Mass protests recently broke out in North Africa and the Middle East, with the protests in Tunisia & Egypt garnering more coverage than those in Jordan & Yemen. Yet protests in all four of these countries are bringing about the change that the people desire, at least the people that aren’t in “control” of the nation. The Egyptian protests began...

It’s time to once again look back at a year gone by. Near the beginning of the year, Haiti experienced a massive earthquake which saw a great outpouring of private charity, there were also less publicized massive earthquakes throughout the year in Chile, China & Indonesia. Also in the spring, airline travel into and out of Europe came to a halt after a volcano...

It’s hard for an American to admit that we have become a country whose President now claims the power to arrest and detain indefinitely – or even order the assassination of — any American citizen that the President – without official charges, trial and conviction – sees as some sort of threat. Future leaders are not likely to give up this power. We’re...

Think you know what the Obama administration means by words like freedom, democracy and the economy? Don’t bet your paycheck on it.  In Robert Reich’s December 14th blog, “Why America’s Two Economies Continue to Drift Apart, and What Washington Isn’t Doing About It,” Reich contrasts the Big Money Economy of Wall Street and big corporations – where...