NY Times, June 1, 2004
The Price of Rice Soars, and Haiti's Hunger Deepens
By TIM WEINER
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, May 31 - One lesson of life in Haiti is never to
say things cannot get any worse. They can, and they have.
People say they have had less money, less food and less hope since the
February
Haiti: The Bicentennial Coup d'Etat
by Emmanuel Wallerstein. It was useful, I thought, for the long-term
historical context that it provided. Now I have an urgent item, written
by Marguerite Laurent, a Haitian lawyer, seeking to prevent attacks by
those Haitians in the U.S. who are allied
I'd love to find someone who could talk about the history
political economy of Haiti on my radio show next week - e.g., how
did it get to be so poor? Any ideas?
Doug
* About the history and political economy of Haiti in particular:
Alex Dupuy: http://www.wesleyan.edu/wesmaps/course9900/faculty
Alex Dupuy, Who Is Afraid of Democracy in Haiti? June 2003:
http://www.trinitydc.edu/academics/depts/Interdisc/International/PDF%20files/Haiti-7.final.pdf.
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Yoshie
* Bring Them Home Now! http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu
In my critique of Conn Hallinan's Counterpunch article defending liberal
interventionism, I alluded to a telegram of an Admiral Caperton who
urged that the Marines be sent into Haiti on the basis that Such action
now imperative Port au Prince if United States desires to negotiate
treaty
Title: Haiti comments
Postings from a Hawaiian sovereignty forum
on Haiti.
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Strange how differently the stories are
told on mainstream media!
As for the mainstream macroeconomist
Jeffrey Sachs, who directs the Earth Institute and teaches at
Columbia, it makes sense
Administration too quiet in wake of Haiti upheaval
By JESSE JACKSON
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
3/3/04
So much for all that talk about democracy.
President Bush dispatched Marines to Haiti to secure order -- after his administration forced the elected leader of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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JESSE JACKSON
The
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
3/3/04
So
Jim, he's "en route" so to speak. I believe he has a good friendship with Thabo Mbeki...so perhaps he's en route to South Africa...but of coursethey're dealing with elections at the moment. Who knows? Belize does sound nice nevertheless :)
Diane
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does anyone
know why Aristide would go to the Central African Republic, of all
Ask somebody at IPS.
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I'd love to find someone who could talk about the history political
economy of Haiti on my
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I'd love to find someone who could talk about the history political
economy of Haiti on my radio show next week - e.g., how did it get to
be so poor? Any ideas?
Doug
, Doug Henwood wrote:
I'd love to find someone who could talk about the history political
economy of Haiti on my radio show next week - e.g., how did it get to
be so poor? Any ideas?
Doug
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
of Haiti on my radio show next week - e.g., how did it get to
be so poor? Any ideas?
Doug
Thanks to Alex G., a grad student at Columbia, for bringing this to my
attention with the following observation:
Say what you will about Villard, at least he formed an anti-imperialist
league and used the Nation to object to intervention in Haiti:
http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/ail
Financial Times (London, England)
March 1, 2004 Monday
Don't fall for Washington's spin on Haiti: JEFFREY SACHS:
By JEFFREY SACHS
The crisis in Haiti is another case of brazen US manipulation of a
small, impoverished country with the truth unexplored by journalists. In
the nearly universal media
Eyewitnesses reported on Pacifica reveal that Aristide DID NOT RESIGN!
He was kidnapped at about 5:30 AM by US Marines directly supervised
by the US Ambassador. At the moment he is on a US plane somewhere,
incommunicado. The State Department refuses to give any
information whatsoever to
For those of you at your computer, or SF-local, tune
into KPFA
(www.kpfa.org) and listen to blow by blow coverage
of the coup in Haiti.
