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HLLN: Finding the strength on November 18, 2012 – It takes courage Ayisyen. It hurts unbearably Ayisyen Kenbe la, pa lage | FreeHaitiMovement Nov 18. posts and links
18 November 2012 — Ezili Dantò Recommended HLLN Link: Remembering the Battle of Vertierres – Nov 18, 1803 the final Haiti battle defeating European slavery, forced assimilation, the slave trade and colonialism in Haiti. (The Haitian struggle – the greatest David vs. Goliath battle being played out on this planet – http://bit.ly/2vqDXL ) Continue reading
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I pay this price for you: Haiti is open for business on top of our decomposed dead bodies, on top of our crushed bones…
16-months later they still haven’t stop counting collected donation profits, anticipating more huge returns. Panting, salivating for more Haiti crisis, more cholera outbreaks, more back-to-back hurricanes, more calculated or imposed Haiti instability, more such business opportunities. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel News & Articles 26 October 2012: Analysis: World Bank policies persistently fail Palestinians
26 October 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Falk Calls For Boycotting Companies Benefiting From Israeli SettlementsIMEMC – United Nations Special Rapporteur on humanitarian affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories, called for boycotting all firms that benefit from Israel’s illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, and stated that this ban should be submitted Continue reading
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Destroying a Country’s Standard of Living: What Libya Had Achieved, What has been Destroyed By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky
Whatever one’s views regarding Moamar Gadaffi, the post-colonial Libyan government played a key role in eliminating poverty and developing the country’s health and educational infrastructure. According to Italian Journalist Yvonne de Vito, “Differently from other countries that went through a revolution – Libya is considered to be the Switzerland of the African continent and is… Continue reading
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Covering the Somali famine- of news By William Bowles
Far from being a ‘natural disaster’ events in Somalia can be traced directly to Western intervention, an intervention carried out in at least one hundred indebted economies the world over in the name of ‘structural adjustment’. Continue reading
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Greek government wins confidence vote — RT
Greek university lecturer Panagiotis Sotiris says, ‘People are being refused their right to judge what policies are going to be implemented upon them. And, of course, the Greek government is an accomplice to this loss of Greek sovereignty.’ 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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Stop NATO News: 13 April, 2011
13 April, 2011 — Stop NATO Berlin: NATO Assembles 50 Foreign Ministers On Libyan, Afghan Wars Afghanistan: U.S. Combat Mission Until 2015, Continued Involvement Afterward U.S.-Pakistan Tensions Reaching Boiling Point Pakistan Condemns Resumption Of Deadly U.S. Missile Attacks Pakistan: Plans For Large-Scale Sit-In Along NATO Supply Route Africa: Long History Of French Military Intervention Ivory Continue reading
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Why Iceland Voted ‘No” to the Diktats of the Creditor Banks
About 75% of Iceland’s voters turned out on Saturday to reject the Social Democratic-Green government’s proposal to pay $5.2 billion to the British and Dutch bank insurance agencies for the Landsbanki-Icesave collapse. Every one of Iceland’s six electoral districts voted in the ‘No’ column – by a national margin of 60% (down from 93% in… Continue reading
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The Economic Crisis in Iceland: “IMF Medicine” is not the Solution By Prof. Michael Hudson
The dream was the neoliberal promise that running to debt was the way to get rich. Nobody at the time anticipated that taking private (and indeed, fraudulent) bank losses onto the public balance sheet would become the theme dividing Europe over the coming year, dividing European politics and even threaten to break up the Eurozone. Continue reading
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Tunisia and the IMF’s Diktats: How Macro-Economic Policy Triggers Worldwide Poverty and Unemployment By Michel Chossudovsky
The role of Ben Ali’s government was to enforce the IMF’s deadly economic medicine, which over a period of more than twenty years has served to destabilize the national economy and impoverish the Tunisian population. Continue reading
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Tunisia and the IMF's Diktats: How Macro-Economic Policy Triggers Worldwide Poverty and Unemployment By Michel Chossudovsky
The role of Ben Ali’s government was to enforce the IMF’s deadly economic medicine, which over a period of more than twenty years has served to destabilize the national economy and impoverish the Tunisian population. Continue reading
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Restructuring the Bretton Woods Twins: Jayati Ghosh Interviewed by Prabir Purkayastha
The problem with the IMF, with the World Bank, with the WTO, with the policies of the United States is that they have reflected the interests of large multinational capital. What we have now with more people at the high table, more countries represented at the high table, is that larger segments of international large… Continue reading
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The plantation called Haiti: Feudal pillage masking as humanitarian aid By Marguerite 'Ezili Danto' Laurent
The champagne bottles were popping at the U.N. for the pledging session’s success – $5 billion, $10 billion pledged for the future. Whose future? What Haitians in Haiti need is a hoe, a tractor, some lifting equipment, so they might not have to use their bare hands to dig out the corpses still under the… Continue reading
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The Bank Loan That Could Break South Africa's Back By Patrick Bond
Notwithstanding South Africa’s existing $75 billion foreign debt, last Thursday the World Bank added a $3.75bn loan to Eskom for the primary purpose of building the world’s fourth-largest coal-fired power plant, at Medupi, which will spew 25 million tons of the climate pollutant carbon dioxide each year. Continue reading
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16 Years Ago. 7 April 1994: The US was behind the Rwandan Genocide: Installing a US Protectorate in Central Africa By Michel Chossudovsky
From the outset of the Rwandan civil war in 1990, Washington’s hidden agenda consisted in establishing an American sphere of influence in a region historically dominated by France and Belgium. America’s design was to displace France by supporting the Rwandan Patriotic Front and by arming and equipping its military arm, the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) Continue reading
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South Africa: Momentum against climate-destroying World Bank loan grows By Patrick Bond
In an indication that the climate justice movement is broadening, deepening and going local, there is now intense opposition to a climate-destroying energy loan for South Africa. The campaign is led by community activists in black townships allied with environmentalists, trade unionists and international climate activists. 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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The Destabilization of Haiti: Anatomy of a Military Coup d’Etat By Michel Chossudovsky
This article largely focusses on the history of the 2004 US led coup d’Etat, including its preparations. It also outlines the process of economic destabilization under the helm of the IMF and the World Bank which played a key role in the events leading up to the military coup. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 