January 2010
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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
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Haiti Newslinks for 18 January, 2010 Part 2
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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US "Security" Companies Offer "Services" in Haiti By Jeremy Scahill
The Orwellian-named mercenary trade group, the International Peace Operations Association, didn’t waste much time in offering the ‘services’ of its member companies to swoop down on Haiti for some old fashioned humanitarian assistance disaster profiteering. Within hours of the massive earthquake in Haiti, the IPOA created a special web page for prospective clients, saying: ‘In… Continue reading
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URGENT: Never Again For Anyone!
18 January, 2010 — Scottish PSC 1. Scottish PSC Activists in court 2. Never Again for Anyone speaking tour starts this week! – HMD Trust refuses to publicise meeting with Auschwitz survivor SPSC campaigners facing trumped-up political charges of ‘racism’ Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January, 9.30am outside Edinburgh Sheriff Court Help us fight Continue reading
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Progress Report on Coordinated Rapid Response to Haiti Earthquake
This report includes progress made on transporting teams and supplies into Haiti, the latest summary assessment for Jacmel from the UN in PAP and details of our headquarters and operations in Santo Domingo. Continue reading
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The Morning After: Haiti Earthquake Victims Can Only Rely on Each Other – Ansel Herz Dispatch 2
This dispatch begins at 10pm the night of the earthquake, and resumes the following morning after I caught some sleep in an open bus abandoned in a downtown Port-Au-Prince street. The second of several video dispatches filed by lone journalist Ansel Herz from Haiti. Continue reading
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Ansel Herz: Earthquake Immediate Aftermath On the Ground
This video is from the immediate aftermath – 3 to 20 minutes after the tremors on January 12 – in the neighborhood of Jacquet in Port-au-Prince where I lived since September. I really wish I could have got this up on the web sooner, but Internet connections are difficult to sustain. Continue reading
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A lootin’ an’ a burnin’? By William Bowles
18 January, 2010 It was obvious from the getgo that media ‘coverage’ of the earthquake in Haiti was heading in the same, predictable direction, namely down the same racist path that Western media coverage of things ‘darker than blue’ always travels. Continue reading
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Go home US military: Haiti doesn't need anymore pain! By Ezili Danto
We’ve beaten back the elite’s rabid rage before. We know the game and Haitians will do everything to force them to retreat. The US is not hiding its imperialism behind the UN anymore. Its come out into the light. Right now you need State Department clearance to land in Haiti. Continue reading
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CARICOM BLOCKED…as US takes control of airport – It's not just Haitian doctors and nurses who are being blocked
THE CARIBBEAN Community’s emergency aid mission to Haiti, comprising Heads of Government and leading technical officials, failed to secure permission Friday to land at that devastated country’s airport, now under the control of the United States. Continue reading
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Haiti: That “Looting”
I think media has got to be very careful in using the term “looting” in the midst of an overwhelming humanitarian crisis, especially given how much that term calls to mind generations of violent protests and riots over civil rights. Continue reading
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Women’s Rights, Population and Climate Change: A Debate
Should supporters of women’s rights campaign for population reduction? Two very different feminists perspectives … Continue reading
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Taliban Assault on Kabul Updated
A major Taliban attack began on Kabul Jan. 18. The fighting is being reported by both American and Taliban sources. According to one American source, reports of an imminent attack began circulating Jan. 17. Continue reading
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Relief Efforts in the Shadow of Past “Help”: Moving from crimes-as-charity to actual support for Haiti
‘Thus far,’ it reports, ‘the rescue teams cluster at the high profile and safer walled sites and were literally afraid to enter the barrios. They gravitated to the sites where they had secure compounds and big buildings. ‘Meanwhile, the neighbourhoods where the damage appears to be much wider, and anywhere there were loose crowds, they… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 17-18 January, 2010
A compilation of links to news and analysis on the situation in Haiti, updated daily. Continue reading
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South Haitians protest lack of aid
Much of the reporting after the earthquake in Haiti has been from the capital, Port-au-Prince. But the devastation and the need for help is just as severe in the south of the country, In the city of Carrefour, near the epicentre of the quake, no rescue teams are on site and angry residents have blocked… Continue reading
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Disputes emerge over Haiti aid control – Guns, Not Aid Have Arrived
It is five days since a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, spreading fear and misery across an already fragile nation. After a relatively slow start, US forces appear to be taking the lead in organising international aid efforts on the ground. But there is a long way to go. Residents outside the capital complain they have… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 