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.
Continue reading →By Jill Tucker, Carolyn Jones, Will Kane, SF Gate. Thousands of workers and students took to Oakland’s downtown streets today as part of a daylong general strike called by Occupy Oakland organizers to protest economic inequity and corporate greed.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. When the Palestinian application for full membership in UNESCO comes to the UN Security Council next month, the U.S. will certainly try to scuttle this membership. In doing so, the U.S. will lose all credibility in future Palestine-Israel negotiations.
Continue reading →By Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, Yale Environment 360 | Eco-Watch. The view that overpopulation is not our problem just doesn’t wash. Using the I = P x A x T equation, one can see that the total impact of the U.S. is gigantic, several hundred times that of Bangladesh. These classic articles date from 1992 and 2008, which makes them all the more relevant and urgent.
Continue reading →Video by Yvon Vilius and Ansel Herz, Media Hacker. Anti-UN demonstrations in Port-au-Prince and Leogane this month were reported as involving a couple of hundred people. See for yourself.
Continue reading →By Eduardo Soriano-Castillo, Labor Notes. An all-out attack on immigrant workers, their families, and communities continues in the U.S. South and West. In Alabama, immigrant workers met it with a day of wildcat strikes.
Continue reading →By Haiti Chery (English) | Alliance Haiti (French) | CoRIS. Ile de la Navase, a Haitian island claimed by the U.S. under an arcane 1856 Guano Act and renamed Navassa Island, offers an opportunity for U.S. imperialists to return something to its rightful owners and for U.S. do-gooders to learn a thing or two from Haitians about wildlife conservation. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti’s Ministry of Health finally gave in and officially announced the beginning of a vaccination campaign against cholera, after one year of pressure from the UN’s Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). The proposed vaccine, called Shanchol, is wrought with scandal, and preparations for use in developing countries contain the dangerous mercury-based preservative thiomersal. (English | French)
Continue reading →By Andrew Leonard, Salon. “Half the workers of the world work in jobs that are off the books… The combined economic activity of these 1.8 billion workers adds up to $10 trillion. If this informal economy were squeezed into a single political structure, it would be the second largest economy in the world,” Robert Neuwirth writes in Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy.
Continue reading →By Pepe Escobar, Asia Times Online. Heritage Oil signed juicy deals in Iraqi Kurdistan behind the back of Baghdad’s central government. In Libya, Heritage is directly involved in operating oil and gas licenses.
Continue reading →By Seth Freed Wessler and Maria Hinojosa, Color Lines. In the documentary, “Lost in Detention,” a father of three sits down with a journalist who asks him how he has handled his wife’s deportation. She was removed from the U.S. after she was pulled over for a traffic violation.
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 Enrique Berruga Filloy, El Universal | Translated by Brandee Bilotta, Watching America | Princeton University | Pew Research Center. For the first time in 60 years, the net traffic of Mexicans to the United States has been reduced to zero and perhaps even shows a negative balance. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Staff, Xinhua via COMTEX and GTW | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Haiti’s Senate has ratified Garry Conille, a Duvalierist Clinton aide and U.N. employee, as Prime Minister. See Conille translate for his boss, Bill Clinton, in the accompanying video.
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