January 2010
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Haiti earthquake: ‘100,000 may be dead’
Video: Haiti’s President warns the scale of suffering is “unimaginable” Continue reading
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Haiti earthquake: '100,000 may be dead'
Video: Haiti’s President warns the scale of suffering is “unimaginable” Continue reading
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Video: Haiti Rescue from toppled building
14 January, 2010 — Truthout http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.915529 more about “Video: Haiti Rescue from toppled buil…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Haiti Devastated by Largest Earthquake in 200 Years, Thousands Feared Dead
The extent of the disaster is still unclear, but there are fears thousands of people may have died and tens of thousands lost their homes. In the capital Port-au-Prince, a city of two million people, thousands of buildings were damaged or destroyed, including hospitals, schools and hotels. The United Nations headquarters was also reported to… Continue reading
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HAITI EARTHQUAKE LIVE BLOG: Bodies Lying in the Streets of Port-au-Prince By Jason Leopold
13 January 2010 3:42 pm PDT: Another aftershock with a magnitude of 5.1 has reportedly taken place between Port-au-Prince and Leogane at 5:21 pm EDT. 3:35 pm PDT: CNN has footage of bodies lying in the streets of Port-au-Prince. The cable network’s Gary Tuchman reports that “no emergency officials in sight, and residents are watching Continue reading
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Haiti Earthquake: With Aid Groups Already There, Relief Efforts Ramp Up Quickly By Sara Miller Llana
The International Red Cross estimates as many as three million people may have been left homeless by Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti. With daylight, a clearer assessment of the scale of the challenge ahead. Continue reading
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Stand with the people of Haiti! – What the U.S. government isn't telling you
At such a moment, it is also important to put this catastrophe into a political and social context. Without this context, it is impossible to understand both the monumental problems facing Haiti and, most importantly, the solutions that can allow Haiti to survive and thrive. Hillary Clinton said today, “It is biblical, the tragedy that… Continue reading
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Haiti Report for January 13, 2010: Haiti Chief Says Thousands May Be Dead
The wailing of survivors pierced the air in pockets of this devastated city on Wednesday as people dug desperately through the rubble of collapsed buildings and piled bodies of the dead on roadsides under white sheets. Huge swaths of the capital, Port-au-Prince, lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 13-14 January, 2010
14 January, 2010 Haiti New York Times Once again, the world weeps with Haiti. The earthquake that struck on Tuesday did damage on a scale that scarcely could have been imagined had we all not … www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/opinion/14thu1.html 150 UN staff members remain trapped under rubble in Haiti Washington Post Haiti was rocked on Jan. 12 Continue reading
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Free Gaza Movement: ‘We’re Sailing Again – Join Us!’
This spring, the Free Gaza Movement is sending at least six boats to Gaza to break Israel’s illegal blockade on 1.5 million Palestinians. This blockade constitutes an act of collective punishment, a crime prohibited under international humanitarian law. Gaza’s man-made and internationally perpetuated crisis is set to deepen as Egypt builds an Iron wall 30… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: WERE AFGHAN CHILDREN EXECUTED BY US-LED FORCES? AND WHY AREN’T THE MEDIA INTERESTED?
American-led troops dragged Afghan children from their beds and shot them during a night raid on December 27 last year, leaving ten people dead. Afghan government investigators said that eight of the dead were schoolchildren, and that some of them had been handcuffed before being killed. Kabul-based Times correspondent Jerome Starkey reported the shocking accusations… Continue reading
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Haiti Report for January 11, 2010
– UN Peacekeeping Mission Helping Prepare for Upcoming Elections – Latin American Solidarity Coalition Delegation in Haiti Releases Statement – UN Representative Says Elections are Key to Preserving Progress – UN Secretary General says UN will Provide Security and Logistical Support for Elections – President Preval Promises Fair Legislative Elections, Emphasizes Importance of Stability for… Continue reading
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HaitiReport 11 January, 2010: Elections Without Voters: Eroding Participation in Haiti
Twenty years after its first democratic elections, Haiti is preparing for a vote to fill all but one seat in its Chamber of Deputies and ten of its thirty Senate seats. However, as the election date of February 28 rapidly approaches, the United States and other donor countries should withhold funding and observers from what… Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: Taking Tea with the Lizards
The Republican Party will beat the living piss out of anybody for a buck. The Democrats will fly the flag of FDR, even as they pirate the public coffers on behalf of Wall Street. Don’t think the American people have not noticed these things. After thirty years of pistol whipping and emptying of their wallets,… Continue reading
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Amira Hass: Pro-Gaza activists under siege – imposed by Egypt and Hamas
In the week before the planned march, the Foreign Ministry in Cairo made it clear that the protesters would not be permitted to enter Gaza. Boats even mysteriously disappeared from the Nile on Sunday evening. The Egyptian authorities knew that scores of activists were planning to sail and light candles to mark the first anniversary… Continue reading
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Gaza: Our Guernica – A series of events to commemorate Gaza one year after Israel’s attack
Gaza: Our Guernica organized by the Palestine Societies at SOAS University College London Imperial College Kings College Goldsmiths University of Westminster Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 5-10 January, 2010
Selected links to stories. Continue reading
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What say you, BBC?
It has been a year since Israel’s savage assault on Gaza that killed more than 1400 civilians. For the duration of the attack the BBC did not have a single man or a woman inside Gaza to cover it. This would be understandable if there weren’t any means available to get a journalist into Gaza.… Continue reading
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U.S., NATO Expand Afghan War To Horn Of Africa And Indian Ocean By Rick Rozoff
During the past month the U.S. has carried out deadly military strikes in Yemen: Bombing raids in the north and cruise missile attacks in the south of the nation. Washington has been accused of killing scores of civilians in the attacks in both parts of the country, executed before the December 25 Northwest Airlines incident… Continue reading
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It’s a long march to freedom By Mohamad Kharsa
Just one year ago, Gaza and its people were subject to the ultimate crime, victims (both living and dead) of the genocide of the Palestinian people. It is a genocide that began 61 years ago, and it’s had moments of escalation, the peak of which was reached with the attempted destruction of part of Palestine;… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 