Obama: No Rescue for Haitians, But Rescue Him More than three years after a devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake and 52 significant aftershocks hit Haiti, killing 316,000 people, dispossessing 3 million others and literally shutting down the impoverished nation, a program that would have allowed U.S.-based Haitians to send for their distressed …
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Conspicuously absent from national discussion and debate about immigration reform is the plight of a group that President Obama himself had promised special consideration: Haitians in the United States who want to bring their families in strife-torn, post-earthquake Haiti to live with them. Obama had promised to speed up the …
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Haiti has been reeling from a cholera epidemic that, since 2010, has afflicted more than 600,000 people and claimed more than 8,000 lives. The improper disposal of human waste by U.N.-authorized personnel was cited as the original—and continuing—source of the problem, but the U.N. won’t accept responsibility, says Ezili Danto, …
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Obama’s Drone Wars are “Evil,” Says Black Church Group President Obama’s drone assassination policy is “evil” and should be condemned by all Christian clergy, said Rev. Anthony Evans, executive director of the Washington-based National Black Church Initiative. Black political figures such as Reverends Jesse Jackson Sr. and Al Sharpton and …
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Update: Jean-Claude Duvalier did not appear in court as planed on February 7, 2013. He was represented by his lawyer who read a letter in which Duvalier explained his absence. His audition was reported for the 4th time and will be held on February 21, 2013. Duvalier could face arrest if he …
What can we learn from the US government and intelligence involvement and corruption of Haiti during the past 50 years that serves as a model for what the US does today in corporate colonization of poor nations. With Prof. Joan Mellen Prof. Joan Mellen is a professor of English at …
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“We have had enough. Our young people have had enough. Our women have had enough … we have nothing left to lose… These are demands, not requests … the Idle No More movement has the people, it has the people and the numbers that can bring the Canadian economy to …
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The banking financial war on humanity and the destruction of America’s social contract Steve Lendman is an independent , progressive economist and investigative writer who consistently tackles the most critical issues in the world as soon as they emerge. He degrees from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School …
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Fiscal Cliff is Diversion from Corporate Tax Avoidance “To some extent, the fiscal cliff debate is a farce,” said Eric LeCompte, executive director of Jubilee USA Network, which estimates that corporations and wealthy individuals avoid paying $150 billion a year to the U.S. Treasury through loopholes and offshore havens. “If we …
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NAACP Image Awards Targeted for Protest Benton Harbor, Michigan, activist Rev. Edward Pinkney plans to lead hundreds of pickets at the NAACP’s Image Awards ceremonies on February 1, in Los Angeles. “Our main objective is to wake up the NAACP, and show that they are out of touch with the community,” said …
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Last month, Duke University’s Patrick Duddy published a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) paper titled “Political Unrest in Venezuela.” From August 2007 – July 2010, he was Washington’s Venezuelan ambassador. He represents imperial, not popular interests. In September 2008, Venezuela declared him persona non grata. At issue were solidarity issues …
How easy it was to scrutinise US power when George W. Bush was in office. After all, it was difficult to defend an administration packed with such repulsive characters, like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, whose attitude towards the rest of the world amounted to thuggish contempt. Many will shudder …
The Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund and the failures of Haitian reconstruction Julie Levesque is an independent investigative journalist and a researcher associated with the Center for Research on Globalization – a non profit academic research and international media organization in Montreal, under the directorship of Michel Chossudovsky. She was among the …
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By Stephen Lendman, host of the Progressive Radio News Hour Following Haiti’s catastrophic January 12, 2010 earthquake, billions of dollars in relief aid were raised. Suffering Haitians got virtually none of it. Hundreds of thousands remain homeless. A cholera emergency still exists. On June 19, the International Federation of Red …
Blacks Disappearing From California University Campuses “Even at African American Studies classes at UC Berkeley, it is now rare that Black students are a majority of the class,” said Yvette Felarca, one of the protesters that briefly occupied the Registrar’s office. African American enrollment has dropped to 3 percent since passage …
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