Showing posts with label Haiti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haiti. Show all posts

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Haiti's Story

Truthout has thoughtfully provided Noam Chomsky's history of Haiti from his book Year 501.

It's quite a story.

h/t Digby 

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Haiti In Shambles

Haiti is in ruin after a 7.0 earthquake centered near Port-au-Prince. A great deal of the capital city is destroyed and probably thousands are dead. U.N. headquarters is said to be destroyed as is the Presidential Palace. The pictures coming out of one of the poorest countries in the world are devastating. Enigma4ever at Watergatesummer has done a yeoman's job of gathering reports, pictures and links. I can imagine the ultimate death toll is going to be horrific.