By Jordan Shilton WSWS Last month, former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde became the first leading political figure to be charged for his part in the 2008 economic collapse, which hit Iceland with particular severity. In a charge filed at … Continue reading →
Editorial, Granma. In the war against Libya, Washington is simultaneously pursuing several objectives: taking control of oil, protecting the safety of Israel, preventing the liberation of the Arab world, hindering African unity, and setting up NATO as Africa’s watchdog.
Continue reading →By Hank Charles, WSWS. Five months after declaring Laurent Gbagbo the winner of last fall’s run-off presidential election, the Ivory Coast’s Constitutional Council declared former IMF economist Alassane Ouattara the winner of the election, swearing him in immediately.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Aid money comes with strings attached, and perhaps the most pernicious strings of all have been the projects to depopulate Haiti of its youngest citizens. Over 1,100 children were removed from Haiti to the U.S., on U.S. aircrafts and from a U.S.-controlled airport, immediately after the earthquake.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Among the parasites that prey on humans, those most pernicious live in the tropics and work by proxy.
Continue reading →By Kiraz Janicke, Venezuela Analysis. Venezuela’s main crime appears to be its non-participation in the UN coordinated “cluster system” which Adams argues “has worked fairly well” – never mind that the UN has been an occupying force in Haiti.
Continue reading →By James Ridgeway, Reader Supported News | Haiti Chery “Since the 1980s, in particular, the United States has helped turn a nation of low-tech subsistence farmers into a dumping ground for American agribusiness.”
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