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Give These People Food and Medicine, not troops
Anyone judging from the huge numbers of troops mobilised to Haiti could reasonably believe that this is a country in the middle of a brutal civil war instead of a nation hit by a deadly earthquake. While the Media has been feeding constantly news of murder, mayhem, and gangsters supposedly in control of Haitian streets, together with calls for a “strong arm” and “security” to make possible the delivery of relief, the reality seems to be quite another. Medical and Food assistance has been largely delayed by a cobweb of inefficiency, bureaucracy and negligence and not for “security” issues. In the meantime, hungry and thirsty Haitians have been largely looking for their beloved ones under the rubble with their bare hands. Very few doctors and relief agencies have dared to go to the streets of Port-au-Prince, where precious assistance –currently stockpiling in the airport- is much needed.
Related Links:
Wikipedia on Haiti |
Code Noir |
Namoi Klein – My date with Aristide |
Haiti's children die in UN crossfire |
An Interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide |
Al Jazerra Haiti coverage |
What Future for Haiti? - An Interview with Patrick Elie by Reed Lindsey |
Taking us to democracy like cattle to a killing house - Patrick Elie |
Haiti's Catch-22 - An interview with Patrick Elie |
Interview with Aristide's lawyer, Miami-based Ira Kurzban |
Will Criminal Gangs Take Control in Haiti's Chaos? |
Fear of the poor is hampering Haiti rescue |
Haiti's streets 'safer than before earthquake |
US troop landings delay Haiti aid |
Why the U.S. Owes Haiti Billions |
The Rescue Operation's Priorities in Haiti |
US accused of 'occupying' Haiti as troops flood in |
Haiti - a history of intervention, occupation and resistance |
Strong aftershock hits Haiti |
Naomi Klien's document |
has the world failed Haiti? (video) |
US aid relative to other countries |
The Incapacitation of Haiti |
Against the grain main site |
Haiti - a beginners guide (indy link)
Another Gig for Haiti - Thursday 28 Jan @ 8pm [Le Cirk, 32 Dame Street, D2, (€2 entrance)] LASC meeting on Haiti, Thursday 28 Jan @ 7.00 [Seomra Spraoi, 10 Belvidere Court, Dublin 1]
Haiti: Solidarity Not Occupation (meeting / speakers) Cork Tuesday 02 Feb @ 8pm [Solidarity books, 43 Douglas st].
LASC meeting on Haiti in Galway on Feb 2 @ 7.00 [bridge mills, Galway]
Bush First, Obama Second
After more than three months' deliberation, President Barack Obama has finally decided to commit more than 30,000 US troops to the Afghan war. The ‘Afghan surge’ is to be fast tracked over the next six months with a large bulk of the troops arriving before Christmas. The deployment will cost approximately $1 million dollars per soldier, per year, some $30 billion overall. This price tag is on top of the considerable costs (running into the hundreds of billions of dollars) of keeping over 100,000 US soldiers ‘in-country’, while maintaining other US global military operations as well as the on-going fiasco in Iraq. The combined deployment of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is close to 250,000 service personnel, which is augmented by the greatest number of private military contractors/mercenaries ever seen (some 100,000 in Iraq alone).
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