Under the Radar
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The great leaders who have been immortalized for their remarkable contributions to the civilizations that straddled human history have one commonality: a narcissistic belief in their infallibili...
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Judging by the circus that is being played in the attempt to prosecute Jean Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier on the generic charge of “Crimes against humanity” for the abuses that occurred under his a...
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Last Thursday was the second anniversary of the January 12, 2010 earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of Haitians and tested the limit of human endurance. Despite the missteps and missed...
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Assuming Arnel Bélizaire’s version of the October 12 verbal altercations at the National Palace between Michel Martelly and a group of legislators is the unmitigated truth, Haiti has a megaloman...
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In light of the unlawful detention of Arnel Belizaire, a Haitian lawmaker, who is accused of being a prison escapee by the Haitian authorities, it is expected that tyranny, arbitrariness and unac...
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Historically, the demise of an Empire and the rise of another have always been accomplished through direct military confrontations. In the thermonuclear age however, this long-established tradit...
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Common sense being uncommon under the best circumstances, Haiti’s political arena is certainly the last place in the universe to find it. Michel Martelly’s proposal to reconstitute the Haitian m...
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Jean de la Fontaine, the 17th century French poet and fabulist, was correct when he wrote “La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure” to which a rough English translation will be “Might m...
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As the malevolence of the UN occupation force in Haiti continues to grow, the so-called mission to stabilize the country known by its French acronym (MINUSTAH) finds itself at a crossroads. The r...
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In 1984, when Ronald Reagan proclaimed “Its morning in America”, indeed, it was. The US’ share of the global trade stood at 25%; the dollar was king, China was an undeveloped country trying to r...
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Seven and a half years into the UN Security Council-mandated occupation of Haiti that is so far responsible for the deaths of more than 10,000 Haitian citizens, the result of political persecuti...
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Because of the interdependency of our world, any policy emanated from the UN Security Council (the world’s governing body grouping China, Britain, France, Russia and the US) is part of a larger ...
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Since the mid-1970, any ill-conceived idea, particularly those emanated from the International Monetary Fund, are advertised as indispensable to Haiti’s development and automatically endorsed by...