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US Military Operations Block Relief Efforts
In Haiti
By Alex Lantier

www.countercurrents.org/lantier210110.htm

US forces who have taken over the Port-au-Prince airport are denying humanitarian flights permission to land. US helicopters also landed troops yesterday, who took over the ruins of Haiti’s Presidential Palace. Roughly 10,000 US troops will be in place in Haiti in the coming days

Haiti Needs Water, Not Occupation
By Mark Weisbrot

www.countercurrents.org/weisbrot210110.htm

The US has never wanted Haitian self-rule, and its focus on ‘security concerns’ has hampered the earthquake aid response

In Haiti, Words Can Kill
By Rebecca Solnit

www.countercurrents.org/solnit210110.htm

I’m talking about those members of the mass media whose misrepresentation of what goes on in disaster often abets and justifies a second wave of disaster. I’m talking about the treatment of sufferers as criminals, both on the ground and in the news, and the endorsement of a shift of resources from rescue to property patrol. They still have blood on their hands from Hurricane Katrina, and they are staining themselves anew in Haiti

Why So Many People Died In The Earthquake…
And Why The U.S. Can Do No Good In Haiti
By Li Onesto

www.countercurrents.org/onesto210110.htm

No human being could have stopped the earthquake that hit with such killing force on January 12. But so many of the people who have perished in Port-au-Prince did not have to die

Why Haiti Has Never Been Allowed To Prosper
By Sean Fenley

www.countercurrents.org/fenley210110.htm

The abominable Ronald Reagan had to kill a socialist country like Nicaragua, because you cannot give any hope to such countries as Haiti and Nicaragua. If you give these nations and peoples ‘dignified poverty’ as Aristide has called for in Haiti, others like them will get the same idea!

Israel Starving Gaza And Help Haiti?
By Salim Nazzal

www.countercurrents.org/nazzal210110.htm

Is it compassion or propaganda to clean up the brutal face of Zionism?

US Economy: A Crash or A Soft Landing?
By Richard C. Cook

www.countercurrents.org/cook210110.htm

For those who are habitually against everything the government does, I’d like to say that there are actually a few caring and intelligent people in authority these days who don’t want to see the total collapse of the U.S. as a nation, an economy, and a society. The U.S. remains the world’s largest consumer economy and the dollar the predominant currency. But the rest of the world has caught up. The Anglo-American Empire is seeing the sunset, and the choice now to be made is whether it will end peacefully or in a bang

Political Earthquake Rocks Massachusetts
By Stephen Lendman

www.countercurrents.org/lendman210110.htm

Obama provided continuity, not change, a bogus democracy under a repressive police state apparatus, militarism, and permanent wars at the expense of vital homeland needs. His record is betrayal and failure. Perhaps that’s the Massachusetts message – not just opposition to Obamacare as state polls show, but a rejection of the entire Democrat agenda and a demand for real change, promised but not delivered

Massachusetts Calling
By Gary Corseri

www.countercurrents.org/corseri210110.htm

Harnessing independent’s anger and disillusionment to for a 2nd (ie, non-corporate) party

The Coming False-Flag Terror Trap For India
By Feroze Mithiborwala

www.countercurrents.org/mithiborwala210110.htm

Another false flag terror attack will be used by the pro-US Indian elite to mobilise hundreds of thousands of youth to go to war in Afghanistan, maybe even Pakistan and Iran. Indian soldiers have been used in the past by the British Colonial power to fight their wars across the world, especially in Middle East and North Africa. Once more the US Empire seeks to use our People

Iran And Latin America: The Media States Its Case
By Ramzy Baroud

www.countercurrents.org/baroud210110.htm

Should the United States be concerned about Iran’s determined efforts to reach out to Latin America? Or, as was suggestively described in the Economist, by the Ayatollahs’ strategy of cozying up to Latin America?

The Merchants Of Fear: Israel’s Profiting
From Homeland Insecurity
By Maidhc Ó Cathail

www.countercurrents.org/ocathail210110.htm

The day after 9/11, Benjamin Netanyahu let slip that the deaths of almost 3,000 Americans was “very good” for Israel. In particular, the mass murder was very good for an emerging sector of the Israeli economy. In “Laboratory for a Fortressed World,” Naomi Klein detailed the post-9/11 “explosion of Israel’s homeland security sector.”

Dial ‘P’ For “Encounter”
By Prabhat Sharan

www.countercurrents.org/sharan210110.htm

The recent arrest of police inspector Pradeep Sharma is a case in point of the mediocrity that has seeped inside the media. The rise of Sharma and his ilk were not due to their achievements. It was purely because post-1993 serial bomb blasts period- the mid-nineties witnessing the collapse of organized crime- gave a section of police officers play with silly underworld stories lifted from C-grade novels and films, and dole them out to gullible and by-line crazy scribes, desperate to fill space and time slots

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