Sunday, January 31, 2010

UBL: The Progressive Regressive?

Emmanuel Goldstein Lives!

Wow, the guy is pro-environment, anti-corporation, pro-Chomsky, anti-bailout ... a real hero of the progressive left, and just in time! Thank heavens we figured this out before the world lurched leftward; now we can stay firmly rooted in rightness, secure in the knowledge that the friend of our enemies is our enemy -- or is it friend? This is all getting very confusing, and quite tiresome as well. No word yet on UBL's upcoming book "Cave Fear" or whether Michael Moore will write the foreword...

Read it and get the creeps

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Yes, There's Lots of OIL in Haiti

Exxon Marks the Spot
"There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and due to the geopolitical circumstances and big business interests of that era made the decision to keep Haitian oil in reserve for when Middle Eastern oil had dried up.... There is also good evidence that these very same big US oil companies and their inter-related monopolies of engineering and defense contractors made plans, decades ago, to use Haiti's deep water ports either for oil refineries or to develop oil tank farm sites or depots where crude oil could be stored and later transferred to small tankers to serve U.S. and Caribbean ports...."
Read it and weep

And there's more here too

Did oil drilling trigger the earthquake?

Monday, January 18, 2010

Haiti: A Brief and Revealing History

Things They Forgot to Teach Us in School
"The US has worked for centuries to break Haiti. The US has used Haiti like a plantation. The US helped bleed the country economically since it freed itself, repeatedly invaded the country militarily, supported dictators who abused the people, used the country as a dumping ground for our own economic advantage, ruined their roads and agriculture, and toppled popularly elected officials. The US has even used Haiti like the old plantation owner and slipped over there repeatedly for sexual recreation. Here is the briefest history of some of the major US efforts to break Haiti...."
Read the whole article by Bill Quigley