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Cite Soleil, Epicenter of a New Haitian Revolution?

Cite Soleil, Epicenter of a New Haitian Revolution?

What if there were an election and nobody came? It happened in Haiti on August 9, 2015. Language fails us. Words like election, plebiscite and democracy no longer matter. If there had been a word for an election under foreign occupation, then the vacuous exercise would have carried its proper name. The business of occupation […]

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Women’s Rights: When Honor Terrorizes, Burns and Kills

Women’s Rights: When Honor Terrorizes, Burns and Kills

My family and I used to live close to the world in an area called Kotli in Kashmir, in our poor village stuck between high mountains. In our village the kids, young girls and women knew two things very well: fear and pain. Cowed with fear. Tamed with fear. Taught to be quiet with fear. […]

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Will Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and Iraqi Shiite Militias Defeat ISIS in Syria and Iraq?

Will Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and Iraqi Shiite Militias Defeat ISIS in Syria and Iraq?

Lame duck US president is MIA on Syria and Iraq Vladimir Putin made his move on Syria a couple of weeks ago in a well-planned deliberate fashion, seizing the strange political vacuum in the White House. Washington is already in a full-blown election cycle and  scrambling to keep the appearance of competency in foreign affairs. […]

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Haiti’s Aristide: Yet Another Return of the Prodigal Son

Haiti’s Aristide: Yet Another Return of the Prodigal Son

Once again, Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s person is serving as a front to help legitimize Haiti’s pillage by the international community. On September 29 and 30, while a group of more than 15 Haitian political parties organized a series of forums to discuss the debacle of the Haitian elections and conclude that they should be annulled, the […]

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Mercier and Draitser Discuss Disaster Capitalism in Post Katrina New Orleans

Mercier and Draitser Discuss Disaster Capitalism in Post Katrina New Orleans

Eric Draitser:….We are marking the 10th-year anniversary of Katrina, and I am joined first by Gilbert Mercier, the editor in chief of News Junkie Post. He had some interesting experiences around Katrina and New Orleans. When I came around your piece on Katrina, it is really powerful and it took me back to 10 years […]

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