"Haiti and the insanity of ‘official’ denial
by Anthony Fenton
As many as nine peaceful demonstrators were killed in Haiti on May 18, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets despite the risk - and reality - of violent repression by international forces and a militarized Haitian police force. These demonstrators were calling for an end to the illegal occupation by U.S., Canadian and French forces and for the return of overthrown President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.The mainstream media has already done its best to cover this up, which isn’t difficult considering that most corporations no longer have journalists covering Haiti, save for Associated Press (AP), Reuters and the Miami Herald. The readership of these sources has scarcely been privy to any of the realities in Haiti for quite some time.
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Across the globe, denial is all that the U.S. Empire and its vassal states have to rely on. This posture of denial is fuelled by the criminal propaganda that passes as news and journalism as churned out by gigantic and increasingly concentrated media corporations. How long can this denial hold up? As long as we allow it to, I suppose, and as long as there is virtually no social cost to be attributed to the perpetuation of this insanity.
Haitians can only endure the deadly realities of a U.S., Canadian, French and Chilean military occupation, while death squads hunt them down with impunity in the North. At any given time, mass mobilizations in solidarity by the citizens of these occupying countries will be welcomed by Haitians."
http://www.sfbayview.com/052604/officialdenial052604.shtmlHere in Germany, besides some paranoid radical communist socialist weird newspapers, nobody wants to read, Haiti doesn't exist anymore, after the evil corrupt dictator Aristide was toppled by the people of Haiti with the support of the greatest democratic nation of them all.
Only exception: these people, who don't really know how to organize themselves and who desperately need the help of multinational corporations are the victims of natural disasters from time to time.
A little flood here, a litte bit of rain there...
Hello from Germany,
Dirk