Epstein Secrets

Lanka. The New York Times (7/8, Beech, 18.61M) reports on "the rise of militant Buddhism" in the wake of "ethnic cleansing" of Buddhist Rohingya in Burma and ongoing violence in Sri Lanka. The Times says "some Buddhists, especially those who subscribe to the purist Theravada strain of the faith, are

ked on GOP plans to remove Amash from the committee, and referred to the move as "rare retaliatory action" that stands in "contrast with actions by the Democratic Party, which has allowed two independents - Sens. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) and Angus King (Maine) - to caucus with its ranks and hold committee assignments."

Do More To Save Burma. The Washington Post (5/25, 10.52M) editorializes that the "unmitigated brutality" of the military junta that seized power in Burma through a coup in February "has provoked a relatively strong international response. ... But Western governments are still holding back from measur

o-state solution, the one-state reality that would emerge in its place won't just blow up Israel, the West Bank and Gaza; it could very well blow up the Democratic Party and every Jewish organization and synagogue in America." It is "vital," Friedman writes, that Biden "urgently take steps to re-energize the possibi

Do More To Save Burma. The Washington Post (5/25, 10.52M) editorializes that the "unmitigated brutality" of the military junta that seized power in Burma through a coup in February "has provoked a relatively strong international response. ... But Western governments are still holding back from measur

- state solution, the one-state reality that would emerge in its place won't just blow up Israel, the West Bank and Gaza; it could very well blow up the Democratic Party and every Jewish organization and synagogue in America." It is "vital," Friedman writes, that Biden "urgently take steps to re-energize the possibi

ation to choose words, and policies, according to their consequences, not according to some abstract moral scale. If praising dictators in Sudan or Burma, as the administration did at times, encouraged them to reconcile with their rivals, then they should be praised. Cutting ties to demonstrate the p

, a pointless exercise is called off. If there is any virtue to this record, it is that the reaction to it is reviving an internationalist wing of the Democratic Party that, by the end of the Bush administration, appeared nearly dead. Not just the usual neocons but Democratic senators such as Carl Levin and Rober