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At least 7,000 people have signed a petition, backed by filmmaker<br />

Oliver Stone, to pressure <strong>the</strong> United Nations to accept responsibility for<br />

<strong>the</strong> cholera epidemic that has killed 8,000 Haitians and sickened half a<br />

million more. The UN announced plans to raise a $2.27 billion anticholera<br />

war chest, but fails to admit that <strong>the</strong> disease was brought to Haiti<br />

by UN soldiers, or to ensure that “this kind <strong>of</strong> disaster doesn’t happen<br />

again in ano<strong>the</strong>r country where <strong>the</strong>re are peacekeepers,” said Beatrice<br />

Lindstrom, staff attorney for <strong>the</strong> Institute for Justice and Democracy in<br />

Haiti. The Institute filed suit on behalf <strong>of</strong> cholera victims, a year ago.<br />

“The people <strong>of</strong> Haiti never asked for UN troops,” said Robert<br />

Naiman, policy director for Just Foreign Policy. Naiman said pressure<br />

should be brought on <strong>the</strong> United States and France, which backed a 2004<br />

coup in Haiti and <strong>the</strong>n called in UN troops to stabilize <strong>the</strong> coup regime.<br />

Post-Election Debate in Philly<br />

Attorney and talk show host Michael Coard faced <strong>of</strong>f against veteran<br />

activist and pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> African American studies Anthony Monteiro, in a<br />

debate at Temple University. Coard attacked Monteiro’s revolutionary<br />

politics, saying: “If you despise what President Barack Obama has done,<br />

you should despise even more what Mitt Romney” and fellow Republicans<br />

would do. Dr. Monteiro pointed out that Martin Lu<strong>the</strong>r King Jr. broke with<br />

President Lyndon Johnson “in principle over <strong>the</strong> war in Vietnam,” and<br />

would surely break with Obama’s wars if he were alive, today.<br />

Israelis “On Thin Ice”<br />

Israel’s aggressive policies will backfire in <strong>the</strong> new conditions that<br />

prevail “in this Islamist Spring that is spreading throughout <strong>the</strong> region,”<br />

said Dr. Gerald Horne, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong> Houston. “The Israelis aren’t<br />

going to be very pleased with <strong>the</strong>ir new neighbors, and <strong>the</strong>ir new<br />

neighbors will not be very pleased with <strong>the</strong> Israelis, ei<strong>the</strong>r. So <strong>the</strong> Israelis<br />

would be advised to negotiate while <strong>the</strong>re’s still time,” he said. Dr. Horne<br />

spoke on Regent Radio, in Toronto, Canada. Read more<br />

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