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In a globalized world where language and technology are becoming standardized, we, as a global community, have also attempted to standardize the meanings of concepts so complex that they cannot be so easily defined.  Examples of this include the inception of global definitions...

Last Saturday and Sunday, I took an unusual step and attended a religious conference in Crystal City, just across the Potomac River from Washington DC. As I am not an active participant in any faith-based group, I decided with some hesitation to attend this conference because of...

A documentary soon to come out in theaters in the U.S. explores a little known fact: Fifty million people go hungry in the United States every day, including one in four children, according to U.S. government reports. PBS Newshour’s Ray Suarez speaks with director Lori...

This is a humorous take on a serious problem with profiting from commodity speculation at the cost of world hunger. Take a look.

In recent days, reports about rising food commodity prices have been announced, pointing to the serious drought in the American Mid-West. With record low rainfalls throughout the central region of the country, corn prices are approaching record levels that occurred in 2008. As...