Author Archives: MZR

By: Richard Carlson, PH.D Obstacles and problems are a part of life. True happiness comes not when we get rid of all of our problems, but when we change our relationship to them, when we see our problems as a … Continue reading →

  By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: September 28, 2010 There are actually two Tea Party movements in America today: one you’ve read about that is not that important and one you’ve not read about that could become really important if … Continue reading →

Posted on Sep 27, 2010 By Chris Hedges Nemesis was the Greek goddess of retribution. She exacted divine punishment on arrogant mortals who believed they could defy the gods, turn themselves into objects of worship and build ruthless systems of power to … Continue reading →

The disappearance of home equity value is a lead weight on the recovery By Mortimer B. Zuckerman Posted: September 23, 2010 The mortgage market doesn’t help. It is virtually on life support from the government, which now guarantees about 95 … Continue reading →

  By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Set 22, 2010 To visit China today as an American is to compare and to be compared. And from the very opening session of this year’s World Economic Forum here in Tianjin, our Chinese hosts … Continue reading →

by Chris Hedges  Sept 13, 2010   There are no longer any major institutions in American society, including the press, the educational system, the financial sector, labor unions, the arts, religious institutions and our dysfunctional political parties, which can be … Continue reading →

Jeffrey Feldman  September 3, 2010  Lately, American politics is neither blue nor red, but yellow.  Like the “yellow journalism” that plagued the turn of the last century, this new era of Gilded Age politics has been overrun by obscene exaggerations … Continue reading →

Robert Reich September 5, 2010 Welcome to the worst Labor Day in the memory of most Americans. Organized labor is down to about 7 percent of the private work force. Members of non-organized labor — most of the rest of … Continue reading →

By BOB HERBERT Published: August 30, 2010 At least 14 American soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan over the past few days. We learned on Saturday that our so-called partner in this forlorn war, Hamid Karzai, fired a top prosecutor … Continue reading →

Posted on Aug 20, 2010 by Kevin Tillman In light of the release of the must-see documentary “The Tillman Story” (reviewed by Richard Schickel at Truthdig, and Stephen Holden in The New York Times), we reprint Kevin Tillman’s classic 2006 Truthdig piece … Continue reading →