Category: Global News

High Priests of Mammon – a new caste emerges in Western Society?

With all the talk about banker’s bonuses and whether or not they are deserved, there are some much bigger questions being left unexamined. Could it be that we are witnessing the rise of an international caste of workers in financial systems, who see themselves as fundamentally different from the rest of us? Are they led by a new set of high priests who have the right to judge the great questions, offer forgiveness to errant nations and even step in to rule?

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In the bleak midwinter

As snows and bitter cold hit the UK, I wonder whether our weather signifies something of spiritual truth about these days. This time last year all eyes were on Copenhagen and the hope of a world agreement to work together for the sake of the planet. Since then ‘belief’ in climate change has dwindled, campaigns have run out of steam, people have become tired. It seems that everything has been said and done, and we are lost, but maybe that is not the whole truth…

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Can anything good come out of Detroit?

Detroit is well known as the city of the car. It was the place of the first Ford assembly line and the home of GM motors. As a result it has suffered terribly from car-related diseases like a city/suburb split between black/white and poor/rich. And now, with the oil crisis followed by the sub-prime crisis in housing, and the financial collapse, the city is in freefall. Average house prices are around $5000. There is no longer a rush hour, because there is no rush and few cars. Whole streets are being pulled down and some see the inner city reverting to nature. Is this a sign of the future for our cities? Or is there a better story to be told?

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Dubai - a modern day Babel

Remember Babel. A tower built to the sky. A people who had lost touch with reality, who thought to make themselves gods. So it is with Dubai – and the great tower is about to fall.

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The most important battle for truth in the history of the planet

Leaked emails from East Anglia have grabbed the headlines. They don’t cast doubt on anything of scientific substance, but they do teach something about human beings and our inner lives.

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Archbishop says we need to reassociate ourselves with nature

A lecture by Rowan Williams touched on key EarthAbbey themes, Alan Baker reports

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Bloodshed at the clash of two economic cultures

Hundreds of indigenous people from the Peruvian rainforest block the road into the forest. Soldiers line up to confront them. Waiting in the wings are multinational oil and mining companies with a plan to profit from the jungle. Tear gas is fired. Some of the indigenous people begin to run, others hold firm.  A few sink to their knees, pleading, as the first shots ring out.

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The disappearance of the honeybee – a warning sign?

Human beings are dependent on an extraordinarily complex system of life on this planet. A recent decline in honeybee populations is making us aware of just how much this insect does for us.

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Rest – the gateway to a new life perspective

As the G20 meets in London there is one thing that they will not want to hear.
The first step on the journey toward a life more in tune with the earth may be to find rest.

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Michelle Obama to grow veg on the White House lawn

This is a story to put a smile on the face of anyone convinced that growing and eating our own organic produce should, perhaps, take precedence, even, over the front lawn. Michelle Obama isn’t thinking about this. She’s not weighing the pros and cons of a petition urging her to do this. She’s not allowing some local grower to plant some potatoes in a corner. She’s doing it herself with the help of some local school children.

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