Genocide Joe Biden was the VP of the president who was going to close Guantanamo, Day 1. Twelve years later, as President, he mumbled something about closing it some day. How’s that…
Category: Haiti
Over One Million People Remain Homeless in Haiti: U.S. Boasts of its “Model Response”
By Bill Quigley Despite the fact that over a million people remained homeless in Haiti one month after the earthquake, the US Ambassador to Haiti, Ken Merten, is quoted at…
Rescue & Care, Not Military Occupation!
By Debra Sweet World Can’t Wait leader Elaine Brower joins delegation to Haiti Millions of people have watched in horror as the people in Haiti have struggled to survive and aid…
Haiti – Still Starving After 23 Days
By Bill Quigley You can walk down many of the streets of Port au Prince and see absolutely no evidence that the world community has helped Haiti. Twenty three days after the…
For Haiti: Food and Medical Supplies – not Troops and Guns!
An article in the New York Times on January 30 reported that the U.S. government “Has suspended its medical evacuations of critically injured Haitian earthquake victims until a dispute over who will pay…
Haiti: Hell And Hope
By Bill Quigley Smoke and flames rose from the sidewalk. A white man took pictures. Slowing down, my breath left me. The fire was a corpse. Leg bones sticking out of the…
Useless Aid: No Donation Without Agitation
By Margaret Kimberley “The time has come for a new paradigm: No donation without agitation.” The United States has succeeded in plunging mainstream disaster “relief” into disrepute. “No donations to groups…
To Haiti from US: Rescue & Care, Not Occupation!
From the Steering Committee of World Can’t Wait A Haitian lawyer says; "Haiti needs 12,000 doctors, Obama sent 12,000 troops to help us to death." American transport planes fly over Haiti…
Why So Many People Died in the Earthquake… And Why the U.S. Can Do No Good in Haiti
by Li Onesto This article originally appeared on the Revolution website. Think about it: A whole city that once had a population of two million people. Now there is mile after…
Haiti 2010: An Unwelcome Katrina Déjà vu
By Cynthia McKinney President Obama’s response to the tragedy in Haiti has been robust in military deployment and puny in what the Haitians need most: food; first responders and their…