Remembering Father Gerry (tags)
honoring a remarkable man
Peter Hallward's "Damming the Flood" - Part II (tags)
Part II of Hallward's superb book on Haiti.
CLOSING HAITI'S "OPEN VEINS" - RENE PREVAL'S IMPOSSIBLE MISSION (tags)
Exposing the lies and deception in the corporate media
Haitian police killed dozens of prisoners last week and carted out bodies in wheelbarrows during a riot that turned into a massacre, according to a human rights group.
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.
STOP THE COUP IN HAITI! (tags)
The counter-revolutionary thugs who have named themselves, the "Haitian National Revolutionary Liberation Front" are directed by commanders like Guy Philippe - a U.S.-trained former Haitian soldier who has attempted at least three coups in the last four years. Commander Louis Jodel Chamblain, the #2 ranked leader of the notorious CIA-backed FRAPH death squads that terrorized Haiti in the 1990s. Chamblain was convicted in both the assassination of Antoine Izmery, a pro-democracy businessman in 1993, and the 1994 Raboteau massacre of innocent civilians. These are the so-called "rebels" the press lauds as leading the "rebellion" in Haiti. What we are witnessing is a U.S. backed coup against the twice democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.