U.S. Threatens Haiti Aid Cut
Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, recently suggested that American earthquake aid to Haiti might be reduced if the results of the chaotic November 28 election are not changed to eliminate President Rene Preval’s favored candidate. Little of the billions in foreign assistance has reached the Haitian people “in a substantive way,” says Alex Main, of the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research. If survival aid were cut “on top of this, it would have catastrophic results.”
Obama Ignores Multiple Crises
The president’s State of the Union Address “had nothing to say” about “growing, fundamental economic inequalities” or the fiscal crisis engulfing city and state governments,” says Richard Wolff, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The resulting damage to society “completely dwarfs anything the president was talking about.” Wolff is author of Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It.
The Supreme Court's Assaults on Black Rights
In the 40 or so years following the Civil War, writes Richard Goldstone, the High Court “chipped away” at the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution “until, by 1903, virtually no Black person in the South cold vote, and slavery had more or less been reinstituted” in terms of social relations and employment relations between Blacks and whites. Goldstone is author of Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court.
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The undemocratically imposed bourgeois political misleaders in Haiti must be understood as tools of imperialism that have led the country into its ongoing crisis.
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