16 January, 2010
Too Little Too Late for Haiti? Six Sobering Points Bill Quigley, Truthout:
“Point One. $100 Million – Are You Kidding Me? President Obama promised $100 million in aid to Haiti on January 14, 2010. A Kentucky couple won $128 million in a Powerball lottery on December 24, 2010. The richest nation in the history of the world is giving Powerball money to a neighbor already suffering tens of thousands of deaths?”
messenger.truthout.org/ss/link.php?M=239627&N=464&C=76a196c220c6b4abf0e0378da6549ca1&L=3916
US Troops Deployed In Haiti As Popular Anger Mounts By Bill Van Auken
The first contingents of a US military force expected to reach 10,000 troops arrived in Haiti as anger mounted over the failure of international aid to reach the millions left injured, homeless and destitute by Tuesday’s earthquake
www.countercurrents.org/auken160110.htm
Ten Things The U.S. Can And Should Do For Haiti By Bill Quigley
Do not allow US military in Haiti to point their guns at Haitians. Hungry Haitians are not the enemy. Decisions have already been made which will militarize the humanitarian relief – but do not allow the victims to be cast as criminals. Do not demonize the people
www.countercurrents.org/quigley160110A.htm
Wake Up World! By Bill Quigley
Unless there is a major urgent change in the global response, the world may look back and envy those tens of thousands who died in the quake. Wake up world!
www.countercurrents.org/quigley160110.htm
Haitian Earthquake: Made In The USA By Ted Rall
Earthquakes are random events. How many people they kill is predetermined. In Haiti this week, don’t blame tectonic plates. Ninety-nine percent of the death toll is attributable to poverty. So the question is relevant. How’d Haiti become so poor?
www.countercurrents.org/rall160110.htm
Haiti: opportunity knocks Richard Seymour, Lenin’s Tomb
You want to hear about chutzpah? You want to hear about sheer gravity-defying audacity? Well, ladies and gentlemen, comrades and friends, prepare to catch your lower jaw. Forget Limbaugh’s racist anxieties. Forget about Pat Robertson drooling about Haiti’s ‘pact with the devil’. He’s a senile old bigot, and his sick provocations are familiar by now. This is the Heritage Foundation on the Haiti earthquake, which is estimated to have killed 100,000 people: Amidst the Suffering, Crisis in Haiti Offers Opportunities to the U.S…
www.uruknet.de/?p=62184
Catastrophe in Haiti by Ashley Smith
January 14, 2010 – …The corporate media at least reported that shifting tectonic plates along a fault line underneath Port-au-Prince caused the earthquake — and that Haiti’s poverty and the incapacity of the Préval government made the disaster so much worse. But they didn’t delve below the surface. “The media coverage of the earthquake is marked by an almost complete divorce of the disaster from the social and political history of Haiti,” Canadian Haiti solidarity activist Yves Engler said in an interview. “They repeatedly state that the government was completely unprepared to deal with the crisis. This is true. But they left out why.” Why were 60 percent of the buildings in Port-au-Prince shoddily constructed and unsafe in normal circumstances, according to the city’s mayor? Why are there no building regulations in a city that sits on a fault line? Why has Port-au-Prince swelled from a small town of 50,000 in the 1950s to a population of two million desperately poor people today? Why was the state completely overwhelmed by the disaster? To understand these facts, we have to look at a second fault line — US imperial policy toward Haiti…
The New Dark Age 
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