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19/02/04

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The General Council for the government of Haiti in the United States speaks out against US support of right-wing opposition in Haiti; Robert Fisk discusses the ongoing violence in Iraq; and Larry Everest talks about Empire and the US Global Agenda;
www.pacifica.org/programs/flashpoints/flashpoints_040217.html

FREEDOM can’t be enjoyed yet, Haitians say
Miami Herald – Miami,FL,USA
… in Haiti right now is one you cannot speak of.’’. Alex Dupuy, a scholar at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., said fellow Haitians should approach 2004…
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/haiti/7486798.htm

U.S. to Send Military Team to Haiti :
The Bush administration said Thursday it would send a military team to Haiti to assess the security of the U.S. Embassy there, but stressed that it is still looking for a political solution to the bloody uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040219/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/us_aristide_6

Powell Says Open to Haiti’s Aristide Quitting:
The United States said on Thursday it was open to Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide stepping down, the first time it has publicly acknowledged his departure could be a way out of crisis.
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040219/wl_nm/haiti_usa_dc_1

Rising Stakes In Haiti as Ex-Duvalier Thugs Take Over Opposition:
The emergence of former paramilitary and military leaders accused of atrocities committed during Haiti’s last period of military rule at the head of spreading rebellion against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has added urgency to international efforts to deal with the ongoing crisis in the Caribbean nation.
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/oneworld/20040219/wl_oneworld/4536796211077199236

Set the right priorities in Haiti:
Where was everybody when the first puffs of smoke appeared years ago? When President Jean-Bertrand Aristide started relying on thugs to maintain order? When brave journalists were murdered for writing and broadcasting the truth? When peaceful protests were repressed by violent means? Today, in the belated haste to do something — anything — there is a danger of failing to adopt the right set of priorities.
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/7987459.htm

US military experts heading to Haiti
CNN International – World
… Discontent has grown in Haiti, home to 8 million people, since Aristide’s party swept … down, but Aristide insists he will stay until his term ends in February…
edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/19/haiti.revolt/

PAHO Working To Relieve Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti
Pan American Health Organization – Washington,DC,USA
Washington, DC, February 19, 2004 (PAHO)˜The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is working to help relieve the humanitarian crisis in Haiti,

www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/pr040219a.htm

UN team starts assessment of humanitarian needs in northern Haiti
UN News Centre
19 February 2004 ˆ A United Nations team today begins assessing the humanitarian … Health care in Haiti is a major concern, according to OCHA.…
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=9823&Cr=&Cr1=

US to send military team to Haiti
Salon (subscription) – USA
19, 2004 | WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration said Thursday it would send a military team to Haiti to assess the security of the US Embassy there, but…
www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/02/19/haiti/

SET the right priorities in Haiti
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA
... It shouldn't take an armed invasion of Haiti to put an end to ... An effort by Mr. Aristide's critics to curtail the growing insurrection would demonstrate that ...
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/7987459.htm

HOW Washington set the stage for Haiti's uprising
Socialist Worker – Chicago,IL,USA
By Lee Sustar | February 20, 2004 | Page 8. THE MEDIA has a standard story line to explain the uprising in Haiti—one-time populist leader Jean-Bertrand

www.socialistworker.org/2004-1/487/487_08_Haiti.shtml

REBELS too much for police in Haitian city
Anchorage Daily News – Anchorage,AK,USA
… constitutional succession before Aristide’s term expires in February … jailed in the 1990s for plotting insurrection. … 50,000 at a strategic crossroads in Haiti’s…
www.adn.com/24hour/world/story/1151528p-8023974c.html

REPORTS from Haiti
Infoshop News – USA
Monday, February 16, 2004 Today on Flashpoints: We continue our coverage of the expanding US-supported destabilization campaign in Haiti, we‚ll get a live…
www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/02/18/1926928

50 dead as Haiti crisis grows
CNN – USA
… Discontent has grown in Haiti, home to 8 million people, since Aristide’s party swept … down, but Aristide insists he will stay until his term ends in February…
www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/17/haiti.revolt1410/

SECURITY Cl Calls For End To Violence in Haiti
Scoop.co.nz (press release) – New Zealand
… today www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004 … over the increasing violence and political crisis in Haiti … loss of many lives,‰ the
Council President for February…
www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0402/S00181.htm

FLORIDA Senators Urge Action on Haiti, Fearing Tide of Refugees
New York Times – USA
… The Coast Guard, which maintains a permanent presence off Haiti with cutters and planes … He said the number of Haitians intercepted at sea 149 in February was in…
www.nytimes.com/2004/02/19/politics/19HAIT.html?ex=1077771600&en=e6615f7605c6158b&ei=5062

HAITI: preparations for possible refugee exodus
Scoop.co.nz (press release) – New Zealand
… After the 5 February attack in the Artibonite town of Gonaïves, unrest spread to nearly a dozen towns in the center and north of Haiti.…
www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0402/S00173.htm

STATEMENT on Haiti
Common Dreams – USA
WASHINGTON – February 17 – In recent weeks, the Haitian crisis has… and what appears to be a move toward insurrection. … is and has been that the people of Haiti…
www.commondreams.org/news2004/0218-03.htm

