Analysis

By Gideon Polya

Love, Care & Overcoming Rage.

“The Chronicles of Nefaria” by William Cook (Expathos, Groningen, Netherlands, 2008) is more than a novel - it is simultaneously also a poem, a play and a liturgy. It is a very important morality tale about overcoming rage in our dreadful times.

Read more: Book Review: 'The Chronicles of Nefaria' by William Cook

By John Graham

There are many differences between our wars in Vietnam and in Afghanistan. There are also similarities we can’t ignore, including the vital need for an indigenous government that commands broad-based popular support. 

Read more: Afghanistan—Winning Lessons from Vietnam

By Stephen Lendman

Haiti is no stranger to adversity and anguish - over 500 years of severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities from destructive hurricanes to a dozen magnitude 7.0 or greater Caribbean region earthquakes in the past 500 years. The last major one was in 1946 at 8.1 in the adjacent Dominican Republic, also striking Haiti. Earlier catastrophic ones were in 1751 and 1770, both devastating Port-au-Prince, and the 1842 one destroying Cap-Haitien in the north.

Read more: Focus on Haiti: Washington's Militarized Takeover

By Emily Spence

There are moment in life when one, seriously, wonders whether our species, overall, is mentally ill in some underlying ways. Then again, any definitive determination is likely relativistic since it largely depends on the standards that a given society and culture use to define mental illness, it would seem.

Read more: Resisting An Underlying Moral Vacuum

By Gilad Atzmon

I also have a dream that one day  the Jewish  state, a state sweltering in the heat of injustice, sweltering in the heat of oppression; will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and fairness.

Read more: In Memory of Martin Luther King