January 14, 2010
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The Truth about Haiti's Suffering By Finian Cunningham
Haiti’s poverty is not just bad luck or something inherently faulty about its natural resources and people. The country has been kept underdeveloped by decades of political and economic interference from Washington to ensure that this former slave colony continues to serve as a cheap source of agricultural exports to the US and as a… Continue reading
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How World Bank policies led to famine in Haiti
Video, April 2008: Food riots in Haiti caused the deaths of five people last week, including a UN peacekeeper, and forced the country’s prime minister out of office. The country is “a place of terrible turmoil,” Raj Patel, of UC- Berkeley’s Center for African Studies, tells The Real News Network. Patel, author of Stuffed and… Continue reading
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Haiti earthquake: ‘100,000 may be dead’
Video: Haiti’s President warns the scale of suffering is “unimaginable” Continue reading
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Haiti earthquake: '100,000 may be dead'
Video: Haiti’s President warns the scale of suffering is “unimaginable” Continue reading
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Video: Haiti Rescue from toppled building
14 January, 2010 — Truthout http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.915529 more about “Video: Haiti Rescue from toppled buil…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Haiti Devastated by Largest Earthquake in 200 Years, Thousands Feared Dead
The extent of the disaster is still unclear, but there are fears thousands of people may have died and tens of thousands lost their homes. In the capital Port-au-Prince, a city of two million people, thousands of buildings were damaged or destroyed, including hospitals, schools and hotels. The United Nations headquarters was also reported to… Continue reading
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HAITI EARTHQUAKE LIVE BLOG: Bodies Lying in the Streets of Port-au-Prince By Jason Leopold
13 January 2010 3:42 pm PDT: Another aftershock with a magnitude of 5.1 has reportedly taken place between Port-au-Prince and Leogane at 5:21 pm EDT. 3:35 pm PDT: CNN has footage of bodies lying in the streets of Port-au-Prince. The cable network’s Gary Tuchman reports that “no emergency officials in sight, and residents are watching Continue reading
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Haiti Earthquake: With Aid Groups Already There, Relief Efforts Ramp Up Quickly By Sara Miller Llana
The International Red Cross estimates as many as three million people may have been left homeless by Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti. With daylight, a clearer assessment of the scale of the challenge ahead. Continue reading
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Stand with the people of Haiti! – What the U.S. government isn't telling you
At such a moment, it is also important to put this catastrophe into a political and social context. Without this context, it is impossible to understand both the monumental problems facing Haiti and, most importantly, the solutions that can allow Haiti to survive and thrive. Hillary Clinton said today, “It is biblical, the tragedy that… Continue reading
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Haiti Report for January 13, 2010: Haiti Chief Says Thousands May Be Dead
The wailing of survivors pierced the air in pockets of this devastated city on Wednesday as people dug desperately through the rubble of collapsed buildings and piled bodies of the dead on roadsides under white sheets. Huge swaths of the capital, Port-au-Prince, lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 13-14 January, 2010
14 January, 2010 Haiti New York Times Once again, the world weeps with Haiti. The earthquake that struck on Tuesday did damage on a scale that scarcely could have been imagined had we all not … www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/opinion/14thu1.html 150 UN staff members remain trapped under rubble in Haiti Washington Post Haiti was rocked on Jan. 12 Continue reading
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