American Buddhist Net

Nepal arrests Dalai Lama's envoy ahead of revolt anniversary
ABC Vs. Loose Change
Iceland Voters Reject Repayment Plan
Ron Mueck exhibits realistic human sculptures at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia
Kyrgyzstan: US intends to construct military training center in Batken
Ill. judge won't toss torture suit naming Rumsfeld
UDD: 20,000 monks to take part in rally
MD. net Clinic Akasaka by Nendo
Poland Looks Inward After Film Puts ‘Mall Girl’ Culture on View
Hindu swami caught in compromising position on TV
China's 'pearls' spook Indian observers
US creates terror groups, ex-intelligence chief says
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist: Federal Reserve System is Corrupt and Undermines Democracy
Our "offence culture" is becoming truly pathetic
Vatican hit by gay sex scandal
Big Pharma Funds Trips for California Medicaid Officials
Transgender Buddhist priest shares story
Details of “Einstein” Cyber Shield Disclosed by White House
15 Years Ago, the Combined Assets of the 6 Biggest Banks Totaled 17% of GDP... By 2006, 55% ... Now, 63%
Architects for 9/11 inquiry: Fire couldn't demolish WTC in 11 seconds
"Letters to a Buddhist Jew," or: Notes from an Un-level Playing Field
Senate takes companies to task for ignoring Internet freedom
ABCD Said - PixieTea Use iPhone MakeMusic
Why Psychiatry Needs Therapy
Supreme Court gun case could imperil basis of state laws
Internet overtakes print in news consumption among Americans

Chinese censors tormented by mythical animal
Yoo, Bybee, And Disinformation
How a hobbit is rewriting the history of the human race
Dalai Lama: Chinese 'Censorship' At Root Of Tibet Problem
The Chemist's War: The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences
Federal Bureau of Invention: CASE CLOSED (and Ivins did it)
DOJ Report on Torture Memo: Yoo Said Bush Could Order "Massacre" of Civilians
Ugandan Pastor's Gay Porn Stunt Upsets U.S. Christians
God & ganja: Travel pro Rick Steves says marijuana laws not 'Christlike'
Big Pharma researcher admits to faking dozens of research studies for Pfizer, Merck
Who Are the Dangerous Conspiracy Theorists?
Escape from Israel's Ultra-Orthodox: The High Price of Religious Defection
85 people lodged police reports against Pastor Rony Tan for “offensive” remarks against gays and lesbians
Tiger Farms in China Feed Thirst for Parts
Sri Lanka monks put off meet fearing unrest
Drug Companies & Doctors: A Story of Corruption
Vatican's child abuse summit is a charade, say victims
France falls under Internet censorship
Major Milestone Reached at AE911Truth: 1,000+ Architects & Engineers demand new 9/11 WTC investigation
Iceland Parliament considering new measures to protect freedom of speech
The Media Response to the Growing Influence of the 9/11 Truth Movement Part II: A Survey of Attitude Change in 2009-2010
Religious rite worries conservationists in Taiwan
9/11 From Above

Game Changer: China Plans to Open Military Bases Worldwide
Chemical Exposure Linked to Attention Deficit Disorder in Children
60 Aerospace Engineers Call for a New 9/11 Investigation
Moviegoers applaud Prop. 8 film critical of LDS Church
Media groups accuse Sri Lanka over post-election attacks
Epstein: Anthrax Attacks Still Unsolved
Asia, land of the godless & godly
Geert Wilders: on trial for telling the truth
Lobbyist charges $30,400 to ‘raise a glass’ with Pelosi
Authorities Quietly Reverse Underwear Bomber Official Story
Mapping the brain
Photographing Mountain Top Removal
Christian Lobby wants filter net cast wider
Marijuana legalization backers hand in initiative petitions
Talking with the Dalai Lama: How serious is China?
Pie hit should earn PETA 'terrorist' label: MP
U.S. military teams, intelligence deeply involved in aiding Yemen on strikes
Neurolaw
Med students say conventional medicine would benefit by integrating alternative therapies
Vietnam’s Covert War Against Overseas Buddhists
The Great Australian Internet Blackout
No Sex Please! We're Just Kids!
Buddhist monk bashed to death in carpark
Bristol-Myers Squibb: Abilify Convention Booth, 2007
Afghanistan: US troop surge likely to fuel financial bonanza for Central Asian states
China accuses US of online warfare in Iran
Thailand: Land cases a 'Pandora's box'
In Drug War, Tribe Feels Invaded by Both Sides

