Haiti
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Glen Ford: US set Haiti up for disaster
In addition to the obvious problems Haiti faces recovering from this week’s earthquake, the country suffers from a lack of civil society and a respected government. Glen Ford of the Black Agenda Report says that the effects of Haiti’s history continue to play out in the recovery effort. Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 16 January, 2010 Part 2
Links to essays on the ongoing situation and background in Haiti Continue reading
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Haiti Report: Update on Coordinated Rapid Response to Haiti Earthquake
Three nights ago a nightmare we hadn’t imagined possible began in Haiti. Like any shocking and horrifying tragedy, we will all remember and tell stories of where we were when we heard about the 7.0 earthquake that shattered Haiti on January 12, 2010. Haiti KONPAY has been playing a critical role coordinating a rapid response… Continue reading
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Haiti: Update on Situation at Delmas 33
The gunfire spread last night to our zone. At 1 am it started. It was off in the distance a ways when it first started but got closer and closer up until about 2:30 and then it seemed to stop. All of the homeless on the streets and in the refugee camps again met the… Continue reading
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The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion? By Michel Chossudovsky
The military component of the US mission, however, tends to overshadow the civilian functions of rescuing a desperate and impoverished population. The overall humanitarian operation is not being led by civilian governmental agencies such as FEMA or USAID, but by the Pentagon. Continue reading
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The Big One Devastates Haiti By Stephen Lendman
With all their woes, the last thing Haitians needed was the calamitous earthquake (the most severe in the region in over 200 years) that struck Port-au-Prince, surrounding areas, and other parts of the country on January 12 at about 5PM (2200 GMT), devastating the capital, possibly killing hundreds of thousands, injuring many more, and disrupting… Continue reading
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Haiti: Give Here By Enku Ide
The 7.0 earthquake that razed much of the Haitian capital on January 13 has led to a uniquely devastating humanitarian crisis. The death toll is still uncertain and estimates range from anywhere between 50,000 and 500,000. The need for international relief is clear. This tragedy is compounded by U.S. and European intervention into Haitian internal… Continue reading
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Haiti: Aid Efforts – News, History, Analysis
Links to stories on aid efforts, news, histiry and analysis Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks for 16 January, 2010
A compilation of links to stories on Haiti Continue reading
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Logistical nightmare for Haiti aid workers
The U.N. says rescue workers and relief goods are pouring into Haiti from around the world, but aid workers are running into huge problems reaching people trapped under buildings or feeding hungry survivors. Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 14-15 January, 2010
A compilation of links to news stories on Haiti Continue reading
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Catastrophe in Haiti Ashley Smith
The earthquake toppled poorly constructed houses, hotels, hospitals and even the capital city’s main political buildings, including the presidential palace. The collapse of so many structures sent a giant cloud into the sky, which hovered over the city, raining dust down onto the wasteland below. Continue reading
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The West’s role in Haiti's plight By Peter Hallward
Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti’s capital city on the afternoon of January 13, but it’s no accident that so much of Port-au-Prince now looks like a war zone. Much of the devastation wreaked by this latest and… Continue reading
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Help Haiti: The Unforgiven Country Cries Out By Chris Floyd
The relentlessly maintained, deliberately inflicted political and economic ruin of Haiti has a direct bearing on the amount of death and devastation that the country is suffering today after the earthquake. It will also greatly cripple any recovery from this natural disaster. As detailed below, Washington’s rapacious economic policies have destroyed all attempts to build… Continue reading
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The Truth about Haiti's Suffering By Finian Cunningham
Haiti’s poverty is not just bad luck or something inherently faulty about its natural resources and people. The country has been kept underdeveloped by decades of political and economic interference from Washington to ensure that this former slave colony continues to serve as a cheap source of agricultural exports to the US and as a… Continue reading
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How World Bank policies led to famine in Haiti
Video, April 2008: Food riots in Haiti caused the deaths of five people last week, including a UN peacekeeper, and forced the country’s prime minister out of office. The country is “a place of terrible turmoil,” Raj Patel, of UC- Berkeley’s Center for African Studies, tells The Real News Network. Patel, author of Stuffed and… 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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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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