Entries Tagged as ‘MINUSTAH’

August 21, 2009

New Kevin Pina Video “Haiti: We Will Bend But We Will Not Break”

HIP – A new educational video released today by journalist and filmmaker Kevin Pina entitled Haiti: We will bend but we will not break highlights the resistance before the coup of Feb. 29, 2004. In this 20-minute video we see the roots of Haiti’s movement representing the majority of the poor struggle to contain [...]

August 18, 2009

HURRICANE BILL WILL THREATEN HAITI THIS WEEK

“Hurricane Bill will threaten Haiti this week”
In addition to important weather news, this article includes this bewildering item:
“UN Envoy Bill Clinton has made numerous pronouncements about the effectiveness of economic aid and hurricane “relief,” but the effectiveness of the 9,000 UN occupation forces — MINUSTAH — in assisting the People of Haiti will hurricane preparedness [...]

August 13, 2009

GET YOUR HAITI ON: Read, Learn and Take Action

Here is a list of some of the latest articles concerning the situation in Haiti.  These all appear on the site of “Haiti Action.”  The author of the articles is Kevin Pina who is founder of the Haiti Information Project, a  journalist and documentary filmmaker and Special Correspondent for the Flashpoints program on KPFA Radio [...]

August 2, 2009

PENTAGON’S 21st Century Counterinsurgency Wars: Latin America and South Asia

Pentagon’s 21st Century Counterinsurgency Wars: Latin America and South Asia
By Rick Rozoff

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14599

Global Research, August 1, 2009

More than half a year after the departure of the George W. Bush administration the United States is embroiled in its largest combat operation since the second attack on Fallujah in November of [...]

June 24, 2009

HAITI (video): Footage Shows UN Shooting at Crowd in Haiti

Video footage shows UN shooting at crowd in Haiti
June 24, 2009
HIP- Port au Prince- Haiti’s largest privately owned TV station, Radio Tele-Ginen, released video footage today that contradicts denials by the UN that they only fired shots into the air during a funeral for Catholic priest Father Gerard Jean-Juste on June 18.
The footage obtained [...]

June 18, 2009

HAITI: UN Shoots into Funeral Procession, Population Demands Preval Resign and Aristide Return

The UN Peacekeeping mission has never been a force for peace in Haiti for the same reason that Israel has never been a force for peace in the Middle East– it is not to their advantage AND murdering Haitians/Palestinians has not been to their disadvantage.  The more that Israel can justify the threat from Palestinians, [...]

May 26, 2009

IN HAITI, ARISTIDE LIVES

LIBERTE
26 May 2009

IN HAITI ARISTIDE LIVES!

by Charlie Hinton
http://www.haitisolidarity.net/article.php?id=315
Four elections prove it.
In 1990 and 2000, overwhelming majorities elected Jean-Bertrand Aristide president, but military coups overthrew him both times.
In 2004, the U.S., France, and Canada led an occupation force that kidnapped and exiled him from the Americas. A United Nations military occupation force followed, led by [...]

May 25, 2009

FIDEL CASTRO ON HAITI: “Nothing Can Be Improvised in Haiti”

There has been much discussion about Haiti in the press and the recent announcement by UN Secretary-General, Ban-Ki Moon that former President Bill Clinton will be his special envoy to Haiti.  John Maxwell, columnist for the Jamaica Observer, provided a searing indictment of the US’ entire policy towards Haiti, including the decision to send Clinton [...]

May 25, 2009

HAITI: Bill Clinton, Haiti’s Great White Hope? by John Maxwell

“Haiti’s Great White Hope?
COMMON SENSE
JOHN MAXWELL
Sunday, May 24, 2009
History is littered with treachery. In the noisome Slough of Dishonour are mired thousands of reputations, most of those who betrayed their own countries, like Pierre Laval, Vidkun Quisling, Jonas Savimbi and Augusto Pinochet.
JOHN MAXWELL
The deepest pits, though, the most purulent sinks, are reserved for those who [...]

May 8, 2009

HAITI (videos): United Nations’ Peacekeeping Massacres – Making the 2004 Coup Stick

It’s been over five years since the coup in Haiti in which the President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, was kidnapped and dumped in the Central African Republic.  The coup was planned and orchestrated by the US, France, and Canada.  About 200 “rebels,” no doubt financed by the US, made a series of cross border attacks from their [...]