the context as far refers to pro israeli propaganda and the article teller states that my reports on gaza may have been the best on american television and welcomes me to the battle well thank you man i'm on or to the props and also please to take the title of us tara slayer also i'm finally one of the most read online news publications the huffington post recently featured an article about gaza written by linda in the laws though which said quote the most vocal challenger of israel's aggression is abby martin a t.v. anchor for russia's r.t.s. station it's a performance worth watching for its fearlessness and confronting israel directly which american journalists and the american government lack the courage to do. that is so dope to be quite the most vocal challenger of israel's aggression but at the same time it makes me kind of sad that no one else with a platform such as this is calling out such glaringly obvious truths i mean i just call it like i see fit i try to speak the truth no matter how unpopular it may be

because i feel like it's the right thing to do i've never known any other way what this really shows me as more than anything else how controlled the media really is their hands are tied by the corporations that fund them furthermore it shows me how scared journalists are to address israel and any sort of confrontational fashion because oftentimes when you simply speak out against the policies of the israeli government you're bullied and you get to famed as being anti-semitic but overall this attention to this show is encouraging it's awesome it's amazing and i have no one to thank other than you the viewer for sharing my work for getting the truth out and for making my words heard around the world it's only because of your support of people even know about this show look the more prevalent these issues are the less taboo they become and that's what we need to do we need to move these ideas from the french to the mainstream and of course we need to keep breaking the

set. as you may already know my producer and i just got back from haiti who worked alongside the nonprofit organization habitat for humanity building houses in lego on the epicenter of the two thousand and ten earthquake former u.s. president jimmy carter and his wife rosalynn worked intimately for a week every year with habitat a company in the organizations working to shift for the poorest communities around the world. what habitat is doing is amazing and providing homes for one hundred families in just one week is definitely no easy feat but unfortunately it barely scratches the surface the crux the problems in haiti go much deeper now i couldn't go all the way to haiti without asking a president carter himself about the corrupt government policies that might be and

hitting the advancement of these kind of projects on a larger scale. and use all he can. which is why he. hasn't been out here because he. is. he insists he is. well. blue with a little. heart. and also ok group oh oh oh boy the problems with michael over there in the. us and i love that music but you're going to get along. with nothing and will probably go like he did here on the phone with me he will go through and i will look at your program and other you think this is a little bit of he. goes to the. person you are.

going to say you're going to come up with indeed you think it will go so i think if you go so the greeting will you little and you will know that we sold. the ability. to. lead in this race to the next you're still all will be able to do it will be exalted with the heat so you know this is the work you need. to do. i really appreciated president carter's optimism about haiti's future and his enthusiasm to appeal to the international community to open up the rest of the aid that was pledged but never allocated from the two thousand and ten earthquake his wife rosalynn carter jumped in on the conversation to add her two cents.

and deed with such a tumultuous history of political instability it has been an arduous road for the haitian government to progress into a fully functional apparatus and closing president carter made an ironic remark in which i found pretty interesting. is that the haitian government is functioning better than the american government and as you know the european union has plain old even the paschal budget so we have to put things in perspective and give them credit when they do some good things by implying that the haitian government is functioning better than the u.s. government or the e.u. is a cutting global critique of the dysfunctional nature of these government bodies carter

mention that he's seen haiti's struggle for years to fully implement self-governing democracy and that despite these shortcomings he's seen progress being made but as a former u.s. president i was surprised that he didn't mention that the policy is undermining true democracy and sustainability in haiti have for the last century come from the u.s. government u.s. involvement began in one nine hundred fifteen when the government began to control haiti in a way that allowed them to maintain an outpost for u.s. corporate interests. fast forward to nine hundred ninety when john bertrand aristide became the first democratically elected leader of haiti but instead of supporting haiti's first democracy the u.s. immediately acted to undermine it what a shock during the bush administration and tears did leaders were appointed to key diplomatic positions infrastructure initiatives were terminated the haitian national police was deterred because of a weapons in bargo and at the same time a little think tank in washington d.c.

