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Haiti's cholera misery: 5,000 dead – and UN peacekeepers to blame By Guy Adams
Although the panel then dismisses as a mere “hypothesis” suggestions that Nepalese troops brought the bacteria into the country (which had been cholera-free for decades), it concedes that the disease began infecting large numbers of Haitians only when it entered the water supply via their camp’s dysfunctional septic disposal system. Continue reading
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Haiti: Just When You Think It Can't Get Any Worse By Bev Bell
Martelly wants to bring back the army that former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide dismantled in 1995. Since Haiti already has a police force to maintain public order and the country is not expected to go to war, Martelly can have only one aim for reintroducing armed forces: to reclaim the tool that past presidents have used… Continue reading
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Will Martelly Really “Change the System” ?
Upon returning from his three day trip to the U.S. last week, President-elect Joseph Michel Martelly summarized the different meetings he had during a press conference last Tuesday, Apr. 26. 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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CrossTalk on Haiti: failed aid — RT
On this edition of Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, he asks his guests why aid efforts in Haiti have largely failed. Who is to blame? Is it the UN, the US and its NGOs, or is it the fault of the Haitian people? Continue reading
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OAS Diplomat's Words Rattle Haiti's Occupation Regime By Roger Annis
When the interview turns to questions of aid and earthquake relief, Seitenfus drops a bomb in declaring, “If there is proof of the failure of international aid, it is Haiti.” Charity and aid to Haiti have enfeebled the Haitian state. Continue reading
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Haiti: One More Shameful UN Betrayal By Peter Hallward
Almost everyone now accepts that the United Nations brought cholera to Haiti last month. The evidence is overwhelming and many experts (including the head of Harvard University’s microbiology department, cholera specialist John Mekalanos) made up their minds to that effect several weeks ago. Poverty and a lack of rudimentary infrastructure compels much of Haiti’s population… Continue reading
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Haiti: Rebellion grows against occupiers By G. Dunkel
For more than a week, mass protests against the U.N.’s occupation have broken out throughout Haiti, especially in Cap-Haïtien on its northern coast and Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital. Protests have also taken place in southern cities like Cayes and in the center of the country in Gonaïve. Continue reading
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Protesters shot dead as Haiti cholera toll tops 1,000 By Bill Van Auken
The port city, approximately 300 kilometers north of the capital of Port-au-Prince, was still largely paralyzed on Tuesday, with schools, public offices and businesses shut, streets blocked by barricades of burning tires and sporadic gunfire reported. The bridge leading to the city’s airport was blocked with welded metal barriers. Continue reading
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Citizen Protests, Government Repression Mount in Haiti By Beverly Bell
Haitians have been taking to the streets with increasing frequency since August in calls for redress of the economic and social crisis which has followed the earthquake. The social movements’ demands of the government include the right of those living in internally displaced people’s camps to permanent, humane housing, accessible education and an increase in… Continue reading
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The Betrayal of Haiti By Ashley Smith
Six months after Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake, the promises of the world’s most powerful governments to provide billions in aid to one of the world’s poorest and weakest governments have been betrayed. Continue reading
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For $10 Billion of "Promises" Haiti Surrenders its Sovereignty By Kim Ives
It was fitting that the Mar. 31 ‘International Donors Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti’ was held in the Trusteeship Council at the United Nations headquarters in New York. At the event, Haitian President René Préval in effect turned over the keys to Haiti to a consortium of foreign banks and governments, which will… Continue reading
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HLLN 22 March, 2010: Haiti & Africa: The Horrors of Humanitarian Aid | Bipartisan oppression of Haiti- Clinton/Bush together in an occupied Haiti where majority party and masses excluded, banned from elections since Bush Regime change 2004
USAID paid at least $160 million of its total Haiti-related expenditures to the Defense Department, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, two local U.S. search and rescue teams and, in at least two instances, itself. Tens of millions more went to U.S.-based aid groups…much of that bought food and other necessities for Haitians, often from U.S.… Continue reading
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Protesters clash with police following rain in Haiti By Kevin Pina
At 4:30 am as the rain began to fall a collective wail could be heard rising from the makeshift camps of those left homeless due to a massive earthquake that rocked Haiti on January 12. Cries of helplessness and misery quickly turned into shouts of anger and invectives against Haitian president Rene Preval as thousands… Continue reading
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U.S. Attempts to Erase Haitian Nationhood By Glen Ford
Proud Haiti has been reduced to a de facto ‘protectorate’ of the United States – a grotesque form of non-sovereignty in which the subjugated nation is ‘protected’ by its worst enemy. Namibia under white-ruled South African administration comes to mind, although in Haiti’s case the United Nations does not even pretend to be on the… Continue reading
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HLLN 7 February, 2010 – Ratcheting up genocide in Haiti
Before earthquake the killing was by UN bullets, exclusion, NGO false benevolence, US false charity and cruel immigration laws. After Jan 12 it’s all those PLUS our people are allowed to die of critical earthquake injuries, starvation, suffering, trauma and thirst Continue reading
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Bleak Prospects for Haitian Recovery: To Avoid Repeating Past Mistakes, US Role Must be More Than Rhetorical
Delays in sending the first relief teams cut fatally into the three days in which search and rescue are most valuable for disaster victims in the rubble. Although U.S. military presence in the hemisphere is often justified by the need for humanitarian assistance in case of natural disasters, the armed forces seemed unprepared to swiftly… Continue reading
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Progress Report on Coordinated Rapid Response to Haiti Earthquake
This report includes progress made on transporting teams and supplies into Haiti, the latest summary assessment for Jacmel from the UN in PAP and details of our headquarters and operations in Santo Domingo. 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 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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