Watchdog groups warn: ‘Corporate globalization’ of US elections is upon us
The Corporation Part One (Of Three)
Haiti: 360°
Thirty runners disqualified from Chinese marathon for cheating
EFF: Court ruling means ’surveillance of Americans immune from review’
Chinese Christians Are the Focus of Same-Sex Marriage Case
Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study finds
China miffed over plan to name stadium after Dalai Lama
No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs
California's medical marijuana possession limits are dropped
The Vancouver method: Treat addicts as people
Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit
The meritocracy and Jewish kinship networks
software freedom is an important part of what allows us to determine the way we live, work, and communicate
The Massachusetts Senate Race: A Populist Protest Vote Against Wall Street Puppets
The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle
Pulled From The Rubble 6 Days After Earthquake Because Of Husband's Unwavering Love
China to Scan Text Messages to Spot ‘Unhealthy Content’
The Rule of Law Has Been Lost
Bornean orangutan acts as 'peacemaker' in Japan zoo
Depressive realism
Prefrontal white matter in pathological liars
Moscow’s stray dogs
Doctor wrote 1,000 scripts/week
“The whole world is laughing at China being stupid”
Eight in 10 Americans favor legalizing medical marijuana: poll
Yellowstone hit by swarm of earthquakes
Michelle Obama's toxic veggie nightmare: White House organic garden polluted with sludge
British Airways sued over 'humiliating' policy
Vietnam aims to carve world's biggest jade Buddha
Google Pledge of No Censoring Spurs Tiananmen Searches in China

Obama promises ‘no intention’ of sending troops to Yemen
Video: Net Neutrality
South Korea Confronts Open Secret of Abortion
From rogue to robes
Collision between Japanese whaler, protest vessel creates waves in Japan and abroad
Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?
Top Muslim clerics issue Fatwa denouncing terror attacks on Canada and U.S
Alma - The Movie
Obama's Yemeni odyssey targets China
Sri Lanka video 'appears authentic'
After review of mountaintop mining, scientists urge ending it
Obama Flubs His First Bay Of Pigs Moment As Terror Moles Escape Purge
Dutch Authorities Claim No Accomplice in Airport; Contradicts Eye-Witness Account
Myanmar video journalist jailed for 20 years: rights groups
Study: Antidepressant lift may be all in your head
Buddhism beats depression
Fannie, Freddie, and the New Red and Blue
In Defense of Plagiarism
17,000 potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under obscure law
Atul Gawande: How to Make Doctors Better
I have resumed secular life: The secret lives of monks
I have resumed secular life: The secret lives of monks, part 2
Estonia Country clean-up project "Lets Do It 2008" / Teeme Ära 2008
That guy directing your surgeon? He's in sales
Bernanke: Why are we still listening to this guy?
Mumbai: Reclaiming the lost Buddhist legacy
Flight crews have latitude in pegging threatening behavior
33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know...

The Conquerors of the Tigers Now Battle for the Spoils
Wat expelled over female ordination
Death Of The Internet: Censorship Bills In UK, Australia, U.S. Aim To Block “Undesirable” Websites
David Ray Griffin on the 9/11 Cell Phone Calls: Exclusive CBC Interview
Stunning book speaks volumes about the ravages visited on Tibet
Cambodia sends Uighur asylum-seekers back to China
The Simulation Argument: Why the Probability that You Are Living in a Matrix is Quite High
Geeky Math Equation Creates Beautiful 3-D World
FDA Panel Recommendation on Crestor Spurs Debate
Stunning Statistics About the War Every American Should Know
Consolidated History of Marijuana in Japan
Cannabis for Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease treatment
Vietnam's 'illegal' Buddhists seek French asylum
Holding Doctors Accountable for Medical Errors
Buddhist monks may soon learn science in monasteries
Scott Fenstermaker, the 9/11 Lawyer, Speaks Out
Taunton schools rebut report on child's Jesus drawing
The Spooky World of Quantum Entanglement
IRS Eased NOL Rules for Citigroup in Exchange for Repayment of TARP Funds
Study: Airport Noise Increases Risk of Strokes
Epicenter The Business of Tech AT&T Tells FCC It Loves the Idea, Not Rules, of Net Neutrality
China bans individual web domain names
Overuse of CT scans will lead to new cancer deaths, a study shows
22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found
Robert Fisk - Obama is a disaster for the Middle East
Developing nations walk out of climate talks
The Hashish Army- Afghanistan. Is this what we are fighting for?

