February 2010
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HaitiReport: As Haiti Toll Revised to 230k, Reed Lindsay Reports on Scarcity of Aid
It has been a month since the earthquake struck Haiti, and now it is carnival weekend. Instead of three days of dancing and singing – all of Haiti rejoicing and celebrating together – there will be three more days of fasting. With $600 million raised for Haiti it is incomprehensible that the conditions for the… Continue reading
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All the (un)usual suspects. What is RT.com up to? By William Bowles
Full page ads in the London Independent? Though the word ‘Russia’ is nowhere to be seen, instead it’s RT.com, what we used to know as Russia Today. But RT.com is a far cry from its crude beginnings four years ago as a mouthpiece for the Russian state. The question is, what kind of animal is… Continue reading
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The Destruction of an Ancient Muslim Cemetery in Jerusalem
The Israeli government and the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) are in the process of building a so-called “Center for Human Dignity-Museum of Tolerance” on the site of Mamilla Cemetery. The museum’s construction has already resulted in the disinterment of hundreds of graves and the whereabouts of countless human remains are unknown. The desecration of the… Continue reading
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U.S. Attempts to Erase Haitian Nationhood By Glen Ford
Proud Haiti has been reduced to a de facto ‘protectorate’ of the United States – a grotesque form of non-sovereignty in which the subjugated nation is ‘protected’ by its worst enemy. Namibia under white-ruled South African administration comes to mind, although in Haiti’s case the United Nations does not even pretend to be on the… Continue reading
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Anonymity in the field By LETICIA MARTÍNEZ HERNÁNDEZ
“You see all of this here? They’ve set it all up. And every time we have a problem, there they are. They’re ‘doctors’ too, but doctors who take care of us.” That is how surgeon Suárez talks about the team of medical electronics technicians who set up Cuba’s five field hospitals in Haiti. In addition… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 9-10 February, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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End of the American superpower
29 January, 2010 — RT.com http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.4719737 more about “End of the American superpower“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Fox News lashes out at RT over anti-war activist interview
Fox News talk show host Bill O’Reilly has ruthlessly criticized RT for its interview with former anti-war activist Bill Ayers last week, which has subsequently thrust the US medias bias to the fore. Continue reading
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Haiti: Four weeks after earthquake hunger sparks growing protests By Bill Van Auken
On Sunday, Haiti saw one of its largest protests since the January 12 earthquake, as four weeks after the disaster, frustration with continuing hunger and homelessness mount. Thousands of demonstrators, most of them women, marched through the streets of Petionville, a Port-au-Prince suburb, denouncing the local mayor, Lydie Parent, for hoarding food for resale and… Continue reading
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Venezuela: Epicenter of Counter-Hegemonic Bloc: Interview with William I. Robinson
The strategy is deft at taking advantage of the revolution’s own mistakes and limitations, such as corruption, clientalism and opportunism, which we must acknowledge are serious problems in Venezuela. It is also deft at aggravating and manipulating material problems, such as shortages, price inflation and so forth. Continue reading
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U.S. "missionaries" had tried to take 40 other Haitian kids | Haitian man survived 4 weeks in rubble | Ezili Danto interview on situation in Haiti
Ten Americans in Haiti already charged with kidnapping 33 Haitian children. Officer says that the group had tried to take another group of kids out of country illegally Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 8-9 February, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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Occupied Palestine: Stop the Wall offices hit in late night raid
Late last night Occupation forces raided the Stop the Wall offices in Ramallah. Some 10 military jeeps, hummers and an armoured bus surrounded the building as soldiers searched rooms, turning the office upside down and confiscating computer hard disks, laptops, and video cameras along with paper documents, CDs, and video cassettes. Continue reading
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Joe Bageant: MP3 file of Joe on the Jeff Farias Show
When it comes to being interviewed, one of my very favorite radio hosts is Jeff Farias. Most liberal radio interviewers get caught up in the Empire’s media noise, and become part of the self-referential circle jerk of facts and figures and mainstream media citations that pass for news and information in this country. Continue reading
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Action Alert: A call for help from Croix-des-Bouquets at zone Li Lavoix, Haiti
Zili, he said, I’m taking care of 1500 children in Croix-des-Bouquets at zone Li Lavoix along with their families since the earthquake. We need help. We need food, water, medicine, tents and, and flashlights. Continue reading
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Pierre Labossiere on Haiti: ‘This is criminal’
As Haitians organize to rebuild their lives in the midst of an escalated military occupation, we demand that the Obama administration stop its destructive interference in Haiti. Haitians must be at the head of relief efforts and the long term rebuilding of their country. Fanmi Lavalas, the democratic grassroots movement of Haiti, must be at… Continue reading
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China, Japan and the U.S.: Together in Crisis?
5 February, 2010 — LeftStreamed LeftStreamed Production Produced by the LeftStreamed Collective. Viewers are encouraged to distribute widely. Comments on the video and suggestions are welcome – write to info@socialistproject.ca For more analysis of contemporary politics check out ‘Relay: A Socialist Project Review’ at www.socialistproject.ca/relay R. Taggart Murphy, Graduate School of Business Sciences, University of Continue reading
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The Week at BAGnewsNotes
BAGnews focuses on the National Prayer Breakfast attendees, shares the show at the Tea Party convention, and examines visual displays of power in Haiti. Continue reading
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GLOBAL RESEARCH FUNDRAISING INITIATIVE FOR HAITI
Global Research, in collaboration with AKASAN (Haitians Helping Haitians) and the Canada Haiti Action Network (CHAN), is launching a Haiti fund raising campaign in support of Haitian grass-roots initiatives. Continue reading
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