thenatureofmind: Are We On The Way To A Police State or Are We Already There?

Non-Fiction

Nelson Foster & Jack Shoemaker: The Roaring Stream
One of the best book detailing the lives and teachings of some of the Chinese Ch'an masters who created what we now know as Zen Buddhism. Excellent!
Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Classic Chris Hedges who thinks deeply about our empire and our world culture. He goes to the root of the world problems we face.
Wade Davis: One River
The tale of two generations of Harvard ethnobotanists who explored the jungles of South America discovering the amazing array of unknown plants particularly the hallucinogens, rubber and coca. Living with and learning from the native people what they discovered has crucial relevance to 21st century man.
Gene Sharp: Power and Struggle (Politics of Nonviolent Action, Part 1)
Professor Sharp has made a life of study deconstructing Non-violent action throughout recorded history. In this 1st volume he elucidates the reasons that non-violent action works and what are the realities of power and what power derives from.
Eihei Dogen/Kazuaki Tanahashi/John Daido Loori: The True Dharma Eye: Zen Master Dogen's Three Hundred Koans
A beautiful collection of Zen Koans by the great zen master Eihei Dogen, translated by Kazuaki Tanahashi with commentary and verse by John Daido Loori.
Baisao: The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto
A very special book about a Zen monk who leaves the monastery and sells tea on the streets of Kyoto. A beautiful translation.
Jim Baggott: A Beginners Guide to Reality
A tour of how our minds create reality...
David Chadwick: To Shine One Corner of the World : Moments with Shunryu Suzuki
Suzuki Roshi at his finest. Collected by David Chadwick
Wei Wu Wei: All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living
Probably the best and most direct exposition of Zen Buddhist philosophy I have ever encountered. All of his books are equally worth reading.
PAUL REPS: Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
If you own only one Buddhist book this should be the one.

Monday, March 05, 2012

Are We On The Way To A Police State or Are We Already There?

"At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, California. American police forces had been “militarized,” many commentators worried, as though the firepower and callous tactics on display were anomalies, surprises bursting upon us from nowhere. "

How to Fund an American Police State: Real Money for an Imaginary War

By Stephan Salisbury

Posted by Ed on Monday, March 05, 2012 at 10:30 AM in Politics | Permalink

Technorati Tags: 9/11, MichaelMoore, occupy, OWS, PoliceState, StephanSalisbury

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