Eric Arnow

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The Los Angeles Fires and Death of the Liberal Class

A Fitting Comment on the LA Fires My Personal Interest in the LA Fires, Even Though I Don’t Live There The recent horrific fire that’s occurred in the Los Angeles area has some significance for me personally because of my cousin, whom I grew up with, we’re talking about 70 years ago. She was my childhood playmate, who is one year older than me. She grew up, she got married. She and her husband had a successful careers, they raised two kids, and they lived basically the American dream.  She retired from her job, he sold his business, and they moved …

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4 Persistent Myths about Russia and Ukraine

Old Myths Die Hard Recently I posted something on Facebook about former Presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders. His main point has been that the United States is not a functioning democracy, it is an oligarchy. However, in response to his short talk on Youtube, someone pointed out that ‘Russia invaded Ukraine’ in 2022. The fact that this person had no idea of the context behind the 2022 intervention by Russia shows just how persistent and pernicious Western Mainstream Media lies actually are. They become taken for granted as myths often have done in the past. In ancient Greece and Rome, and …

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The US proxy war againt Russia

The US Proxy War Against Russia: After 80 Years–No More Games, No More Delusions

The US Proxy War Against Russia in Ukraine: No More Games, No More Delusions The US Proxy War Against Russia: Most of the People in the US After 4 years Still Don’t Understand It! Update, December, 2025 I originally wrote this article on my blog in 2022. I posted it on substack in December, 2024. It has documentary material going back to 2014, when the regime that the US installed was waging war on the people of Eastern Ukraine. It shows actual war footage of attacks on people in Eastern Ukraine. It shows the President of Ukraine at that time, …

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The Horror and Tragedy of Syria: Yet Another Episode in a Century of Western Imperialism

  The Horror and Tragedy of Syria: Yet Another Episode in a Century of Western Imperialism Sykes Picot 2.0? A Century of Treachery and Betrayal   How Did Syria, After Resisting Western Backed Terrorists Since 2011, Suddenly Collapse? I myself was shocked that Russia and Iran had not alerted Syrian President Al-Assad about a buildup of forces to take him down. It’s paradoxical, to say the least, that Erdogan, Putin’s ‘friend’, who shot down a Russian jet and went groveling back to apologize, then killed the Russian ambassador in Istanbul, then mediated a truce between Ukraine and Russia, promising not …

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Where Are We Going?

Where Are We Going in the New Trump Era, Post NATO Acts of War?   It’s about two weeks after the election of Donald Trump in a resounding victory over the Biden/Harris regime. In an earlier post on Substack, I noted that, in retrospect, his win is not surprising. The Democrats have betrayed their base over and over and over again, beginning at least with the 1944 coup against Henry Wallace, who advocated cooperation with the Soviet Union. But ‘The Real Owners’, as the comedic prophet, George Carlin called them, or in later times, The Deep State, the entrenched bureaucracy, …

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The Tragedy of Ukraine: Seduced, Used, Abused, and Abandoned.

How the West Seduced, Used, Abused and Abandoned Ukraine The situation in Ukraine first came to my attention in late 2013. As I noted in previous posts, a website maintained by Andre Raefsky an ethnic Russian who grew up in the West, The Saker, noted social turmoil in Ukraine. Things went from bad to worse, with a recorded phone call surfacing of US State Department official, Victoria Nuland, caught planning whom she wanted to replace the democratically elected President Victor Yanukovych. She was caught on camera bragging about spending $5 billion to ‘promote democracy’ in Ukraine, by empowering far right …

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In the summer of 2022, I stayed at a Yoga Resort. It was run by Israelis on one of Thailand paradisical islands. People from many countries were there. It’s Vegan, so I guess that means that people there are more enlightened than non vegans. Anyway, one young Israel and I got into a bit of discussion. I maintained that we must know Truth. He asserted that he did not want to know the Truth, because the truth is painful. He preferred blissful ignorance. Except that he doesn’t understand that ignorance leads to unreality, and Reality always bats last. So here …

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A Pilgrimage to Chinese Zen Temples

My Pilgrimage to Chinese Zen Temples–Paying My Respects to the Zen Masters Who Made Zen Staying at Tong Bo Yan Si (translation: Monk’s Copper Bowl Temple)   An Old Zen Saying is that Kuan Yin, or Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara has 1000 Arms ( to help the afflicted)Here’s an example of such an image I’ve written about previous stays at temples in China, and had returned in March 2013, for a two month stay at Tong Bo Yan Si. While there, the traditional Buddha’s Birthday celebration took place. Entrance to the Dharma Hall at Tong Bo Yan Si   Here is a …

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Nato wants to negotiate with Russia

NATO Wants to Negotiate with Russia–10 Big Reasons Why Russia Won’t

      Duplicity in Negotiations: Nato Wants to Negotiate with Russia, but why?   The US/UK/Nato and their monkey’s paw Ukraine were sure that they would bring Russia to its knees by taking a hard line and refusing numerous Russian pleas for negotiation. Now, their plans are blowing up in their faces, and instead of Russia’s economy and war effort collapsing it’s theirs that is collapsing. NATO wants to negotiate with Russia. But should Russia trust its Russia hating adversaries’ new found request to negotiate? The Collective West After Decades of Backstabbing, Now Wants Negotiations with Russia Since the …

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10 Tips on Zen Practice in Daily Life

  Introduction—Can Zen Practice Help Us in ‘the Last 500 Years’? In today’s tumultuous world, many people are asking if we are facing ‘the End Times’. Not only do people in the Christian world wondering about this, but even in Buddhism, there is a view that we are in ‘the Last 500 Years’ after the life of the Buddha, who lived 2500 years ago. Despite our fears and the many obstacles that the media and social pressures inflict on us, Zen practice says that we should “Do Good, Don’t Do Evil, and Purify Your Mind”. Regardless of what the time …

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