WikiLeaks: Embassy’s “Privatization Update” Shows Shock Doctrine in Action in Haiti
Klein spells out the definition of shock doctrine: using shocking situations to push through legislation that would not be passed under normal circumstances. The shock doctrine is, as she states, a “democracy-avoidance strategy.” – Naomi…
WikiLeaks Haiti: The Aristide Files
I’m a little late in posting this here to my blog, but I recently co-authored with Kim Ives this piece in The Nation. A longer, more detailed version of this story including discussion of how…
WikiLeaked Cables Testify to Haiti PM Nominee’s Repressive Past
Co-authored with Kim Ives in Haiti Liberte: Bernard Gousse, whom Haitian President Michel Martelly nominated for Prime Minister on Jul. 6, was so repressive, uncontrollable and ineffective as Haiti’s de facto Justice Minister seven years…
WikiLeaks: Disaster Capitalism in Quake Relief Effort
Co-authored in The Nation magazine with Haiti Liberte‘s Kim Ives: Disaster capitalists were flocking to Haiti in a “gold rush” for contracts to rebuild the country after the January 12, 2010, earthquake, according to a…
WikiLeaks: Militarization in Quake Relief Effort
Published last week by The Nation magazine, with a longer version in the weekly Haiti Liberte: Washington deployed 22,000 troops to Haiti after the January 12, 2010, earthquake despite reports from the Haitian leadership, the…
The Aftenposten 13: New Wikileaks Cables Show Extent of US Opposition to Aristide
Not long after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide landed in Haiti yesterday, ending an exile begun in 2004 by a US-backed coup d’etat, Kristoffer Rønneberg at the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten posted online 13 new private diplomatic…
Aristide’s Return and Wikileaks: When Will the US Finally Change Course on Haiti?
Disclaimer: I write bland headlines. But hopefully you’ll find the post itself worth your while. I’ll add links tomorrow. It’s late and I need to get home! “President Rene Preval made reference to these rumors,…
Wikileaks: US Embassy Makes Its Case for MINUSTAH
An October 2008 cable just released by Wikileaks called “Why We Need A Continuing MINUSTAH Presence in Haiti” recommends MINUSTAH’s presence continue until at least 2013. The US pays one fourth of its budget. Some…
Wikileaks: DR President Believes Brazilian MINUSTAH Commander Assassinated, Suspects Cover-Up
Dominican President Leonel Fernandez told State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Patrick Duddy in January of 2006, according to a cable released by Norway’s largest newspaper, that he suspects Brazilian MINUSTAH military commander Urano Bacellar was…
Wikileaks: UN Response to Gangs “Not Sufficiently Robust,” US tells Brazil; Blocking Aristide A Priority
Excerpts below from a June 2005 cable posted by the Brazilian newspaper Folha, in which the State Department, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, impresses upon Brazil the need to keep former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide…
