A large standing military, a large contractor base, and its widespread congressional patronage network cannot survive without war or the threat of war to lubricate the continuing money flow it requires.

A single social program is transforming how countries all over the world help their poor.

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) – namely cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes – cause 60% of all global deaths, but receive just 2.3% of international development assistance for health.

Concerned that his positive vision of humanism is being threatened and perhaps eclipsed with a new brand of acerbic atheism, Paul Kurtz has drafted and released a new “Neo-Humanist Statement of Secular Values and Principles.”

We’ll accept the Universe as our neighbor, as cool wallpaper, and not get too exercised about its existence – this remoteness buffers us from intruders.

This is what happens when large numbers of people gather in the nation’s public squares, as they did last year in Washington. Hope is given light, the aroma of freedom blesses all who are there, new beginnings are sensed and pledged.

Today Humanism is a captive and exploited philosophy, shot for its antlers and hijacked for its name by aggressive atheists.

As of January 16, 2011, 21,562 people have voted. So far, the votes are 95.4% in favor of creating a democratic world parliament. Open a booth on your website today!

The Dutch and Italians, et al have been hiding their nukes for decades. Like the actions of the Israelis ignoring the Warsaw ghetto lessons, these actions morally undermine us all.

“The UN was not created to take humanity to heaven but to save it from hell.”- Former United Nations Sec’y-General Dag Hammarskjold.