Haiti
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HLLN 22 March, 2010: Clinton apologizes for neoliberal policies that destroyed Haiti's rice production…| Haitian NGOs Decry Total Exclusion
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton – now U.N. special envoy to Haiti – … publicly apologized this month for championing policies that destroyed Haiti’s rice production. Clinton in the mid-1990s encouraged the impoverished country to dramatically cut tariffs on imported U.S. rice. Continue reading
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NACLA Update 3/11/10 New NACLA Report – Honduras: Whitewashing the Coup
12 March, 2010 — North American Congress on Latin America Available Now! Honduras: Whitewashing the Coup March/April 2010: Since the June 28 military coup in Honduras, the country’s de facto authorities have maintained a by now well-established track record of attempting to conceal their anti-democratic, violent disposition. This edition of the NACLA Report examines this Continue reading
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ICH 1 March, 2010: Can Obama Assassinate Americans?
Can Obama Assassinate Americans? By Nat Hentoff The executive branch alone decides who shall die instantly. And there are no defense attorneys to raise objections, even when an American citizen is marked for oblivion. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24888.htm The Picture By David Glenn Cox I want you to look very closely at this picture and try and keep Continue reading
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Community and Popular Radio in Haiti Today By Beverly Bell
I ask Sony to tell me about the importance of community radio in Haiti, the first priorities for rebuilding it, and the role it can play in reconstructing a just Haiti. First, he clarifies my terminology. SAKS works with community radio, but views itself as part of the network of popular radio, which he defines… Continue reading
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ICH 24 February, 2010: Explosive News
Gates Calls European Mood a Danger to Peace By BRIAN KNOWLTON Mr. Gates’s blunt comments came just three days after the coalition government of the Netherlands collapsed in a dispute over keeping Dutch troops in Afghanistan. It now appears almost certain that most of the 2,000 Dutch troops there will be withdrawn this year. And Continue reading
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ICH 22 February, 2010: NATO Kills 27 Civilians in Afghanistan
Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq “1,366,350″ www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America’s War On Iraq: 4,696 icasualties.org/oif/ Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 1,658 icasualties.org/oef/ Cost of War in Iraq & Afghanistan $963,704,647,355 www.costofwar.com/ Subscribe to this feed using your newsreader ichnews.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default Continue reading
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Anonymity in the field By LETICIA MARTÍNEZ HERNÁNDEZ
“You see all of this here? They’ve set it all up. And every time we have a problem, there they are. They’re ‘doctors’ too, but doctors who take care of us.” That is how surgeon Suárez talks about the team of medical electronics technicians who set up Cuba’s five field hospitals in Haiti. In addition… Continue reading
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The Week at BAGnewsNotes
BAGnews focuses on the National Prayer Breakfast attendees, shares the show at the Tea Party convention, and examines visual displays of power in Haiti. Continue reading
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Child Slavery in Haiti By Stephen Lendman
In November 2009, PADF published a report titled, ‘Lost Childhoods in Haiti: Quantifying Child Trafficking, Restaveks & Victims of Violence.’ It’s a disturbing picture of ‘extremely poor children who are sent to other homes to work as unpaid domestic servants,’ and end up being beaten, sexually assaulted, and exploited by host families. Later, in their… Continue reading
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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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Black Agenda Report – Duncan: Katrina “Best Thing That Happened” / Blacks and Net Neutrality
3 February, 2010 — Black Agenda Report How Corporate Dollars Dominate the Black and Latino Conversation on Network Neutrality by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The utter dependence of our “civil rights” organizations like the NAACP and LULAC upon corporate donations from Big Cable and the telecom industry has caused them to weigh into Continue reading
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Global Research 4 February, 2010: The Haitian Disaster and the Threat of War Selected Articles January 29 – 4 February, 2010
4 February, 2010 — Global Research The Crisis in Haiti Global Research Dossier of 50+ articles and reports – 2010-02-15 Award Winning Movie: “SUPERPOWER”: Order the DVD Online from Global Research – by Barbara-Anne Steegmuller – 2010-02-15 US Intelligence Report Classifies Venezuela as Anti-US Leader – by Eva Golinger – 2010-02-03 Petition: War is Illegal 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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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 Week at BAGnewsNotes
BAGnews shares an Obama-eye view of the SOTU, examines ongoing devastation in Haiti, and dissects racially-loaded fear mongering from the mainstream media. Continue reading
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Haitian police shoot scavengers indiscriminately
Haitian police on Monday shot indiscriminately at scavengers and looters in Port-au-Prince, hitting two in the head as post-quake security deteriorated, an AFP photographer reported. A group of police, pushed to keep control among a desperate population after the January 12 tremor which killed or injured many of their number and destroyed the city prison,… Continue reading
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Russian Report: Did U.S. weapon against Iran cause Haiti earthquake? By Andrew Moran
According to an unconfirmed report by the Russian Northern Fleets, the tragic earthquake in Haiti was caused by a US navy earthquake weapon that went ‘horribly wrong,’ reports Press TV. The weapons test was originally supposed to be used against Iran but caused the cataclysmic earthquake in the Caribbean country. Continue reading
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Jean Saint-Vil, Haiti realities #3 – 100120
Jean Saint-Vil of Canada Haiti Action is interviewed by Pat Van Horne regarding realities and myths about Haiti – recorded in Ottawa for Straight Goods News on January 20, 2010. Part 3 of 3. Continue reading
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Jean Saint-Vil, Haiti realities #2
Jean Saint-Vil of Canada Haiti Action is interviewed by Pat Van Horne regarding realities and myths about Haiti – recorded in Ottawa for Straight Goods News on January 20, 2010. Part 2 of 3. Continue reading
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Jean Saint-Vil, Haiti realities #1
Jean Saint-Vil of Canada Haiti Action is interviewed by Pat Van Horne regarding realities and myths about Haiti – recorded in Ottawa for Straight Goods News on January 20, 2010. Part 1 of 3. Continue reading
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