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Today's Stories December 13, 2010 Patrick Cockburn December 10 - 12, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Peter Linebaugh Mike Whitney Thomas Volscho Joe Bageant John Barth, Jr. Jeffrey Sommers Jonathan Cook Robert Alvarez Rannie Amiri Franklin Lamb Dean Baker Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers Aurel / Pierre Daum Ramzy Baroud Michael Winship David Ker Thomson Ron Jacobs Christopher Brauchli Missy Beattie Dennis Loo Harvey Wasserman Ingmar Lee Thomas H. Naylor Farzana Versey Ronnie Cummins Sherwood Ross Don Monkerud Stephen Martin Charles R. Larson David Yearsley CP Newswire Poets' Basement Randall and Hahn Website of the Weekend December 9, 2010 Pam Martens Wajahat Ali Sasha Kramer Fatima Bhutto Jimmy Johnson Laura Carlsen Binoy Kampmark Anthony Papa Website of the Day December 8, 2010 Michael Hudson Patrick Cockburn Eric Walberg Mike Roselle Greg Moses Diane Christian Fidel Castro Linn Washington James McEnteer Website of the Day December 7, 2010 Chris Floyd Gareth Porter / Dean Baker Gregory Elich Ralph Nader M. Shahid Alam Dave Lindorff Information Terrorists? David Macaray Linda Ueki Absher Manuel Garcia, Jr. Website of the Day December 6, 2010 Michael Hudson Paul Craig Roberts The US Government's Frontal Assault on Freedom Mike Whitney Sasan Fayazmanesh Steve Breyman Davey D Neve Gordon Greg Moses Mark Weisbrot Ben Terrall Website of the Day December 3 -5, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Darwin Bond-Graham Andy Kroll William Blum Rannie Amiri Ray McGovern Saul Landau / Ramzy Baroud P. Sainath John Carroll, M.D. David Rosen Steven Colatrella Thomas I. Palley Francis Shor Russell Mokhiber Bank Power Mark Weisbrot John V. Whitbeck Sherry Wolf Ronnie Cummins Michael Winship Ron Jacobs Nilofar Suhrawardy Missy Beattie Bill Manson Linh Dinh Bruce E. Levine John Grant David Macaray Yves Engler / Charles R. Larson Scott Borchert Harry Clark David Yearsley Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend December 2, 2010 Michael W. Hudson Paul Craig Roberts Franklin C. Spinney Benjamin Dangl Uri Avnery Mike Whitney Russell Mokhiber David Macaray Ed Moloney Brian McKenna Website of the Day
December 1, 2010 Gareth Porter Wikileaks Exposes Complicity of the Press Paul Craig Roberts Russ Wellen Nikolas Kozloff Conn Hallinan Sheldon Richman Rich Broderick David Solnit Farzana Versey Charles M. Young Charles R. Larson Website of the Day November 30, 2010 Ralph Nader Paul Craig Roberts Bill Quigley Jonathan Cook Dean Baker James McEnteer Tom Engelhardt Sherwood Ross Gina Ulysse Bill Manson Website of the Day
November 29, 2010 Paul Craig Roberts Israel Shamir Mike Whitney Lawrence Davidson Winslow Wheeler / John Carroll, MD P. Sainath Carl Finamore David Macaray Dave Lindorff Website of the Day
November 26 - 28, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Winslow T. Wheeler Ramzy Baroud Harry Browne Bill Quigley / Saul Landau Brian Cloughley Fidel Castro Francis Shor Steve Heilig Terrence Paupp Brenda Norrell Missy Beattie Linh Dinh Christopher Brauchli Eric Walberg Ellen Taylor Ron Jacobs Bill Manson Harvey Wasserman Walter Brasch Michael Dickinson Ingmar Lee Gwyneth Leech David Ker Thomson Charles R. Larson Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend November 25, 2010 Michael Hudson Mike Whitney Gareth Porter Sarah Anderson Karl Grossman David Ker Thomson Rajesh Makwana / Adam Parsons Charles R. Larson Website of the Day
November 24, 2010 Jeffrey St. Clair Paul Craig Roberts James Ridgeway Invasion of the Body Scanners: Is TSA Spreading Cancer? Michael Scott Nick Dearden Russell Mokhiber Daniel Moss Farzana Versey Yasin Gaber Dan Beaton Website of the Day November 23, 2010 Pam Martens Patrick Cockburn Ben Rosenfeld / Franklin C. Spinney Dean Baker Ralph Nader Ray McGovern George Wuerthner Don Monkerud Clare Bayard Website of the Day
