Under the Radar
Charity At what price (part I)
As conventional wisdom dictates; charity has a price. In Haiti’s case, however, the assessment of the benefactors falls disproportionably on the most vulnerable segment of the population: the orp...
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Is France’s permanent membership in the Security Council warranted?
Paris’ unqualified support of corrupt tyrants, like Omar Bongo, who passed away June 8th of an undisclosed illness in a Spanish clinic, should be closely examined, as it is incompatible with Fran...
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Toward the abolition of national governments
Any proponent of Charles Darwin’s “Theory of evolution” would agree that any evolutionary process inevitably peaked. In our case, the evolutionary process seems to have peaked as it relates to be...
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Another Flag Day celebration under the occupation
As per tradition, Haitian Flag Day (May 18) was celebrated grandiloquently throughout the Diaspora, and this year’s had a particular resonance among Haitians, as no less than U.S President, Barac...
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A pattern of bigotry and cruelty link to a wider objective
The beheading of Carlos Nerilus, a Haitian citizen, in presence of a jubilant mob in the Santo Domingo neighborhood of Buenos Aires is a natural outcome of a campaign in the Dominican Republic med...
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Virtual assimilation…a threat to self-emancipation
by Max A. Joseph Jr.
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Almost two years ago, when a French reporter started an interview with Iran’s Amadinejad with this observation: “Judging by the way you dress in public, you are an unconventional leader…,I ...
A referendum on the occupation
by Max A. Joseph Jr
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The long-delayed election for one-third of the Haitian Senate was finally held on April 19 amid fears of anticipated widespread violence that did not materialize, except for a few skirmishe...
Is the UN Implementing Tribalism in Haiti?
by Max A. Joseph Jr.
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Since its founding on January 1 1804, Haiti’s unalienable right to co-exist peacefully with other nations and prosper has been continuously under attack by the great powers. The latest vent...
From Slavery to Occupation
by Max A Joseph Jr
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Naiveté is indisputably expensive, whether one thinks of it as a virtue or a mental weakness. On December 5th 1492, a flotilla of Spaniard sailors arrived in Haiti and was welcomed not with appr...
Populism: the real threat to America
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Haiti’s Elected Officials Are Responsible for the Patronizing Attitude of the U.N
by Max A. Joseph Jr
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As long as the international community’s patronizing approach to solving Haiti’s problems remains attune on the effects rather than the causes, Haitians should expect more NGOs, more peddlers of...
The case against the 1987 Constitution
by Max A Joseph Jr
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It dawned on me that one of the reasons why democracy, which emphasizes compromises and tolerance of opposite views, could never work in Haiti is because absolutism is an integral part ...
Haiti: the domain needs fixing
by Max A Joseph Jr
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A year after the unguarded but truthful statement of Hedi Annabi, the U.N commissioner in charge of the Security Council mandated occupation of Haiti, affirming that the U.N does not have a...
The time has come for a referendum on the occupation
by Max A. Joseph Jr
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Over a thousand kidnappings and more than 8000 murders last year alone; some of the victims decapitated while others buried in shallow graves and doused with acid. One would think of Haiti...
Haiti and the crisis
by Max A Joseph Jr
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As it is becoming evident that neo-liberalism cannot survive in its present form, should Haiti stick to the prescriptions of the IMF/ World Bank/George Soros ensemble, or declare an econ...