The New Dark Age

26 January, 2010

US and Other Nations Say Haiti Must Lead
New York Times
By AP MONTREAL (AP) — Haiti must lead the effort to rebuild after its devastating earthquake, the United States and other nations said as Haiti’s prime …
www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/26/world/AP-Haiti-Conference.html

World Leaders Plan Haiti Funding Effort
Wall Street Journal
By GINA CHON PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—The US will host an international conference at United Nations headquarters in early March to raise money to rebuild …
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704762904575025621535174924.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_6

Haiti charity album will top US pop chart
Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Billboard) – The “Hope For Haiti Now” benefit album will debut at No. 1 on the US pop chart on Wednesday, becoming the first digital-only…
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60O5YY20100125

Star power raises Haiti telethon cash
Hollywood Reporter
By Etan Vlessing TORONTO — Backed by Hollywood star power from Canadians Celine Dion and James Cameron, Friday’s cross-network “Canada for Haiti” telethon …
www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/world/news/e3i84347827022cc7934044cca535a9a51c

John Travolta flying plane into Haiti earthquake disaster; Actor delivering …
New York Daily News
BY Amy Eisinger John Travolta is lending a hand – and his plane – to help those in need in Haiti earthquake disaster. Help is on the way to Haiti thanks to …
www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2010/01/25/2010-01-25_john_travolta_flying_plane_into_haiti_earthquake_disaster_actor_delivering_suppl.html

Italy’s Disaster Chief Blasts ‘Pathetic’ US Aid Work in Haiti
FOXNews
AP FILE: Guido Bertolaso, Italy’s top disaster official, blasted the US-led relief effort in Haiti as a ‘pathetic’ failure and faulted aid groups for…
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583829,00.html?test=latestnews

Royal Caribbean faces more scrutiny on cruise ship calls in Haiti
USA Today
Royal Caribbean’s quick return to Haiti is facing another round of scrutiny in the media this week as the first photos emerge of the line’s customers…
www.usatoday.com/travel/cruises/item.aspx?type=blog&ak=17585.blog

Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus added to Simon Cowell’s Haiti-relief single
USA Today
… Miley Cyrus have signed on to the Simon Cowell-spearhaded all-star cover of REM’s Everybody Hurts that will be released to raise funds for Haiti relief. …
content.usatoday.com/communities/idolchatter/post/2010/01/mariah-carey-miley-cyrus-added-to-simon-cowells-haiti-relief-single/1

More setbacks for Utahns waiting to adopt Haitian orphans
Salt Lake Tribune
By Kirsten Stewart A group of 70 children affiliated with the Hope for Little Angels of Haiti orphanage arrived at the US Embassy expecting to be cleared to …
www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14266009

Adopting a Child From Haiti – Motherlode Blog – NYTimes.com
By By LISA BELKIN
Dr. Jane Aronson’s message to those who want to adopt from Haiti is don’t. At least not right now.
parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/adopting-a-child-from-haiti/

Sorry, Susan Boyle—’Hope For Haiti Now’ Set To Top The Album Chart …
By Robbie Daw
The Hope For Haiti Now album of live performances collected from Friday’s telethon managed to rack up a jaw-dropping 150000 downloads on Saturday and Sunday alone, and will top the upcoming Top 200 Albums chart, Billboard reported today …
idolator.com/5378212/sorry-susan-boyle%E2%80%94hope-for-haiti-now-set-to-top-the-album-chart-this-week

Global Voices Online “ Haiti: Youth Step It Up for Earthquake Relief
By Juhie Bhatia
As Haiti’s government raised the confirmed earthquake death toll to 150000 earlier this week, there is particular concern for the well-being of the country’s most vulnerable – its young people. But youth within and outside of Haiti are …
globalvoicesonline.org/2010/01/26/haiti-youth-step-it-up-for-earthquake-relief/

Haiti Earthquake Disaster
By Bill
On twelfth of January the largest earthquake was recorded in Haiti and it destroyed almost every part of the country. The quake had a magnitude of seven, and.
www.makli.com/haiti-earthquake-disaster-0021891/

Science-Based Medicine “ Haiti
The current tragedy in Haiti may turn out to be one of the worst natural disasters (if not the worst) the Western Hemisphere has seen in the post-colonial …
www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=3473

Haiti Earthquake – Special Coverage on CNN.com
CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more.
www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2010/haiti.quake/

Stand With Haiti | Partners In Health
Stand With Haiti.PIH has been working on the ground in Haiti for over 20 years. We urgently need your support to help those affected by the recent…
www.standwithhaiti.org/

Venezuela’s Chavez Sidesteps Haiti Debt Relief Requests
Wall Street Journal
CARACAS (Dow Jones)—President Hugo Chavez refused Monday to respond to calls by rich nations for Venezuela to forgive the debt Haiti owes it. …
online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100125-714190.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines

25 January, 2010

Call for journalists in Haiti to remain objective, keep out of the story
How should journalists go about the tricky and painful business of disaster reporting? In recent days, some have argued that journalists are doing more harm than good in Haiti after the earthquake, putting more pressure on the already stretched resources there.
www.editorsweblog.org/newsrooms_and_journalism/2010/01/call_for_journalists_in_haiti_to_remain.php

Washington’s Militarized Takeover Of Haiti By Stephen Lendman
After its worst catastrophe in nearly 170 years, millions in the country need everything, not Marines – food, water, medical care, shelter, and deep compassion at their greatest time of need. Instead, the country is occupied, militarized, denied aid, and taken over for greater exploitation. General Ken Keen, in charge of forces, says US troops will “be here as long as needed,” signaling an open-ended commitment for years
www.countercurrents.org/lendman250110.htm

