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Haitians are tiring of waiting for help. At least it’s what I see coming from so many fronts. The U.S. seems to have taken over the country and serves as a buffer as to what…
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While the U.S. still tries to figure out how to help Haitians in their $100 million (committed) relief effort, the Cubans (with little money to spare) are working round the clock to…
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There are many in Haiti complaining that the U.S. relief effort looks more like a military invasion then an effort to help out a country devastated by an earthquake. See for yourself. …
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If you’re one of those people who still believe that Rush Limbaugh is funny, irreverent, smart… or you simply like the round man, I’d like you to see this Keith Olbermann commentary.…
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Excerpts of Naomi Klein’s appearance on Amy Goodman’s show Democracy Now! on the events in Haiti and who are profiting already with the tragedy. As I write about in The Shock Doctrine,…
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Steve Kastenbaum gave a very laudatory report on CNN about the La Paz hospital where the Cubans are operating in Haiti, with help of Spanish and Latin American surgeons.…
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What follows is a commentary sent to me by John McAuliff, executive director of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development, an NGO out of New York. John was very involved in the…
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FLORIDA POLITICS STILL ALL ABOUT LINES AND WORDS Florida Times-Union -- January 13, 2009 Mark Woods column Mark my words ... To say that a map of Florida's congressional districts looks…
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By Mercedes Varona Graupera Thetis, a divine mother with understandable concerns, submerged her beloved son in the fountain at Thesalia hoping to make him invincible. She plunged his…
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By Alejandro Torres Rivera (Excerpt from an article written by Puerto Rican attorney Alejandro Torres Rivera.) Venezuelan Vice President and Defense Minister Ramón Alonso Carrizales…
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