called the international republican institute or the i r i was hard at work in haiti with a three million dollar budget to quote promote democracy there they began to unite areas steeds political opponents opponents that would eventually overthrow his government and it's more than a coincidence that these same opponents were trained at the school of america's school notorious for educating some the most ruthless dictators in the world all of which heightened haiti's political crisis now keep in mind the ira is the same organization that also tried to back a coup against venezuelan president hugo chavez so basically it's a front group to spread u.s. interests under the cloak of democracy and not only were they training the opposition the senior campaign officer of the i r i stanley lucas was launching a full on propaganda campaign on haitian airwaves even going so far as promoting the assassination of eris stede interestingly enough just three years into the bush

administration things came to a head in two thousand and four when aristotle was ousted by the us backed coup d'etat subsequently steve was forced into exile in africa and said if the haitians selecting their next leader for themselves the international community chose a former un official gerard latortue was sworn in as the new prime minister of haiti but the fifteen nation caribbean community refused to recognize a lot to govern. and this is the time that u.s. troops handed over control of haiti to the u.n. which created a plethora of new challenges so when we talk about haiti today when we talk about its progress since the two thousand and ten earthquake it's important that we do so while taking into account the country's history which is undoubtedly been undermined by the policies of the american government it's through this historical lens only that we can analyze haiti's development and perhaps begin to rectify the

damage that's been done. now if you like what you see so far go to our you tube channel youtube dot com plus breaking the sad and subscriber check on our facebook page at facebook dot com slash break in and set you know what is going to hate going to troll if you're intelligent you can always write me and let me know you think and if you're wondering about what i'm doing when i'm not on or follow me on twitter it out in march we take a break from my preaching for now but stay tuned to hear more about my adventure in haiti and why the country still deserves our attention even though the mainstream media coverage has stopped next.

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all right guys here's the deal just because secure as in put it on concert for haiti or the fact that white cloud john and it is bid for presidency there doesn't mean the country isn't deserving of our attention right now breaking with that travel there to see the poor conditions haitians live in and find out what needs to

be done so we can come back and share it with you my producer manimal rob lowe has the story check it out. this is port au prince the capital of the western caribbean nation of haiti when most of us think of haiti the first thought that might come to mind is the seven point six magnitude earthquake that devastated much of the country in two thousand and ten but in the poorest nation in the western hemisphere eighty six percent of the population lived in slums even before the earthquake hit . two years on four hundred thousand people who had homes now live in tents displaced indefinitely in conditions that no human being should ever have to endure and although there has been an outpour of international aid support and celebrity endorsements to raise awareness for the country haiti has been and remains a country neglected. the extreme poverty in haiti is in stark contrast to its neighboring country the dominican republic the border that splits the island into

is a remnant of centuries of spanish and french colonization accompanied by the brutal atlantica slave trade. in downtown port au prince there are countless monuments commemorating the seven hundred ninety one slave revolt in haiti the first successful all black slave revolution in the history of the world more recently the united states and other imperialists nations have set the stage for haiti's vulnerability presenting solutions that seemed to always fall short to find out why breaking the set traveled to haiti on a charter plane with former u.s. president jimmy carter and a team of over six hundred volunteers from the nonprofit group habitat for humanity . we arrived at what would be our home for the next three days a small campsite in logan a village only a short distance west of port au prince. then we joined the habitat

team at their build site in an area called santo. to assess the impact the organization is having on the local community i'm sorry isn't about here that's where we met this man joseph out who gave us a tour of the home that was built for his family last year after they became refugees of the two thousand and ten earthquake while he and his family have found a permanent refuge joseph remains. third about the thousands of others that can't share his good fortune i don't know what i'm going to do for them but also have already. helped. logan was the epicenter of the two thousand and ten earthquake which killed three hundred thousand people in one day ninety percent of homes in this area were destroyed. which is why habitat for humanity put such a strong focus on rebuilding in this community this year how the town for humanity

