-Just like in the US, Latin governments are terribly corrupt... so the next duly (or unduly) elected chief thief nearly always finds the coffers empty.…

Winners:  Netanyahu, AIPAC, , US Republican Party, Sheldon Adelson (American Jewish billionaire funder of the right), Hamas, Islamic State, the right-wing Mullahs in Iran. Losers:…

US Secretary of State John Kerry may be starting to enjoy the brinkmanship, as he says it’s “unclear” whether the US and Iran would reach…

An update on the Latin real estate bubble… it just keeps getting bigger. Every middle and upper-middle class Latin’s dream is to buy or build…

UNITED NATIONS, Mar 19 2015 (IPS) - The growing economic inequalities between rich and poor – and the lopsided concentration of wealth and power in the…

The unmitigated effrontery of the Senate this month is hard to excel, but President Obama is doing his best to do just that. Over the…

I have dedicated my life to the exploration of the profound potential for transformation that all human beings possess. In this pursuit I have had…

Once upon a time, 4,000 to 8,000 years after humanity invented agriculture, something very strange happened to human reproduction. Across the globe, for every 17…

For years, Wikipedia has been a prime source of misinformation (or perhaps disinformation) about natural health. Now we worry about what Google is up to. Action…

Taking in such spine-tingling wonders as the Grand Canyon, Sistine Chapel ceiling or Schubert’s “Ave Maria” may give a boost to the body’s defense system,…

Children’s use of technology and social media has become a focus for modern-day parents. What is an appropriate amount of screen time and how should…

When the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) has its annual howling convention in the Washington, DC area, the mainstream mass media expands its coverage like…