This is the second installment of my world news, national politics coverage.

The first one is titled: 'World News, National Politics. Who needs them?' It has so many entries I feel it burdensome to read the most recent stuff. This first forum will still be available, but my future posts will be to the new one. 

Why am I writing a blog about world news and national politics for a community newspaper?

There are a couple reasons. One is that I feel we're living in unprecedented times in the world and this country, which includes our community. 

Nihilism seems to be the driving force behind many of the competing self-interests in our culture and the western world. The "mainstream media" and entertainment business that are so prevalent in our culture seem partially responsible for the propogation of this nihilism and also the lack of substantive public discourse pertaining to world news and national politics.

We live in an interconnected world, and at the community level we need to know what's happening outside our immediate sphere of influence, outside of the pre-packaged stuff we see in the headlines of every daily newspaper and on every nightly television newscast. We need to be the ones who inform ourselves. 

We need more and better information if we are to rise above the mediocrity of self-centeredness. Therefore, I feel it incumbent upon myself, as part of a new generation of news writers, to help people get engaged in the dialogue or at least see some of what's happening in the nation and world that they might otherwise miss.

 If you come here for local news, more power to you. Take in some world news and national politics too. Feel free to post your own news, and leave your comments with regards to the stuff I post.