is working on an especially ambitious project a team of over six hundred volunteers aiming to build one hundred homes and less than a week the homes that you see being built around me are designed to withstand both earthquakes and hurricanes natural disasters that claimed the lives of thousands of haitians every year. but building homes for one hundred families is a drop in a bucket when it comes to addressing the plethora of setbacks that prevent sustainable progress in haiti. sally black a habitat worker from oregon who is returning for the third time speculates on what more can be done anything we can do to help them would be appreciated i mean from help them start micro businesses help them. learn how to. dispose of trash why is. there a lot of things we can i just don't know how to do it how to get it started claude judy national director of habitat for humanity adds that laying the groundwork for

sustainability is a crucial goal for the organization. will not be for ever so we trend. in about to take charge of where the song but how to empower the entire nation it's a question shared by the international community finding a way to provide aid that also promotes sustainability world nations pledged nearly four and a half billion dollars after the earthquake but according to the u.n. only about half of the. money has been allocated to the haitian government a point president carter said is regrettable adding that the aid to haiti should be forthcoming without the need for haiti to have a quote perfect government this is my eleventh. hour here when aristide was first elected when he came back so we're seeing different governments in haiti they have a brand to get difficult time so i think we should give the government haiti so breathing room and give them all the support we can even though there may be

a. waste of money i think this is the best place to invest it even if half of it gets spent wisely but there's more to this story than just aid and political instability a catastrophe on a nationwide scale that isn't the result of a natural disaster or corrupt government policies a manmade epidemic cholera a deadly water borne bacteria although the u.n. denies responsibility for the outbreak overwhelming evidence points to a team of u.n. troops from southeast asia who brought cholera to haiti two years ago by dumping human waste into a channel of the country's main water supply since then there have been over eight thousand deaths and over six hundred thousand infected by a disease that had never existed in haiti before the muslim when you. were unhappy with the spread of cholera the public health has shown us how to clean the water treating it with bleach and making it safe furthermore the u.n.

presence has been referred to as an occupation polls show that haitians overwhelmingly want the u.n. to leave their stay has been tainted by a number of scandals ranging from rape and even the killing of civilians mixon a local habitat organizer explains his hope for haiti. national committee can be part of it but i think the haitian needs to resolve the problem because the first same it means it is life from start from scratch but starting from scratch would rip. quire releasing the remaining aid money or reallocating the funds currently spent on up keeping thousands of troops to be reinvested toward sustainable agriculture and infrastructure for the entire country so this is it this is haiti how can this nation rise above its legacy of colonialism centuries of international segregation a yearly barrage of natural disasters and a constant struggle for political stability we may never know unless we give the haitian people a chance to try for themselves. r.t.

port au prince haiti. all right so there's plenty that could be said about haiti so far we've only touched upon a few the key issues so to talk a little more about what we learn and a haiti and more issues that make finding a solution to the ongoing crisis so important i'm joined by my own producer for breaking a segment while rob lowe is not only has gone for a good trip there and. so i just wanted to love i took a bunch of photos there that i wanted to play as as we're talking here what i noticed was really cute you know even as extreme as the conditions were all the kids you know they still dressed up to go to school the ribbons their hair really cute little girls there but we did go to the worst in port au prince. and it sounds cliche to say especially when you see conditions as bad as these but life does go on and i mean it was amazing how quickly once you i mean once we did

leave the habitat for humanity camp we got a chance to go and see the rest of the city we had these two guys that didn't even . they didn't even speak english but it's such an easy way to connect with these people. i really felt like i couldn't leave after the yeah yeah it was really amazing and what was really incredible also i want to point out this photo. the rubble you know the earthquake happened two years ago but you still see not just slums not just widespread devastation but rubble and just these dilapidated buildings structures that are still just left i mean really there's been no real effort to rebuild so what you saw a lot of was this kind of post appalling apocalyptic feeling like a nuclear bomb hit the region and it's just kind of everything that was to remain in this sort of the civilization is building on top of of these remnants of these structures really fascinating and then of course. the tent city and the you when it was a huge presence there as well as we said as he said in the package you know four hundred

