by Patricia H. Kushlis | Nov 21, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis It’s been more than a week since Typhoon Haiyan (known in the Philippines as Yolanda) devastated the central Philippines leaving cities, villages, fields, roads, people and coconut plantations destroyed in its wake. This is the 26th tropical...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jul 16, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Within months after I arrived in Manila summer 1992, the US Navy took its ships and sailed off – the first time the Philippines had been left to fend for itself after 350 years of Spanish rule and 94 years of American military presence. (Photo...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 6, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Buddhist mobs have been killing Muslims in Myanmar. Where’s the outrage? Why aren’t all major Buddhist leaders, those supposed paragons of compassion, loudly, unequivocally, calling for a halt to it? Why aren’t Buddhist practitioners world wide...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Apr 2, 2013 | Monitor
LIVING IN CHALLENGING TIMES: THE UNITED STATES & EAST ASIA a two-day symposium April 8-9, 2013 St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico sponsored by SANTA FE WORLD AFFAIRS FORUM Co-sponsors: U.N.M. Center for Science, Technology & Policy Albuquerque...
