Month: February 2010

I use to think that what has occurred over the last few years has just been a random series of political events and while they were devastating they were still unrelated. As I see more of our democracy breaking down I am...

The destructive aspect of nature was made part of Hindu Mythology/Theology in the personification of Shiva, a major deity and aspect of the Hindu Great trinity or triad: Brahma (Creator), Vishnu (Preserver) and Shiva...

Every ten years, the U.S. Census is conducted from sea to shining sea (and beyond; sorry Hawaii).  Its mission statement reads: The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation’s people...

I wonder if Evan Bayh is stunned at how much ill-will he has produced on the left. There’s hardly anyone to the left of Joe Lieberman who has a good thing to say about his career. But I don’t think he is alone. In...

Much of the debate about the future of the EU and the Eurozone has been driven by nationalist European euroceptics, and US neo-liberal economic globalists opposed to corporate regulation and social provision.  The europhile...