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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 the dogs of war, and can rein them back in – if Washington chooses. Any discussion that fails to acknowledge the U.S. role in nurt...

After President Bush rejected Haitian President Aristide's appeal for immediate security assistance from the international community, members of the Congressional Black Caucus expressed their concern at what they say is Bush's refusal to preserve the democratically elected government in Haiti. We speak with Black Caucus member Rep. Maxine Waters....

Award-winning Haitian journalist Michele Montas fled Haiti last year after her bodyguard was killed and continued threats against her forced her close her radio station and leave the country four years after her husband, Jean Dominique, was assassinated....

There was a time, 20 years ago, when anyone wishing to come to grips with the grotesque poverty and fitful violence of Haiti under the crumbling Duvalier dictatorship would have been itching to meet Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Back then, he was known as le petit prêtre, the little priest, a man whose modest stature belied a lion-hearted courage in denouncing social and political injustices....

Now the Bush administration is implying that it is time for President Aristide to leave, while at the same time having Secretary of State Powell state that a coup would not be acceptable. One gets the feeling of a good cop/bad cop scenario. None of this should come as a surprise to us in light of world events as well as the policy and practice of hostility by this administration toward President Aristide since the beginning....

The Arlo Looking Cloud trial was nothing more than an indirect presentation of another Myrtle Poorbear to discredit AIM and myself, and to extradite John Graham. I am an innocent man....

Israeli Cabinet Member and Minister of Tourism Benny Elon will be available for interviews from the United States from Feb. 11-17. He will be in New York on Feb. 11-12 and in North Carolina from Feb. 13-17 for the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) conference, at which the Ministry of Tourism will honor Rev. Dr. Pat Robertson and present him with an honorary Ambassadors Award....

The prime minister of Haiti has accused opposition groups of trying to mount a coup, as unrest continues to spread....

Do the Progressives really understand People of Color Issues? Voter turnout in Communities of Color indictates the answer....

"Demonization of the rebel leaders of the South was a recurring characteristic of the West's justification for its barbaric acts against the rest..Language and ideology serve the same goal-the veiling of reality and the acceptance of what is inhuman and unjust.."...