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Haiti Relief: Anger Mounts Among Desperate Haitians Over Supplies Stuck at Airport  Haiti’s Streets Called ‘Tinderbox’ as Hunger, Thirst and Anger Grows
 
Haiti has a longstanding history of US military intervention and occupation going back to the beginning of the 20th Century. US interventionism has contributed to the destruction of Haiti’s national economy and the impoverishment of its population.
 
 
 
Patience Wears Thin as Haiti’s Desperation Grows
Aid workers struggled to deliver relief supplies on Friday to survivors increasingly desperate for food and clean water.
 
 

No, Mister! You Cannot Share My Pain!
 
Haiti’s vulnerability to natural disasters, its food shortages, poverty, deforestation and lack of infrastructure, are not accidental. To say that it is the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere is to miss the point; Haiti was made poor--by France, the United States, Great Britain, other Western powers and by the IMF and the World Bank.
 
 
Residents arm themselves against looters in town 12 miles from epicenter
 
 
 

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The pace is faster than combat deaths in Iraq or Afghanistan.
 
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More Than a Scandal in Belfast
It would be tragic after centuries of bloodshed to see reconciliation in Northern Ireland founder because of a lurid sideshow.
 
Controlling Yemen Is Just Part of Obama’s Power Game with China
By M.K. Bhadrakumar, Asia Times
The stepped-up presence in Yemen is the latest move in an increasingly cozy three-way US-Israel-India alliance that is the emphatic counter to China's surge. more »

 

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A Closer Look at the Destruction in Haiti Zoom in on the images below and examine up close some of the damage caused by the earthquake in Haiti. Related Article »
 
 
Engineering Poverty
Food Stamp Profits?
Audio Report By Stacy Herbert & Max Keiser
 
FOR THOSE FAMILIAR WITH ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI AND HIS BOOK ‘THE GRAND CHESSBOARD’  THIS VIDEO CLIP IS WORTH WATCHING BECAUSE IT SHEDS ENORMOUS LIGHT ON WHY THE U.S. IS OCCUPYING AFGHANISTAN
My comment: Bear in mind that this imperialist on steroids is a Democrat.
 
PERMACULTURE: FARMS FOR THE FUTURE  – –DO NOT MISS WATCHING THIS INCREDIBLY INSPIRING FILM ONLINE.
 
DANNY SCHECHTER: FINANCIAL MELTDOWN IS A CRIME STORY – – WATCH TRAILER FROM NEW FILM ‘PLUNDER’

 

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Tricky business – How Counterfeit Goods Strangle Africa’s Economy

 

Africom - Latest U.S. Bid to Recolonise Continent

African leaders must not forget that under the Barack Obama administration, US policy towards Africa and the rest of the developing world has not changed an inch. It remains militaristic and materialistic.

African leaders do not need prophets from Mars to know that US’s fascination with oil, the war on terrorism and the military will now be centred on Africa, after that escapade in Iraq.

 
 

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JPMorgan Chase’s earnings report carries a sobering message:  Consumers are expected to keep defaulting on mortgage and credit card loans, making for a bleak outlook for the economy this year. American families were squeezed last year as their inflation–adjusted
 
Axelrod Smacks Down Rove For ‘Audacity And Shamelessness’. Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod struck back at Karl Rove for his criticism of the Obama administration’s handling of the deficit, slamming him for his ‘sheer audacity and shamelessness’.
 
How the Teamsters Beat Goldman Sachs ~ By By Andrew Cockburn
 
It could take until November 2018 to get the full story behind the U.S. bailout of insurance giant American International Group (AIG.N) because of an action taken last year by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 

 

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Ten years after the publication of No Logo, Naomi Klein switches her attention from the mall to Barack Obama and discovers that corporate culture has taken over the US government
 

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Venezuela to reinforce troops on Colombia border with Russian tanks:  Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced plans for the deployment of new Russian-made tanks and combat helicopters on the border with Colombia.
 
 

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The US military plans to double the amount of military equipment it has stockpiled in Israel under a recent agreement with Tel Aviv.
 

CANADA

How Big Corporations Have Turned the Olympics into a Billion Dollar Advertising Blitz
By Geoff Dembicki, AlterNet
This February, get ready for a 21st century Games, where the big spending battles of corporate titans could overshadow the rivalries of the ice rink and ski slope. Read more »

 
Chris Shaw: Why resist the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver? Far from futile, resistance to the Olympics may be part of the rebirth of the anti-globalization/world-social-justice movement.
 
 
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US kills another 10 people in latest Pakistan attack:Ten more people, three of them reportedly foreigners, were killed and over a dozen sustained serious injuries in two different missile attacks by the CIA-operated spy aircraft in South and North Waziristan tribal region on Friday evening.
 
 
China’s ‘black jails’ shove complaints into the dark. The illicit detention facilities are a way for authorities to deal with a flood of petitioners seeking justice before regional panels. Human Rights Watch says detainees face rape and other abuses.
 
A Case for Asian Unity: A Lesson from Sri Lanka
 
Yemen is the only country from which oil can potentially reach the open seas without passing through either the Strait of Hormuz or the Suez Canal.

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There is a widespread consensus that the decade we've just brought to a close was singularly disastrous for the country. We don't have a definitive name for this era, though Paul Krugman's 2003 book The Great Unraveling captures well the sense of slow, inexorable dissolution; and the final crisis of the era, what we call the Great Recession, similarly expresses the sense that even our disasters aren't quite epic enough to be cataclysmic. But there is simply no alternative other than to give in and let the field turn hard and barren.
 
The Joke’s Not Funny, Especially if You Laugh.
The reference to a not at all joke, and not laughing, springs from who the Robinson’s are, or rather what they screamed to the heavens they believed.
 
Pope Benedict XVI’s planned visit to Rome’s main synagogue on Sunday has sharply divided Italian Jews, with some angered by his moves to push World War II Pope Pius XII toward sainthood.
 
 
 
 

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Altering Animal Behavior With Fiber Optics and Genetic Engineering
Although optogenetic control of human behavior may be years away, Deisseroth comments that the longer-range implications of the technology must be considered
 
With Updated Hubble Telescope, Reaching Further Back in Time
By DENNIS OVERBYE
A new camera installed by astronauts in the summer helps set a record, recording galaxies 600 million to 800 million years after the Big Bang.
 
The Air Force Research Laboratory set out in 2008 to build the ultimate assassination robot: a tiny, armed drone for U.S. special forces to employ in terminating “high-value targets”.

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