Aristide
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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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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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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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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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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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Haiti's suffering is a result of calculated impoverishment By Seumas Milne
Most scandalously, US commanders have repeatedly turned away flights bringing medical equipment and emergency supplies from organisations such as the World Food Programme and Médecins Sans Frontières, in order to give priority to landing troops. Despite the remarkable patience and solidarity on the streets and the relatively small scale of looting, the aim is said… Continue reading
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Haiti: A history of exploitation and struggle By Amanda Zivcic
The oft-repeated tag of Haiti being ‘the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere’ is true but this did not just happen. It is the result of a history of colonialism, slavery, imperialism, foreign military intervention, foreign-imposed dictatorships and unjust debt. Continue reading
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Fight back against the colonial takeover of Haiti! By James Circello
In the wake of a devastating earthquake in Haiti, Washington has seized the opportunity to strengthen its grip on Haiti—not only politically and economically, but militarily as well. The U.S. military has deployed naval vessels, military jets, and more than 2,000 marines and 3,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Infantry Division. An additional 10,000 U.S.… Continue reading
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WHY IS THE HAITI DISASTER RESPONSE SO SCREWED UP: IS THIS ANOTHER KATRINA 'RELIEF' EFFORT IN THE MAKING? By Danny Schechter
There is a deeper fear, a political fear. What with President Aristide, the man the US considers too radical for its tastes, anxious to return. There is a fear of a possible revolt against the lack of help could turn political and angry. Continue reading
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A lootin’ an’ a burnin’? By William Bowles
18 January, 2010 It was obvious from the getgo that media ‘coverage’ of the earthquake in Haiti was heading in the same, predictable direction, namely down the same racist path that Western media coverage of things ‘darker than blue’ always travels. 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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Haiti Newslinks 5-10 January, 2010
Selected links to stories. Continue reading
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Haiti Report for December 30, 2009
The Haiti Report is a compilation and summary of events as described in Haiti and international media prepared by Konbit Pou Ayiti/KONPAY. Continue reading
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Who is Representing Who? The Haitian People Need a Lobbyist By RICHARD MORSE
If the Main Stream Media ignores the recent Haitian elections, maybe it’s because no one is supposed to say that it was a voting nightmare. When you hold an election and no one shows up, it’s a nightmare. Continue reading
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Haiti: Fanmi Lavalas Banned, Voter Apprehension Widespread By Jeb Sprague
With the credibility of the upcoming elections badly damaged, foreign donors have attempted to smooth things over with a hastily organised conference pledging aid disbursement. Continue reading
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Haiti: Canada's Bloody Hands By JOHN MAXWELL
After Aristide’s victory in Haiti’s first democratic presidential election in 1990, the relics of the Jim Crow Marine occupation managed to convince the Americans, first John McCain’s International Republican Institute and then elements of Bill Clinton’s government and various Canadian politico and officials that Haiti under Aristide was a threat to civilisation as they knew… Continue reading
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COHA: “The Rock in the Sun”: Haiti’s Préval Pleads For the U.S. and Rest of the World to End Global Negligence Towards Latin America’s Poorest Country
The question now is will the new Obama administration further assist Haiti, or will it proceed with a 200-year-old pattern of inadequate response to the island’s crushing needs? Continue reading
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Stephen Lendman: Targeting Aristide In Exile
Aristide is now in South Africa where he remains larger than life. Haiti’s symbolic leader. A man of the people. Dedicated to their welfare. Steadfast in his principles. Beloved and wanted back. Yet he’s vilified in the press because of the good example he represents Continue reading
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John Maxwell: Racism and Poverty
The people of Haiti are as poor as human beings can be. According to the statisticians of the World Bank and others who speculate about how many Anglos can dance on the head of a peon, Haiti may either be the second, third or fourth poorest country in the world. In Haiti’s case, statistics are… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 