November 22, 2010 Michael Hudson James Abourezk Paul Craig Roberts Sasan Fayazmanesh Richard Forno Gary Leupp Martha Rosenberg Lawrence Davidson Patrick Bond Michael Dickinson Website of the Day November 19 - 21, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Jeffrey St. Clair Mike Whitney Joanne Mariner Gareth Porter Karen Greenberg Thomas Christie, Pierre Sprey, Franklin Spinney et al. Rannie Amiri Dr. Jim Morgan Haiti's New Normal: Dispatch from Cite Soleil Lawrence Swaim Ramzy Baroud Ron Jacobs Robert Alvarez Russell Mokhiber P. Sainath David Macaray Carl Finamore Brian Tierney Franklin Lamb Gerald E. Scorse Joshua Brollier Missy Beattie Stewart J. Lawrence Brenda Norrell Christopher Brauchli Carol Polsgrove David Ker Thomson Dave Lindorff Jeff Deasy Bill Manson Clifton Ross Charles R. Larson Twain: the Last Word, One Hundred Years Later Richard Estes David Yearsley Poets' Basement Website of the Weekend November 18, 2010 Diana Johnstone Mike Whitney Behzad Yaghmaian Kenneth E. Hartman Norman Solomon Michael Winship Patrick Bond Joel S. Hirschhorn Website of the Day November 17, 2010 Vicente Navarro James Bovard Jonathan Cook Dean Baker Ralph Nader Nick Turse Sherry Wolf Alienation 101: the Online Learning Rip Off Judith Scherr Peter Certo Website of the Day
November 16, 2010 Pam Martens Richard Forno Gareth Porter Harry Browne Peter Lee Alan Farago Franklin Lamb Frank Green Sheldon Richman Thomas H. Naylor Website of the Day November 15, 2010 Michael Hudson Steve Hendricks Paul Craig Roberts Harvey Wasserman Lawrence Davidson Clancy Sigal David Macaray Tom Engelhardt Steven Fake Website of the Day November 12 - 14, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Patrick Cockburn Mike Whitney Ismael Hossein-Zadeh Dean Baker Gareth Porter William E. Alberts Bill Hatch Jonathan Cook Patrick Madden Mystifying the Crisis: Deadlock at the G20 Ramzy Baroud Rannie Amiri James Zogby Ron Jacobs Mark Weisbrot Tanya Golash-Boza Paul Wright Steve Early Martha Rosenberg Celia McAteer Larry Portis Michael Winship Brian McKenna Gerald E. Scorse Christopher Brauchli Roberto Rodriguez Dr. Susan Block J. T. Cassidy Linh Dinh Farzana Versey David Ker Thomson Phil Rockstroh Charles R. Larson David Swanson Saul Landau Kim Nicolini David Yearsley Poets' Basement Website of the Day
November 11, 2010 Peter Linebaugh Paul Craig Roberts Licensed to Kill Bill Quigley David Macaray Dissing the Boss: the NLRB Files a Landmark Complaint on Free Expression in the Workplace Liaquat Ali Khan / Jasmine Abou-Kassem Dedrick Muhammad Robert Bryce Alan Farago Website of the Day November 10, 2010 Allan Nairn Dean Baker Nicola Nasser Missy Beattie Sergio Ferrari Patrick Cockburn Dave Lindorff Mumia: New Lawyer, New Round Sherwood Ross Joshua Frank Website of the Day November 9, 2010 Uri Avnery Mike Whitney Jordan Flaherty Afshin Rattansi Annie Gell Dean Baker Dave Lindorff Stewart J. Lawrence Walter Brasch Website of the Day November 8, 2010 Paul Craig Roberts Thomas Healy David Swanson David Smith-Ferri Ralph Nader Ray McGovern Torture Sans Regrets: Bush's Confessions John Feffer Christopher Ketcham Website of the Day November 5 - 7, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Vijay Prashad Patrick Cockburn Darwin Bond-Graham
Mike Whitney Linn Washington, Jr. Rannie Amiri Ramzy Baroud Larry Portis Gary Leupp William Loren Katz Brian Cloughley Mark Weisbrot Rubén M. Lo Vuolo, Daniel Raventós / Pablo Yanes Joseph Nevins Neve Gordon Alan Farago Stewart J. Lawrence James R. King Ron Jacobs Franklin Lamb James McEnteer Richard Phelps Saul Landau David Ker Thomson The Long Argument Evelyn Pringle Joseph G. Ramsey Until Pigs Fly: the Morning After With Michael Moore Stanley Heller Missy Beattie Harvey Wasserman Billy Wharton Shamus Cooke Linh Dinh Windy Cooler Charles R. Larson Phyllis Pollack David Yearsley Website of the Weekend November 4, 2010 Doug Peacock Andrew Cockburn Iain Boal Paul Craig Roberts Chase Madar Dave Lindorff Russell Mokhiber Laura Flanders Website of the Day November 3, 2010 Alexander Cockburn Franklin C. Spinney Chris Floyd Dissatisfied Mind: Flickers of Hope in a Deadly Political Cycle William Blum Sheldon Richman Stephen Soldz Mark Weisbrot Stewart J. Lawrence Manuel Garcia, Jr. Election Night in Oakland Norman Solomon Website of the Day November 2, 2010 Vincent Navarro Ishmael Reed Uri Avnery Mark Driscoll Mike Whitney Linh Dinh David Macaray Randall Amster Wikilessons: War is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny Betsy Ross Yves Engler Website of the Day
