Re: [Marxism] (Fwd) Dalai Lama controversy: "Marxist monk" won't bed at Hotel Michaelangelo, agh shame

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 29, 2009, at 10:13 AM, S. Artesian wrote:

> I guess maybe I'm alone in recalling the WSJ article last year about
> "Warrior Monks" who were funded and armed by the CIA to conduct  
> insurgent
> activities in Tibet and agains the PRC?  And the organizer of those  
> combat
> monks [love that term]?  The Dalai Lama's brother.


Wow!  The Dalai Lama's brother accepted US aid to help the Tibetan  
people in an uneven struggle against Chinese imperial occupation.   
That's awful!  Almost as bad as Roger Casement accepting the Kaiser's  
aid to help the Irish people in an unequal struggle against British  
imperial occupation.


Shane Mage

> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos

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