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Haiti on this Earthquake Anniversary Still Pays the Price for Having Fought Slavery

One would think that, now that the despised 14-year long United Nations Mission for the (de)Stabilization of Haiti (MINUSTAH) has been forced to shut down, Haiti would be on the road to some modest, sustained, recovery from the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake. It is not. The Republic of Haiti has never been in greater danger than it is now.

Genuine Progress Index Be Damned! Grow, Displace, Submit!!

Rapacious. “They got theirs, so I better get mine. Yes, things change, and, sure this sleepy town is about to boom but that’s the way of the world…. Might as well be part of the winning team – that money making side of things. That’s all you can do.”
I just finished talking to white guy in his late forties, gassing up excavators and huge dump trucks. We’re near the Estacada High School, and he tells me the scrapping is to make room for more ball fields. The school already has fields and a football stadium. This is a town with 3,000.

The Rising of Britain’s “New Politics”

As the Tories plot to get rid of Prime Minister Theresa May, John Pilger analyses the alternative Labour Party, specifically its foreign policy, which may not be what it seems.
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Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in the main entrance.  The world’s third biggest arms manufacturer, BAe Systems, supplier to Saudi Arabia, was promoting its guns, bombs, missiles, naval ships and fighter aircraft.

Migration activist about her refugee child: “Boy or man? Lover or son?”

Swedish migration activist talks about her refugee child. She is conflicted. Boy, or man? Lover, or son?
Here’s a direct translation of what Lina tells the newspaper: “I can’t answer whether I love him or not, because I don’t know. It’s a position of dependence. But we’ve gotten to know each other and we have a tight relationship. We’ve quarreled, cried and discussed. Sometimes I don’t know what we’re doing. Is it my son, my best friend or an adult male?”

En rimligare flykting- och migrationspolitik

Den svenska flykting- och migrationsdebatten gör mig deprimerad.Ett skäl är att debatten inte rymmer någon som helst logik eller stringens. Ett annat att vänstern inte vill se de praktiska och ekonomiska problem som följer med dagens politik. Ett tredje att vänstern brännmärker alla som försöker problematisera frågan som rasister. Ett fjärde att många som vill ha en annan politik uttrycker sig obalanserat, dumdrygt och inhumant.