AP: Monsanto dominating seed markets with patented genetics
US Kids Represent Psychiatric Drug Goldmine
Lawrence Summers Memo: Dec. 12, 1991
Emperor to grant audience to Chinese Vice President Xi
Child abduction becomes epidemic in China
Genetic 'map' of Asia's diversity
Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics
Carlyle, Kissinger, SAIC and Halliburton: A 9/11 Convergence
From Minnie to Mickey (and all they did was turn off a gene)
Robert Fisk - Obama is a disaster for the Middle East
Obama's Big Sellout
Most Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana
Threatened Buddhists to leave Vietnam temple: Abbot
Bin Laden Never Mentioned in Mcchrystal Report or Obama Speech
Sri Lanka Catholic Church attacked, suspicions fall on Buddhist extremists
Obama Far Outdoes Bush in Escalating War -- The Numbers Will Surprise You
Congress Less Trusted Than Ever
Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain
Rap and manga - new roads to Nirvana in Japan
China's Shaolin Temple rakes in cash and controversy
New unmanned US stealth jet based in Afghanistan gathers data in Iran
Czech Govt Allows 5 Cannabis Plants For Personal Use From 2010
45-minute WMD claim 'came from an Iraqi taxi driver'
Mind-Machine Breakthrough: People Type With Just Thoughts
Tibetans-in-exile hold candlelight vigil for nun who died after protests in China
The Big Idea That Might Beat Cancer and Cut Health-Care Costs by 80 Percent
Scientific Community Unfair to Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Imperial College London Dissertation Asserts
Kisha Clubs
Uighurs using missionary railway to flee China
Date for US drawdown needed to press Afghans: Gates
Sprint manager: ‘Half’ of all police surveillance includes text messaging
9/11 – Has America Been Told The Truth

Sorry this is a few days late. I will try to get better about posting the "Week in Review" weekly, rather than biannually, which is basically what I've been doing. Robyn
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"The Ground Truth" Book Review by David Ray Griffin
Little Known Facts About Afghanistan and Bin Laden
The REAL king of the jungle
China's Red Princesses
Mongolia: Shamanism is making a comeback
"Bandwidth hogs" join unicorns in realm of mythical creatures
Buddhist nun raises over 70 poor children single-handed
Kevin Ryan Presentation at Keene State College 9/12/09
Obama Lied: Taliban Did Not Refuse to Hand Over Bin Laden
Animal sacrifice in Nepal: Not our mainstream culture
Vietnam: Undying remorse for the unborn
Patriot Act Renewal Moving Forward
How the Drug Industry Spends $20 Billion a Year On Marketing
Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory - Episode 1 - HAARP
North Koreans dare to protest as devaluation wipes out savings
The last of the Dalai Lamas?
Marilyn Monroe shown 'smoking marijuana' on film
Obama Promise To End The War, 2007 - "You Can Take That To The Bank"
Tim DeChristopher, Utah Environmental Activist, Being Charged By Government For Failing To Pay Oil Bid
Iraq sees alarming rise in cancers, deformed babies
Splitting Time from Space—New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein's Spacetime
Obama orders 30-35,000 more troops for Afghanistan, surge to begin by Christmas
South Korea: War-torn border with North Korea draws nature tourism
The World of China Inc.
Battling Siberia's devastating illegal logging trade

Bin Laden 'within grasp' in 2001
Yawn: It’s one of the best things you can do for your brain
Kristina Borjesson discusses "drastic decline in true investigative journalism"
Afghans Detail Detention in ‘Black Jail’ at U.S. Base
Secret video reveals Burma's crackdown on monks
ZEN IN THE ART OF SEX AND VIOLENCE
Hindu goddess of power appeased. Animal rights activists not so much
Side Effects Made Simple: Shopper's Guide to 22 Worthless Drugs
Man marries virtual girlfriend
NSA eavesdropping more widespread than reported
Sri Lanka Guardian: Mississippi burning
Europe's identity crisis
UK/USA made use of Uzbek torture Pt2 (and Pt1)
Online gallery of modern and vintage psychiatric drug advertising
Priceless: How The Federal Reserve Bought The Economics Profession
Heroic Squirrel Saves Its Baby From Dog
Australia Pulls ADHD Guidelines Over Harvard's Biederman
India Officials Angered by Leak of Attack Report
Obama's Nice Guy Act Gets Him Nowhere on the World Stage
Researcher's labour of love leads to MS breakthrough

A collection of some of the more interesting stories from the past week.

SBC’s Richard Land condemns ‘waterboarding’ and torture
Pro-Justice, Not Anti-China
Day of slaughter in Sri Lanka blamed on government guns
Pakistani president: Osama bin Laden is dead
Law’s Unintended Consequences
Mothers' Day Proclamation: Julia Ward Howe, Boston, 1870
Report: Under Obama, military commissions may return
The Big "Con": Taliban About to Defeat Pakistan, Take Control of Nukes, and It's Another 9/11
Video: Ron Paul Questions Richard Holbrooke - 5/5/2009
Video: Ed On Single-Payer
Why We Need a Single-Payer Health Care System
New Poll: 52% Say Marijuana Should Be Legal, Taxed, Regulated
Tibetan monk who put video on YouTube out of jail
US Afghan strikes kill 100, 'mostly civilians'
Prison Awaiting Hostile Bloggers
Net neutrality and bandwidth caps don't matter; They have nothing to do with the Internet
Jemapur -- Maledict Car (dir. Kosai Sekine)
Why Wiping Out Insurgents Won't Bring Peace to Sri Lanka
Nordic boom in biker gangs
China's Mongols see bleak future for their culture
Buying Brand Obama
Teenager helps save six from fire
More Americans taking drugs for mental illness
‘US needs to call off drone strikes in Pak’
Generosity: A two-way street
Ignore AIPAC at America’s Peril
SIBEL EDMONDS: In Congress We Trust...Not
Television Statistics
Merck Creates Fake Academic Medical Journal
Democrat’s Hate Crime Legislation: Misguided

