Jan. 20, 2010: A young boy keeps his eyes on soldiers of the U.S. 82 Airborne Division outside the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Photo: Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post By John Pilger, Jan. 28, 2010 The theft of Haiti has…
Category: International
War poisoned Iraq
Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study finds • Greater rates of cancer and birth defects near sites • Depleted uranium among poisons revealed in report By Martin Chulov, The Guardian, Jan. 22, 2010 Map: Toxic…
U.S.-China Military Tensions Grow
by Rick Rozoff, Global Research, Jan. 20, 2010 Even though the U.S. military budget is almost ten times that of China’s (with a population more than four times as large) and Washington plans a record $708 billion defense budget for…
Gaza – The Cost of War
By Al Jazeera English, Jan. 20, 2010 The Cost of War examines the longer term legacy of Israel’s war on Gaza. By following characters associated with buildings that were targeted in the war, the film explores the humanitarian and economic…
Haiti, hell and hypocrisy
by Paul S. Graham I cringe when I hear folks like Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon use the word “solidarity” in the same breath as “Haiti.” I’m all for solidarity with the Haitian people, but when it is expressed by…
Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux
by Cynthia McKinney, Global Research, Jan. 19, 2010 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…
Footnotes in Gaza
Interview: Joe Sacco By Laila El-Haddad, Al Jazeera English, Jan. 18, 2010 When it comes to the world of cartooning, Joe Sacco is considered a luminary. Sacco, who is hailed as the creator of war-reportage comics, is the author of…
The Militarization of Emergency Aid to Haiti: Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion?
By Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, Jan. 15, 2010 Haiti has a longstanding history of US military intervention and occupation going back to the beginning of the 20th Century. US interventionism has contributed to the destruction of Haiti’s national economy and…
Haiti: The Back Story
Our role in Haiti’s plight If we are serious about assisting this devastated land we must stop trying to control and exploit it By Peter Hallward, guardian.co.uk, Jan. 13, 2010 Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive…
Afghan villagers protest ‘Nato killings’
AlJazeeraEnglish, Jan. 12, 2010 Residents in southern Afghanistan are accusing Nato and Afghan troops of killing 13 civilians after opening fire on a group of demonstrators. Nato insists the only person killed was a sniper. The shootings happened in Helmand…