Verifiable-Vote Elections

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The only one who may be absolutely trusted to defend a voter’s right is the voter. Demand nothing. A demand assumes good faith from those in power. The reason why the world’s elites call for elections here, there, everywhere, today without trepidation is because, to them, democracy has been licked. It will remain so until votes are verifiable.

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Mouseland: A Metaphor About the Lobbycracy | ‘Mouseland’, una metáfora de la lobbycracia

Originally by Clarence Gillis, as told by Tommy Douglas, Information Clearing House | You Tube | Mangas Verdes | Haiti Chery. “Mouseland was a place where all the little mice lived and played, were born and died. And they lived much the same as you and I do. They even had a Parliament. And every four years they had an election…. And every time on election day all the little mice used to go to the ballot box and they used to elect a government. A government made up of big, fat, black cats.” (English | Spanish, with video)

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Inequality as a Revolt Against Nature | A Desigualdade como Revolta Contra a Natureza

By Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society | Portuguese translation by Murilo Otávio Rodrigues Paes Leme, zqxjkv0.blogspot.com |Courtesy of Frans de Waal, YouTube | Haiti Chery. Economic exploitation can only result from unequal exchange, which requires the coercive interference from a state with the normal process of market exchange. Includes video demonstrating a sense of fairness in monkeys. (English | Portuguese)

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Blues for Bad Girls, Part 1: Don’t Start Me to Talking, Stop Watching Your Enemies

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. So many superb blues for bad girls! This was a tough choice. In the end, I picked Etta James’s marvelous rendition of Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Don’t Start Me to Talking,” and one of Koko Taylor’s many excellent versions of her own song “Stop Watching Your Enemies” because they are an excellent commentary on the week’s news about France’s possible role in Rwanda’s genocide and UNASUR’s decision on a slow military withdrawal from Haiti.

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UN Documents and Belgian Peacekeeper Implicate French Authorities in Rwanda Genocide | Des documents de l’ONU et un casque bleu belge impliquent les autorités françaises dans le génocide à Rwanda

By Linda Melvern, Liberation | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Belgian peacekeeper Yves Teyssier testified that the night before the April 6, 1994 attack he was blocked by the Rwandan army from entering the Camp Kanombe area, and the next day he heard a UN colleague’s voice report on UN radio that two missiles were fired at president Habyarimana’s plane from the camp. (English | French)

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Lolita in the Dominican Republic

By Staff, Diario Libre | Humberta, Diaspora Women | Editorial comment by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Dominican Republic has the highest percentage of pregnant adolescents of all Latin American and Caribbean countries. According to the Statistical Yearbook of Public Health, there were 118,730 births in 2011, 60% of them to mothers under 18 years old. Moreover, 40% of these births were by Caesarian section. Instead of confronting these problems, Dominicans have focused on Haitian births.

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Withdraw UNASUR’s UN Troops from Haiti!

By Staff (sgl/emw/mgt/jrr) Prensa Latina | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. At a meeting of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), Member countries discussed a timetable for South America’s withdrawal from MINUSTAH. But the plan so far looks more like one for a gradual replacement of Latin American troops with Asian and African troops.

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Corruption by ‘Peacekeeping’: The Lure of Foreign Exchange

By Staff, AsiaOne | Editorial comment by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Bangladeshi UN “peacekeepers” have sent home nearly $1.24 billion during the past three years. In 2010 Bangladesh sent its first female MINUSTAH contingent, a group of 110, to Haiti.

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U.S. Labor Law ‘a Scam’

By Josh Eidelson, In These Times | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A turning point in the power of American labor was the passage of the National Labor Relations Act, and especially its 1945 Taft-Hartly Act provisions, which recognized the right to collective bargaining but banned mass picketing and secondary boycotts. The NLRA is examined in light of the growing disregard for unions by corporate bosses and the increasingly successful partnerships of labor with the Occupy movement.

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Massive Drop in Antarctic Cold Dense Water that Drives Global Ocean Currents

By Steve Rintoul, CSIRO | Staff, SPX via Terra Daily. Australian and US scientists have found a 60% reduction in the amount of Antarctic Bottom Water off the coast of Antarctica since 1970. This is worrying because the sinking of dense water around Antarctica is part of a global pattern of ocean currents that strongly influences climate.

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In Major Victory for Occupy, JP Morgan Chase Stampeded Out of Buffalo NY

By Eric W. Dolan, Raw Story | Occupy Buffalo. Buffalo, New York USA City Comptroller Mark J. F. Schroeder announced that the city will pull $45 million from an account with JPMorgan Chase, following concerns raised by members of the Occupy Buffalo movement.

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A Little Dictatorship to Make the Band March in Time | Une petite dictature pour améliorer la fanfare militaire

By Frantz Duval and Robenson Geffrard, Le Nouvelliste | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Satisfied with his achievements during his first year, but frustrated about red tape that has his palace band without instruments, Michel Martelly announced that his team has started to think about an emergency law. (English | French)

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Sandino: Beyond Borrowed Masks, True Identity | Sandino : el abandono del disfraz a favor de la identidad

By Toni Solo, Tortilla con Sal, Haiti Chery | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Imperialist collaborators take pride in the degree to which they can assume the posture and mask of the oppressor. The predecessors of Augusto Cesar Sandino and inheritors of his legacy make it possible to shed those masks. (English | Spanish)

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International Land Grabbers to Carve Up Haiti’s Rural Areas | Les accapareurs internationales de terre divisent les zones rurales d’Haïti

Report, Interamerican Development Bank via Relief Web | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti chery. Land tenure informality has been an obstacle to grabbing Haitian lands for use by big agricultural, mining, and power companies. Cambodia has undergone a process of mapping of land ownership similar to one proposed for Haiti. The land grabs and killings have begun in Cambodia. (English | French)

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