The US owes reparations to Haiti for all of the harm US policies have done there.

Now the challenge will be keeping US corporations out of there so that the rebuilding will not be compromised by US corporate greed. Good luck to the people of Haiti. I hope they can recapture their country from US corporations and the US Empire.

With all due respect, I recommend that you checks your facts and logic to avoid self-embarrassment.

MK: The problem I have with this is that it is based on nothing. The claim that Aristide was kidnapped by the US and France was made by Aristide himself and there is no evidence, either way, in regard to it.

It seems that you only read the article superficially. Otherwise you would have noticed that I wrote: “While sides might argue whether Aristide resigned or was abducted … clearly Aristide is prevented from returning despite the will of a multitude of Haitians.” I focused on the indisputable exile.

MK: Mr Petersen relies on the BBC but aren’t we constantly reading on this website how unrelia ble the BBC is in regard to Palestine?

If you read Herman and Chomsky’s Manfacturing Consent, they note that information does seep through the corporate (or state) media, although it is marginalized.

But it seems as if your demand is for multiple footnoting. Please do an online search on : haiti+aristide+abduction. There are a plethora of news and information sites that will verify the point you dispute. MSNBC points out that the Aristides wish to return, but they are in (agentless) exile. I assume that readers have the powers of critical thinking, that they can find other sources of information on their own, and arrive at their own conclusions.

MK: Why should it any less unreliable in regard to Haiti, a country which European media outlets have largely ignored?

In the case of Haiti, British interests are less involved. Britain, historically and contemporaneously, has little stock in Haiti; therefore, there is room for more latitude in reporting.

MK: France has no interests in Haiti and I don’t see why it would give a damn who rules there.

Really? Then you must be unaware that Haiti, under Aristide, has demanded reparations from France. Search and find out for yourself (haiti+reparations+france+aristide). $21 billion or so dollars sounds like something to “give a damn” about.

MK: As for Canada, nobody except Mr Petersen claims that it was involved.

So I am the only one? Obviously, you did not do an online search (I suggest: haiti+canada+imperialism) nor did you view the first video in the article. In it, Anthony Fenton (who with co-author Yves Engler wrote Canada in Haiti: Waging War on the Poor Majority) describes Canada’s tainted hand in Haiti.

MK: It all sounds like the “America rules the world”, “Europe in America’s pocket” and “Canada, the ever-faithful labrador” propaganda lines!

So you deny US hegemony? Doesn’t matter, the article was about adherence to the UDHR.

This fact is of course used daily by our rulers by ensuring that the people are never properly informed about anything – from the moment they start school through the rest of their lives.

Therefore our first and overriding mission must be to inform, to spread the truth – which is why, presumably, DV exists. (Can I suggest a reading list on your otherwise excellent site, DV?)

At the moment well informed people are a desperately small minority. The first sign that that situation is changing will be when people stop bothering to vote in elections in serious numbers. That will be the first real indication that the game is up, and that the people are starting to understand that the system is rigged against them. Then, and only then will there be a realistic chance to reform the system.

Free Democracy is a solution.
http://www.freedemocrats.co.uk

Way off? Apodicticly, exists!! Education, along establishment of our party, which will write our laws, etc! Our laws are coming! tnx