November 1, 2010 Ted Honderich Steven Higgs John Ross Dean Baker Ralph Nader Justin E. H. Smith Marjorie Cohn Scott Boehm Brian Tierney Trish Kahle Martha Rosenberg Bathrobe Erectus: Feting Hugh Hefner Website of the Day
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December 13, 2010 Report from Cap HaitienListening to HaitiBy DANNY MULLER I have been in Haiti for just over a week, on my second trip this year to support a public health partnership in the North, in Cap Haitien, Haiti's second largest city. It feels like a trip akin to freshmen orientation, a step in the process of becoming a student in a place that is suffering under one of the largest health crises in modern times. Our primary work, which began nine years ago, has consisted of partnering with local public health institutions in Cap Haitien to build their capacity to provide care for their own people. Since the outbreak of cholera seven weeks ago, over 30 of our Haitian staff that we know as coworkers and friends have responded heroically to a cholera epidemic that continues to rage out of control. Haitians are too often portrayed as people to pity or bent on burning tires- in a country of over 10 million people with the majority under 24, little is said about the level of restraint that has been shown by the masses of displaced and financially impoverished people who have seen little if any change in their quality of life since the earthquake, despite the high profile celebrity pandering and international donor (or more accurately public relations) conferences. Some of my efforts have been to report back to people in the United States what is happening here. I have coordinated outreach to media for over a decade on many international issues including banning cluster bombs, ending sanctions and war in Iraq, and promoting humanitarian efforts there and in Gaza, the West Bank, Sudan, and Afghanistan. This week, I sent out a press release to over 700 US and international media outlets announcing that interviews are available with colleagues, including an American water engineer conducting tests on the presence of water borne disease in Haiti's water supply and a Haitian obstetrician and gynecologist who is spearheading community outreach for cholera prevention. It is the first time in over a decade that I received no response, where normally I receive dozens of inquiries; a telling tidbit that speaks to the interest in, and the lack of, Haitian voices represented in the current discourse- facts on the ground from Haitian perspective are of little interest. Cholera has gained some media attention, but to what avail and in what context? Systems are overwhelmed, their efforts and challenges underappreciated: try moving supplies around when the ports and airports may close at any moment, when roads are blocked and difficult to travel when not, when clearance through customs becomes an exercise in patience. Try explaining to a person who is severely rehydrated why there is nothing that can be done. Try understanding why estimates of patients are unknown, when those affected do not have the money (the equivalent of 8 cents) to pay for transportation to a treatment center. This is the world we live in and, yes, have helped create. Over 800 million people, almost three times the number of people in the United States, have no access to safe drinking water. In many ways, cholera is an accelerated version of the ordinary state of affairs, where water borne disease affects the most vulnerable and marginalized. Perhaps one difference is that cholera is less discriminating- impacting adults as well as children. It also carries