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Throughout the history of Myanmar (Burma), Buddhist monks have been a force for good, standing up to dictators, colonizers, and cyclones.

Are the junta in Myanmar nuts?? They are leaving their people to die in the aftermath of a devastating cyclone. Or is there some deeper conspiracy going on here? Check it out. But remember, this is just one man's opinion.

Cylone Nargis ha done a lot of damage already and many more severe problems may be underway if the emergency aid is not stepped up. Is the Junta more preoccupid with its grip on power than the people? When the people are gone who are you going to hold the power on?

An overview of the history and role of Buddhist monks in Burma.

Cyclone Nargris tore into the area of Rangoon (Yangon), in the country of Burma on May 2. Burma also called Myanmar is facing major crises with over 22,900 deaths being reported at this time. This number being expected to rise considerably to as high as 100,000.

General Ne Win ended the free democratic rule of Burma in a 1962 coup and the people still suffer at the hands of the Junta.

In this interview of a Buddhist monk from Burma, (now Myanmar),as he talks about his practice of meditation, we get a glimpse of this very gentle soul.

The massive suffering caused by Cyclone Nargis is only being compounded by the cruel actions of Myanmar's ruling junta. The world has responded with talk, but not action. The time for posturing is over.

The U.S. and E.U. call for sanctions on Burma. Now it's China's turn.

Iran wants us up front, and behaving as many on the Middle East claim, as imperialistic tyrants.

US Reports Says Myanmar Cyclone was Man-Made

The latest actions by the Myanmar Junta show the very real possibility of killing millions of people - is it time to forcibly remove them from power?

In a move aimed to halt the enrichment of uranium by Iran, the Security Council votes 15-0 to strengthen sanctions.

With death tolls soaring into the 10,000's, authorities in Myanmar, Burma are refusing to let some relief workers and transports into the devasted country. International Aid in Spring Lake, Michigan is preparing a mass shipment with mobile medical facility.

Katrina hit us 2 1/2 years ago, and we still reminders of the devastation all around. My neighborhood has been restored and the Gulf Coast is coming back. Unfortunately, I know the effects of the Myanmar Cyclone will last much longer.

The Treasury Department is freezing the assets of Myanmar government officials in order to pressure the government to stop its violence against peaceful demonstrators.

In response to Myanmar's continued crackdown on the country's pro-democracy movement and its continued abuse of human rights, President Bush announced a new round of sanctions.

I was in the 1989 Loma Prieta quake. I've also been in numerous hurricanes. Still, the quake was more like the cyclone because we had no warning.

When I went home last weekend I met up with one of my good family friends who happened to move here from Thailand. His name is Prem Chanyohti

A deep analysis of the strong political deomcratic movement against brutal military rule in Burma, now Myanmar. Aung San Suu Kyi, an influential figure is representative of the battle for Burma. It is a fiery political situation few have heard, til now

Engaged Buddhism is Buddhists and non-Buddhists, monks and laymen actively and nonviolently performing acts of civil disobedience to improve the plight of man and the planet.

Cyclone Nargis has caused destruction in Myanmar, so we held a vigil to keep the victims in our prayers.

On May 2, cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar. It was one of the deadliest natural disasters that ever hit the earth. It led to the the international community and various aid agencies came rushing to extend assistance to the people of Myanmar.

A news story/opinion piece dealing with the current situation in Myanmar and what lessons that has for teaching us what changes are necessary in American foreign policy.

"Given your investment in Myanmar alone, [your advertisement] is a gauzy, gorgeous lie."

Protestors in Burma, protesting rising fuel prices, were beaten and murdered in the streets. The military regime of Burma has led a controlled government for decades. Demonstrations are met with intimidation and violence.

Burma, Cambodia, and East Timor are the poorest countries in the world. This paper describes why these countries have come to be so poverty stricken.

The First Lady is trying to push USA into another Vietnam tangle. It is high time she stopped her Myanmar rhetoric.

Iran is restarting its nuclear program in the face of international condemnation. What's the near term scenario?

Rice answered questions on Sunday in a press briefing held while she was flying to the Middle East

...we are living in 1984 and people actually believe that the government knows best...

All the public outcry against the Myanmar junta will not change the ugly realities of opium, heroin, life and death in The Golden Triangle. The media at this time remains strangely silent about the involvement of the illegal drug trade in Myanmar's suffering.

Myanmar Monks exhibit the real power of Civil Disobedience.

When the election cools down next year and Bush is out of office, will the Progressive Book Club still be a popular Internet hot spot? Let's look at some of the reasons this book club may or may not hold up well on Internet bookshelves.

President Bush has again given heads of state something to think about when he said that focusing on "hummus" will not bring peace to the Middle East.

President bush 's state of the union speech was filmed by many networking shows. All cameras captured the same image.

On the third anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, President Bush delivered a speech endorsing the recommendations that were made to both the House and Senate Armed Services Committee's by Gen. David Petraeus.

This is an open letter to George Bush about the ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region of the Sudan, and I am choosing to write it here so that my voice is not lost in the million of other pieces of mail.

When Barack Obama clarified his position on sending troops into a foreign nation without the host nation's permission, he didn't reject the Bush Doctrine, he amended it.

George W. Bush has destroyed thousands of military families and stretched our young soldiers too thin.

Billy Bush, the first cousin of President George W. Bush co-hosts Access Hollywood and has interviewed everyone from Britney Spears to Donald Trump.

The Bush loyalists refusal to believe what the rest of the world, including Bush, can see as fact, would appear to rank these folks as one of the most dedicated of cults. Let's examine the claim that "we've actually found WMD in Iraq"

So we've come to this, Bush/Cheney ignoring the oozing sore of Corporate fascism. At the same time, misfeasance runs rampant and uncontested as Speaker Pelosi denies Americans access to Constitutional remedies.

Hinduism and Buddhism have many of the same elements, stemming from similar cultural beliefs. Each one however differs greatly from the other at the same time. In both religions, essentially the goal is the same- to reach bliss.

Mahayana Buddhism offers many varieties of Buddhist experience, drawing on cultural and personal differences.

Memorial Day 2007 marked a groundbreaking yet pointless meeting between Iran and America. Behind the tea-drinking, facade of diplomatic relations, the two old enemies are publicly and privately flexing their destructive muscles.

Republican Presidential candidate Sam Brownbeck, a United States Senator from Kansas, said Iran might one day attack America or Israel with a nuclear bomb. He said everything possible should be done to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Last month Iran broke United Nations seals on the uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz, triggering a diplomatic crisis that most believe almost certainly will lead to a standoff with United States, Britain and the European Union.

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