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The Foreign Policy Elephant | Aristotleded24 said... With the NDP now the government-in-waiting, NDP foreign policy is going to be that much more...
Wikileaks releases secret cables about Haiti | NDPP said... Thanks MS. These will be most interesting. in
Haiti Needs World's Support | milo204 said... it's true.  Support for lavalas and aristide are apparently very high, so it only makes sense...
Open letter to Lawrence Cannon | George Victor said... Well put, CM.  I would fault only this idea: "$44 million to the Haitian police and prison...
DisOrientation 2010 @ York University | Catchfire said... Hi JessKerr, thanks for this. Welcome to babble! in
France gets punked over issue of Haiti reparations | Unionist said... Brilliant! And wouldn't it be great if nature imitated art? Too bad the fake site appears to be...
American Genocides | Doug said... Sounds like he's among the tin foil hat brigade. Whatever plans the American government has for...
The Militarization of Aid to Haiti | NoDifferencePartyPooper said... US [and Canada] Attempts to Erase Haitian Nationhood http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/02/10-11...
Royal Bank profits from Haiti disaster | NoDifferencePartyPooper said... Donors should be asking why their donations have not produced food, water, or medicines to most of...
NDP and Haiti | Left Turn said... Here is the NDP statement on the earthquake in Haiti. The statement is sorely lacking. There is no...

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Food aid reform in Haiti becomes more urgent as food insecurity and malnutrition increase | Jun 13 2013 | Center for Economic Policy Research | Two thirds of Haitians are going hungry, according to a recent report by Associated Press.
Haitian sweatshop workers speak: Sub-poverty wages and sexual coercion | May 10 2013 | Roger Annis | President Bill Clinton and Canadian Ambassador Henri-Paul Normandin are among those who extol sweatshop factory investment as a key to Haiti's future. Many women who work there think otherwise.
International intervention heats up in Mali | May 7 2013 | Roger Annis | Mali is undergoing a new colonization looking a lot like what Haiti has endured since 2004. French parliament votes to extend combat mission while UN Security Council readies a policing force.
A hard day's labor for $4.76: The offshore assembly industry in Haiti | Apr 26 2013 | Beverly Bell and Alexis Erkert | As we mourn the deaths of nearly 200 people in yesterday’s garment factory collapse outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh, we publish this article about the very issue of garment labour exploitation.
Building democracy through education: The story of Haiti's grassroots school SOPUDEP | Apr 24 2013 | Ryan Sawatzky | Grassroots schools in Haiti: A key and necessary front in the struggle for a public education system.
Wikileaks-exhumed cables reveal how the U.S. resumed military aid to Duvalier | Apr 12 2013 | Kim Ives | Wikileaks' newly created PlusD search engine catalogues 1970s-era U.S. diplomatic cables. An editor at Haiti Liberté explains what the cables show about U.S. ties to the Duvalier tyranny.
Michel Martelly's education plan in Haiti marked by mismanagement and inflated claims | Apr 9 2013 | Travis Ross | The promises and claims fall far short in Haiti president Michel Martelly's pro-private education policy.
Another poor Black boy dead in Haiti | Apr 4 2013 | Beverly Bell | Haiti's police and foreign military occupation regimes grind on with too little justice for the people they claim to serve.Haitians.
Hugo Chavez's legacy in Haiti and Latin America | Mar 6 2013 | Kim Ives | Venezuela helped Haiti by building power stations, expanding electricity networks, improving airports, supplying garbage trucks, and supporting widely-deployed Cuban medical teams.
Feb. 28, 2013: Jean-Claude Duvalier obeys an order to appear before a Haitian court | Feb 28 2013 | Roger Annis | The appearance today by Jean-Claude Duvalier before a Haitian court is a significant moment for the Haitian people and for human rights advocates around the world.
In Haiti, Duvalier and the UN continue to try to dodge responsibility | Feb 22 2013 | Roger Annis | Former Haiti tyrant Jean-Claude Duvalier is dodging his day of reckoning for human rights crimes while the UN is dodging its responsibility for Haiti's disastrous cholera epidemic.
All eyes on Haitian court Thursday where Duvalier is ordered to appear | Feb 20 2013 | Roger Annis | Haiti grassroots groups and international human rights organizations want a vigorous human rights prosecution of Jean Claude Duvalier as he appears in a Haiti court on Feb. 21 on lesser charges.
Haitian court orders former tyrant Jean-Claude Duvalier to appear on Feb. 21 | Feb 9 2013 | Roger Annis | Will the former dictator of Haiti, now living comfortably again in the U.S.-dominated country, ever face justice ?
In Haiti, no urgency for the poor | Jan 31 2013 | Dr. John Carroll | Guest column by Dr. John Carroll: "How long should we let hundreds of thousands of Haitians live in horrid tents and shacks after the earthquake of 2010?"
Three years after the earthquake, major changes needed to avoid an aid legacy of deeper poverty for Haitians | Jan 10 2013 | Roger Annis | International aid saved lives after Haiti's earthquake. But the patterns of foreign interference and social neglect that made Haiti so poor and vulnerable in the first place have not altered.