Haiti: Could Charlemagne Peralte’s Example Inspire a New Revolution? Part II
Had US Marines not invaded Haiti, Charlemagne Peralte might have become a politician instead of a revolutionary. His father, General Remi Massena Peralte, was a big landowner in Hinche who had served as a Member of Parliament during the Hypollite administration, known for public works like the Marché Hypollite (Marché-en-Fer, or Iron Market). Charlemagne had [...]
Haiti: Could Charlemagne Peralte’s Example Inspire a New Revolution? Part I
After more than a century sailing along as an independent black nation, Haiti collided with the Monroe Doctrine in the form of the National City Bank of New York. Together with the US State Department, Citibank pressured Haiti’s government to sell it 40 percent of the Banque National d’Haïti (BNH): Haiti’s treasury. Thus the US [...]
Gilbert Mercier on RT: Israel Is Playing With Fire in Syria
Once again, Israel bombed Syria, ostensibly to destroy weapons meant for Hezbollah. Instead, the air strike on Saturday, May 4, 2013 killed 15 troops from Bashar al-Assad’s elite Republican Guard, together with more than 100 other Syrian soldiers. As Russia, China and the United States scrambled for a solution to the conflict in Syria that [...]
Boston Marathon Bombing: More Justification for Repression and Endless Global War on Terror
By Gilbert Mercier and Dady Chery We might never learn the motive behind the Boston Marathon bomb attack on Monday, April 15, which is reported to have killed three people and injured more than 170. It could be as simple as an unhinged individual going postal on tax day or a sinister message to Americans [...]
Humanitarian Imperialism: Charity for Power
The same day Pope Benedict XVI resigned from his post, New York’s wealthy Mayor Michael Bloomberg inaugurated a collaboration between Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Pope and Bloomberg’s announcements on February 28 were probably unrelated; nevertheless they underlined a victory of corporate over religious charity. As the Catholic church’s credibility [...]
