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American Humanist Association

Religious Organizations and Environmental Groups: Together for a Greener Earth?

Religion and the Quest for a Sustainable World
 by Gary Gardner
Environmentalists and people of faith have had limited contact since the start of the environmental movement. Nevertheless, religious traditions are beginning to recognize the need to build environmentally healthy societies. The challenge for environmentalists and other advocates of sustainability may be to build bridges with religion and also develop a spiritual or emotional connection with the natural environment.
 
The Cost of Fossil Fuels
 by Albert L. Huebner
Society needs to make the transformation away from fossil fuels not only to prevent further environmental destruction but also to avert economic downturn. A scientific and humane cost analysis reveals an economically convincing picture.
 
The Anatomy of Propaganda within Religious Terrorism
 by Roderick Hindery
In addition to the physical destruction of suicide and homicide caused by religious terrorism, psychological damage is also inflicted on its adherents through internal propaganda and conditioning.
 
What Bush Doesn't Want You to Know About Iraq
 by Michael I. Niman (Read Article in PDF)
When Iraq presented its weapons declaration, the Bush administration removed over 8,000 pages of the document while attacking the report as incomplete.This is because the deleted pages were so embarrassing.
(Editor's Note: This article was chosen as the #3 story on Project Censored's list of Top 25 Censored News Stories of 2002-03, to be published in the yearbook of undercovered news, Censored 2004.)
 
9-11 and a Lack of Presidential Leadership
 by Burt Hall
Before September 11, 2001, the Clinton administration had passed on to the Bush administration a workable plan of response to the threat of terrorism.The problem now is to explain why, then, the United States wasn't better prepared.
 
How We Saved the World from Nuclear War
 by Diana and Norman Fleishman
Two longtime AHA members have held events on planetary issues in the homes of writers and producers in Hollywood, California, for decades, influencing entertainment media to bring social concerns to the forefront.
 
Ethics: Time to Revisit the Basics
 by Gregory D. Foster (Read Article in HTML)
Few of us really understand the definition of ethics, causing a serious disservice to society.Truth and justice are the important factors in distinguishing what is ethical from what is not.

The Issue At Hand
 by Fred Edwords

LETTERS TO THE
EDITOR

UP FRONT:
No Child Left Alone by Military Recruiters
 by Leah C. Wells
Raising Hell May be Good for Your Health
  by Timothy Lutero
Congress to the Rescue?
  by Ralph R. Reiland

MEDIA BEAT:
Not All White House Reporters Are Pushovers
 by Norman Solomon

HUMANIST FLASHBACK:
Religion, Spirituality and Humanism
by Jack Sechrest (Read Article in PDF)

CHURCH AND STATE:
Roe v. Wade at Thirty
 by Edd Doerr

REVIEWS

WORTH NOTING
  by Karen Ann Gajewski

Cover: by Kiyoung Nam

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