Monthly Archives: August 2025

Buddhist Insights @ Empty Cloud Oct 1, 2022 Ronald Eyre’s 1977 BBC documentary focused on the Japanese experience of Buddhism and the complexities of Zen

MeidasTouch Aug 31, 2025 The MeidasTouch Podcast MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump getting busted on tape committing unthinkable actions against people in the United States. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more!

A close-up of the Wikipedia website through a magnifying glass on the laptop on June 12, 2012.  (Photo: Getty Images) The effort furthers the goals of the Heritage Foundation, which has launched a plan to “identify and target Wikipedia editors” using a number of underhanded tactics. STEPHEN PRAGER Aug 28,… Continue reading →

US Ambassador to the United Nations Dorothy Shea speaks on August 27, 2025.  (Photo: US Mission to the United Nations/X) While acknowledging that “hunger is a real issue in Gaza,” the US ambassador to the UN repeated a debunked claim that the world’s leading authority on starvation lowered its standards… Continue reading →

1 day ago (BBC.com) Johanna Chisholm, BBC News A federal appeals court has ruled that most of Donald Trump’s tariffs are an overreach of his use of emergency powers as president. The so-called reciprocal tariffs – imposed on nearly every country the US trades with – are being illegally imposed,… Continue reading →

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson Lyndon Baines Johnson, also known as LBJ (August 27, 1908… Continue reading →

Critics of fossil fuel-driven transport are debating whether to subsidize or deregulate EVs — or discourage driving altogether by Michael Stoll August26, 2025 (SFpublicpress.orgO BJ Birtwell strode across the concourse of his Electrify Expo with a look of satisfaction this past weekend, watching thousands of families stream past rows of prototype… Continue reading →

Share this Post: A trans flag with the words “Liberate Compton’s” was held by activists outside the San Francisco Board of Appeals meeting in July. Photo: Eliot Faine After the loss of their request for a rehearing aimed at ousting private prison operator GEO Group from a site of historical… Continue reading →

Gerrymandering in red states is predicated on Republicans holding Trump’s support in 2024, particularly from Latinos. That could be a bad bet. BY DAVID DAYEN  AUGUST 29, 2025 (Prospect.org) As Americans have physically sorted themselves along ideological lines and as Big Data has dug into voting preferences on practically a house-by-house… Continue reading →