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Znet Article Emersberger: Amnesty International's Track Record in Haiti since 2004

Znet Article, February, 07 2007 Joe Emersberger
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The coup that ousted Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004 led very predictably to the worst human rights disaster in the Western Hemisphere over the following two years.[1] It is worth reviewing how the world's most famous...

Znet Article Christoff: Liberation Songs

Znet Article, January, 29 2007 Stefan Christoff
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In February 2004, rebel forces in Haiti launched a successful armed campaign to overthrow populist President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Anti-Aristide militias, comprised mainly of soldiers from the disbanded Haitian army, seized power and a wave of v...

Znet Article Sprague: Two Years Since the Murder of Abdias Jean

Znet Article, January, 24 2007 Jeb Sprague
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He was murdered on January 14, 2005 shortly after finishing his lunch  near his home in the Village de Dieu slum. The killing of Abdias Jean, a young Haitian journalist who reported  from Haiti for WKAT radio in Florida, was quickly condemned by ...

Znet Article Sprague: Mysterious Prison Ailment Traced to U.S. Rice

Znet Article, January, 17 2007 Jeb Sprague
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NEW YORK, Jan 17 (IPS) - A newly released investigation into the deadly scourge of Beri-beri in Haiti's National Penitentiary uncovered evidence that the clash between the manufacturing process used in U.S. processed rice and the traditional Haiti...

Znet Article Pierre: Building Confidence in a Desperate Nation

Znet Article, January, 17 2007 Hyppolite Pierre
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By Christmas time 2005, the Haitian Diaspora, largely in the US and Canada, was hopeful for a new dynamic in Haitian politics. It wasn’t as much if at all, about the possibility that René Préval could become the next president. Instead i...

Znet Article Elie: CKUT Radio: Haiti - A Rough 2007

Znet Article, December, 31 2006 Patrick Elie
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Aaron Lakoff (AL): I'm joined on the line right now with Patrick Elie. Patrick is a long time human rights and political activist. He joins us from Port au Prince, Haiti. Good evening Patrick. Patrick Elie (PE): Good evening Aaron. AL: So, what...

Znet Article Emersberger: Canada's Haitian Political Prisoner

Znet Article, December, 27 2006 Joe Emersberger
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Jean Candio has been imprisoned in Windsor, Ontario since December 13, 2006. He left Haiti in March, 2004, following the Coup d'etat which culminated in the kidnapping of democratically elected Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He left a...

Znet Article Barker: Catalyst for Iranian Resistance

Znet Article, December, 18 2006 Michael Barker
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The Iranian question is on everyone’s lips at the moment, and judging by the ongoing discussions in both the mainstream and alternative (progressive) media, it is apparent that, one way or the other, the US (and its coalition of willing cr...

Znet Article Zinn: If History is to be Creative

Znet Article, December, 09 2006 Howard Zinn
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This essay is the first chapter of Howard Zinn's new book, " A Power Governments Cannot Suppress," published by City Light...

Znet Article Winter: Canada's Media Wannabe Americans

Znet Article, December, 08 2006 James Winter
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We Canadians like to think of ourselves as more than friendly neighbours, as global citizens with a penchant for peacekeeping. Since former prime minister Lester Pearson won a Nobel Peace prize in 1957, we have opposed U.S. international aggressio...

Znet Article Barker: Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies

Znet Article, November, 03 2006 Michael Barker
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Friendly Dictators and Hostile Democracies

Znet Article Elie: What Future for Haiti?

Znet Article, November, 03 2006 Patrick Elie
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This article was originally published on NACLA News, a new source of news and analysis on Latin America and the Caribbean produced by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). In February 2004, U.S. Marines whisked away then-President...

Znet Article Barker: Promoting polyarchy in Serbia

Znet Article, October, 29 2006 Michael Barker
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For the most part scholars and activists alike have tended to uncritically accept overt foreign interventions that profess to be promoting democracy at face value: as noble and humanitarian activities. However, contrary to this rosy view of the pr...

Znet Article Annis: Canada/NATO Mission in Afghanistan

Znet Article, October, 11 2006 Roger Annis
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Canada/NATO Mission in Afghanistan

Znet Article Lamrani: Reporters Without Borders and its contradictions

Znet Article, October, 04 2006 Salim Lamrani
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On September 12, 2006, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) published an open letter “in response to its detractors,” who denounce its lack of impartiality, the financing it receives from the United States and its political agenda âS...

Znet Article Sprague: $449,965 in NED/State Department funding for ACILS 'Solidarity Center' Program with Batay Ouvriye

Znet Article, September, 30 2006 Jeb Sprague
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[Editor's note: This is in response to a letter to the editor by Batay Ouvriye about Sprague and Emersberger's article on the Lancet Study on Haiti. In Batay Ouvriye's let...

Znet Article Podur: Abandoning Hypocrisy

Znet Article, September, 26 2006 Justin Podur
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[Talk given at the Canadian launch of Bleeding Afghanistan September 21, 2006] Just over five years ago I visited Colombia for the first time. I walked through some farmers’ fields that had been fumigated as part of the ‘war on dr...

Znet Article Palast: Hugo Chavez

Znet Article, September, 24 2006 Greg Palast
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You'd think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chavez's behind. Not only has Chavez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katri...

Znet Article Sprague: Authors of Lancet Medical Journal Study On Haiti Claim To Be Targets Of Intimidation Campaign

Znet Article, September, 11 2006 Jeb Sprague
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You are a dog ... you should die. We are going to necklace you," whispered a British-accented caller into the phone. It was the latest in a round of death threats that Athena Kolbe, Human Rights Investigator and Master's level social worker at Way...

Znet Article Swamy: The case against collaboration between India and Israel

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Raja Swamy
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After thirty-four days of relentless aerial bombardment and a ground invasion, Israel's brutal assault on Lebanon's civilian population has come to a halt, at least temporarily. As the dust from the rubble of Lebanon's ruined cities, villages, and...

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