Columnist – John SammonI vividly recall John F. Kennedy just a month before his assassination telling Walter Cronkite something to the effect that, “what is great about this country is, that we don’t have to import our way of life onto other countries by the use of force.”

This was just moments before he said what [...]

   By: Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis    [ Enlarge ]What happens these days in today’s world demonstrates very well that Muslims and Christians have been caught victims of an unnecessary and malicious plan.
Muslims gullibly believe that several Western nations, notably France, England and the US, have engaged a war against Islam by colonizing first and controlling afterwards [...]

   By: Naomi Klein [ Enlarge ]If we are to believe the G-7 finance ministers, Haiti is on its way to getting something it has deserved for a very long time: full “forgiveness” of its foreign debt. In Port-au-Prince, Haitian economist Camille Chalmers has been watching these developments with cautious optimism.

Debt cancellation is a good [...]

   By: Roberto Dr. Cintli RodriguezThe images from Haiti compel us to look at the mirror and ask ourselves, if we have a heart and a face? What we see compels us to ask if we are the human beings that we profess to be. The answer moves us to act.

As Haiti bleeds, we don’t ask [...]

If not for Haiti, the course of U.S. history could have been very different, with the United States possibly never expanding much beyond the Appalachian Mountains. “By their long and bitter struggle for independence, St. Domingue’s blacks were instrumental in allowing the United States to more than double the size of its territory,” wrote Stanford [...]