Ask Gandhi on Ahimsa (Non-Violence) [kamat.com]From the page: “
Q Can you tell us about ahimsa or non-violence?
A Literally speaking, ahimsa means non-violence. But to me it has much higher, infinitely higher meaning. It means that you may not offend anybody; you may not harbor uncharitable thought, even in connection […]
Donald Rumsfeld Prohibits Use Of Camcorders During Wedding Ceremonies (TheDailyFarce.com)
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After the unfortunate attack on a wedding party in Iraq by the U.S., and the surfacing of actual video footage showing the wedding, Donald Rumsfeld announced this morning that camcorders, digital or not, are prohibited from now on during any kind of celebration, including weddings, birthday […]
Hard lessons from poetry class: Speech is free unless it’s critical
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The girl’s mother, also a teacher, was ordered by the principal to destroy the child’s poetry. The mother refused and may lose her job.
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Military/False Alerts of Sudden Nuclear Attacks
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“But the most serious example of the instability in Russia came in January 1995, when President Yeltsin admitted to activating his ‘nuclear briefcase’ — a device used for the launching of Russia’s nuclear forces in the case of an enemy attack. What was the cause for such an emergency? It […]
Jurassic Park, Pseudo-events, and Prisons
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What we have seen - beginning with the millisecond it takes for a camera shutter to snap and ending by threatening the government of the most powerful empire in history - is “the butterfly effect.”
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Whereas those people who still defend the invasion on humanitarian grounds are forced to resort to ever more surreal arguments. Now it’s accepted there is widespread use of torture by the occupiers, someone will argue: “That’s because under Saddam these Iraqis became addicted to torture, so we’re trying to ween them off it, bit by […]