Are We Going Down Like the Soviets?

This is the provocative question Tom Engelhardt asks in his blog. It seems we’ve finally entered the Soviet era in America. You remember the Soviet Union, now almost 20 years in its grave.  But who gives it a second thought today?  Even in its glory years that “evil empire” was sometimes referred to as “the [...]

The Dalai Lama speaking on religion, channeling the Talmud and Heraclitus

A friend sent me an internet link to a fascinating conversation that had taken place recently at an inter-religious conference between the Dalai Lama and the prominent Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff, as recorded by the latter. From Wikipedia: Liberation theology is a movement in Christian theology which construes the teachings of Jesus Christ in [...]

From the Deep Politics Conference in Santa Cruz

One: Peter Dale Scott on Deep Politics Peter Dale Scott, discussing the erosion of the US Constitution in recent times, suggests that “this erosion has been achieved in part through a series of important deep events in [post-World-War-II] American history – events aspects of which . . . will be ignored or suppressed in the [...]

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