By Stephen Lendman 4-25-11 Haiti's human rights history is long and abusive, alleviated only during Jean-Bertrand Aristide's tenure. Besides achieving impressive social, economic and political gains, he respected and promoted justice and human rights initiatives. For the first time ever, those arrested had formal hearings before a judge in two days. In 1995, ... Read More

By Liz Hazelton 12th January 2011 From the air they form a neat patchwork of grey and blue, nestling between rundown factories and crumbling slums. But on the ground these sprawling tent cities are a fetid mass of humanity where cholera and crime run rife. A year since a cataclysmic earthquake levelled much ... Read More

By Liz Hazelton 7th January 2011 Its presidential palace is still a shattered shell while the landscape remains disfigured by shambolic tent cities housing one million people. And while the haunting images of a country devastated by earthquake prompted millions in donations from around the world, in Haiti time has stood still. ... Read More

By Nina Lakhani They are the real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster, the human catastrophe on America's doorstep which Barack Obama pledged a monumental US humanitarian mission to alleviate. Except these heroes are from America's arch-enemy Cuba, whose doctors and nurses have put US efforts to shame. A medical brigade of ... Read More

(AFP) – 23 hours ago PORT-AU-PRINCE — Angry Haitian mobs have lynched at least 45 people in recent weeks, accusing them of spreading a cholera outbreak that has killed over 2,500 people across the country, officials said Wednesday. The number included at least 14 suspected sorcerers previously known to have been lynched ... Read More

By Stephen Lendman 12-6-10 Washington's imperial boot flaunts Lavalas' slogan: "All people are people (Tout moun se moun)." The sham elections are one of many abuses. As a result, Haitians continue protesting for rights they've been long denied, including leaders serving them, not monied interests. On December 3, Al Jazeera's Sebastian Walker said ... Read More

LIMBE, Haiti – A gray-haired woman, her eyes sunken and unfocused from dehydration, stumbles up a dirt path slumped on the shoulder of a young man, heading to a rural clinic so overcrowded that plastic tarps have been strung up outside to shade dozens who can't fit inside. On the path ... Read More

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haitians entered election day hoping for the best. Within hours, ballot boxes were ripped to pieces, protesters were on the streets and nearly every presidential hopeful was united against the government. Add it to Haiti's list: Already reeling from a catastrophic earthquake, one of the world's poorest ... Read More

(Washington Post) Researchers should determine whether United Nations peacekeepers were the source of a deadly outbreak of cholera in Haiti, two public health experts, including a U.N. official, said Wednesday. - (AP) Protesters attacked a cholera treatment center as it was preparing to open in the city of St. Marc on Tuesday, ... Read More

Could the moon be an artificial structure? Could it be hollow? With the level of technology we have today, how come they haven't sent a *man* back to the moon...just to see what's crackin'? Seriously though, very interesting stuff. COTO Report Interview with David Icke part 3 of 18 ... Read More

Medical workers in quake-hit Haiti are fighting to stem a cholera epidemic that has killed nearly 200 people and sickened more than 2,000 ... Read More

By KATHY CHEN WASHINGTON—The bulk of U.S. military forces will depart Haiti on Tuesday, leaving United Nations forces and civilian groups to help the country rebuild its devastated capital in the wake of January's deadly earthquake. The departure, which was agreed upon by the U.S. and Haitian governments and long anticipated, signals ... Read More