India and Pakistan are at a critical crossroads and will, in all likelihood, experience increasing bloodshed and chaos in the years just ahead, as the world careens toward the devastation prophesied to occur just before the return of Jesus Christ (Matthew 24).
It started in Tunisia; mobs of protesting citizens drove out the country's president Ben Ali and continue to demand the ouster of all the political cronies of the former government. "Thousands of Tunisian police, national guard, firemen and street cleaners thronged central Tunis on Saturday, [January 22, 2011...
By now, the whole world knows the planet is in trouble. Populations are beginning to outpace the resources needed to sustain them. The oceans are dying, clean water is becoming scarce, air pollution, earthquakes, tsunamis, wild fires, floods, crop failures, mutation of disease bacteria, terrorism, wars,...
European warfare in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was one great arms race. The combatants used improved weaponry in each successive war. Eventually, wooden sailing ships (armed with short-range cannons) gave way to massive, steam-driven dreadnoughts armed with naval guns capable of sending...
From Cape of Good Hope to southern edge of the Sahara, AIDS is gaining by leaps and bounds. Unaids, the United Nations agency charged with fighting the epidemic, reports that for every 100 people being treated, 250 are newly infected. Why is this deadly disease intensifying its spread, and what if anything...
Two of the most powerful earthquakes in the last 100 years have occurred in just the last five years. Earthquakes seem to be occurring with greater frequency and intensity than at any prior time in recorded history. What does this mean for us--and our future?
All over the planet, kingdoms, dictatorships, republics, and democracies are stymied by ever-mounting environmental, military, political, medical, social and economic problems that are threatening to overwhelm them. People are dissatisfied with their rulers and frustrated with what they see as a deteriorating...
Though the bomb in his underpants failed to explode, Umar Rarouk Abdulmutallab's botched attempt to destroy a Northwest Airlines plane last December 25 has set off a chain of events revealing the disarray pervading American intelligence services.
In the midst of a depth of suffering Haiti has not seen for two centuries, earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince are receiving help from a prosperous international community of nations able and willing to send aid. Despite daunting logistical problems, new supplies are arriving each day by air and by sea....
In the wake of the United Nations-sponsored Copenhagen meeting, what have we learned about mankind's efforts to slow the purported rise in Earth's temperature? Is "global warming" real—and can its effects be slowed or reversed? What are the nations really prepared to do—and what will be the...