Letter to Haiti government from Ira Kurzban requesting delivery of agreed-to passport for Pres. Aristide and requisite security for immediate return — On Mon, 1/31/11, Ira Kurzban wrote: From: Ira Kurzban Subject: Return of President Aristide Date: Monday, January 31, 2011, 1:34 P Many of you have contacted me regarding President Aristide’s current status. I […]
Jan 27, 2011 Ezili Danto’s Note: Re: Amy Wilenz’s article on the Nation. Folks, I doubt, the Nation will publish the entirety of our comments, if at all, on Amy Wilenz’s article “Haiti Not for Amateurs” published by the Nation today. It’s simply annoying to keep hearing this mainstream chorus that half of the Haiti […]
An Interview With Ashley Smith on Haiti and the NGOs Prisoners on Their Own Island by Mike Whitney Source: Counterpunch | Jan. 26, 2011 MW–In your article in CounterPunch titled “Haiti and the Aid Racket“, you said that “The catastrophe in Haiti has revealed the worst aspects of the U.S. government and the NGO aid […]
“In Haiti (in 1995), I was making about $800,000 or $900,000 a year. I lived in the lap of luxury, with a huge estate with gardens, gardeners, maids, cooks, laundry women. It was a lifestyle that would take me a lot more work to accomplish in the United States.” — A U.S. businessman, 1995 (An […]
Haiti: Reliving Duvalier, Waiting for Aristide By Laura Flynn, January 24, 2011, Source: Email and Huffington Post In the 1980s, when the armed forces of Jean-Claude Duvalier’s regime set about exterminating “Haiti’s Creole pigs”, they would come to Haiti’s rural villages, seize all of the “pigs”, pile them up, one on top of the other, […]
An Urgent Call For Justice: Return Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti Miami Herald runs full-page statement calling for the return of Aristide On January 23, 2011, the Miami Herald ran a full-page statement sponsored by the Haiti Action Committee in California, calling for the return of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The statement is signed […]
Patrice Ãmery Lumumba (2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese independence leader and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. Only ten weeks later, Lumumba’s government was deposed in a coup during the Congo Crisis. He […]
Political Fallacies Aristide is as bad as or worse than the Duvaliers by Harry Comeau, HLLN Haiti Perspectives, Jan 22, 2011 It is extensively documented that when a lie is consistently and continuously repeated people tend to believe it. A couple of examples to demonstrate this point: 1) right after Barack Obama’s election, some operatives […]
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