Midnight of Haiti’s Parliament on the Earthquake’s Anniversary | Le minuit du parlement d’Haïti au jour de l’anniversaire du séisme

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Just as the earthquake had rattled the ground under the feet of Haitians, the dissolution of the Haitian Parliament at midnight, 00:00 on January 12, 2015, exactly five years later, has shaken to the core Haiti’s republican institutions. Right at the day’s start, the terms expired for all 99 members of the House of Representatives and 10 Senators. With only 10 members left, the Senate lacks a quorum and cannot function. (English | French)

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Haiti: Time for Clinton and Co to Pack and Go

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. This is not the first time the United States has occupied Haiti and been evicted from it. There is no other choice for the Clintons but to leave Haiti, together with their international cohort of parasites, including MINUSTAH, the NGOs and USAID. (English | French | German)

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Waiting for Godot on Haiti’s Earthquake Anniversary

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Months after Haiti’s January 12, 2010 earthquake, people were questioning the failure to deliver promised aid funds. Today they research the disappearance of these funds. The result is the same. No help will come. No help has come.

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Fragmentation of News and Causes: The Urgent Need to Think Globally

  By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery Haiti Chery “When the blind men had each felt a part of the elephant, the king went to each of them and said to each: ‘Well, blind man, have you seen the elephant? … Continue reading →

GDP Measures the Wealth of Bankers

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Libya’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 108 percent in 2012. By contrast, the growths of Japan and other developed countries, as measured by their GDP, have stagnated at values below three percent and sometimes negative. If you are shaking your head, thinking there must be a mistake in the World Bank’s computations, think again.

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Humanitarian Imperialism: From Hookworm Treatment to Polio Vaccines

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The lust for power has grown. The collaboration of today’s super rich in their philanthropy is a kind of humanitarian imperialism meant not only to rehabilitate their names but also impose their views on a global scale.

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USAID: Dictator’s Little Helper

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. USAID’s goals were originally to diminish the threat of communism and open new markets for the US; these have expanded to include: developing “countries’ policies and institutions” and even “rebuilding government.”

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The Politics of Climate Change: Is Occupy Turning Into an NGO?

By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. MLK could easily have built a movement to supply food, blankets, and diapers to needy African Americans. Decades later, as climate change exacerbates life for those already on the edge, the arguments are the same: do we put a band-aid over the lash wounds, or do we stop those who administer the beatings?

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MINUSTAH’s Cholera Kleptocracy Prepares to Stay in Haiti | Cleptocracia do Cólera da MINUSTAH Prepara-se Para Ficar no Haiti

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The great majority of Haitians categorically reject the UN force, and Haiti’s Senate passed a resolution in September 2011 that called for withdrawal of the troops by October 2012. Nevertheless, the groundwork is once again carefully laid for renewal of the UN mandate. With a yearly budget of more than half a billion dollars at stake, the disregard for democracy is total. (English | Portuguese)

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Salvadorans Incubate Hope for Sea Turtles | Salvadoreños incuban esperanza para tortugas marinas

By Edgardo Ayala, Tierramerica via IPS. El Salvador’s Jiquilisco Bay, a tiny hidden corner of the Pacific Ocean and home to the country’s longest stretch of mangrove forests, is becoming a haven for endangered sea turtles. (English | Spanish)

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Colonialism of the Mind – Part II

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Of all the campaigns to undermine Haitian culture, the one to discredit restavek adoption — in which a biological parent collaborates with a respected adult to care for a child — enjoys the most zealous support from the west’s NGO and alternative press.

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Massacre at La Visite

By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Thirty six commandos from Haiti’s Departmental Unit for Maintenance of Order (UDMO), together with presidentially-appointed regional and local government representatives, arrived in La Visite Park, near the southern city of Jacmel, to evict 142 families by force on July 23, 2012. In the battle that ensued, 4-12 people were killed.

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Shopping in Petion-Ville While Black | Que dire d’être Noir dans la ‘république’ de Pétion-Ville ?

By Nicole Simon, Le Nouvelliste | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The worst thing was to find this French friend, blonde with blue eyes, two days later, who admitted that she has visited the same store on Louverture Street with all her gear, and no one has ever denied her access. (English | French)

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Haiti’s Homeless | ‘Martelly ne peut pas détruire des maisons qu’il n’a pas construites’

By Staff (WJL), HPN | Staff, Nouvel Observateur via RadioTV Caraibes | Translation by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Residents from the Jalousie neighborhood of Petion-Ville took to the streets Thursday, July 12, 2012 to call for a halt to the measures from Haiti’s Ministry of the Environment to demolish thousands of their homes. “It’s not right that a person should be offered only $465 after his house is demolished,” said a protestor. (English | French)

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