January 19, 2010
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Global Research, January 19, 2010 Selected Articles: The Crisis in Haiti and the Militarization of Aid
Nearly 100 links to stories and videos covering 12-19 January, 2010 Continue reading
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Earthquake victims relief not a US priority. US repairing prisons at Krome for potential Haitian earthquake refugees
Object to the US occupation and militarization of Haiti on the backs of perhaps up to 200,000 dead Haitians and 3million suffering Haitians. This is ATROCIOUS. repugnant. odious. This is not emergency relief but opportunistic disaster capitalism – purposely, diabolically letting the poor die so to make Haiti a pristine tourist haven for foreigners as… Continue reading
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The Disaster Within The Disaster: Its Time To Investigate the Aid Fiasco By Danny Schechter
19 January, 2010 — Media Channel Haiti remains a death trap, with an aid program that has sat by and watched thousands die without relief. The International Red Cross describes the situation there as a catastrophe while the American Red Cross reports raising more than $100 million dollars thanks to texting technologies and backing from Continue reading
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WHY IS THE HAITI DISASTER RESPONSE SO SCREWED UP: IS THIS ANOTHER KATRINA 'RELIEF' EFFORT IN THE MAKING? By Danny Schechter
There is a deeper fear, a political fear. What with President Aristide, the man the US considers too radical for its tastes, anxious to return. There is a fear of a possible revolt against the lack of help could turn political and angry. Continue reading
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Haiti: And on the Eighth Day… By William Bowles
The Americans have landed, or as they used to say of the GIs in the UK during WWII, ‘they’re overfed, over sexed and over here’. So now, in spite of protestations that air-dropping supplies would cause a riot, on the eighth day of this catastrophe (one that the BBC still continues to call a “humanitarian… Continue reading
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Cooperation Spirit Is Put To The Test In Haiti By Fidel Castro
We Cubans understood that the most important thing at that moment was to save lives, and we are trained not only to cope with catastrophes like that, but also to cope with other natural catastrophes related to human health. Continue reading
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US Military Tightens Grip On Haiti By Alex Lantier
The US military intervention in Haiti is criminal in both form and content. Disguised as a humanitarian rescue operation, its main aim is to build up the necessary firepower to terrorize the masses into accepting a shocking lack of treatment without protest. Even taken on its own terms, the US occupation of Haiti has not… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 18-19 January, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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The Birth of a New Global Movement By Jonathan Neale
Some people will be hopeless after Copenhagen. Some NGO leaders will be whipped into line. But many will be enraged, and moved to action. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 