February 2010
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Child Slavery in Haiti By Stephen Lendman
In November 2009, PADF published a report titled, ‘Lost Childhoods in Haiti: Quantifying Child Trafficking, Restaveks & Victims of Violence.’ It’s a disturbing picture of ‘extremely poor children who are sent to other homes to work as unpaid domestic servants,’ and end up being beaten, sexually assaulted, and exploited by host families. Later, in their… Continue reading
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PCHR Condemns IOF Pursuit of International Human Rights Defenders in the West Bank
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the continued persecution of international human rights defenders in the West Bank by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and the deportation of international activists from the country. PCHR is concerned about such measures, as they aim to expel international witnesses of human rights violations perpetrated by IOF against… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 8 February, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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The New York Times’ Israel Editor’s Sticky Situation By Alison Weir
Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn’t; what goes in a story and what gets cut. His son just joined the Israeli army. Continue reading
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Video: Gaza in Plain Language
It really is time that the story of what is being done to the oppressed people of Gaza gets as wide a coverage as possible, in these days of overt and blatant mainstream-media bias for Zionist Israel. If it arouses your anger and compassion as much as it did mine, when reading Joe Mowrey’s fine… Continue reading
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HLLN 7 February, 2010 – Ratcheting up genocide in Haiti
Before earthquake the killing was by UN bullets, exclusion, NGO false benevolence, US false charity and cruel immigration laws. After Jan 12 it’s all those PLUS our people are allowed to die of critical earthquake injuries, starvation, suffering, trauma and thirst Continue reading
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Relief, Occupations and the Haiti Crisis by Justin Podur
Justin Podur visited Haiti in 2005 to study the UN occupation and the government after the 2004 coup. This is a recording of a public event that took place in Toronto on February 2, 2010 at the Centre for Social Justice. Continue reading
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Capitalism cut adrift By William Bowles
There has been much talk expended over the years on the degree to which the media—and hence culture—is central to maintaining the capitalist system. Leading the charge have been Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, so much so that they now more resemble sainted objects than social/political analysts, but then this is nothing new for the… Continue reading
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Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004)
Documentary in which professor Howard Zinn recounts his life as a writer, educator, and leader in nonviolent social protest. His story is one of being in “the right place at the right time,” from poor beginnings, working in shipyard unions, fighting in WWII as a bomber pilot, and then launching his academic career as one… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 7 February, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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Letter to Haiti by M. Nourbese Philip
Haiti, I weep for you. I hide my tears because I’m on a flight from Kelowna, British Columbia, to Toronto, and who knows, with all the heightened security I fear they may think something’s amiss. That I’m weeping as a prelude to joining my ancestors. So paranoid have we become. But I weep for you,… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report No.78 By William Blum – Zinn, Haiti, Aristide, and ideology
Progressive activists and writers continually bemoan the fact that the news they generate and the opinions they express are consistently ignored by the mainstream media, and thus kept from the masses of the American people. This disregard of progressive thought is tantamount to a definition of the mainstream media. It doesn’t have to be a… Continue reading
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Viva Palestina News Update
Events have been moving fast since the convoy’s return from Gaza. In addition to the good news that the two convoy members who stayed behind in Gaza are now safely back following intensive efforts to secure their return, here are a couple of further updates. Continue reading
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The Planning of War Behind Closed Doors: Brussels, London, Istanbul: A Week Of Western War Councils By Rick Rozoff
The defense chiefs of all 28 NATO nations and an undisclosed number of counterparts from non-Alliance partners gathered in Istanbul, Turkey on February 4 to begin two days of meetings focused on the war in Afghanistan, the withdrawal of military forces from Kosovo in the course of transferring control of security operations to the breakaway… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report – Duncan: Katrina “Best Thing That Happened” / Blacks and Net Neutrality
3 February, 2010 — Black Agenda Report How Corporate Dollars Dominate the Black and Latino Conversation on Network Neutrality by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The utter dependence of our “civil rights” organizations like the NAACP and LULAC upon corporate donations from Big Cable and the telecom industry has caused them to weigh into Continue reading
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Israel Owes Over NIS 8.3 Billion to Palestinian Workers from the Occupied Palestinian Territories
The State of Israel owes more than NIS 8.3 billion (including interest) to Palestinian workers from the Occupied Palestinian Territories who worked in Israel. This money was deducted from the Palestinian workers’ salaries for social benefits they did not receive. This is the conclusion of detailed research conducted by the Alternative Information Center (AIC) and… Continue reading
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Why Zionist lead figures came to meeting with Dr Hajo Meyer? By Yael Kahn
They tried to silence the Holocaust survivor from speaking about his memories and lessons from the Holocaust. Even when Dr Meyer was talking about the extremely painful period of his life, under the anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany and Auschwitz the shouting of obscenities at him did not stop. Some of the shameful attacks were when Dr.… Continue reading
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Global Research 4 February, 2010: The Haitian Disaster and the Threat of War Selected Articles January 29 – 4 February, 2010
4 February, 2010 — Global Research The Crisis in Haiti Global Research Dossier of 50+ articles and reports – 2010-02-15 Award Winning Movie: “SUPERPOWER”: Order the DVD Online from Global Research – by Barbara-Anne Steegmuller – 2010-02-15 US Intelligence Report Classifies Venezuela as Anti-US Leader – by Eva Golinger – 2010-02-03 Petition: War is Illegal Continue reading
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10 American missionaries charged in Haiti with kidnapping/Some Matters to be investigated by Haiti Judge in child kidnapping case
– 10 American missionaries charged in Haiti with kidnapping – Missionary Case Illuminates Plight of Haiti’s Orphans – Matters to be investigated by Haiti investigative judge Continue reading
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