The New Dark Age

18 January, 2010

US Troops to Help Haiti’s Security; Aid Flows In
New York Times
By REUTERS PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The United States was to send more troops on Monday to aid in Haiti’s rescue as tens of thousands of hungry,…
www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/01/18/world/international-us-quake-haiti.html

Experts Wonder About US Role in Haiti After the Cameras Leave
New York Times
More Photos By HELENE COOPER and MARK LANDLER WASHINGTON — President Obama’s aggressive response to the deadly earthquake in Haiti has led to criticism …
www.nytimes.com/2010/01/18/world/americas/18policy.html

Obama order taps reserves to support Haiti relief
Washington Post
… has issued an order allowing selected members of the military’s reserves to be called up to support earthquake relief and recovery operations in Haiti. …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/17/AR2010011701932.html

Haiti provides a lesson in King’s relevance
Kansas City Star
Mother Nature shook Haiti. But the country’s teeming poverty is killing now. Poverty in a foreign land is an apt topic today as people gather to honor …
www.kansascity.com/115/story/1690438.html

George Clooney Explains How MTV’s ‘Hope For Haiti’ Telethon Came Together
MTV.com
By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Josh Horowitz As the crisis in Haiti continues in the wake of Tuesday’s devastating 7.0 earthquake, George Clooney and …
www.mtv.com/news/articles/1629908/20100117/index.jhtml

Wyclef Jean’s Yele Haiti charity comes under fire
USA Today
Donations continue to roll in to Grammy-award winning musician Wyclef Jean’s Yéle Haiti, an organization that works to raise awareness and support for Haiti …
content.usatoday.com/communities/kindness/post/2010/01/wyclef-jeans-haiti-charity-comes-under-fire/1

Haiti Government, U.N. Peacekeepers in Charge as U.S. Military Offers Relief
FOXNews
PK Keen, the deputy commander of US Southern Command, told NBC’s “Meet the
Press” that the US military is “here in support of the government of Haiti…
www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/17/military-leaves-crippled-haiti-government-peacekeepers-order

Fearful Haiti quake survivors turn to God for help
Reuters
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Survivors of Haiti’s devastating earthquake gave thanks to God on Sunday, in churches if they were still standing, …
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60G1YH20100118

Officials try to prevent Haitian earthquake refugees from coming to US
Washington Post
Humanitarian efforts have begun across the world in response to the devastating earthquake that struck near Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince late Tuesday, …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/17/AR2010011701893.html

Fundraising Initial Focus of Overseas Haitian Aid Efforts
Voice of America
Former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush are urging Americans to donate money to responsible aid groups helping with the rescue efforts in Haiti …
www1.voanews.com/english/news/disaster/Fundraising-Focus-Overseas-Haitian-Aid-Efforts—81924012.html

Michelle Malkin “ Prayers for Haiti
By Michelle Malkin
Why has tragedy struck Haiti again and why do so many lives have to be lost again? Why has this beautiful island been struck by a catastrophic earthquake and ruined?” But as many questions as we have regarding the situation, …
michellemalkin.com/2010/01/17/prayers-for-haiti/

Magnitude 4.7 – HAITI REGION
135 km (85 miles) ENE of Les Cayes, Haiti 135 km (85 miles) S of
Cap-Haitien, Haiti 1125 km (700 miles) SE of Miami, Florida. Location Uncertainty, horizontal +/- 11.9 km (7.4 miles); depth fixed by location program …
earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2010rpa6.php

Haiti’s Health Care Reform and CNN |
By politicol
Our response to Tom Foreman’s magic act on healthcare reform, where is Haiti’s health care reform bill? Investment in health of the public, or disasters?
politicolnews.com/healthcare-reform-and-haiti/

George W. Bush, Bill Clinton stress ongoing aid for Haiti – Eamon …
By Eamon Javers
Clinton raised the possibility that U.S. aid could reverse Haiti’s status as a failed state. “If they could succeed where they have failed for 200 years, that would change our idea of what is possible not just here but in Africa and …
www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31585.html

Firedoglake “ Haiti is Waiting
By Siun
As we all watch the devastating news from Haiti, we’re reminded how very fragile life is for all of us but even more so for the children, women and men who live in countries already damanged by histories of occupation and IMF debt …
firedoglake.com/2010/01/17/haiti-is-waiting/

BBC News – Haiti devastated by massive earthquake
A huge earthquake causes devastation across Haiti, with thousands of people feared dead, including many foreign peacekeepers.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8455629.stm?ls

17 January, 2010

Haitians Receive Little Help Despite Promises
ANDREW CAWTHORNE AND CATHERINE BREMER | PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI
World leaders pledged massive aid programmes to rebuild Haiti but desperate earthquake survivors were still waiting on Sunday for food, water and medicine.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24422.htm

