The Native American Indian confederacy of tribes known as the Iroquois Nation, or Haudenosaunee were recently denied access to the World Lacrosse Championships in England, despite their ancestors invented the sport. This brings up an important indigenous rights issue: sovereignty.
Even so the George W Bush’s Great Recession had many factors at play such as the trillion spent for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the trigger effect was the burst of the US housing market bubble. From 2002 to 2007 the banks played an active role in inflating the prices and in some area [...]
Throughout the crafting of financial reform legislation, the Consumer Federal Protection Bureau, a new entity to protect consumer transactions, was central to the fight. Large banks lobbied aggressively against it, spending an unprecedented amount of money. Now the fight is about who will lead it. Progressive groups are waging a vocal campaign in support of [...]
When I was first exposed to real Zen practice I was initially struck, and eventually awed at the deep ecological wisdom that is central to life within a Zen monastic community. Not merely taught, but lived. The supposedly simple act of taking a meal is done in a way that grounds the practitioner in awareness [...]
Religion is nothing more than the sugar and spice that the conservatives have latched onto in order to sell an otherwise completely unpalatable, one dish, menu. They’ve found something to fill the void in their platform, religion, America’s soft spot, and they are exploiting it.
