US occupation
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Haiti Newslinks 27-28 January, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 25-26 January, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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Haiti’s agony
Peter Lavelle asks his guests why the US first sent troops to Haiti instead of water and food. Continue reading
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Why is the BBC’s Haiti coverage so appalling? By William Bowles
I’ve been scanning through the BBC News website almost every day to see what our ‘impartial’ and ‘objective’ state-controlled news organization has to say on the subject. So first I searched through my BBC RSS feed from the 15 January to today, 25 January, using Haiti as the keyword. Only one out of twenty-six stories… Continue reading
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Haiti's suffering is a result of calculated impoverishment By Seumas Milne
Most scandalously, US commanders have repeatedly turned away flights bringing medical equipment and emergency supplies from organisations such as the World Food Programme and Médecins Sans Frontières, in order to give priority to landing troops. Despite the remarkable patience and solidarity on the streets and the relatively small scale of looting, the aim is said… Continue reading
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Haiti needs emergency relief, not military intervention — add your name to open letter
We, the undersigned, are outraged by the scandalous delays in distributing essential aid to victims of the earthquake in Haiti. Since the US Air Force seized unilateral control of the airport in Port-au-Prince, it has privileged military over civilian humanitarian flights. As a result, untold numbers of people have died needlessly in the rubble of… Continue reading
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Earthquake victims relief not a US priority. US repairing prisons at Krome for potential Haitian earthquake refugees
Object to the US occupation and militarization of Haiti on the backs of perhaps up to 200,000 dead Haitians and 3million suffering Haitians. This is ATROCIOUS. repugnant. odious. This is not emergency relief but opportunistic disaster capitalism – purposely, diabolically letting the poor die so to make Haiti a pristine tourist haven for foreigners as… Continue reading
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Go home US military: Haiti doesn't need anymore pain! By Ezili Danto
We’ve beaten back the elite’s rabid rage before. We know the game and Haitians will do everything to force them to retreat. The US is not hiding its imperialism behind the UN anymore. Its come out into the light. Right now you need State Department clearance to land in Haiti. Continue reading
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CARICOM BLOCKED…as US takes control of airport – It's not just Haitian doctors and nurses who are being blocked
THE CARIBBEAN Community’s emergency aid mission to Haiti, comprising Heads of Government and leading technical officials, failed to secure permission Friday to land at that devastated country’s airport, now under the control of the United States. Continue reading
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Relief Efforts in the Shadow of Past “Help”: Moving from crimes-as-charity to actual support for Haiti
‘Thus far,’ it reports, ‘the rescue teams cluster at the high profile and safer walled sites and were literally afraid to enter the barrios. They gravitated to the sites where they had secure compounds and big buildings. ‘Meanwhile, the neighbourhoods where the damage appears to be much wider, and anywhere there were loose crowds, they… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 17-18 January, 2010
A compilation of links to news and analysis on the situation in Haiti, updated daily. Continue reading
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Peace in Iraq IS an option – sign the Le Feyt Declaration!
The undersigned, friends of Iraq from France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Portugal, the United States of America, Egypt, Sweden and Iraq, organized in the International Anti-Occupation Network (IAON) and gathered in Le Feyt, France, from 25 to 27 August 2008, have adopted the following position and declaration reflecting our commitment to a true Continue reading
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Media Lens: INVASION – A COMPARISON OF SOVIET AND WESTERN MEDIA PERFORMANCE – PART 1 By Nikolai Lanine and Media Lens
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media November 20, 2007 Introduction The writer Simon Louvish once told the story of a group of Soviets touring the United States before the age of glasnost. After reading the newspapers and watching TV, they were amazed to find that, on the big issues, all Continue reading
The New Dark Age 