a strong stigma, in terms of fear of its potency, and a tendency to believe in the US that it only exists as a footnote, in titles from Gabriel Garcia Marquez or as a bygone, eradicated disease that we have little awareness of in industrialized societies, like polio and rickets. In quiet contrast, cholera rages from Nepal to Nigeria, in Zimbabwe, Iraq and Laos, and many other countries where a lack of access to sanitation and potable water increases on this planet of growing slums. When one of ten children under the age of five in Haiti succumbs to death from diarrhea, epidemiologists provide little comfort to families by identifying the strain and source of the illness that afflicts their loved ones. Quite simply, many existing agencies are underequipped to respond to the perfect storm of illness, poverty, wealth and land inequality, and the vast limitations of current political representation. I learned in Iraq that balancing humanitarian needs and security concerns is a challenge yet to be mastered-you can guess who loses out in this scenario. Land rovers and weapons are plentiful; oral rehydration salts, chlorine, disinfectant and clean water are not. Despite these challenges, the efforts of Medecin Sans Frontiers (MSF), Haiti Hospital Appeal UK and others has been extraordinary. MSF has responded with their single largest initiative, hiring over 5000 local workers and treating patients and coordinating cholera treatment centers throughout the country. Chain smoking, 100- hour work weeks are the norm. Haiti Hospital Appeal, in Cap Haitien with limited resources, seems to be everywhere at once- receiving patients with disabilities, coordinating treatment and prevention. This happens in the midst of an active construction site, as they literally build their facilities as they need, and can afford them. People come to Haiti thinking they have all the answers, and as a colleague stated recently, "There is no shortage of good ideas in Haiti." We don't come here with answers, but strive to listen and learn, to partner in appropriate ways that humbly recognize our incomprehensible privilege and disconnect that accompanies the wealth and walls constructed by the West. Yesterday, I was with a close partner from the Haiti Hospital Appeal at their hospital in Quartier -Morin, where MSF has constructed one of the many cholera treatment centers they manage, and manage well. We went scrambling to find a umbilical clamp for a cholera patient about to give birth- I have yet to hear of her and her newborn's condition. How does the world this child is entering mesh with the world I left, where the current holiday season of celebration is signified by a mad scramble for crap we don't need, for plastics to be disposed of, for toxic toys that will never meet the expectations of spoiled children? And yet, we often forget that the struggle for life with dignity continues unabated. Driving to witness one of the education efforts we are conducting, trucks with sound systems driving through the market to share prevention techniques, I passed a wedding party. The day before, hundreds of children impeccably dressed in uniform on their way home from school, young men lining up for the chance at employment, farmers on their way to markets to sell produce, mothers providing for their children against all odds, while depriving themselves of their own needs. You are reading this, perhaps expecting some happy conclusion, a winning paragraph that ties everything together, that preserves the crumbling vision we as Americans have projected onto others and ourselves: never ending growth and prosperity that rewards those who earned it, and still trickles down to those in need. This does not happen. What is happening is that not enough people care. Danny Muller is privileged to work with Konbit Sante and the Middle East Children's Alliance. He encourages people to support their work in every way that they can. He can be reached at fugedaboutit@gmail.com.
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