Lucas Benitez is a founder of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. He is now in the company of the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, John Lewis and the 14th Dali Lama of Tibet
He risked his neck. When Edward Snowden chose to expose the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) s mass surveillance Leviathan, and that of its British counterpart, GCHQ, 10 years ago, he put his life on the line. And he has always declared he has never regretted it. But years after his act of extraordinary courage, the Snowden archive remains largely unpublished. He trusted in journalists to decide what to publish. In an article published in June 2023, by Guardian Pulitzer prize winner Ewen MacAskill - who flew to Hong Kong with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras to meet Edward Snowden - McAskill confirmed that most of the archive has not been made public. "In the end, we published only about 1 percent of the document,” he wrote. What does the 99 percent of the Snowden archive contain? A decade on, it remains shrouded in secrecy. A doctoral thesis by American investigative journalist and post-doctoral researcher Jacob Appelbaum has now revealed unpublished information f
The Namgyal Monastery Institute of Buddhist Studies one of five practicing Namgyal monasteries in the world and the only one operating outside of India will host an opening celebration for its new library and learning center starting Friday Sept. 8 and wrapping up Sunday evening.
On a visit to the border village of Turtuk (Ladakh) in 2005, the then seventy-year-old Dalai Lama accepted the gift of a walking cane as the harbinger, not of ageing, but of a long life. The villagers whose.
After decades of brutal communist persecution, the people of Tibet remain unmoved and unafraid. His Holiness the Dalai Lama is at the heart of their resilience.
May 19, 2023. By Jason Morgan, Reitaku University. Japan Forward.
It is often said that the People's