Haiti
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Black Agenda Report October 3, 2012 — Occupy the Debates, Int'l Criminal Court on Trial, How Mass Incarceration Changes Everthing
3 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Why This Black Man Is Watching the Debates, and Voting Green by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon I’ll be watching the debates. Not on CNN or ABC, but online at Occupy the Debates or at Democracy Now or Free Speech TV, Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report July 4 2012: GOP Healthcare In Effect / GA Prison Strike / Frisco Stop-and-Frisk
4 July 2012 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Obama Bound for Mount Rushmore? by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama‘s healthcare plan, now vetted by the U.S. Supreme Court, is the spawn of Republican reactionaries, “based on the principle that people should pay for their own bodily Continue reading
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HAITI: Humanitarian Aid for Earthquake Victims Used to Build Five Star Hotels By Julie Lévesque
In the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake, people in the US, Canada and the EU, who made donations to those humanitarian organisations and NGOs did not realize that their contribution to Haiti’s reconstruction would be channeled towards the building of five star hotels to house foreign businessmen. Their expectation was that the money would… Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 591: RIO +20, EGYPTIAN ELECTIONS, SUDAN CRISIS, AND HAITI
29 June 2012 — Pambazuka News The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa CONTENTS: 1. Features, 2. Advocacy & campaigns, 3. Letters & Opinions, 4. African Writers’ Corner, 5. Cartoons Continue reading
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Ezili's HLLN on truth in a time of universal deceit
“These insects invading Haiti are reprobates, racist and narcissistic, analogous to the rich and high-born serial killers conducting their depravity at private clubs – gated compounds left alone by police because of the pathology of power, respect for old money and Ivy League reputations. Continue reading
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HLLN 14 March 2012: UN soldiers jailed for raping Haitian boy | Cholera, United Nations: Negligence and the Rule of Law | HLLN on Haiti's cholera case against the UN in light of UN-US recent admissions
14 March 2012 — HLLN In this post Two Pakistani UN soldiers jailed for raping Haitian boy UN soldiers patrol in Port-au-Prince, March 13, 2012, BBChttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17351144 Two UN Pakistani peacekeepers convicted in Haiti ?http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2012-03-13/Haiti–UN-peacekeepers/53515134/1 Haiti, Cholera and the United Nations: Negligence and the Rule of Law http://bit.ly/ABF3ox Link Ezili Danto’s Note on: Bill Clinton – Slick Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 8 March 2012: Can Russia Save the Day?
8 March 2012 — Information Clearing House US ‘Offered Israel New Arms To Delay Iran Attack’ By AFP The US administration offered to supply Israel with advanced bunker-busting bombs and long-range refuelling planes. In return, Israel would agree to put off a possible attack on Iran till 2013, after the US elections in November. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30759.htm Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 January 2012: Republican Cannibals / Stop, Frisk, Gentrify / Obama Right of Reagan
4 January 2012 — Black Agenda Report • News, commentary and analysis from the black left The GOP Savages Itself, While Wall Street and Backs the Black Guy, Again by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The Republican Party presidential campaign has been relegated to a sideshow in the American power game. The white nationalist masses Continue reading
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The “Enforcers”: MINUSTAH and the Culture of Violence in Port-au-Prince
Although at first glance it may seem that Haitian protests against the presence of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) are due to scattered incidents of violence committed by its members against locals, a close examination reveals a pattern of systematic acts of heavy repression against the population. Continue reading
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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 558 18 November 2011: ANGOLAN CORRUPTION, THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND ELECTIONS IN DRC
18 November 2011 — Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839 The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa CONTENTS:1. Features, 2. Announcements, 3. Comment & analysis, 4. Advocacy & campaigns, 5. Pan-African Postcard, 6. Letters & Opinions, 7. African Writers’ Corner, 8. Highlights French edition Continue reading
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Paul – the god – Farmer relieves himself on Haiti's dying cholera victims
Recommended HLLN Links: Video by Mediahacker: MINUSTAH still continuing to foul up Haiti: Haitians Upset With UN Base Runoff into Foul-Smelling Pool Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report: Occupying Wall Street: Demands VS Deeds, Iran in Crosshairs, BA Report for Oct 19, 2011
19 October 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left This week in Black Agenda Report Occupy Wall Street: What You Can Demand versus What You Must DO by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Occupy Wall Street activists are under some pressures to come up with demands to make Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 24 August 2011: Impotent Black Caucus / Corporate MLK Memorial / Heroic Libyan Soldiers
24 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left CBC: Impotent, Irrelevant, and Tied to the President in 2012, Even If Obama is the Black Herbert Hoover by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why does the Congressional Black Caucus, forty of the most senior members of the Continue reading
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Obama’s Responsibility to Protect is a License to Kill By Glen Ford
Believing the Libya assault to have been a shining success, the United States will feel confident in launching new aggressions under the insidious rubric of R2P – Responsibility to Protect. The 2004 invasion and of Haiti was the precedent, ‘when the United Nations Secretary General lent his seal of approval to the occupation and endorsed… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 11 August 2011
11 August 2011 — williambowles.info Shmoop Snoops the Facebook Profiles and Email Inboxes of the Gods, Launches … San Francisco Chronicle (press release) @shmoop went all WikiLeaks on us… mere mortals are all up in our Olympian business. SOCTLB* According to an anonymous Valhalla-based publicist, Shmoop’s team of private investigators infiltrated some seriously personal files Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 3 August 2011
3 August 2011 — williambowles.info Mexico: American Ambassador Is Confirmed New York Times The former ambassador, Carlos Pascual, resigned in March after a public dispute with President Felipe Calderón of Mexico over embassy documents released by WikiLeaks. The documents showed him and other American officials criticizing Mexican authorities … http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/world/americas/03briefs-Mexico.html Continue reading
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Breaking news: Tragic cholera outbreak in Port de Paix killing scores of Haitians, HLLN, July 29, 2011
We just received an urgent SOS from the area of Port De Paix (North western) Haiti on a severe cholera outbreak. Our info is that so many people in that City have taken ill and are dying that there’s no place to even hospitalize all who are sick and dying. Medical help is insufficient. Ezili’sHLLN… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks Cables Show Haiti as Pawn in U.S. Foreign Policy By Katie Soltis
The U.S. tried to undermine Haiti’s oil deal with Venezuela in order to protect the vested interests of U.S. oil corporations. Under the Obama administration, the U.S. embassy worked with major textile companies to cap the minimum wage in Haiti at 31 cents per hour. Election monitors from the U.S. and the international community knowingly… Continue reading
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Mothballed Playboy Dictator Recalled to Service By Kim Ives
So we have come full circle. For the first time in 20 years, the bourgeois-grandon alliance, along with the U.S. and France, have a chance to install one of their preferred puppets through an election, however patently bogus, rather than a coup. This is likely why Duvalier is now in Haiti. Continue reading
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