We Send Doctors, Not Soldiers By Fidel Castro
In the midst of the Haitian tragedy, without anybody knowing how and why, thousands of US marines, 82nd Airborne Division troops and other military forces have occupied Haiti. Worse still is the fact that neither the United Nations Organization nor the US government have offered an explanation to the world’s public opinion about this relocation of troops
www.countercurrents.org/castro250110.htm

The Humanitarian Myth By Richard Seymour
Richard Seymour, the author of The Liberal Defense of Murder, analyzes the propaganda manufactured to justify U.S. actions in Haiti after the earthquake
www.countercurrents.org/seymour250110.htm

Delaying Aid For A Photo-Op By Jesse Hagopian
Jesse Hagopian, a teacher from Seattle, was in Haiti with his wife (who works on HIV education in the country) and one-year-old son when the earthquake hit. Here, he looks at the U.S. government’s priorities on display in Haiti right now
www.countercurrents.org/hagopian250110.htm

Great Television/Bad Journalism: Media Failures In Haiti Coverage By Robert Jensen
How many people watching Cooper’s mass-mediated heroism on CNN know that U.S. policy makers have actively undermined Haitian democracy and opposed that country’s most successful grassroots political movement? During the first days of coverage of the earthquake, it’s understandable that news organizations focused on the immediate crisis. But more than a week later, what excuse do journalists have?
www.countercurrents.org/jensen250110.htm

Making Haiti: Survival, Sacrament And The Marketplace By Farzana Versey
“I survived by drinking Coca-Cola. I drank Coca-Cola every day, and I ate some little tiny things,” he said. Wismond Exantus’s tale of survival conveys a larger lesson about charity franchising. As someone who worked in the grocery store in Port-au-Prince, where he was found after 11 days, his recollection of Coca Cola as opposed to “little tiny things” indicates that the miracle his brother spoke about could have something to do partly with this beverage and the conglomerate idea it stands for
www.countercurrents.org/versey250110.htm

US Navy anchors one of its secret prisons in Haitian waters 25 Jan 2010
While the deployment of 10000 US troops in Haiti has been qualified by a number of Latin American political leaders as an invasion and occupation under the guise of a humanitarian relief operation, the arrival of the USS Bataan in Haiti raises even more questions. Over recent years, this amphibious assault ship has been converted into a floating secret prison, forming part of the CIA network of “black sites” used for so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques”. The ship’s flat hold bottom, designed to accommodate troops for disembarkment, has been equipped with cages. Prisoners are subjected to the same experiments as in Guantánamo.
www.islamtimes.org/vdcbs5b8.rhb9fpe4ur.html

“UN must look at why the US sent troops to Haiti” – Castro 25 Jan 2010
The leader of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro is questioning why the U.S. and other countries sent soldiers to quake-ravaged Haiti. According to RIA Novosti News Agency, Castro wrote in an article on Sunday that “without anyone knowing how or why, Washington dispatched troops to occupy Haitian territory and other nations followed suit.” Castro said that “neither the United Nations nor the government of the United States has offered an explanation to the people of the world” for sending soldiers. Castro noted that “several governments” complained that the troop presence kept them from landing aid flights in Haiti, saying it “complicated international cooperation.”
rt.com/Top_News/2010-01-24/haiti-us-military-occupation.html

Don’t cut off aid, warns Haiti PM —Dispute over relief effort follows Italian criticism of ‘pathetic’ US coordination 26 Jan 2010
Haiti’s government is ready to lead the relief and reconstruction effort after the devastating earthquake which killed as many as 200,000 people and left an estimated 1.5 million homeless… Even as the Montreal meeting was starting, Italy’s foreign minister, Franco Frattini, found himself mending a diplomatic rift after a cabinet colleague dispatched to Haiti spoke disparagingly of the relief effort in general and of the role played by the US military. Guido Bertolaso, the civil protection minister, said that the US intervention had been “pathetic”.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/dont-cut-off-aid-warns-haiti-pm-1878816.html

Haiti’s Prime Minister thanks Venezuela for support
El Universal
Bellerive made a special mention of Dominican Republic, Cuba and Venezuela, which, “came immediately to help our people affected by the quake,” Bellerive …
english.eluniversal.com/2010/01/25/en_pol_art_haitis-prime-minist_25A3338491.shtml

Replacing International Oppression With International Aid
Lawrence S. Wittner, History News Network: “The outpouring of humanitarian aid from numerous nations for the suffering people of Haiti is truly extraordinary – particularly when set against the shabby record of the past.”
messenger.truthout.org/ss/link.php?M=239627&N=477&C=76a196c220c6b4abf0e0378da6549ca1&L=4028

Palestine “ Blog Archive “ Israel’s PR exploitation of Haiti aid
By palestine
… the already poverty-stricken country. But the disaster has also provided apologists for the State of Israel’s human rights abuses an opportunity to try and grab high moral ground. Sarah Irving comments for The Electronic Intifada. …
palestine.jommal.com/2010/01/25/israels-pr-exploitation-of-haiti-aid/

HAITI: With Aid Slow to Arrive, Food Prices Skyrocket
By Garry Pierre-Pierre*
PORT-AU-PRINCE (IPS) – Last week, the price of a small can of rice was two dollars. On Tuesday, it cost Haitians 3.50 dollars. A gallon of cooking oil that cost 10 dollars only days ago now fetches 20 dollars.
ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50056