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HLLN 3 April, 2010: Relevant points about the Donor's Conference for Haiti
This week former Presidents Clinton and Bush are in Haiti, trying to drum up support for Haitis reconstruction and setting the stage for the upcoming donor conference at the U.N. on March 31. There is no shortage of needs, and even plans to address them. Yet the process has as yet to be transparent. Continue reading
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Haiti and the Aid Racket: How NGOs are Profiting Off a Grave Situation By ASHLEY SMITH
So far, the relief effort has only managed to provide 270,000 people with basic shelters like tents. More than 1 million people still have little access to food and water and have to scrape by to find sustenance. Even worse, because the relief operation is so inefficient, Haitians report that some of the food spends… Continue reading
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HLLN 6 March, 2010 — Missionary Ordered Released, But Silsby Left In Haitian Jail to Wonder…
Missionary Ordered Released, But Silsby Left In Haitian Jail to Wonder | UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing Haitian children | Haiti’s Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: GATES OF DELUSION Media Distortions And +Real+ Climate Scandals
Since November last year, the public has been bombarded with the story of stolen emails from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, revealing a supposed “scandal” of scientific malpractice, stupidly and lazily named “climategate”. Further media frenzy erupted over an erroneous Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change statement that 80 per cent… 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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Cutting Clare Short By William Bowles
The media give Clare Short short shrift at the Chilcot ‘inquiry’ transforming her into a “difficult” woman though nevertheless “entertaining”. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: NUCLEAR DECEIT – THE TIMES AND IRAN
On December 14, The Times announced that it had obtained documents about Iran’s nuclear programme that revealed “a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator. This is the component of a nuclear weapon that triggers the explosion”. Continue reading
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Haiti Report for January 11, 2010
– UN Peacekeeping Mission Helping Prepare for Upcoming Elections – Latin American Solidarity Coalition Delegation in Haiti Releases Statement – UN Representative Says Elections are Key to Preserving Progress – UN Secretary General says UN will Provide Security and Logistical Support for Elections – President Preval Promises Fair Legislative Elections, Emphasizes Importance of Stability for… Continue reading
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Media Lens Alert: Chilcot Inquiry – the establishment goes to work – part 2
The Iraqi “threat” was a fantasy invented by the immensely powerful, nuclear-armed bullies of the West. This is why former British ambassador to Washington, Christopher Meyer, was able to observe last month that prior to the attacks on September 11, 2001, Iraq was merely “a grumbling appendix”. Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: CHILCOT INQUIRY – THE ESTABLISHMENT GOES TO WORK – PART 1
The use of military and economic force to control and exploit the world is non-negotiable for these interests. We are free to vote for the Labour party to attack ‘threatening’, but in fact defenceless, Third World countries, or we can vote for the Conservative party to do the same. We can buy the Guardian that… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS: THE BBC’S JEREMY PAXMAN ON IRAQ – “WE WERE HOODWINKED”
Does not government submission of evidence mark the point where serious journalism +begins+ rather than ends? What is the reason for journalism at all, if the responsibility is simply to accept what a US Secretary of Defence says because we “know” he “is an intelligent, thoughtful man, and a sceptical man”? Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: THE BALANCE OF POWER – EXCHANGES WITH BBC JOURNALISTS – PART 2
19 October, 2009 — MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media A Gale Of Spring Air – Barbara Plett And The President On September 24, we wrote to the BBC’s Barbara Plett: Dear Barbara Plett It’s hard to believe your article, ‘Debuts and diatribes at the UN’, was written by a Continue reading
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D’Escoto: “The UN has failed” Part 1
Video: As he leaves the office of the President of the UN General Assembly, Father Miguel d’Escoto gave Real News Senior Editor Paul Jay a no holds barred interview on the issues plaguing the United Nations. D’Escoto held the democratization of the UN as a key pillar of his Presidency, but along the way he… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: IRAN – THE WAR DANCE
The IAEA, which met in Vienna on September 18, adopted a resolution expressing concern about “Israeli nuclear capabilities” and called on agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei to work on the issue. The motion was adopted by 49 votes to 45, with 16 abstentions. Russia and China, both permanent members of the UN security council, voted in… Continue reading
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MEDIA LENS ALERT: AFGHANISTAN — “BIG BEASTS” BIG BLOODBATH
At the heart of the uncertainty lies the internet and how to make it pay. For 100 years the corporate mass media has flourished thanks to its monopoly of the means of mass communication. Reviewing the history of the British media, James Curran and Jean Seaton write that the industrialisation of the press in the… Continue reading
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COHA Responds to the UN World Drug Report
A more apropos analogy might be to ask why, after the American experience with organized crime and black markets during the 1920s, one would think that drug prohibition would produce better results. While legalization would undoubtedly have its drawbacks, the fact that no tangible progress has been made under the current model, and with billions… Continue reading
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The blood pours: UN soldiers shoot at Haitian mourners outside church funeral of Father Jean Juste in Haiti by Marguerite “Ezili Danto” Laurent
In the fracas, the people immediately took the body of Father Jean Juste to protect it from being vandalized, because when mourners were coming out of the church, the U.N. started shooting. The people also picked up the body of a young man who was killed in front of the church by U.N. soldiers and… Continue reading
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Marchers accuse UN of shooting at Haiti funeral By JONATHAN M. KATZ
Marchers accused U.N. peacekeepers of killing the unidentified man during protests surrounding the funeral of the Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste, who was a close ally of exiled former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The protesters are incensed by the presence of foreign troops on Haitian soil. Continue reading
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