Center for Strategic Communication

Double Standards: Buddhists, Muslims and Murder

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...

What We Are Reading

December 3 With Military’s Push, Biofuels Can Grow Andrew Holland/The Christian Science Monitor US Senate voted Wednesday to restore the Defense Department’s ability to buy biofuels. As the largest petroleum user in the world, the US military says its dependence...

Supporting Human Rights in Burma

Yesterday’s announcement that President Obama will become the first U.S. President to visit Burma marks an historic step in the United States’ engagement with Burma. In the past year, since President Obama first noted “flickers of progress” in...