Why The US Owes Haiti Billions
By Bill Quigley
The US has worked to break Haiti for over 200 years. We owe Haiti. Not charity. We owe Haiti as a matter of justice. Reparations. And not the $100 million promised by President Obama either – that is Powerball money. The US owes Haiti Billions – with a big B
www.countercurrents.org/quigley170110.htm

The Lesson Of Haiti
By Fidel Castro
The tragedy has genuinely moved a significant number of people, particularly those in which that quality is innate. But perhaps very few of them have stopped to consider why Haiti is such a poor country. Why does almost 50% of its population depend on family remittances sent from abroad? Why not analyze the realities that led Haiti to its current situation and this enormous suffering as well?
www.countercurrents.org/castro170110.htm

The Right Testicle Of Hell: History Of A Haitian Holocaust
By Greg Palast
A friend of mine called. Do I know a journalist who could get medicine to her father? And she added, trying to hold her voice together, “My sister, she’s under the rubble. Is anyone going who can help, anyone?” Should I tell her, “Obama will have Marines there in ‘a few days’”?
www.countercurrents.org/palast170110.htm

100,000 dead as Haiti airport delays blamed on US:
Fuel shortages, poor communications and a logjam at the Port au Prince airport on Sunday continued to hinder a massive international aid effort to Haiti five days after a devastating earthquake in which more than 100,000 are now feared to have died.
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/558f15be-038b-11df-a601-00144feabdc0.html

Ortega warns of US deployment in Haiti:
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega says that the United States has taken advantage of the massive quake in Haiti and deployed troops in the country. “What is happening in Haiti seriously concerns me as US troops have already taken control of the airport,” Ortega said on Saturday.
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=116347&sectionid=351020706

Canada To Send 1,000 More Soldiers To Haiti:
The troops will complement an additional 500 soldiers on board two Canadian Navy vessels that are expected to reach Haiti’s shores by early this week, as well as the 200 members of Canada’s Disaster Assistance Response Team, who are also in the process of deploying.
snipurl.com/u42nc

Scientists Saw Haiti Quake Coming:
U.S. scientists warned back in 2008 that Port-au-Prince was ripe for a catastrophic earthquake, but they had no way of predicting exactly when.
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/16/eveningnews/main6105412.shtml

Haitians Receive Little Help Despite Promises:
Residents awoke to find the bodies of thieves lynched by mobs or shot by men claiming to be plainclothes police. A Reuters journalist said he saw the burned body of a man locals said was set ablaze by angry residents who caught him stealing, and two young men lying on the ground with bullet wounds to the head and arms tied behind their backs.
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24422.htm

Haiti: getting the picture
Richard Seymour, Lenin’s Tomb
January 16, 2010 – So, if we can summarise. Haiti is a country which is subject to “progress-resistant cultural influences”, such as: the influence of the voodoo religion, which spreads the message that life is capricious and planning futile. There are high levels of social mistrust. Responsibility is often not internalized. Child-rearing practices often involve neglect in the early years and harsh retribution when kids hit 9 or 10. This, says neoconservative David Brooks, explains why Haiti is so poor. The appropriate response is imperial disdain for Haitian culture, and paternalistic intervention. Such a culturalist reading of social institutions and political economies is not exclusive to neoconservatives, but it is their preferred variant of the liberal defence of murder…
www.uruknet.de/?p=62238

Haiti: US troops deployed as popular anger mounts
By Bill Van Auken
January 16, 2010 – 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. There were reports of looting and Port-au-Prince residents creating street barricades with the bodies of the dead to protest the lack of assistance. Thousands upon thousands of corpses line streets and are piled up outside hospitals and morgues. Haitian officials reported Friday that 40,000 bodies have already been buried, many of them in common landfill-style mass graves. They estimate that there are 100,000 corpses still to be recovered. In some areas the number of dead is so overwhelming that bodies have been piled up and burned…
www.uruknet.de/?p=62211

Haiti earthquake: UN says worst disaster ever dealt with
By Philip Sherwell in New York and Colin Freeman
January 16, 2010 — With up to three million survivors still cut off from outside rescue efforts, the United Nations said the disaster was the worst it had ever dealt with. Aid officials fear a lapse into all-out lawlessness in coming days unless US troops can get through with vital food, medicine and water deliveries, which are being hampered by the sheer scale of devastation. There were continued incidents of looting, and isolated reports of rescue workers being stoned by angry crowds…”We have already collected around 50,000 dead bodies,” said interior minister Paul Antoine Bien-Aime. “We anticipate there will be between 100,000 and 200,000 dead in total, although we will never know the exact number.”..
www.uruknet.de/?p=62227