Haiti

Ezili Danto: Does Giuliani think he's Bill Clinton 1992 and Beyonce is Sistah Souljah to take down because she artistically lifts up Black power? Haitian Revelers

Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti has a long history of provisional governments gone terribly wrong. A recent problematic example can be viewed as prophecy and a warning about U.S. and other foreign involvement.

Regine Barjon and Georgianne Nienaber: Politicians in Haiti need to start behaving like true leaders in a democracy that is obviously struggling.

Zili Danto: On Wednesday February 10, 2015, in this paradise of European development, a Haitian man named Claude Jean Harry, nicknamed “Tulile,” who was a humble shoe shine worker, was found hanging in Santiago Park.

Mark Schuller and Jessica Hsu: Residents are not necessarily opposed to “development” or tourism. Instead, they are deeply concerned that they will be stripped of their land and no longer have access to the waters in which they fish.

Haitian Tourism: A job as a maid, butler, busboy, cashier or sexual receptacles for Northern tourists will not create wealth for Haiti.

Failures in Haiti: For Ricardo Seitenfus, Haiti's earthquake set the final stage for an "international embezzlement" of the country.

Ezili Dantò: The children are dying. Haiti is dying, dying from the hidden US occupation behind UN mercenary guns. Dying from cholera, dying from Clorox hunger, drought, hurricanes, earthquake evictions, dying in hopelessness and despair

Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti was also stopped dead in her tracks, and for those who follow progress, or lack thereof in the tiny country, many questions remain about foreign aid that has translated into foreign control over Haiti's destiny.

Rev. Irene Monroe: Haitian Vodou is an ancestral folk religion whose tenets have always been queer-friendly, accepting people of all sexual orientations and gender expressions.

Georgianne Nienaber: Americans have loved Haiti to death. We are listless, lazy, cheating lovers who don't have the stamina to go the distance in a relationship. Haiti is just too much work.

Zili Danto: Maybe George Will intended to make the point that the US empire's control of Haiti and other little republics' vote at the UN is not new.

Ezili Dantò: Obama will most likely win again because denial is easier than the hard reality of Obama’s betrayal of Main Street and championing of corporate welfare for Wall Street.

Ayiti Kale Je: When will government authorities recognize that one of the main causes of “liquid death” and so many other crimes and tragedies is the result of their blind embrace of savage neoliberal policies?

Ayiti Kale Je: With the complete failure of the government to fulfill its obligations, who would dare to sip one of Haiti’s traditional drinks, made from homegrown sugar cane? Who will take the risk of being poisoned? Not the privileged, who drink fine, sweet rum or imported whiskies.

Ayiti Kale Je: In Haiti, the authorities continue to mystify the public with promises and “commissions,” while the national clairin industry disappears under a tidal wage of imported clairin.

Ezili Dantò: There’s a reason to recall the efforts responsible Haitians make to survive the Western rabid rage hidden behind the do-gooders’ benevolence.