A novel that deeply affected me when I was young is Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot.” In it, the central character utters one of the most memorable and mysterious lines in all…
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I had a fine conversation with a Polish émigré in town today. She spoke vividly of fleeing Poland as a dissident college student in 1988, the year before the Berlin…
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Attesting that being a liberal or a conservative has become a distinction without a difference, ‘progressive’ mouthpieces for the corporate media have taken to comparing and defending Western ideas and…
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Costa Rica NewsUncategorized
Costa Rica Concerned About Russia Backing Nicaragua’s Military
by admin 2015/03/29Costa Rica News – Is the country without a military getting a bit worried about not having one?
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World News – A Russian startup said it is planning to build a lunar base camp for a measly $9.4 billion. But even Russian authorities are cautioning that these plans…
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There are about 6000 languages spoken in the world today, many of them by dwindling groups of indigenous people. By the end of this century, it is projected that there…
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It’s just before the mid-term elections in America, and the mood is moribund. Right-wing Republicans, with help from weak-kneed Democrats, have successfully made it a referendum on President Obama. America…
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MeditationsUncategorized
Dispelling Darkness Within, Confronting Evil Without
by Martin LeFevre 2014/10/13A conversation with a Buddhist teacher from India turned to the Buddha’s illumination. “The Buddha,” he said, “was attacked by Mara, but the Buddha came to see that the evil…