By Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.
Continue reading →By Kristin Palitza, IPS. DURBAN, South Africa – The UN program to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) has been touted as a global scheme to conserve forests but is just a way to pour a lot of money into forests so international investors make big profits.
Continue reading →By Move to Amend. Beware of the decoy 28th amendments that are being proposed in congress. The most serious version of the 28th is one from the grassroots; the text from Move to Amend is reproduced here.
Continue reading →By Giovanni Dubon, Prospect Journal. In 2008, Brazil’s state of Rio de Janeiro alone experienced 1,137 police killings, compared to 371 in the whole United States.
Continue reading →By Jesse Hagopian, Truthout | Isabel Macdonald and Isabeau Doucet, The Nation and Canadian Centre for Investigative Reporting | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. A supposed reconstruction of Haiti’s schools by the Clinton Foundation and the Inter-American Development Bank is exposed in two articles as a textbook case of the shock doctrine.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery (English, French) | Spanish translation by Fernando Moyano | Portuguese translation by Murilo Otávio Rodrigues Paes Leme. MINUSTAH’s worst crime so far is killing over 8,000 Haitians with cholera. It is a degraded, degrading, and unwanted occupation force that must go. (English | French | Spanish | Portuguese)
Continue reading →By Staff, AHP | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The Haitian Senate Public Works Committee says that the Clinton-led Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC) claims to have financed for the Ministry of Public Works, Transportation and Communication, had actually been funded by donors like the European Union and the Inter-American Development Bank , before the IHRC was even formed. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Jordan Shilton WSWS Last month, former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde became the first leading political figure to be charged for his part in the 2008 economic collapse, which hit Iceland with particular severity. In a charge filed at … Continue reading →
By Bill Wilson, Net Right Daily. Iceland is free. And it will remain so, so long as her people wish to remain autonomous of the foreign domination of her would-be masters – in this case, international bankers.
Continue reading →By Toluwa Olusegun, IPS. Lagos, Nigeria – The sectarian crisis and recent violence by extremist groups, like the June 16, 2011 bomb blast on the Nigerian Police Headquarters, were borne out of anger at prevailing economic conditions rather than religious frustration.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. To hear it all, one would think that the Haitian electoral fraud happened yesterday. In fact, the fraud went down many months ago, when a corrupt electoral commission (CEP) with U.S., Canadian and French financial backing, banned the most popular political party Lavalas from the elections.
Continue reading →By Staff, Haiti Progres | Commentary and translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Only Port-au-Prince matters to the reconstruction effort, so there is no use for the parliament, which was dissolved in April 2010 to make way for a Clinton-led colonial coalition called the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC). (English | French)
Continue reading →By Hervé Jean Michel, Haiti Liberte. Teleco, the crown jewel of Haiti’s state enterprises, was sold for the fire-sale price of $59 million.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Things haven’t cooled down in Haiti. Quite the contrary. They’re just starting to simmer.
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