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Znet Article Sprague: IRI Election Manipulation in Haiti

Znet Article, February, 07 2006 Jeb Sprague
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IRI Election Manipulation in Haiti

Znet Article Concannon: Election Day and Beyond

Znet Article, February, 07 2006 Brian Concannon
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If Haiti’s much awaited (and four times postponed) elections take place on February 7, many questions will be answered: are the reduced number of voting centers sufficient, as the government promises? Did the troubled process of registerin...

Znet Article Evans: Serving Capital

Znet Article, February, 06 2006 David Evans
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If all the rhetoric about the new Governor General were true it would appear she is bent on destroying the country. Allegedly a separatist at heart, it has been suggested that she is disloyal to Canada and she sees the country as an imperialist op...

Znet Article Sommers: 1984 Redux

Znet Article, February, 04 2006 Jeff Sommers
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Using American veterans as props, on November 11, 2005 President George Bush delivered a speech designed to justify his foreign policy failures since 9/11. Throughout his talk he intoned his audience to recognize the goodness of American foreign p...

Znet Article Solo: Poverty, consumerism and anti-imperialism

Znet Article, January, 29 2006 Toni Solo
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Several responses are standard to criticism of ideologically bankrupt and morally schizophrenic initiatives like the UK's Make Poverty History campaign. One is to rail at the impudence of calling into question the campaign organizers sincerity and...

Znet Article Pina: UN's Temporary Amnesia in Haiti

Znet Article, January, 28 2006 Kevin Pina
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HIP, Haiti - There has been much hand wringing and posturing by the international community since the fourth delay of elections by their Haitian surrogates who took power after the forced ouster of democratically elected President Aristide in Feb....

Znet Article Bello: Humanitarian Intervention

Znet Article, January, 25 2006 Walden Bello
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(Revised version of a speech delivered at the Conference on Globalization, War, and Intervention sponsored by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, German Chapter, Frankfurt, Germany, January 14-15, 2006.) As war clouds ...

Znet Article Jean-juste: Letter from A Haitian Prison

Znet Article, January, 24 2006 Gerard Jean-juste
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It is not easy for me to communicate to you through the media. It is forbidden by my jailers. That order comes from the Big Boss, the invisible one in Haiti.   With heart broken I have followed most of the big eve...

Znet Article Chomsky: Irish Times Interview

Znet Article, January, 24 2006 Noam Chomsky
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Q First of all, I wanted to clear something up. I understand that some remarks you made about Bertie Ahern and “shoe shining ” may have been reported inaccurately. A The Press Association story on December 26th said that on his wa...

Znet Article Bagg: The UN in Haiti and the Geneva Convention

Znet Article, January, 22 2006 Leslie Bagg
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Port au Prince -- As pressure from Haiti's elite on MINUSTAH (United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti) continues to escalate, so too does the violence perpetrated by UN forces against civilians in Cite Soleil. The death toll in the desperate...

Znet Article Lakoff: Canada, Haiti, the UN

Znet Article, January, 21 2006 Aaron Lakoff
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In his book “The Uses of Haiti”, author Paul Farmer writes; “...the world's privileged are protected from suffering violence, they are protected from having to perpetrate it – directly – and they are protec...

Znet Article Macleod: Silence on Haiti in Canada

Znet Article, January, 19 2006 Andrew Macleod
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Last Tuesday, Liberal prime minister Paul Martin made his pre-election stop in Victoria, meeting with supporters at a rally at the Hotel Grand Pacific. There, in what must have felt like a strange replay of countless such events across the country...

Znet Article Bagg: Haiti's Elites Pressure the UN

Znet Article, January, 18 2006 Leslie Bagg
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HIP - Haiti — Pressure from the elite sector of Haitian society has been mounting against the U.N. Mission in Haiti during the past several weeks. As the on again, off again elections approach the renewed deadline of Feb. 7, the United Nat...

Znet Article Bagg: Bel Air

Znet Article, January, 08 2006 Leslie Bagg
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 Our second day in Haiti brought us to the slum of Bel Air, an area extremely different than other areas of Port au Prince. Not far from the glistening Palais Nationale, Bel Air is a poor neighborhood which has been hit hard since the February 200...

Znet Article Concannon: Haiti's Court System

Znet Article, January, 05 2006 Brian Concannon
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Haiti's Judicial and Executive Branches are both getting what they deserve this holiday season- each other. After 22 months of close collaboration to trample Haiti's Constitution and democracy, they have now turned their destructive energies on ea...

Znet Article Zamparini: Guardians of Power

Znet Article, January, 05 2006 Gabriele Zamparini
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The following is an interview with David Edwards and David Cromwell editors of Medialens and co-authors of the new book ‘Guardians of Power: The myth of the liberal media’. UKWatch: Your new book is called ‘Guardians of Po...

Znet Article Lamrani: The politicisation of the Sakharov Prize

Znet Article, January, 05 2006 Salim Lamrani
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Translated by Barbara & David Forbes On 26th October 2005, the European Parliament awarded the Sakharov Prize jointly to the Nigerian lawyer Hauwa Ibrahim, the Women in White of Cuba, and the Paris-based organisation Reporters Without Frontiers. ...

Znet Article Lendman: Venezuela's Bolivarian Movement

Znet Article, January, 04 2006 Stephen Lendman
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Venezuela today, under its democratically elected President, Hugo Chavez Frias, is imbued with the spirit of Bolivarianism and his Bolivarian Revolution. It's based on the vision of Simon Bolivar, the Caracas born 17th and 18th century general who...

Znet Article Evans: Canada's Shame, Empire's Profit

Znet Article, December, 27 2005 David Evans
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  When Canada secured the airport in Haiti and was instrumental in overthrowing its legitimate government (1,2,3), there was nothing new in its actions. Ever since the earliest beginnings of Canada, its history has been inextricably linked to the...

Znet Article Elie: Taking us to democracy like cattle to a killing house

Znet Article, December, 14 2005 Patrick Elie
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Interviewed by Anthony Fenton, Justin Podur, and Andréa Schmidt Patrick Elie is a Haitian activist, based in Port-au-Prince, with a long history of involvement in the Lavalas movement. He served as Haiti’s drug czar and Minister of Defe...

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