Japan’s Crisis and Opportunity : Fukushima (Island of Good Fortune)

by Terry Boardman     This article first appeared in New View magazine Spring 2011     By next year, I realise that a sixth of my life will have been spent in Japan ; it is a land, a society and culture for which I feel great gratitude and with which I am very familiar. Japan and its people taught me to love nature, to meditate, and the value of hard work and many other things too...
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“Where Is My Home? Truth Prevails” – A Journey to the Heart of Europe

Terry Boardman 2009 This essay first appeared in New View magazine Issue 54 Winter 2009/10     Pravda vít?zí  (“Truth prevails” – The official motto of the Czech Republic) Kde domov m?j (“Where is my home?” -  The Czech national anthem)   A secretive sun – this is the phrase that comes to mind when I think of Prague, a city of open secrets. The heart...
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What’s Going On in the Muslim World in 2011?

Soon after the outbreak of civil disturbances in Egypt in January 2011, on the well-known alternative news website www.prisonplanet.com run by Alex Jones, Paul Joseph Watson declared that what had been going on in Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen and now Egypt was "a cry for freedom [that] threatens to derail the new world order agenda". The 'Global Awakening' that Zbigniew Brzezinski (the USA political strategist) feared has arrived, he announced...
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