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Costa Rica News – Well if you are looking to retire and be safe from ant direct attacks if World War III breaks out, you might be paying “Pura Vida:…

A novel that deeply affected me when I was young is Dostoevsky’s “The Idiot.” In it, the central character utters one of the most memorable and mysterious lines in all…

I had a fine conversation with a Polish émigré in town today. She spoke vividly of fleeing Poland as a dissident college student in 1988, the year before the Berlin…

Attesting that being a liberal or a conservative has become a distinction without a difference, ‘progressive’ mouthpieces for the corporate media have taken to comparing and defending Western ideas and…

Costa Rica News – Is the country without a military getting a bit worried about not having one? 

World News – A Russian startup said it is planning to build a lunar base camp for a measly $9.4 billion. But even Russian authorities are cautioning that these plans…

There are about 6000 languages spoken in the world today, many of them by dwindling groups of indigenous people. By the end of this century, it is projected that there…

It’s just before the mid-term elections in America, and the mood is moribund. Right-wing Republicans, with help from weak-kneed Democrats, have successfully made it a referendum on President Obama. America…