMPEACH 'EM BOTH NOW
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