CCR Warns of Threat of Mass Murder in Haiti and the Return of…
Common Dreams – USA
NEW YORK – February 18 – With the reappearance of Jodel Chamblain in Haiti and the continued US refusal to detain Emmanuel Constant, two of the bloodiest

www.commondreams.org/news2004/0218-08.htm

REBELS threaten to attack Haiti’s second city
Baltimore Sun – Baltimore,MD,USA
… of demobilized soldiers before being jailed in the 1990s for plotting insurrection. He spoke in Hinche, a town of 50,000 at a strategic crossroads in Haiti’s…
www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-haiti0218,0,1277414.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines

FREEDOM can’t be enjoyed yet, Haitians say
Miami Herald – Miami,FL,USA
… in Haiti right now is one you cannot speak of.’’. Alex Dupuy, a scholar at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., said fellow Haitians should approach 2004…
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/haiti/7486798.htm

U.S. to Send Military Team to Haiti :
The Bush administration said Thursday it would send a military team to Haiti to assess the security of the U.S. Embassy there, but stressed that it is still looking for a political solution to the bloody uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040219/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/us_aristide_6

Powell Says Open to Haiti’s Aristide Quitting:
The United States said on Thursday it was open to Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide stepping down, the first time it has publicly acknowledged his departure could be a way out of crisis.
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040219/wl_nm/haiti_usa_dc_1

Rising Stakes In Haiti as Ex-Duvalier Thugs Take Over Opposition:
The emergence of former paramilitary and military leaders accused of atrocities committed during Haiti’s last period of military rule at the head of spreading rebellion against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has added urgency to international efforts to deal with the ongoing crisis in the Caribbean nation.
story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/oneworld/20040219/wl_oneworld/4536796211077199236

Set the right priorities in Haiti:
Where was everybody when the first puffs of smoke appeared years ago? When President Jean-Bertrand Aristide started relying on thugs to maintain order? When brave journalists were murdered for writing and broadcasting the truth? When peaceful protests were repressed by violent means? Today, in the belated haste to do something — anything — there is a danger of failing to adopt the right set of priorities.
www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/7987459.htm

US military experts heading to Haiti
CNN International – World
… Discontent has grown in Haiti, home to 8 million people, since Aristide’s party swept … down, but Aristide insists he will stay until his term ends in February…
edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/19/haiti.revolt/

PAHO Working To Relieve Humanitarian Crisis in Haiti
Pan American Health Organization – Washington,DC,USA
Washington, DC, February 19, 2004 (PAHO)˜The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is working to help relieve the humanitarian crisis in Haiti,

www.paho.org/English/DD/PIN/pr040219a.htm

UN team starts assessment of humanitarian needs in northern Haiti
UN News Centre
19 February 2004 ˆ A United Nations team today begins assessing the humanitarian … Health care in Haiti is a major concern, according to OCHA.…
www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=9823&Cr=&Cr1=

US to send military team to Haiti
Salon (subscription) – USA
19, 2004 | WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration said Thursday it would send a military team to Haiti to assess the security of the US Embassy there, but…
www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/02/19/haiti/

Beloved Haiti: A (Counter) Revolutionary Bicentennial
By Stan Goff Feb 17, 2004, 17:36
February 9, 2004 - As I write this there is an attempt to start a civil war in Haiti, engineered in the United States of America and supported by its lapdogs in Caricom and the Organization of American States.
http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_5190.shtml

HOW Washington set the stage for Haiti's uprising
Socialist Worker – Chicago,IL,USA
By Lee Sustar | February 20, 2004 | Page 8. THE MEDIA has a standard story line to explain the uprising in Haiti—one-time populist leader Jean-Bertrand

www.socialistworker.org/2004-1/487/487_08_Haiti.shtml

REBELS too much for police in Haitian city
Anchorage Daily News – Anchorage,AK,USA
… constitutional succession before Aristide’s term expires in February … jailed in the 1990s for plotting insurrection. … 50,000 at a strategic crossroads in Haiti’s…
www.adn.com/24hour/world/story/1151528p-8023974c.html

REPORTS from Haiti
Infoshop News – USA
Monday, February 16, 2004 Today on Flashpoints: We continue our coverage of the expanding US-supported destabilization campaign in Haiti, we‚ll get a live…
www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/02/18/1926928

50 dead as Haiti crisis grows
CNN – USA
… Discontent has grown in Haiti, home to 8 million people, since Aristide’s party swept … down, but Aristide insists he will stay until his term ends in February…
www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/02/17/haiti.revolt1410/

HAITI: preparations for possible refugee exodus
Scoop.co.nz (press release) – New Zealand
… After the 5 February attack in the Artibonite town of Gonaïves, unrest spread to nearly a dozen towns in the center and north of Haiti.…
www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0402/S00173.htm

STATEMENT on Haiti
Common Dreams – USA
WASHINGTON – February 17 – In recent weeks, the Haitian crisis has… and what appears to be a move toward insurrection. … is and has been that the people of Haiti…
www.commondreams.org/news2004/0218-03.htm

CCR Warns of Threat of Mass Murder in Haiti and the Return of…
Common Dreams – USA
NEW YORK – February 18 – With the reappearance of Jodel Chamblain in Haiti and the continued US refusal to detain Emmanuel Constant, two of the bloodiest

www.commondreams.org/news2004/0218-08.htm

REBELS threaten to attack Haiti’s second city
Baltimore Sun – Baltimore,MD,USA
… of demobilized soldiers before being jailed in the 1990s for plotting insurrection. He spoke in Hinche, a town of 50,000 at a strategic crossroads in Haiti’s…
www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-haiti0218,0,1277414.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines

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