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Emersberger: Make A Donation To Haiti By Reading And Speaking Up About It
Znet Article, January, 06 2013
Joe Emersberger
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It will take the development of much more vibrant democratic movements within imperial countries such as the USA and Canada to end destructive foreign meddling in Haiti
Emersberger: The Latest Howlers From Human Rights Watch on Venezuela
Znet Article, August, 05 2012
Joe Emersberger
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Predictably, election season in Venezuela has come with yet another voluminous report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that mostly rehashes the debunked claims of its 2008 report
Emersberger: Debating Amnesty About Syria and Double Standards
Znet Article, July, 06 2012
Joe Emersberger
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I sent the following note to Amnesty on June 16 after it put out a detailed report on the conflict in Syria
Emersberger: TorStar Bargains for Canada Post
Znet Article, May, 29 2011
Joe Emersberger
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Unions have to deal with the fact that the corporate press is one of the most powerful weapons that management has
Emersberger: NYT Promotes Destructive Myths About Aristide
Znet Article, January, 27 2011
Joe Emersberger
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Ginger Thompson wrote in the New York Times on January 19 that former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide “rose to power as a champion of Haiti’s poor but became notorious for his violent crackdowns of political dissent.” [1]
Emersberger: The Canadian Princes of Bel Air
Znet Article, March, 11 2010
Joe Emersberger
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Allegations against Aristide and his supporters have never been in short supply – especially those spread by the Canadian funded "human rights group" – RNDDH. However, a funny thing happened when these cases above were, very belatedly, tested in c...
Emersberger: Review of Newspeak in the 21rst Century
Znet Article, January, 01 2010
Joe Emersberger
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Medialens is a UK based website founded by David Edwards and David Cromwell that critiques media that progressives are inclined to respect such as the Guardian, the Independent and the BBC...
Emersberger: The Canadian Press Whitewashes Canada, Colombia and "Free Trade"
Znet Article, June, 26 2009
Joe Emersberger
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On November 21, 2008 Canada's government under Stephen Harper finalized a trade agreement with the Colombian government of Alvaro Uribe. Last month, the Canadian parliament was expected to ratify the deal (Bill C-23) but the work of Colombian and ...
Emersberger: Haitian Political Prisoner, Ronald Dauphin, Should be Hospitalized Says Physician
Znet Article, May, 29 2009
Joe Emersberger
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Ronald Dauphin has been imprisoned without trial for over five years.
Emersberger: Canadian Foreign Policy
Znet Article, May, 02 2009
Joe Emersberger
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Engler's book is written in a concise, straightforward style that mostly lets the meticulously referenced facts speak for themselves.
Emersberger: The Historical Editing of the Toronto Star's Deputy Editor
Znet Article, April, 24 2009
Joe Emersberger
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Martin Cohn, deputy editor of the Toronto Star, recently urged Canadians not to let "battle fatigue and donor fatigue" make them lose patience with "nation building"
Emersberger: Corporate Media Imposes Huge Costs on Workers
Znet Article, April, 24 2009
Joe Emersberger
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Anyone following the Canadian media's coverage of the auto crisis must be familiar with the term "legacy costs" – the auto companies' term for what they pay retired workers (basically pensions and benefits).
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. "...
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: COHA gets an "F" for their article on Haiti
Znet Article, October, 01 2007
Joe Emersberger
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COHA, The Council on Hemispheric Affairs, recently published a piece by one of its research associates, Michael Glenwick, entitled "Préval of Haiti — A Provisional Report Card: Grade B+." In it, Glenwick recycles the smears that contributed to Ha...
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...
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...
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...
Emersberger: Unions and Israel
Znet Article, July, 23 2006
Joe Emersberger
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To Buzz Hargrove (President of Canadian Auto Workers) July 19, 2006 Buzz, Israel has killed nearly 300 Lebanese civilians and displaced half a million. It has been given cart blanche by the international community - including Harper's governmen...
Emersberger: Haiti and Human Rights Watch
Znet Article, March, 29 2006
Joe Emersberger
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In a world dominated by the wealthy the temptation will always exist for NGOs to acquire funds, and respectability, by saying at least some of what the powerful want to hear. It's an understandable temptation. Nobody should seek out oblivion - es...
