90 Plus: Aging in the Future
By Ron Steinman Everyone knows the population in the United States is growing. Because of advances in medicine there are more people over sixty-five alive today than at any time in our history. But there is more to this than most realize. Be aware, change is fast coming to the geriatric population, and thus to […]
May Day 2012 and the Indian Spring: A Day Without America’s Outsourced Jobs?
How will Americans feel when they act in solidarity, during the May Day 2012 actions, with the very people whom are the recipients of the lost jobs Americans mourn? Will they think that their brothers and sisters on the other side of the planet mock them? Or, that they are simply the victims if a […]
Ron Paul: A US Politician Who Says What he Thinks
Americans can either agree or disagree with Ron Paul’s stands on issues, but all political observers must admit that the Congressman is consistent on his positions. In Iowa’s GOP primary , Mitt Romney got the gold medal by 8 votes over conservative Christians’ favorite, Rick Santorum. Meanwhile, Ron Paul won the bronze medal in a […]
Austerity: Setting Up Europe for a Mega May 1968 Redux
Europe’s governing financial technocrats are working to preserve a financial system that is, in the best case scenario, edging towards a severe recession or, in the worst case scenario, on the brink of a collapse. Regardless, European leaders are setting themselves up for a hot spring, which will undoubtedly shore up the ranks of the […]
Occupy Religion: Don’t Let Religion Occupy You
Religion, and religious institutions, are not only granted undeserved credit for their role in social movements, but are also not afforded the responsibility they deserve for the damage they inflict to the movements they infect, and the communities represented by those movements. Christians are all too ready to yell about the involvement of Islamic organizations […]