A Year Later, Myanmar Remembers Cyclone Nargis
Niels Harrit on Alex Jones: Nano-Thermite Found in WTC Dust
Scientist Warning of Health Hazards of Monsanto's Herbicide Receives Threats
Newly Released Memo: Government 'Minders' at 9/11 Commission Interviews 'Intimidated' Witnesses
What if Scientists Didn’t Compete?
Study of 4000 indicates marijuana discourages use of hard drugs
Animal SOS: Return to Buddhist values
Calamity Jane Harman Shoots Herself in the Foot
Pilot who flew 2 planes used on 9/11 doesn't believe official story
Pre-9/11 Upgraded GPS Service Provided 243 Foot Wide Aerial Navigation Corridors
Editor in chief of Open Chemical Physics Journal resigns after controversial article on 9/11
‘America is no longer ruled by the law’ – economist Paul Craig Roberts
Obama’s First 100 Days: The Madmen Did Well
End the University as We Know It
Vietnam: Politburo Approves Bauxite Mining
Thailand: The bhikkhuni question
A Tapestry of Lies: Harold Pinter to Obama
The Truth About Mental Disorders and Psychiatry
Conservative Judge Says Legalize Drugs
Study suggests Buddhist deity meditation temporarily augments visuospatial abilities
US interpreter who witnessed torture in Iraq shot herself with service rifle
Some Might Call It Treason
What Is Wrong with the Federal Hate Crime Law?
Recipe for Disaster: The Formula That Killed Wall Street
"The World According to Monsanto"

"The Foundations of Our Economy are Strong": A Bulletin From the Captain of the Titanic
Short Film: "BETWEEN ROOMS"
Child Obesity Is Linked to Chemicals in Plastics
A criminally stupid war on drugs in the US
Bipolar disorder and its biomythology: An interview with David Healy
Stiglitz Says White House Ties to Wall Street Doom Bank Rescue
Baptist pastor beaten + tazed by Border patrol - 11 stitches
Opinion: Obama perpetuates the wrong approach to drug war
Buddhist answers to common questions
Wolfram|Alpha: Searching for Truth
The Top 10 Enemies of Single-Payer
Obama Protecting Bush from Spain?
5 Years After: Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results
Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?
Tell Obama Not to Appoint Former Monsanto Lawyer on White House Food Safety Panel
Big Food Is Copying Big Tobacco's Disinformation Tactics, How Many Will Die This Time?
Echo vision: The man who sees with sound
Mothers Act Fuels Multibillion Dollar Industry Thermite
An emerging progressive consensus on Obama's executive power and secrecy abuses
Germany to ban genetically modified maize
Scholars on the Sidelines
Tibetan exiles stage a naked protest outside Chinese embassy in New Delhi
Two demonstrators killed as Thailand troops bid to end Bangkok unrest
Quillen: The war on a plant
Tibetans refuse to sow spring crops in protest against Beijing
The Art Of Being A Neighbor
Mind Set: Groundhog Buddhism

Below are some of the more interesting stories from the past week. The Moyers interview with William Black and the WTC paper ("Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust...") are especially worth looking at, if you haven't done so already. Robyn

William K. Black talks with Bill Moyers on the Financial Crisis
Defiant NKorea launches long-range rocket
Toxic Asset Plan Will Leave The Same Amount Of Toxic Assets In The System, But With the Taxpayers Now Liable For Most Of The Losses
The War on Drugs is a War on You
Time Warner Cable Expands Internet Usage Pricing
Should Obama Control the Internet?
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
Buddhist answers to common questions: The 7 practices of the bodhisattva
Core Of Corruption: In The Shadows
God and genocide in Cambodia
Texas vote leaves loopholes for teaching creationism
Khmer Rouge's chief torturer tells court of 'heartfelt sorrow' over killings
Geithner's Dirty Little Secret
The Centrality of Impermanence
Taiwan-Mainland co-host Buddhist forum
Spanish court considers trying former US officials
Insurers shun those taking certain meds
Mexican Drug Lord Officially Thanks American Lawmakers for Keeping Drugs Illegal
Tibetan Writer Questions Beijing's Version of Tibetan History
Insurance Industry is Simply a Parasite on the US Health System