thousand people who had homes before the earthquake now live in tents and there's really no initiative being taken to provide it's really it's really staggering and one of things that you were mentioning earlier. in your presentation is the amount of influence and the amount of involvement that the united states has had in you know kind of setting up the scene for what haiti is right now and one point that we actually didn't get a chance to talk about in the package was the agricultural aspect of this and how much of the devastation to haitian agriculture the united states has had a direct impact in when we're talking about the government that you kind of wind up with in one thousand nine hundred four when president clinton reinstated their steed he did it under the condition that he would have to kind of sign this free trade agreement and loosen tariffs this was terrible for haitian farmers and again this was great for american conglomerates and corporations that are trying to make sweatshops out of out of out of haiti and this kind of drove all this rural business out of out of the parts of haiti and kind of crowded the the big cities

like port au prince gone which were the cities that were most hard right by the earthquake again in two thousand and four all the political instability that the united states kind of was pretty you know had a heavy handed in. all of that was very detrimental to businesses in rural parts of haiti that again drove more people into the capital i'm going to say a lot more deforestation and hate and you do the dominican republic and also you mention this one package how the pan american health organization as demanded that it would cost one point five or so billion dollars to really provide the infrastructure for haitians to have clean water and eradicate the cholera epidemic another thing another statistic is that it would cost a pretty much around that same amount a little bit more to completely restored haitian agriculture local domestic agriculture which really reverses the the decades of the model crop in the deforestation all of these failed policies that the u.s. is imposed on haitian farmers it is really that's their main source of income if we could really provide this is stable agriculture really could revolutionize the

country and let them flourish on their own yeah and i mean i think that one of the one of these fallacies that would that we end up falling into is that we oversimplify a complex situation but in haiti i really. i honestly feel and given the amount of people that we talked to and even president carter when we got a chance to talk to him the resources are there the research with the resources that have been pledged to haiti only half of these resources have actually made it to the people if we would just free that up i mean we talk about you know you were just mentioning one point one point one maybe less than than a billion dollars to revamp the clean water infrastructure we know we can take that money that's the amount of money that the u.n. spends to keep ten thousand troops in haiti every year to be a one time payment of a billion dollars to revamp infrastructure and even if you're not going to take it from the u.n. just let the countries that have pledged the money to haiti right give the money to haiti what's the hold up i mean we saw that the u.s. was undermining the police force i mean i mean almost causing this political instability for her to to promise to justify a u.n.

troop presence and definitely in there in haiti that it really was not agree where these stormtrooper guards are running around on trucks really heavy presence are to see i mean people are literally competing for road space with with the u.n. vehicles i mean there's not a good section of of port au prince that you can drive through and not see a u.n. vehicle and really quickly i just want to mention monsanto can you briefly we have thirty seconds just talk a lot about month santo's role in this whole sure and i think that monsanto and i really can't speak for them whether or not they had good intentions to get as many seeds that they did but i know that you could call and they said they're going to. know the people there was a group of peasants in haiti that kind of had this little more than a little is a larger protests and that not only were they kind of protesting against g m o's but they were protesting against the idea that this is this is a handout and what they write what they need is actually a hand up they need a way that they can find sustainability for themselves absolutely thank you so much it was awesome to travel with you learn a lot really appreciate your input cheers out in your apple. well i hope you guys

learned a little bit about haiti and the poorest country in the western hemisphere and seen the devastation firsthand was a life changing experience and not only deeply humbled but it made me realize how much more there is to be done in the pressure of the international community to use every dime already pledged to haiti for the programs that will actually let the country whorish on its own. mission free. education free in-store charge of free arrangements three. three stooges free. download free broadcast live video for your media project a free media dog r t v dot com.

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