Armed US/CIA-affiliated terrorists (Guy Philippe,
FRAPH), that US
media have
portrayed as nonviolent, are engaged in a bloody
purge of Aristide
supporters
HAITI: How Washington set the stage for uprising
Lee Sustar
The media have a standard story line to explain the uprising in Haiti -
one-time populist leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide has become a corrupt
authoritarian who is relying on armed gangs to crush a popular uprising. In
reality, the anti
KPFA www.kpfa.org has had marvelous coverage of Haiti -- some of the same people as
Democracy Now, but more extensive coverage. The article here ignores two other
factors -- the drug running business of some of the fund's thugs leading the coup in
the impending change in the Constitution
Haiti: (Counter)Revolutionary Bicentennial
from Stan Goff
February 9, 2004 As I write this there is a civil war beginning in Haiti,
engineered in the United States of America and supported by its lapdogs in
Caricom and the Organization of American States. Former Haitian military
men who have
l part
missing. Like a heart or a brain.
In utter contrast is a profile on Paul Farmer, a man I admire more than any
person in the world. Farmer is a trained physician and anthropologist who
runs a hospital in the deeply poverty-stricken central highlands of Haiti.
Out of his experiences there, he has
October 7, 1999
A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF HAITI
By Stan Goff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the latter decade of the 18th Century, the British attempted to wrest
control from the French of the richest colony in the Americas, Hispanola.
The French Revolution was considered a window of opportunity by the
British
The Boston Globe, February 13, 1997, Thursday, City Edition
US grain aid to Haiti prevents self-sufficiency, report asserts
By Zachary R. Dowdy, Globe Staff
A local group that provides aid in developing countries said an infusion of
US-funded job programs and food aid is preventing Haitian
Does anyone have any references on the dumping of wheat or other agricultural goods in
Haiti by USAID to the detriment of local producers? Something recent and authoritative
would be great.
Thanks,
-Robert Naiman
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Preamble Center
Urgent Call: Haiti Union-Busting
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STOP UNION BUSTING BY DISNEY SUBCONTRACTOR!
URGENT CALL IN SOLIDARITY
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* * * HAITI INFO * * *
News direct from the people and organizations
of Haiti's democratic and popular movement
23 March 1996, Vol. 4, #10
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ACTION ALERT!
HAITI
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You may be able to help Haitian friends of the 50 Years is Enough
Campaign, who initiated
gram
which Haiti is being forced to follow. Language skills (Creole and
French) can be acquired in Haiti. (Funding available for at least two
years.)
2) Banking director. Help set up a community-based bank aimed at
financing cooperatives in Haiti, in conjunction with the leading
forces of the democrati
, one had to read
magazines such as that of the North American Congress on Latin
America. Then, it was shocking to liberal sensibilities. Now,
in the Age of Cynicism, it's all very blase', and very blatant:
start quote
Aristide, U.S. Split Over Makeup of Haiti Army, Police.
President defies
AIDing and Abetting Mayhem
From the March, 1994 issue of "Multinational Monitor"
AIDing and Abetting Mayhem
by Jim Ridgeway and Billy Treger
Haiti is, by far, the western hemisphere's poorest country. With a
per capita gross domestic product of $218, it stands at the level
of po
Got to love people who organize as well as blab! Way to go Susan Fleck.
Hasta la Victoria Siempre
that's why Clinton is willing to risk support for Aristide now?)
On a similar (you may ask why) topic, the URPE, Union for Radical POlitical
Economics, Washington, DC area has achieved a critical mass to organize
a potluck on OCT. 21. The topic of discussion is Haiti, with Haitian
activist Marx
In the 18th Brumaire, Marx wrote of how the despotic Bonaparte regime had
to search out new sources of political legitimacy, for instance, through
the "hallucination" of the revival of the Napoleanic empire.
America now imagines that it is feeding the hungry in Somalia, enforcing
the
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The U.S. has invaded Haiti, it began way before the troops started
I suspect the invasion in Haiti will happen much sooner than what one
hears in the news as of this morning, and, although I think some of
you disagree, it is my conviction that the Left should vigorously
oppose it. To the very least it is our responsibility to discuss now
whether we should
Depression. From North
America to Haiti, we may find that capitalism is still capitalism is still
barbarism.
From William J Blake, June 4, 1940 in a New Masses review "The Fat Years
and the Lean":
"Immigration nearly ceased. The natural increase of the population
diminished. The
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