True News: The Truth About Haiti from Freedomain Radio

The real facts behind the disaster in Haiti - the only natural part of the catastrophe was the earthquake, the rest is man-made. An interview with Carl Lindskoog from the City University of New York.

He has suggested the following links for additional research:

Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
http://ijdh.org/

Jubilee USA Network
http://www.jubileeusa.org/

Suggested Reading:
Paul Farmer, The Uses of Haiti, 3rd ed. Common Courage Press, 2006.

Josh DeWind and David H. Kinley III, Aiding Migration: The Impact of International Development Assistance in Haiti. Westview Press, 1988.

Alex Dupuy, Haiti in the World Economy: Class, Race, and Underdevelopment Since 1700, Westview Press, 1989.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• haiti
• Earthquake
• disaster
• relief
• humanitarian
• aftermath
• catastrophe

[hughtub]

@FreeBritain1 Who is this "god" you speak of? I personally adhere to the rigid belief system of the Wild Prairie Fairies who created the world and everything in it in only 5 and 1/2 days. That's an efficiency gain of 8.33% over what your religion offers! Convert today! Clowns are evil.

[maria610421]

The first thing Black people needs to recognize, if America is still mistreating Black people in the USA, what makes them think the US will treat the Blacks out side America fairly. No Black country should have any confidence in US or the EU, they do not act in the interest of people of colour, they never have and they never will Historical evidence can support that. All country should remain free and indepedent and Africa could help by developing a currency backed by gold.

[shaydm06]

@SKERLOK

slavery isn't exclusive to black people but american slavery (i.e north america, the carribean, and south america) was RACIAL. It was imposed by white people who corrupted the Bible and Christianity to justify their anti-social personality disorder towards yellow, red, brown, and black people.....every major empire took slaves of all races....90% of all slaves in america were black, red, or brown. if a white person ended up a slave it was almost always to pay a debt off.

[pretorious700]

Interesting to note the difference in the effects of the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan from a sociological standpoint. Speaks volumes about the relative merits of both.

[Hashishin13]

The culture of Haiti is less then five hundred years old. I'm pretty sure that island is the one that Columbus landed on with 200, 000 natives which were exterminated in less then 100 years. This should be obvious, they are all black, which means african.

[Hashishin13]

@SKERLOK Some of the blacks were rounded up and enslaved by whites, but a lot were bought and sold like you said. Slavery in lots of Africa ended after the americans freed their slaves.

[sillyhooker35]

33:50 that guy has a great idea!

[built2last31]

the us government used h.a.r.p. to create an earthquake in haiti to wipe them out!!!

[somethingsomethingo1]

@moneyteck it's not like all of us different nationalities of white people (yes there is more than one kind of white person) got together and decided "well jeez we just hate black people so lets all work for free to enslave them. Lets all sail on boats, and do work, lets fight wars, and we won't have to eat, or have clothing, or supplies, or finance!" Get real.. you are the one who needs to read a history book, don't just repeat what somebody else told you. As HUMANS we have all been exploited.

[somethingsomethingo1]

@moneyteck Thats why blacks have built great glorious civilizations in africa right? oh wait, I forgot, once apartheid ended, they spent all their time fighting each other and stealing. Blacks (as well as Italians, Irish, and Asians) indeed helped build this country's infrastructure, but they hardly had any hand in the development of the ideas, or the process of engineering. You also have no concept of world economics, or the fact that all of these activities had to be financed in some way.

[SKERLOK]

blacks werent stolen from africa, they were bought and traded from africa from other africans who went out and kidnapped all the jungle bunnies for money--black sold blacks, the same way whites sold other whites etc--slaver isnt exclusive to black people, read a history book intead of going to church and listening to some angry black guy that exploits other blacks anger for what, money, go figure

[moneyteck]

@thecapdepepene1 blacks cant do shit but they were great enough to be stolen from africa to build the world aka usa....tell you gov to tell you the truth about your ancestors...they were worthless and unskilled to provide for themselves....you are living off of blacks wealth creation fool.. so yeah we blacks cant do shit,..i thought ya said we scares yall? aint that something of doing? ur just stupid