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Why The US Owes Haiti Billions
By Bill Quigley

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The US has worked to break Haiti for over 200 years. We owe Haiti. Not charity. We owe Haiti as a matter of justice. Reparations. And not the $100 million promised by President Obama either – that is Powerball money. The US owes Haiti Billions – with a big B

The Lesson Of Haiti
By Fidel Castro

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The tragedy has genuinely moved a significant number of people, particularly those in which that quality is innate. But perhaps very few of them have stopped to consider why Haiti is such a poor country. Why does almost 50% of its population depend on family remittances sent from abroad? Why not analyze the realities that led Haiti to its current situation and this enormous suffering as well?

The Right Testicle Of Hell:
History Of A Haitian Holocaust
By Greg Palast

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A friend of mine called. Do I know a journalist who could get medicine to her father? And she added, trying to hold her voice together, “My sister, she’s under the rubble. Is anyone going who can help, anyone?” Should I tell her, “Obama will have Marines there in ‘a few days’”?

If It’s That Warm, How Come It’s So Damned Cold?
By James Hansen, Reto Ruedy, Makiko Sato & Ken Lo

www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/01/2009-temperatures-by-jim-hansen/

The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year in the 130 years of global instrumental temperature records, in the surface temperature analysis of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). The Southern Hemisphere set a record as the warmest year for that half of the world. Global mean temperature, as shown in Figure 1a, was 0.57°C (1.0°F) warmer than climatology (the 1951-1980 base period). Southern Hemisphere mean temperature, as shown in Figure 1b, was 0.49°C (0.88°F) warmer than in the period of climatology

For Israel, A Reckoning
By John Pilger

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A new global movement is challenging Israel’s violations of international law with the same strategies that were used against apartheid

“Kill Another Turk…”
By Uri Avnery

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Turkish television aired a rather primitive series, in which Mossad operatives kidnap Turkish children and hide them in the Israeli embassy. Valiant Turkish agents free the children and kill the evil ambassador. One can ignore such an obnoxious story altogether or protest mildly. But our illustrious Foreign Minister thought that this was the right occasion to demonstrate to all and sundry that we are no longer abject ghetto Jews who take everything lying down, but proud, upright Jews of a new breed

What Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
Might Say To Bono And US!
By Eileen Fleming

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Two years ago, Israeli President Shimon Peres invited Bono to attend a conference in Israel marking Israel’s 60th Anniversary and to honor its contributions in medicine, science, and conservation. Bono didn’t make that trip, but this summer he is scheduled to perform in Israel

Dr. Martin Luther King Was
More Than Just A Dreamer
By Sharat G. Lin

www.countercurrents.org/lin170110.htm

Speech delivered at a celebration of the 81st birth anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. held at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in San José, California, U.S.A. on 14 January 2010

Iraq Political Fissures Widen As March Vote Nears
By Dahr Jamail

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National elections in Iraq, originally scheduled to take place this month, but postponed until March 7, rather than possibly bringing greater stability to war-torn Iraq, now threaten to reignite a powder keg of political tensions that has been simmering for years

Israel And The Threat To Middle East Peace
By Salim Nazzal

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It is not difficult to conclude that this generation will not hesitate to apply the theory of destroying the temple on all. This is the platform of the cultural atmosphere of next wars in the Middle East. Drawing on the fact that the past decade witnessed two wars with the state of Israel, it is not difficult to anticipate that the 21 century will be the century of horrific, decisive and devasting wars with the Zionist state

My Grandmother And Bt.Brinjal
By Suma Josson

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Suma Josson ruminates on an age when there was no threat of Bt Brinjals and terminator seeds

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