In a recent broadcast of Democracy Now, Amy Goodman told her guest, the award-winning investigative journalist and activist Allan Nairn , “The most hit word in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is the word "austerity" in 2010.”  

I acknowledged Amy Goodman in my recent book because her reporting, her show, has helped me demystify the odd and ironic measures taken by our political leaders to solve both the local and global issues of our times. I mean Washington's touting of such "austerity measures" as cuts in social programs for the poor is nothing but ...

I’ve been thinking about trust. How its the bedrock of all relationships. I’ve been thinking about the economy and the environment and the way our business and political leaders have been minding them. I’ve been listening to all the pundits and economic forecasters posit on when things will return to “normal” and how restoring trust in the American financial system is vital for a recovery. And then I think about how it will not be in God or the status quo of this economy the we will put our ...