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Aid to Haiti Hopelessly Inadequate, Poorly Organized |
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by Boston Indymedia
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18 Jan 2010
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US aid to Haiti has been a tiny fraction of what is needed. With hundreds of thousands injured, and more without food and water, President Obama's feeble efforts have been aimed mostly at rescuing tourists and diplomats, with little consideration given to the people of Haiti. In addition, what assistance has arrived is being mired in bureaucratic red tape and military intransigence.
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Bureaucracy keeping injured Haitians from being flown to the US for treatment
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/v-print/story/1454684.html
Media Failures on Haiti: Great Television, Bad Journalism
http://counterpunch.org/jensen01252010.html
Massive Earthquake Reveals Entire Island Civilization Called 'Haiti'
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/massive_earthquake_reveals_entire
The Humanitarian Myth: Richard Seymour analyzes the propaganda manufactured to justify U.S. actions in Haiti after the earthquake.
http://www.countercurrents.org/seymour250110.htm
Please don't Superdome Haiti
http://www.racewire.org/archives/2010/01/please_dont_superdome_haiti.htm
US Accused of Militarizing Relief Effort in Haiti
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/us_accused_of_militarizing_relief_
Misinformation and Racism Have Frozen Recovery Effort at General Hospital in Port-au-Prince
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/doctor_misinformation_and_racism_h
Oppose US Occupation of Haiti
http://www.iww.org/en/node/4910
US Corporations, Private Mercenaries and the IMF Rush in to Profit from Haiti's Crisis
http://www.alternet.org/world/145279/us_corporations%2C_private_mercenar
Food Not Troops - End the U.S. Military Occupation
http://www.iacenter.org/haiti/haiti-011910/
Gloria Vanderbilt's son in huff over Haitian "looters"
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2010od-haiti-relief-effort
France says US trying to occupy Haiti instead of helping it.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article69928
Aid flights delayed for three hours while Hillary Clinton gives a speech.
http://socialistworker.org/2010/01/18/witness-to-a-nightmare
Doctors Without Borders Cargo Plane With Full Hospital and Staff Blocked From Landing in Port-au-Prince
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/press/release.cfm?id=4165&cat=press-rel
The rescue operation's priorities in Haiti
http://counterpunch.org/valdes01182010.html
Obama spending less on Haiti than on his inauguration party.
http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=2010haitian-tragedy
If you donate via text message they won't get the money until you pay your phone bill.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870438160457500541261026100
Naomi Klein - Stop them before they shock again.
http://www.naomiklein.org/articles/2010/01/haiti-disaster-capitalism-ale |
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