At a time like this, it's useful to reflect and ask hard questions about Haiti's past if we are to truly help Haiti's future. Click on this 2008 interview with Peter Hallward: Failing Haiti: An Interview with Peter Hallward

As people in North America and worldwide continue to donate funds in order to help the people of Haiti recover from the earthquake, a Canadian-American organization called Healing Hands for Haiti is already on the ground helping Haitians meet their immediate and long term health and disability needs. The following is an interview with this organization’s Executive Director, Eric Doubt.

Paul Boin: I understand that your organization’s facilities were also damaged by the recent earthquake in Haiti.

While the rest of the western mainstream media (having not learned their lessons from their role in aiding and abetting the 2003 Iraq war) seem all to willing to let warmongers get the best of them, the Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders has given the global public interest some hope for his profession and a more peaceful world.