January 2010
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Fight back against the colonial takeover of Haiti! By James Circello
In the wake of a devastating earthquake in Haiti, Washington has seized the opportunity to strengthen its grip on Haiti—not only politically and economically, but militarily as well. The U.S. military has deployed naval vessels, military jets, and more than 2,000 marines and 3,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Infantry Division. An additional 10,000 U.S.… Continue reading
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UN, US ask Israel to send cops to Haiti By Yaakov Lappin
“Israeli aid to Haiti not only expresses moral values of the highest order, but is also a Jewish and Israeli tradition that provides the opportunity to demonstrate Israel’s commitment to international efforts to assist disaster victims,” he said. Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 20-21 January, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Round-Up, 5
The 350 ppm Carbon Dioxide Challenge and How to Achieve It – Haiti and the Politics of Climate Change – The Climate Killers Continue reading
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Bleak Prospects for Haitian Recovery: To Avoid Repeating Past Mistakes, US Role Must be More Than Rhetorical
Delays in sending the first relief teams cut fatally into the three days in which search and rescue are most valuable for disaster victims in the rubble. Although U.S. military presence in the hemisphere is often justified by the need for humanitarian assistance in case of natural disasters, the armed forces seemed unprepared to swiftly… Continue reading
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Haiti’s Tragedy Could Provide an Opportunity for Improved US-Cuban Relations Through Disaster Relief Collaboration
Why is there almost no media coverage of Cuba’s medical assistance to Haiti? The Cuban government has provided free health care to the Haitian people since 1998 as well as many full scholarships to its medical schools. It also should be noted that Cuban doctors work in all 10 of Haiti’s departments (administrative divisions). At… Continue reading
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Obama administration supports forces that commit atrocities – Allan Nairn
“In the words of the American Founding Fathers, ‘alter or abolish’ the current system, because it is not enforcing the murder laws and it is allowing about a billion people worldwide to starve when they could be fed for the price of Washington’s bailout of Citibank,” Nairn says. Continue reading
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I Am Yusuf And This Is My Brother
Direct from a tour of Palestinian villages in Israel and the West Bank, a powerful story of life in 1948 at the moment of ‘the catastrophe’. From the frontline, a poetic exploration of loyalty and love by the director of Alive from Palestine Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 20 January, 2010: Haiti / Obama / NAACP / NYC
Stories on Obama, Haiti, Pat Robertson, NAACP, by Glen Ford, Cynthia McKinney, John Maxwell and others Continue reading
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Guest Media Lens Alert: How Alternative Media Provide the Crucial Critique of the Mainstream – Richard Keeble Responds to Tim Luckhurst
On January 4, Tim Luckhurst, former BBC journalist and current Professor of Journalism at the University of Kent, wrote an article in the Independent with the dramatic title, ‘Demise of news barons is just a Marxist fantasy.’ Luckhurst argued that leftist critics are gleefully predicting the end of corporate journalism. According to Luckhurst “there is… Continue reading
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Aftershock hits Haiti
Many earthquake victims and relief workers were jolted awake just after 6 a.m. Wednesday by a strong tremor that shook the already ravaged earthquake zone. Initial reports said the latest quake measured 6.1 on the Richter scale — one of the strongest aftershocks since the 7.0-magnitude quake crippled this city eight days ago. Continue reading
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The Silencing of An Auschwitz Survivor – By the state’s Holocaust Memorial Trust
Hajo Meyer is an Auschwitz survivor, but it would seem that his message is not one that you wish to hear, because he draws parallels between the racism and dehumanisation which he experienced and that which Palestinians suffer today. The parallels may not be exact, there may not be extermination camps in Israel, but comparisons… Continue reading
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Blues for brother George Jackson
From Archie Shepp’s Attica Blues Blues for brother George Jackson and: Goodby Sweet Pops Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 19-20 January, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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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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