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In light of Ortega’s true mission of a totalitarian government, the San Juan river dispute seems like a minor issue in comparison. If Ortega is allowed to achieve his goals, it will have long lasting and dangerous effects for rest of the Central American countries.

Featured Columnist - Meditations Martin LeFevreAs Buddhism has proliferated in America and the West, the notion of sangha has gone along with it. In this town of about 100,000 in northern California, there are seven sanghas I know of, most...

TCRN STAFF: Mr. Opinion.Nicaragua Nicaragua continues it's attempts to annex a piece of Costa Rica. Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega is setting himself up as a puppet Hugo Chávez by running, unconstitutionally, for another term. Both of these dictators are friends and...

Featured Columnist - Meditations Martin LeFevreAutumn is at its peak and premium in northern California’s Central Valley. The yellows, oranges, and golds are resplendent in the parkland on a brilliant day, while the temperature is still mild enough for shirtsleeves.Two...

Featured Columnist - Meditations Martin LeFevreJean-Jacques Rousseau, despite or because of our cynical age, retains a powerful hold on the post-modern mind. Nowhere is that fact more apparent than with Western notions of indigenous people and their relevance for the...

TCRN STAFF: Both sides should be careful, as they both have a lot to lose. Nicaragua already has a tainted recent history in terms of conflict, and this will certainly have an impact on Costa Rica’s primary economic...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreLiving in a cultural desert, as we do in the West, and as more and more people do in this vapid global society, what is our response? Is it to just "go with the flow" as...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreWhen asked where the capacity to be creative comes from, Eric Kandel, the Nobel Laureate neuroscientist, answers very assertively: “It comes from the brain!”Statements such as this reflect a growing scientism in the Western world,...