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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010
Eric Toussaint and Sophie Perchellet
Voltairenet
19th January, 2010
Geography and bad luck are only partly to blame for Haiti’s tragedy. Haiti was born of slavery and revolution, declaring independence from France on 1 January 1804. In exchange for diplomatic recognition, France forced the new republic to pay enormous reparations. Ever since, Haiti has been trapped in a spiral of crippling debt, exploitation, corruption, violence and destitution. Decades of ensuing foreign interventions and policies, combined with strangling IMF-World Bank diktats and horribly one-sided “free trade” deals, have brought Haiti completely to its knees. No response to the tragedy of the Haitian people can be efficient unless its root causes are properly adressed.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010
Voltairenet
19th January, 2010
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) urges that its cargo planes carrying essential medical and surgical material be allowed to land in Port-au-Prince in order to treat thousands of wounded waiting for vital surgical operations. Priority must be given immediately to planes carrying lifesaving equipment and medical personnel.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010
Tom Burghardt
Voltairenet
17th January, 2010
In the wake of the Flight 253 provocation, over-hyped terrorism panics, and last year’s Big Pharma and media-engineered hysteria over the H1N1 flu pandemic, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13528 [1]
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010
Qaribur Rahman Saeed
Asia Times
21st January, 2010
The upcoming London Conference on Afghanistan must seize the opportunity to bring warring sides together instead of escalating the presence of international troops. Negotiating channels are open and could produce a lasting peace for the beleaguered nation.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010
Neeta Lal
Asia Times
21st January, 2010
India’s environment minister, having faced accusations of practicing “voodoo science”, has been vindicated with the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations climate body’s prediction that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2035 being exposed as inaccurate speculation.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010
Lee Sustar
socialistworker.org
19th January, 2010
THE TIMING couldn’t have been better for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which held its first public hearings on January 13-14.
With their top employees set to enjoy huge bonuses thanks to taxpayer bailouts, the CEOs of the country’s big banks should have been in the hot seat for their role in the financial panic of 2008. The Obama administration’s proposed levy on banks seemingly would have upped the pressure, too.
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Posted by seumasach on January 20, 2010
India Times
19th January, 2010
The controversy over the IPCC observations on melting of Himalayan glaciers by 2035 took a new turn with glaciologist Syed Hasnain contending that he has never mentioned the time in his research papers which the UN body had included in its climate change report.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010
Michael Jansen
Irish Times
12th January, 2010
Cultural Cleansing in Iraq Edited by Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T. Ismael, and Tareq Y. Ismael. Pluto, 296 pp. $34.95
THIS BOOK argues convincingly that the post- war cultural cleansing of Iraq is intentional rather than random and haphazard, the result of chaos and anarchy.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010
BRENES: DANGERS IN THE SCHOOL PLAUGROUND
The school that is cursed
Fernando Perez Avila
Next-up
18th January, 2010
Fear! Fear of cancer, fear of death, and the daily fear of finding another case among the pupils. Every morning, the fear of disease that might affect the person next to you because of the phone mast that has still not been removed … Two children ill, one dead and more than 100 people suffering from various kinds of cancer, all in a short space of time – a tally that shows something is dreadfully wrong. So much so that even the doctors in the main hospital in Seville are surprised, and ask each new patient if they live anywhere near the phone mast in Brenes.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010
Richard Seymour
You want to hear about chutzpah? You want to hear about sheer gravity-defying audacity? Well, ladies and gentlemen, comrades and friends, prepare to catch your lower jaw. Forget Rush Limbaugh’s racist anxieties. Forget about Pat Robertson drooling about Haiti’s “pact with the devil.”
He’s a senile old bigot and his sick provocations are familiar by now. This is the Heritage Foundation on the Haiti earthquake, which is estimated to have killed 100,000 people.
Amidst the Suffering, Crisis in Haiti Offers Opportunities to the US, the piece is entitled.
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Posted by seumasach on January 19, 2010
Cynthia McKinney
Facebook
President Obama’s response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders and their specialized equipment; doctors and medical facilities and equipment; and engineers, heavy equipment, and heavy movers. Sadly, President Obama is dispatching Presidents Bush and Clinton, and thousands of Marines and U.S. soldiers. By contrast, Cuba has over 400 doctors on the ground and is sending in more; Cubans, Argentinians, Icelanders, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and many others are already on the ground working–saving lives and treating the injured. Senegal has offered land to Haitians willing to relocate to Africa.
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