THE REAL POLITIK ISSUE: VOLUME 107, ISSUE 131
OCCUPATION: THE TRILOGY
by Malik Isasis
There was Afghanistan, then came Iraq and now looks like the United States has found another opportunity in which to occupy a country under the guise of helping it. Haiti, reeling from the earthquake, which toppled its fragile government, and its ability to provide security for its citizens, has found itself once again, under the watchful eyes of the United States' military. The US occupied Haiti (and the Dominican Republic) for over thrity years in the early 20th century and has been responsible for flipping governements with violent coup d'état, and assasinations. The island of Haiti has only been cursed in a sense that its neighbor, the United States and the International Monetary Fund has been responsible for most of its political and humanitarian misery because Africans had the audacity to free themselves from slavery.
The earthquake proved to be just the thing for those in the State Department and Pentagon to tie up some loose ends in the small nation state.
Background Info on Haiti
More Pain for Devastated Haiti: Under the Pretense of Disaster Relief, U.S. Running a Military Occupation
by Arun Gupta
The rapid mobilization of U.S troops in Haiti was not primarily done for humanitarian reasons; we're likely to see a neoliberal economic plan imposed, at gunpoint if necessary.
Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief. While both the Pentagon and the United Nations claimed more troops were needed to provide "security and stability" to bring in aid, according to nearly all independent observers in the field, violence was never an issue. Continue.
OCCUPATION: THE TRILOGY
by Malik Isasis
There was Afghanistan, then came Iraq and now looks like the United States has found another opportunity in which to occupy a country under the guise of helping it. Haiti, reeling from the earthquake, which toppled its fragile government, and its ability to provide security for its citizens, has found itself once again, under the watchful eyes of the United States' military. The US occupied Haiti (and the Dominican Republic) for over thrity years in the early 20th century and has been responsible for flipping governements with violent coup d'état, and assasinations. The island of Haiti has only been cursed in a sense that its neighbor, the United States and the International Monetary Fund has been responsible for most of its political and humanitarian misery because Africans had the audacity to free themselves from slavery.
The earthquake proved to be just the thing for those in the State Department and Pentagon to tie up some loose ends in the small nation state.
Background Info on Haiti
More Pain for Devastated Haiti: Under the Pretense of Disaster Relief, U.S. Running a Military Occupation
by Arun Gupta
The rapid mobilization of U.S troops in Haiti was not primarily done for humanitarian reasons; we're likely to see a neoliberal economic plan imposed, at gunpoint if necessary.
Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief. While both the Pentagon and the United Nations claimed more troops were needed to provide "security and stability" to bring in aid, according to nearly all independent observers in the field, violence was never an issue. Continue.
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