The United Nations’ First Criminal Conviction

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Once upon a time, the United Nations was held up as a beacon of moral authority and hope for world peace. That was long before the UN formally became a criminal organization.

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Death of a Judge: Democracy and Justice vs Corrupt Power in Haiti

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. In Haiti, in early July 2013, no criminal case was more important than the one handled by Magistrate Jean Serge Joseph; his death under suspicious circumstances, followed by persecution of the plaintiff, his lawyer and the press, have generated huge shock waves.

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Life on $2 a Day: US Extreme Poverty on the Rise

  By Dady Chery and Gilbert Mercier Haiti Chery A fast-growing group of people in the United States, households with children, are living on $2.00 or less per person per day. This shocking condition in a wealthy country such as … Continue reading →

Boston Marathon Bombing: More Justification for Repression and Endless Global War on Terror

By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery Haiti Chery We might never learn the motive behind the Boston Marathon bomb attack on Monday, April 15, 2013, which is reported to have killed three people and injured more than 170. It could … Continue reading →

GDP Measures the Wealth of Bankers

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Libya’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 108 percent in 2012. By contrast, the growths of Japan and other developed countries, as measured by their GDP, have stagnated at values below three percent and sometimes negative. If you are shaking your head, thinking there must be a mistake in the World Bank’s computations, think again.

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Humanitarian Imperialism: From Hookworm Treatment to Polio Vaccines

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The lust for power has grown. The collaboration of today’s super rich in their philanthropy is a kind of humanitarian imperialism meant not only to rehabilitate their names but also impose their views on a global scale.

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Le génie de Chavez: Par Fidel Castro | La genialidad de Chávez: Por Fidel Castro

Par Fidel Castro | Cuba Debate, Haiti Chery. “Moi qui ai abordé bien souvent des problèmes difficiles dans de longs discours… j’ai du mal à m’expliquer comment ce militaire d’origine modeste, mais à l’esprit agile et au talent sans pareil, a été capable d’un tel déploiement d’éloquence sans perdre la voix ni ses forces.” (Français | Espagnol)

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How Might We Honor Aaron Swartz? An Interview

Interview of Carlos Gomez with Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “SOPA/PIPA was meant to protect rights that corporations should not be allowed to have. Copyright laws were developed to protect the livelihood of authors — not the corporations that buy the right to an author’s work…. There is no sense to a copyright outliving its author, since no amount of incentive would entice that author to further efforts.” – C. Gomez

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Aaron Swartz’ s Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto

By Aaron Swartz | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. “The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations….” – Swartz

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Haiti: Wrecking Ball Capitalism in Real Time

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. How does one drag a people with a sense of enough into the capitalist enterprise? In Haiti, this process is exposed in all its hideousness as it happens in real time.

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Dying by Degrees from Climate Change

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The End Age for humanity is not a date known to man, but a point of no return from climate change. Are we there now, as the Hopi and Mayans have predicted? Is there time left to us and, if so, how long?

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USAID: Dictator’s Little Helper

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. USAID’s goals were originally to diminish the threat of communism and open new markets for the US; these have expanded to include: developing “countries’ policies and institutions” and even “rebuilding government.”

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Climate Change: Bopha (Pablo) Hits Philippines’ South as Category 5 Typhoon

By Staff (ELR), GMA News | YouTube. Category 5 Typhoon Bopha made landfall in the southern Philippines’ Mindanao area — a region seldom affected by cyclones — with sustained winds of about 160 mph early on Tuesday December 4. The storm, locally called Pablo, has killed dozens, stranded thousands, and displaced tens of thousands of people.

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Bees’ Disappearing Act

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Scientists are calling a rapid decline of the bees “colony collapse disorder”, or CCD; however, a more appropriate name would be CCC, for colony collapse catastrophe because this entails the disappearance of a hive’s 30,000 or so individuals within days and without any trace of their bodies.

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