Haiti
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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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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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Haiti Newslinks 3-5 February, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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Haiti children 'taken from unaffected areas'
As the US missionaries in Haiti are charged with kidnapping, Channel 4 News meets parents from an unaffected village there who say missionaries offered to take their children. Continue reading
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Haiti: From the front lines By Flavia Cherry
It is a disgrace for so much money to be circling around to all kinds of aid groups and every single day I see so many people hungry, desperate. This situation is simply not acceptable. There are women in camps who have not had anything to eat for days. There are many available Haitians who… Continue reading
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Haitians will defend their sovereignty Pt.4
Ronald Charles: Three critical things that must be done to solve the problems of Haiti’s future Continue reading
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Haitians will defend their sovereignty Pt.3
Ronald Charles: Private armies continue to defend the interest of Haitian elite Continue reading
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Spoof: World Economic Forum – Bill Clinton on Haiti
Bill Clinton, former U.S. President, reflects on America’s historic hand in Haiti’s poverty, and on changing the patterns of history Continue reading
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Protecting Haiti's Interest By John Maxwell
It would be ironic, if you like your irony flavored with blood and disinfectant, to discover that moored off Port au Prince at this moment is the US hospital ship, the USS Comfort, one of two employed in 1994 as floating slave barracoons in Kingston Harbor. Today the Comfort is providing medical care for people… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: HAITI – THE BROKEN WING
In our search of the Lexis Nexis media database (February 3) we checked for articles containing the word ‘Haiti’ over the last month. This gave 2,256 results (some online press articles are not captured by Lexis Nexis). Our search for articles containing ‘Aristide’ gave 47 results. The words ‘Haiti’ and ‘Voodoo’ gave 53 results. The… Continue reading
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Haitians will defend their sovereignty Pt.2
Ronald Charles: After Haitian revolution, colonial oppression turned into oppression by its ruling elite Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 1-2 February, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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HLLN Haiti News: Haiti Orphan Appeal: “I’m not an orphan” says 8-year old kidnapped victim
Although the ten Americans arrested for illegal transportation of children are reported as claiming that the children were all orphans from an orphanage in Haiti, the story told by the children contradicts this strongly Continue reading
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The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti By F. William Engdahl
Behind the smoke, rubble and unending drama of human tragedy in the hapless Caribbean country, a drama is in full play for control of what geophysicists believe may be one of the worlds richest zones for hydrocarbons-oil and gas outside the Middle East, possibly orders of magnitude greater than that of nearby Venezuela. Continue reading
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Haitians will defend their sovereignty Pt.1
Ronald Charles: This way of providing aid is a way to humiliate us and many Haitians will not accept it. Continue reading
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WHAT NEXT FOR HAITI AS “RECOVERY” REPLACES RELIEF? By Danny Schecter
Haiti is already fading from the headlines. The desperation of the population in what was called the “rescue” phase of the relief effort is giving way to ‘silver-lining” talk of recovery and rebuilding. Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 29-30 January, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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The US game in Latin America By Mark Weisbrot
When I write about US foreign policy in places such as Haiti or Honduras, I often get responses from people who find it difficult to believe that the US government would care enough about these countries to try and control or topple their governments. These are small, poor countries with little in the way of… Continue reading
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Statement on Haiti adoptions from Adoptees of Color
This statement reflects the position of an international community of adoptees of color who wish to pose a critical intervention in the discourse and actions affecting the child victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 28-29 January, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 