Issue: 79
February 26, 2004
Commentary
e-Mailbox: Haiti democracy must go – ’cause US says so and more…Issue 79
Guest Commentator
The US-backed terror offensive against the government of Haiti threatens to envelop the capital city, Port-au-Prince. Very soon, Washington will begin the second act of its gruesome political theater: “the rescue.” Having unleashed Haiti’s former military and secret police from their bases in the Dominican Republic, the U.S. now prepares to “step in to put…
The US-backed terror offensive against the government of Haiti threatens to envelop the capital city, Port-au-Prince. Very soon, Washington will begin the second act of its…
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Harold Ford Jr: Don’t Know Much About History
Guest Commentator
What would you call someone who appeared at a Black History Month celebration and then proceeded to dismiss Black people? You would call that person United States Representative Harold Ford, Jr. The good Congressman accepted an invitation to speak at a Black History Month program at Lane College in Tennessee. But as we already know…
What would you call someone who appeared at a Black History Month celebration and then proceeded to dismiss Black people? You would call that person United…
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Bush Assaults Teacher Standards
Guest Commentator
Rod Paige could hardly wait to get to the meeting at the White House, where all the best lies are told. The nation’s largest teachers union is a “terrorist organization,” exclaimed the Education Secretary to an audience of state governors. The place got quiet all of a sudden, and Paige had to regroup. It was…
Rod Paige could hardly wait to get to the meeting at the White House, where all the best lies are told. The nation’s largest teachers union…
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Bush, Call Off Your Dogs!
Guest Commentator
In willful ignorance and with every bad intention, the U.S. corporate media ask the ridiculous question, Should the US intervene in Haiti, or not? The bloody answer screams back from the Haitian mountains and cities: Washington has already intervened militarily in Haiti, through its surrogates’ armed invasion from the Dominican Republic. The Americans set loose…
In willful ignorance and with every bad intention, the U.S. corporate media ask the ridiculous question, Should the US intervene in Haiti, or not? The bloody…
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US House Members say Don’t Usurp Aristide’s Powers
Guest Commentator
Representatives Maxine Waters (D-CA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Barbara Lee (D-CA), and John Conyers (D-MI) held a press conference in Washington, February 25, to announce they had delivered a letter on Haiti policy to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Later, 18 members of the Congressional Black Caucus visited the White House to press President Bush to…
Representatives Maxine Waters (D-CA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Barbara Lee (D-CA), and John Conyers (D-MI) held a press conference in Washington, February 25, to announce they had…
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Washington’s Hand Against Democracy in Haiti
Who will come to the support of the Haitian people under siege, in this, Haiti’s 200th anniversary from European enslavement? Where are the voices for human rights and Haitian democracy in the U.S? Every Hip-Hop artist must make this his or her cause. Haiti’s very dignity as a Black-ruled, democratic and independent nation is under…
Who will come to the support of the Haitian people under siege, in this, Haiti's 200th anniversary from European enslavement? Where are the voices for human…
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