I suppose this will be off the new cycle by the end of the week

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Geneva-based Doctors Without Borders said bluntly: "There is little sign of significant aid distribution."

The aid group complained of skewed priorities and a supply bottleneck at the U.S.-controlled airport. Doctors Without Borders spokesman Jason Cone said the U.S. military needed "to be clear on its prioritization of medical supplies and equipment."

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Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

Let's see. I start the blame with Jefferson and subsequent U.S. administrations using military force to force Haitian to provide reparations to France for fighting themselves out of slavery.

Then the subsequent U.S. military occupations crammed down Haitians' throats as well as military support for their crazy and corrupt surrogates for keeping the Haitian population 'under control.'

Not to mention the bushes and clinton's interference in Haitian affairs, including the forced kidnapping of Aristide.

Also the so-called journalists of the U.S.A. primary noose media, who haven't a clue about anything Haitian, and probably couldn't have found it on the map a week ago.

As well as the determination that now more than ever the population must be controlled by U.S. military to keep the people from getting what they've often said they'd like, a nation that is more like Cuba than what they've got. Cuba, Venezuela -- these are among the U.S.A.'s greatest terrorist enemies, after all. Let those satanists get influential in Haiti and the next thing they've got Miami.

Nearly 2000 rescue and relief orgs in Port-au-Prince; how many have they actually rescued so far? About 70.

Love, C.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Brad Hicks comments on Haiti. (http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/436652.html)

[phanatic.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I misread that as "Bill Hicks comments on Haiti."

[avram]

I misread his name the exact same way when I first saw it, a few years back.

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

In company of other colleagues, we're conducting something like teach-ins on the history of Haiti, here in the CUNY system. There are many Haitians in the system as faculty and students in all the programs. We'd like to make this national, if possible.

The history is always forgotten, or never known. You feel that you've been doing Remedial Haiti01 forever, and it never makes any difference.

Probably because even one's more 'progressive' friends are loath to admit just what our nation is really capable of.

Love, C.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

... um? is this a person I am supposed to recognize? most of the stuff on Haiti is correct, but then you have this guy saying things like:

On the list of ideas that terrify the political establishment of the US is their fear of a temporary coalition between the nativist, isolationist, and/or racist far-right and the anti-imperialist far-left, between the anti-coastal, anti-elite far right and the anti-establishment far-left, under the banner of Populism.

I suppose I'm not part of the political establishment, because the idea makes me laugh, and then want to cockpunch far-right racists and any brain-damaged "leftists" who ally with them until I feel like stopping. Which might be a long time.

Dude reeks of trustafarianism.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a little like this personality defect I have that I tune out whenever progressives start favorably quoting Pat Buchanan.

And it actually may be a defect, because I ignored some legitimate objections to liberal-hawk/neocon interventionism for that reason. But please.