Bob Walter, Director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation. Campbell is one of the seminal sources of the contemporary psyche, but few have read his books.…
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Two months after consultancy giant McKinsey dramatically flip-flopped on its long held position of praising globalization, cautioning that - as Britain's vote to exit the European Union…
A combination of recent events underpinned by long-running historical strains reaching back more than 60 years has turned the western Pacific into one of the…
No evidence links Russia to hacking DNC emails. Accusations suggesting otherwise are baseless – the latest bashing episode, for geopolitical purposes, shifting attention from Hillary’s…
Hong Kong saw the formation of a new “political party,” headed by 19 year-old student Joshua Wong – a young man with no experience and…
Yes, it’s a strange thing to do — just sit there and do basically nothing. Yet the simple act of stopping, says Pema Chödrön, is…
“We will have a very strong (military) presence, very strong continued posture throughout the region to back our commitments to our allies, to protect and…
While many eagerly await the day when China will finally reveal its latest official gold holdings, a number which when made public will be orders of…
Tensions between China and United States continue to rise over the South China Sea as a Chinese government newspaper warns that war may be 'inevitable'…
“Just plain immoral.” That’s how Secretary of State John Kerry recently described those who stand idly by while the world burns—or, worse, obstruct those trying…
China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress, opened its one and only 2015 session in Beijing on March 5. The Congress – the NPC – meets for…
Chinese Communist Party leaders are deathly afraid that the Dalai Lama will not have an afterlife. Worried enough that this week, officials repeatedly warned that…