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Abu-jamal: Haiti's Suffering
Commentary, January, 30 2010
Mumia Abu-jamal
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As we near two weeks after the devastating earthquake and terrifying aftershocks in Port-au-Prince and Zacmel, Haiti, we face the inevitable media wall, that closes up, unless a story emerges of such surprise and delight that it's able to shine th...
Quigley: Hell And Hope In Haiti
Znet Article, January, 29 2010
Bill Quigley
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Smoke and flames rose from the sidewalk. A white man took pictures. Slowing down, my breath left me. The fire was a corpse. Leg bones sticking out of the flames.
Goodman: Let the Haitians In
Znet Article, January, 29 2010
Amy Goodman
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Jean Montrevil was shackled, imprisoned, about to be sent to Haiti. It was Jan. 6, days before the earthquake that would devastate Haiti, the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere. Montrevil came to the U.S. with a green card in 1986 at the age...
Pilger: The Kidnapping of Haiti
Commentary, January, 28 2010
John Pilger
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The theft of Haiti has been swift and crude. On 22 January, the United States secured "formal approval" from the United Nations to take over all air and sea ports in Haiti, and to "secure" roads. No Haitian signed the agreement, which has no basis...
Jensen: Great television/bad journalism: Media failures in Haiti coverage
Commentary, January, 26 2010
Robert Jensen
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CNN's star anchor Anderson Cooper narrates a chaotic street scene in Port-au-Prince. A boy is struck in the head by a rock thrown by a looter from a roof. Cooper helps him to the side of the road, and then realizes the boy is disoriented and unabl...
Chatterjee: Haiti: Two Competing Aid Approaches
Znet Article, January, 26 2010
Supriyo Chatterjee
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The first aid aircraft to reach the Port-au-Prince airport in Haiti, within 14 hours of the devastation, was Venezuelan, with a search and rescue team. Almost immediately afterwards, they drove to a disaster site and pulled out four women alive. A...
Cohen: Toxic Wastes & Haiti
Commentary, January, 25 2010
Mitchel Cohen
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Two decades ago, the garbage barge, the Khian Sea, with no place in the U.S. willing to accept its garbage, left the territorial waters of the United States and began circling the oceans in search of a country willing to accept its cargo: 14,000 t...
Wittner: Replacing International Oppression with International Aid
Znet Article, January, 25 2010
Lawrence s. Wittner
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The outpouring of humanitarian aid from numerous nations for the suffering people of Haiti is truly extraordinary -- particularly when set against the shabby record of the past.
Castro: We Send Doctors, Not Soldiers
Znet Article, January, 25 2010
Fidel Castro
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In my Reflection of January 14, two days after the catastrophe in Haiti, which destroyed that neighboring sister nation, I wrote: “In the area of healthcare and others the Haitian people has received the cooperation of Cuba, even though this is ...
Powers: On the Ground in Haiti: The Burial
Znet Article, January, 24 2010
Nicholas Powers
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Old men with creased faces watch us enter the cemetery. A solemn air blows through the arch as the four of us walk in, cameras aimed, pen angled and stop at a woman's body being nibbled by flies. Over the face, someone lifted her shirt as a makesh...
Podur: Limited Compassion for Haiti
Znet Article, January, 24 2010
Justin Podur
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Everyone agrees that the Haiti earthquake is a serious situation.
Hallward: Securing Disaster in Haiti
Znet Article, January, 24 2010
Peter Hallward
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Nine days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on 12 January 2010, it's now clear that the initial phase of the U.S.-led relief operation has conformed to the three fundamental tendencies that have shaped the more general course of t...
Powers: On the Ground in Haiti: Need and Survival in Port-au-Prince
Znet Article, January, 23 2010
Nicholas Powers
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Glass crunches underfoot. We walk into downtown Port au Prince, a jagged valley of collapsed stone. A chunk of wall was split loose from the building by the latest earthquake and fell in the street like a giant boulder. People scamper around it. E...
Lazare: U.S. Policy: More War, Less Relief
Znet Article, January, 23 2010
Sarah Lazare
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As Haiti asks the world for help turning around the destruction wrought by the January 12th earthquake, the U.S. is funding destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan. President Obama is expected to ask for another $33 billion for the military budget thi...
Kozloff: Latin/Middle Eastern Media: A Thorn in the Side of the U.S. Military in Haiti
Znet Article, January, 22 2010
Nikolas Kozloff
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Watch the U.S. media and its coverage of the crisis in Haiti, and you get the impression that Washington is a benevolent power doing its utmost to help with emergency relief in the Caribbean island nation. But tune into al-Jazeera English or South...
Milne: Haiti's suffering is a result of calculated impoverishment
Znet Article, January, 22 2010
Seumas Milne
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Haiti's poverty is treated as some Âbaffling quirk of history or culture, when in reality it is the direct Âconsequence of a uniquely brutal Ârelationship with the outside world — notably the US, France and Britain — stretching back centuries.
Hallward: Haiti: Guns or Food?
Video, January, 21 2010
Peter Hallward
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Peter Hallward on the arrival of US military raises questions of motivations and memories of recent interventions
Solnit: When the Media Is the Disaster
Znet Article, January, 21 2010
Rebecca Solnit
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Covering Haiti
Kim: IMF Clarifies Terms of Haiti's Loan
Znet Article, January, 21 2010
Richard Kim
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Last Friday I wrote about the IMF's new $100 million loan to Haiti. I cited debt relief activists who told me that the new loan would be an extension of the IMF's existing loan of $165 million. This information was confirmed by the IMF's press rel...
Bennis: Haiti Again
Znet Article, January, 21 2010
Phyllis Bennis
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There's a special kind of horror that comes from watching a human catastrophe escalate in front of our eyes, knowing that for most of us sending money is the only useful thing we can do. I remember seeing the terror of the Rwandan genocide explode...
