Tag Archives: European Union

Block Thursday Jan 26th EU Ratification of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ACTA

avatarPosted on by February 26, 2019

By John Kennedy, Silicon Republic | Sharon Polsky, Interweb Freedom | YouTube (courtesy of Defend Your Freedom) | Why You Should Care About ACTA (booklet, in multiple languages), European Digital Rights | Assembled by Haiti Chery. European countries, including Ireland, might later this week join the US, Australia, Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and Canada in supporting the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ACTA. This bill would deputize Internet Service Providers to spy on their customers, among other things. Includes PDF with text of ACTA. UPDATED Jan 26th.

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Caracol Haiti Industrial Park With Projected Adverse Environmental Impact | Caracol, un parc industriel d’Haïti Parc qui aurait un impact environnemental négatif

avatarPosted on by March 1, 2018

By Staff, Haiti Grassroots Watch. Part 6 of 7. The same week over 300 agricultural plots in Caracol, Haiti, were unexpectedly destroyed, the Haitian government signed an agreement with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, IDB, and Korean textile giant Sae-A Trading to convert the lands into an industrial park. This park will dump its wastes into a bay with extensive coraf reefs and one of the country’s last mangrove forests. (English | French)

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Journalists on Hunger Strike Subjected to Dismissal, Loud Music, Spotlights

avatarPosted on by February 25, 2019

By Jake Blumgart, Dissent Magazine. Phone interview of Jake Blumgart with Balázs Nagy-Navarro: the vice-president of Hungary Television and Filmmakers’ Union and one of several journalists and union members who, on Dec 10, 2011, started a hunger strike to protest media repression.

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Mercosur Signs Free Trade Agreement With Palestinian Authority

avatarPosted on by December 30, 2018

By Staff, MercoPress. Mercosur signed a free trade agreement with the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday Dec 20, 2011: this is the first between the Palestinian territories and a block of nations outside the Arab world.

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Climate Change Blamed for Storms, Flooding, Drought

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

By Cathy Yamsuan and Kristine L. Alave, Philippine Daily Inquirer | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Two months before the recent huge loss of lives, Filipinos were warned to guard against climate change by protecting forests and improving drainage, as if a forest could indefinitely hold back the rising sea levels and more violent storms caused by the climatic changes brought on by the carbon emissions from developed countries.

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Originator of Slave Trade Finished as a Colonist

avatarPosted on by December 27, 2018

By Staff, BBC | WSWS. Last month, cash-strapped Portugal, which had been ordered by the IMF to privatize, went to sell shares in its state-owned companies to Angola, a former colony that became independent in 1975. To put this story in perspective: 50 years ago, to conclude 450 years of Portuguese control of the trading cities on the Arabian Sea, India had to expel Portugal forcibly from Goa. Western progressives and conservatives alike find these role reversals hard to swallow.

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Disastrous ‘Durban Package’ Accelerates Onset of Climate Catastrophe | Le ‘paquet’ désastreux de Durban accélère la catastrophe climatique

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Nnimmo Bassey and staff, Friends of the Earth International via Common Dreams. The UN climate talks in Durban take the world a step back by undermining an already inadequate system. The developing countries’ promised reductions are greater than those of the industrialized world, which is responsible for 75 percent of the total human emissions in the atmosphere. (English | French)

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What’s Planned for Haiti? | Quel est le plan pour Haïti?

avatarPosted on by December 14, 2018

By Staff, Haiti Grassroots Watch. Part 4 of 7. ”You get some factories and some salaries, and everything else is imported…. People need to know what FTZs are, what has happened in Mexico, or Honduras, so they don’t think these things will ‘save’ us.” – Camille Chalmers, Economist. (English | French)

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Congo Deserves a Leader Who Cares About the Congolese People

avatarPosted on by February 25, 2019

By Eric Kamba, SF Bay View. The U.N. force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is called MONUSCO and is headed by Roger Meece, a former U.S. ambassador to the DRC. In addition to fixing elections, killing, raping, and generally doing everything MINUSTAH does in Haiti, MONUSCO deals in weapons and valuable minerals.

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The G-20 Meeting

avatarPosted on by December 27, 2018

By Fidel Castro Ruz, CubaDebate via Granma. Those countries are attempting to monopolize technologies and markets by means of patents, banks, the most modern and costly forms of transportation, cybernetic domination of complex productive processes, and the control of communications and the mass media, in order to deceive the world.

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The Oil We Eat: Following the Food Chain Back to Iraq | O petróleo que comemos

avatarPosted on by December 21, 2018

By Richard Manning, Harper’s. The total amount of plant mass created by Earth per year is called the planet’s primary productivity. We humans, a single species among millions, consume about 40 percent of Earth’s primary productivity. We, six billion, have simply stolen the food: the rich among us a lot more than the rest. (English | Portuguese)

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Deep Sea Fishing is ‘Unsustainable’; Efforts Should Concentrate on ‘Productive Local Waters’

avatarPosted on by February 25, 2019

By FIS/MP, MercoPress. A team of marine scientists urge an end to most commercial fishing in the deep sea and instead recommend fishing in more productive and local waters. The only question is: whose productive local waters.

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Clinton’s IHRC Commission Declared a Fraud by Haiti’s Senate

avatarPosted on by March 11, 2019

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)

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