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One Woman’s Lament for Haiti Haiti brings back the for gotten art of grieving as its mountains burn, its democracy is trampled by the jackbooted march of an ousted police chief who is supported and financed in the armed take over of the tiny nation by the Bush coup machinery bent on gaining corporate power and control of the impoverished nation nestled atop the Caribbean topography, criminally ousting its democratically elected leader....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 11:33am PST
Hold off transition, Haitian prime minister says Haiti's prime minister calls for an investigation of how Jean-Bertrand Aristide left the country. Aristide, meanwhile, wants to return....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:25am PST
Haiti, America, and the rest of the world Haiti, America, and the rest of the world...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:19am PST
Commission will select prime minister for Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A three-member commission Thursday began working to select a new prime minister and organize a transitional government to end the crisis that plunged Haiti into a violent tailspin and forced President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to resign....
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 10:15am PST
Ramsey Clark on Haiti 
World wide protests to the U.S. engineered coup in Haiti...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 9:09am PST
protesting an abduction Marines were back in Haiti, President Aristide was reportedly kidnapped, and we held a rally at Powell & Market to protest the U.S. sponsored coup. Interventions of days gone by were also brought to mind...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 7:37am PST
Adam B. Kushner and SF Chronicle Smears Aristide. Call or Write and Ask Why. "Was Haiti's collapse last week wrought by the United States? It hardly seems a fair question, given the despotic disposition of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. His rule was illiberal, unconstitutional and corrupt."...
Posted: Fri, Mar 5, 2004 7:00am PST
South Africa backs Aristide probe 
South Africa has joined calls for an independent investigation into claims that Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced out of office....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:09pm PST
US faces mounting international fury over Aristide's 'forced' exit South Africa added its voice last night to a growing international chorus questioning the circumstances surrounding Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure from Haiti and demanded an investigation into allegations that the US forcibly removed a democratically elected president from office....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:02pm PST
Caribbean Women Denounce the US-backed coup in Haiti We, the undersigned women of the Caribbean and of Caribbean descent, denounce the US-backed coup, which culminated in President Aristide’s removal from Haitian soil by US forces on Sunday, February 29, 2004....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 6:35pm PST
Haiti's Aristide accuses France Haiti's former President Jean Bertrand Aristide has accused Paris of colluding with the US to remove him from office....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 6:06pm PST
HAITIAN STORY SOUNDS FISHY TO CARIBBEAN LEADERS Caribbean nations just aren’t buying into the Bush story about Haiti.
Instead, the fifteen member Caribbean Community (Caricom) have called on the United Nations to investigate Sunday’s ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. The leaders are hoping if such an investigation does take place, the former president will be allowed to testify if he wants to....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 1:28pm PST
Blk Commentator on Godfather Colin Powell & 'killing fields" of Haiti Godfather Colin Powell: The Gangster of Haiti;
Kevin Pina's notes on the 'killing fields';
"The deed is done. Haiti has been raped. The act was sanctioned by the United States, Canada and France." - Editorial, Jamaica Observer ''All the people that supported [Aristide] will be dead in three months.'' - attorney Ira Kurzban...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 1:03pm PST
A REVIEW OF CURRENT MEDIA COVERAGE OF HAITI This is a look at the current media coverage of the crisis in Haiti, and specifically how the media is covering the allegations that the U.S. forcibly removed Aristide from power. I have searched the sites for CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, FOX, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. This story was written between noon and 4:30 pm, and all information on each news source is from within that timeframe....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 9:00am PST
Barbara Lee Criticizes U.S. "Destabilization and Undermining of Democracy in Haiti&qu Rep. Barbara Lee compares the administration's policies in Haiti to the invasion of Iraq and talks about the systematic embargo and the disallowance of funding for humanitarian projects in Haiti such as health education and clean water efforts....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:43am PST
House Members Blast Administration For Haiti Policies Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega was grilled by Congressional Democrats yesterday for the Bush administration's handling of the crisis in Haiti at a hearing of the House International Relations subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. We play excerpts of the hearing....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:42am PST
Mainstream Media Fails Itself On Haiti On February 29, Richard Boucher from the U.S. Department of State released a press release claiming that Jean Bertrand Aristide had resigned as president of Haiti and that the United State facilitated his safe departure. Within hours the major broadcast news stations in the United States including CNN, Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, and NPR were reporting that Aristide had fled Haiti. An Associated Press release that evening said "Aristide resigns, flees into exile." The next day headlines in ...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2004 8:37am PST
Bush fails democracy in Haiti Last year, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Brian Dean Curran declared, "The United States accepts President (Jean-Bertrand) Aristide as the constitutional president of Haiti for his term of office ending in 2006."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 11:23pm PST
Haiti: The Yuppie Silence The "progressive" community in America has always and will continue to flabbergast my perception of know-all. As one who commonly identifies with the monolithic-activist-culture, furthermore a proud son of Haiti (albeit Diaspora) striving to fulfill the prodigal Caribbean prophecy, an anomaly has manifested itself on the crown of this dualistic self-perception; grant me the luxury of expounding as to why....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 11:22pm PST
Socialist Worker: "A war waged on the Aristide regime" ROBERT FATTON is the Haitian-born author of Haiti’s Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy. He teaches political science at the University of Virginia. Fatton talked to Socialist Worker’s ERIC RUDER after the U.S. government engineered the toppling of Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2004 11:20pm PST
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