Posts Tagged ‘ Haiti ’

Why US All the Time?

Jan 22nd, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
I’m feeling surly and iconoclastic, so I’m going to ask: why us all the time? Why is it that no matter what goes wrong everybody expects us to fix it? How many billions have we tossed blithely at Haiti over many decades only to see it frittered away, confiscated by assorted inept ...read more

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Disasters Far and Near: Haiti and the U.S. Economy

Jan 20th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured
As the disaster in Haiti moves into its "Katrina" phase of a organizational chaos, relief effort failure, and public health calamity, the world will get another lesson in the dangers of techno-triumphalist posturing. American authority pretends to be in flawless control of a situation that by the minute crumbles into ...read more

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