The Clintons: Still in Bed with Butchers

by Scott Creighton UPDATE: See update at the end of this article about how Sean Penn went on Tavis Smiley’s show to whitewash Bill Clinton’s behavior in Haiti to the American public. Sean Penn is bought and paid for. What a sellout. ——– This is a picture of Bill Clinton smiling and shaking the hand [...]

Democracy, Haitian Style

by Stephen Lendman Except for Aristide’s tenure, what passes for Haitian democracy would make a despot blush, thanks to America’s imperial grip on the hemisphere’s poorest, long-suffering people. As a result, last November’s presidential and legislative elections might best be called a cruel joke. The entire process was rigged to exclude 15 parties, including by [...]

New Feature: Globalist SKANK Watch!

Hillary refuses to call for Mubarak’s removal and approves of his appointment of a CIA connected puppet to the position of vice president. Hillary is on her way to Haiti to chat with presidential candidates like Baby Doc in order to ensure they keep their local plantation under control. Wow! That’s one busy globalist skank! [...]

‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier returns to Haiti Just One Day Before The Corrupt Government’s Hand-Picked Candidate Loses the Election

by Scott Creighton UPDATE: At the time I am writing this update, 9:47 am Monday morning, there is not one single left-wing blog/alternative news source that I can find covering this story. Not Crooks and Liars, not Politico, not Firedoglake, not Daily Kos, not Talking Points Memo, not Think Progress, not Huffington Post, not even Salon. [...]

One Year After Haiti Earthquake, Corporations Profit While People Suffer

by Jordan Flaherty, Dissident Voice One year after an earthquake devastated Haiti, much of the promised relief and reconstruction aid has not reached those most in need. In fact, the nation’s tragedy has served as an opportunity to further enrich corporate interests. The details of a recent lawsuit, as reported by Business Week, highlights the [...]

Haiti’s Election: a Travesty of Democracy

by Mark Weisbrot, Global Research … Our analysis confirmed what many observers saw on the ground, including ballot box stuffing, fraud and people unable to vote because they did not appear in the registry. People in the areas hardest hit by the earthquake had much lower participation rates. This election was the first round of [...]

One Year Since the Earthquake in Haiti

by Bill Van Auken, Global Research Today marks the first anniversary of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that devastated the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti, leaving a quarter of a million of its people dead, more than 300,000 injured, and approximately a million and a half homeless. One year after this natural disaster, the horrors facing [...]

Life No Better in Haiti, One Year Later

Globalization, Clinton, Haiti and Sanity – Let’s All Hop on the Moderate Bus

by Scott Creighton The true nature of globalization is pretty easy to see these days. Hell, they hardly even attempt to hide it anymore… it takes just a little work to flesh it all out as I intend to do right now. One little case in particular has exposed just bit of the nature of the [...]

Haiti: Manipulating the Electoral Process. Putting a Smiley Face on a Murderous Military Occupation

Wyclef Jean for President? Look Beyond the Hype by Charlie Hinton, Global Research To cut to the chase, no election in Haiti, and no candidate in those elections, will be considered legitimate by the majority of Haiti’s population, unless it includes the full and fair participation of the Fanmi Lavalas Party of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. [...]

House Dems Pressured To Drop Funding For Schools, Students To Pay For Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan

(The Clinton Party (“New Dems”) taking money from the school systems and sending it to the partying war contractors of Afghanistan and the new slave owners setting up shop in Haiti (with Slick Willy))… by Andrew Taylor, AP After a take-it-or-leave-it vote by the Senate, House Democrats face little choice but to drop billions in [...]

Emperor Clinton and his Haitian HOPE

by Scott Creighton    Yes, I was right again.  There… I said it.    So what is Queen Clinton’s husband going to do first in Haiti? Well, he already talked about rebuilding their agricultural sector and admitted he was “wrong” for destroying it in the first place with his IMF trade policies. But he isn’t talking about [...]

Sean Penn on Democracy Now! Talks About Haiti 6 Months Later

(transcript below) Part 1

Clinton’s Plan for Haiti: Coca-Cola Plantations and Sara Lee Sweatshops

by Scott Creighton    President Obama’s Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, pulled the strings and put her husband in charge the billions of dollars set aside for the rebuilding of Haiti.  In most countries that would be considered a conflict of interest if not outright fraud. In this country, that might have even been considered illegal at [...]

More Pain for Devastated Haiti: Under the Pretense of Disaster Relief, U.S. Running a Military Occupation

The rapid mobilization of U.S troops in Haiti was not primarily done for humanitarian reasons; we’re likely to see a neoliberal economic plan imposed, at gunpoint if necessary. by Arun Gupta, AlterNet Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief. While both the [...]