Haiti
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Take Action to Stop Violent Force Evictions in Haiti
Members of the Haitian National Police accompanied by agents of Mayor Wilson Jeudy of Delmas have been destroying camps in the Delmas neighborhood of Haiti’s capital. On Monday, May 23rd, they arrived after many people had left the camp to look for work and immediately began to destroy tents with batons. Continue reading
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Rape in Haiti: The Aftershocks Continue By Michelle Chen
This month, Port-au-Prince hailed Michel Martelly as he took office as president, trumpeting new hope for his disaster-stricken country. Elsewhere in the Haitian capital, hope was stifled in the smothered screams of women and girls. Continue reading
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Evictions ramp up for Haitian quake victims By Jacqueline Charles
Police and security agents wielding machetes and knives stormed the squalid encampment north of downtown Port-au-Prince shortly after daybreak recently, tearing through the makeshift tents as unsuspecting campers fled for cover or yelled in protest. “This is the work of animals,’’ resident Guerin Pierre said, standing amid donated plastic sheeting, plywood and clothing strewn across… Continue reading
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Haiti's humanitarian crisis
To anticipate what lies ahead in Haiti, it is important to understand the origins of the popular movement for democracy and social justice that has shaped the last 25 years. Continue reading
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Haitian President Martelly is a US Pawn with a Platform of Repression By G. Dunkel
Preparations for Martelly’s inauguration cost “only” $4.5 million, and each of the three private banquets celebrating his inauguration charged “only” $500 a seat. (Miami Herald, May 13) The International Monetary Fund estimates that 80 percent of the Haitian people live on less than $2 a day. Continue reading
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Democracy, Haitian Style By Stephen Lendman
Except for Aristide’s tenure, what passes for Haitian democracy would make a despot blush, thanks to America’s imperial grip on the hemisphere’s poorest, long-suffering people. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 4 May 2011: Obama Killing Spree / Brazil in Haiti / Obama Needs Birthers
4 May 2011 — BAR – News, commentary and analysis from the black left Osama, Obama and Bush: Apt Comparisons, Missed Opportunities by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Illustration by Leon Kuhn. More of his work at http://www.leonkuhn.org.uk/ This weekend the White House announced the extrajudicial killing of Osama Bin Laden, and the secret disposal Continue reading
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Martelly – Haiti's second great disaster By Greg Grandin
Haiti’s new president is a friend of coup-plotters, fascists, and armed right-wing groups in his country and abroad. Continue reading
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U.N. admits it imported Cholera disease to Haiti | UN-imported cholera to Haiti could affect 800000 people people by year end
Fecal matter from United Nations peacekeepers that was improperly disposed of by a firm contracted by the U.N., along with a poor sanitation system for drinking water, was the cause of the cholera outbreak in Haiti last year that killed more than 4,500 people, a report by a U.N.-appointed panel said on Wednesday. Continue reading
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“Haiti: We Must Kill the Bandits” – Recently Released Documentary Offers Searing Indictment of UN Intervention in Haiti
Haiti: We Must Kill the Bandits follows what happened in Haiti after President Aristide was ousted by a coup in February 2004. While Aristide was forcibly flown to Africa, the Multinational Interim Force (MIF) – mainly US, Canadian and French troops – was sent to Haiti under a Security Council mandate, supposedly to offer “humanitarian”… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 23 March 2011 – The Big Black AT&T Sellout / Libya "Humanitarian" Regime Change
23 March 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left NNPA: Black America’s Watchdogs, Or Lapdogs For AT&T? By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon On March 21 AT&T announced its intent to gobble up T-Mobile and control, with Verizon, three quarters of the US cellular market and most Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 2 March, 2011: End of Obama-ism, US Lunge for Libyan Oil, Anti-Black Psy-Ops
It becomes clearer by the day that “Obama-ism, rather than providing the new Democratic dispensation that delusional progressives and masses of Blacks imagined, is a straight-line path to defeat.” Continue reading
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Waiting for Justice in Haiti: One Year Later Part 2
Gina Ulysse: Rushing to action is not the solution to Haiti’s problems. Talking is action and Haitians need to be included in the conversation. Continue reading
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Waiting for Justice in Haiti: One Year Later Part 1
Danny Glover: Haiti’s history and Haiti’s relationship to today’s world Continue reading
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Haiti Issues New Passport to Ex-Leader Aristide
The Haitian government said it has issued a new passport to former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, enabling him to end his exile in South Africa and return to Haiti, a government official said. Continue reading
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Obamanomics, Reagan's Demons, the Reagan We Remember: BA Report for Feb 9, 2011
After two years in office, Obama clearly has nothing to offer the Democratic Party “base,” but arrives at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce bearing impressive gifts. “The president’s groveling performance at the Chamber shows him, once again, to be a corporate facilitator who doesn’t even bother to polish up his old con game.” This is… Continue reading
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Green Light for the Return of Aristide | Feu vert au retour d'Aristide
The Haitian government said Monday it would not oppose the return of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Continue reading
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Manifest Haiti: Monsanto's Destiny By Ryan Stock
“A fabulous Easter gift,” commented Monsanto Director of Development Initiatives Elizabeth Vancil. Nearly 60,000 seed sacks of hybrid corn seeds and other vegetable seeds were donated to post-earthquake Haiti by Monsanto. In observance of World Environment Day, June 4, 2010, roughly 10,000 rural Haitian farmers gathered in Papaye to march seven kilometers to Hinche in… Continue reading
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In Haiti, Reliving Duvalier, Waiting for Aristide By Laura Flynn
The common wisdom, repeated endlessly in the international press since Duvalier’s return, is that Baby Doc’s regime was less repressive than his father’s. But my friend’s mother does not remember it that way. Continue reading
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Haiti aftermath: Self-government still a great fear By Mark Weisbrot
Foreign powers are trying to rob Haitians once again of their democratic rights. More than 200 years after Haiti liberated itself from slavery and from France, the rich countries still seem to have a great fear of Haitians governing themselves. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 