Regarding Haiti

Justin is guest blogging for Zeynep over at Under the Same Sun. He has a good post on the information American journalists are offering regarding Haiti, and explains the real reason that there was a coup on Aristede.

This is all taking place in order to destroy Lavalas, the democratic and popular movement in Haiti that was the target - Aristide wasn't the target - of the coup in February. And Lavalas has to be destroyed for reasons of pure racist contempt for democracy, for the same reasons Haiti has never been given a chance to develop on its own in the 200 years since Haitians waged the first successful slave revolt in history.

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There is no way in hell that American/European interests can allow the black descendents of slaves to successfully rule themselves in any country in the world. As long as there is a popular movement toward self-government in Haiti, it doesn't matter that they are "the poorest nation on earth" and no threat militarily or economically. The fear of a successful slave uprising is imprinted on the very soul of every European ruling class (and I include the American ruling class in that as descendents of the Europeans).

And check the first comment to Justin's post. It's a great example of how reporting is controlled.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.