PART 2: The New Haitian Revolution: Resistance to U.S. & U.N. Occupation (tags)
". . . Why Haiti has been persecuted for the last 200 years? Because it is an affront to the colonial powers to have slaves rise up and defeat them. It is a bad example. [Applause.] There are a lot of lessons to be learned, and they don't want it ever to happen again. [Applause continues.]" -- Margaret Prescod, Pacifica Radio
Democracy and Media Contradictions (tags)
The contradiction between the adulation given by the corporate media to the supposed US efforts to constuct democracy in Iraq and the recent US crushing of democracy in Haiti.
Coup in Haiti! Aristide flees country! Bu$h orders U.S. Marines in! (tags)
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been forced from power by a U.S. backed coup. The democratically elected Aristide left his besieged country on Sunday morning in order to "avoid further bloodshed." Aristide is pictured releasing a dove during festivities honoring his 1991 inauguration. The death squad militias and soldier supporters of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier have now seized much of the country. Arch reactionary Louis-Jodel Chamblain... a well known perpetrator of human rights violations celebrates, center right, as his thugs shout 'He's gone!' after news of the elected Presidents departure reached northern Cap-Haitien, Haiti, Sunday. Now, the armed forces of the United States are going to land on and occupy Haiti by order of the un-elected resident Bu$h.
BTL:U.S. Fails to Act as Death Squads Vow to Overthrow Government of... (tags)
...Haitian President Aristide. Interview with Larry Birns, executive director of Council on Hemispheric Affairs, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris