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No doubt you recall how governments around the world made quite a show of pledging billions to help relief and rebuilding efforts in Haiti after that catastrophic earthquake in 2010. While those governments were basking in praise for their generous pledges, however, I was sounding this cautionary note: I just hope this outpouring of support is coordinated… Read more.
With the media still focused, almost obsessively, on last Saturday’s shooting rampage in Arizona, which killed 6 and wounded 14, one would have been hard-pressed to find any mention on Wednesday of the one-year anniversary of the horrific Haitian earthquake, which killed 316,000 and wounded hundreds of thousands more. But lack of media attention has… Read more.
Haiti has never been salvaged from the political strife and unconscionable poverty, hunger and disease that have earned it the perennial dishonor as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere…. American presidents are almost as responsible for creating the nightmarish living conditions in Haiti as the succession of incompetent, corrupt and ruthless leaders they’ve sponsored… Read more.
