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Jacobs: Washington's False Logic of Torture
BookReview, September, 23 2008
Ron Jacobs
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As Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights makes clear in his book The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld, the legal rationalization for the US torture of its prisoners is based on a false premise. In addition, the argument used to legitimize...
Farmer: Firsthand Account of Haiti's Hurricane Suffering: A Call for Help
Znet Article, September, 10 2008
Paul Farmer
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I am writing from Mirebalais, the place where our organization was born, having just returned from Gonaïves—perhaps the city hit hardest by Hurricane Hanna, which, hard on the heels of Fay and Gustave, drenched the deforested mountains of Haiti an...
Beeton: Bad News From Haiti: U.S. Press Misses the Story
Znet Article, September, 08 2008
Dan Beeton
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Protests in Haiti over high food prices have dominated U.S. media coverage of the country in recent months. While these reports have drawn international attention to an urgent situation, they have often lacked proper context. Haiti’s problems did ...
Quigley: Gustav Impact on Louisiana and Haiti
Znet Article, September, 05 2008
Bill Quigley
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Hurricane Gustav killed 18 people in Louisiana and displaced 1.9 million. Over 800,000 homes are without electricity, nearly half the state, and some will not see power for up to a month. In Haiti, Gustav killed 77 with another 8 missing and dama...
Terrall: Seeing Haiti
Znet Article, August, 29 2008
Ben Terrall
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Of course, Washington’s posturing as a beacon of peace and freedom has become increasingly more ludicrous as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue with no end in sight and Bush explains that we do not torture while testimony to the contrary accumu...
Emersberger: Iachr Denounces Haiti For Political Persecution Of Yvon Neptune
Znet Article, July, 24 2008
Joe Emersberger
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The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) has made public a 60-page denunciation of the political persecution that Yvon Neptune, a former Prime Minister of Haiti, has endured at the hands of the Haitian government for the past four years. "...
Podur: Bursting the Dam of Containment
Znet Article, June, 13 2008
Justin Podur
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At its core, Peter Hallward's remarkable book, “Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment”, is the detailed story of the struggle between the Lavalas movement and the forces arrayed against Haitian sovereignty and democra...
Terrall: Damming the Flood
Zmag Article, June, 02 2008
Ben Terrall
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Peter Hallward’s new book is a welcome corrective to the false impressions and historical amnesia about Haiti afflicting most of the English-speaking world.
Barry-shaw: Haiti's Big Lie
Znet Article, April, 30 2008
Nik Barry-shaw
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With six people killed in the food protests that erupted throughout Haiti in early April, observers immediately began trying to explain why violence had once again shattered the country's two years of apparent stability. Yet rather than blame the...
Sprague: Anti-Hunger Protests in Haiti
Znet Article, April, 25 2008
Jeb Sprague
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Demonstrations that started in Le Cayes on Thursday, April 3rd, against soaring food prices spread across Haiti to Petit-Goagve, Gonaïves, Aquin and, by April 7, to the capital, Port-au-Prince. Anger over rising prices has been building for many m...
Quigley: USA Role in Haiti Hunger Riots
Znet Article, April, 22 2008
Bill Quigley
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Riots in Haiti over explosive rises in food costs have claimed the lives of six people. There have also been food riots world-wide in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivorie, Egypt, Guinea, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
Lendman: Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World
Znet Article, April, 22 2008
Stephen Lendman
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Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world's poorest ones people are starving. The reason - soaring food prices, and it's triggered riots around the world in places like Mexico, Indonesia, Yemen, the Philippines, Cambodi...
Patel: How World Bank policies led to famine in Haiti
Video, April, 22 2008
Raj Patel
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Food riots in Haiti caused the deaths of five people last week, including a UN peacekeeper, and forced the country's prime minister out of office.
Lendman: Peter Hallward's "Damning the Flood" (Part II)
Znet Article, April, 18 2008
Stephen Lendman
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Part II of Peter Hallward's account of recent Haitian history and what may lie ahead for its beleaguered people.
Lendman: Peter Hallward's "Damming the Flood" I/2
Znet Article, April, 14 2008
Stephen Lendman
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Peter Hallward is a UK Middlesex University Professor of Modern European Philosophy. He's written many articles; authored several books; edited, contributed to and translated others; and has research interests in a broad range of areas, including ...
Engler: Québec & Haiti
Znet Article, April, 13 2008
Yves Engler
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As an advanced capitalist state, Québec support for Western imperialism in Haiti should not be surprising.
Solo: Globalization and Terror - Murder Inc. and Haiti
Znet Article, March, 24 2008
Toni Solo
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Haiti's prolonged destruction by foreign powers is just one more example of rich country elites' determination to seize what they want by denying fundamental rights to peoples around the world...
Emersberger: The Failure of Human Rights Watch in Venezuela and Haiti
Znet Article, March, 05 2008
Joe Emersberger
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The way Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Haiti and Venezuela in its 2008 World Report reveals an underlying assumption that the US and its allies have the right to overthrow democratic governments.[1]
Emersberger: Peter Hallward Untangles the Truth About Haiti From a Web of Lies
Znet Article, February, 18 2008
Joe Emersberger
Emersberger's ZSpace page
In "Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment" Peter Hallward meticulously explains how, on February 29 of 2004, the U.S. managed to "topple one of the most popular governments in Latin America but it managed to topple it...
Emersberger: Haiti's Debt
Znet Article, January, 09 2008
Joe Emersberger
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Despite being the most impoverished country in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti lags behind many countries in the Americas in obtaining debt relief through a program run by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
