Image of the Day

awful propaganda for empire by the likes of Bill Clinton and Dr. Paul
Farmer?
Who should we confer with about this insane Western force that
attacks all that is not like itself, even though it had no attackers? About
Bartholomew De La Casas’ “New World,” enmeshed in its own armor of
materiality, caged in centuries of self-serving lies that defends itself
endlessly from the planet’s masses, bringing genocide it veils in false
declarations of benevolence?" (See full text of HLLN’s regular Jan 1st
essay at Another Independence Day Under Occupation.)
How do we Haitians get justice?
Who do we tell about the UN repackaging old donor pledges and Dr.
Paul Farmer and Obama's complicity in denying the earthquake and
cholera victims justice and reparations, all the while telling the world
they're bringing stability, democracy and civilization to Haiti. How do we
show that Haiti's violence rate is lower than that of most of the tourist
destinations in the Caribbean, has one of the lowest violence rates in the
Western Hemisphere when the US has a Chapter 7 UN peace enforcement
(tourista/MINUSTAH) mission in Haiti collecting nearly a billion per year
when there's no civil war or peace agreement to enforce? Who do we tell
that the kidnappings in Haiti are not the work of impoverished Black
youths but mostly the work of the wealthy global elites and began with the
kidnapping of democratically elected President Jean Bertrand Aristide by
US Special Forces and that the cholera epidemic began under the US
occupation of Haiti behind the UN and NGO humanitarian front? How do
we show a world, convinced by the false benevolence of the "first world"
rulers, absorbed in white gluttony, profit-over-people values, monopolistic
and unfettered capitalism of its absolute evil? How should we Haitians,
who still live and breathe free, fight on for ourselves, our children, for
those who don’t?
In the book “Two Thousand Seasons,” Ayi Kwei Armah writes:
How have we come to be mere mirrors to annihilations?
For whom do we aspire to reflect our people’s death? For whose
entertainment shall we sing our agony? In what hopes? That the
destroyers, aspiring to extinguish us, will suffer conciliatory