A week ago, Dennis Kucinich gave a speech in Seattle. It is about a new America, and the Dream of America. It is about the kind of America we all yearn for, and envision for our children. Draw your own conclusions. Here is the speech: Hello Seattle. On this day, in this place of great [...]
Hiroshima. August 6, 1945. The Bomb. The after effects of that first atomic bomb still linger on in the psyche of the world, especially in the United States. At the end of the War, a scenario was scripted and promoted by the U. S. government, which basically argued that the dropping of the atomic bomb [...]
What do Hiroshima, nuclear weapons, and the Buddha have to do with each other? The Buddha is the only force that can defeat the Bomb and the threat of nuclear annihilation. We are not speaking here of a superhuman being, or god, when we say the Buddha, but rather the power that each person inherently [...]
Hiroshima Hibakusha – survivors of the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb – are dwindling in number. They are the last remaining keepers of the record of what happened in Hiroshima that fatal day, August 6th, 1945, when the first nuclear weapon was unleashed upon a civilian population. That day was a pivotal point in human history. We [...]