nations are ruled today. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month of food i should try it because you know how fabulous i had luck i got so many i mean i have way and sometimes i believe that i'm still the same really messed up. in the old story so personally. it's. worse for the little things. like that sort of a. regular guy for a minute. what we're about to give you never seen anything like this until it. was up guys i'm having martin well after nine hundred days of being held with no

charges whistleblower i mean private bradley manning finally took to the stand yesterday to speak for the first time this case and today he did the same thing provided more details on his harsh treatment long confinement manning spoke of his experience in the leg irons which are handcuffs that essentially chain your legs together and his treatment solitary was locked up for twenty three hours a day so it was so traumatizing that when he was finally transferred to a medium security prison in two thousand and eleven he felt uneasy moving freely around in the cell block manning was subjected to additional restraints story a nine month period where he was confined to scratching suicide prevention bedding and every night he was forced to strip down naked even being made to remove his eyeglasses and reading material from his cell but yet the military contends the treatment was proper. that's interesting that one government proper treatment is another man's torture so let's break that set. a

little. good for you never seen anything like that. so guys i know that troll is going to troll and is going to hate but instead of calling out the trolls today i want to highlight some of the awesome coverage breaking this set has been getting check out this article feature from common dreams and titled r t's abby martin accuse israel of war crimes for targeting journalists by juan cole which says quote abby was the was the victim of a smear attempt by the israel lobby which accused her of support for terrorism because she dared called illegal israeli actions illegal if more journalists stood up to such smear campaigns with her feistiness the world would be a better place watch her let her detractors have it thank you for that one that's awesome and yes if more journalists did call spade a spade and didn't let fear reign supreme over the truth the world might be a better place moving on the next articles of future from firedoglake and titled

abby spar a slayer by edward teller just to give you the context this 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 awesome finally one of the most read online news publications the huffington post recently featured an article about gaza written by linda in the laws 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 they 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 defamed as being anti-semitic but overall this tension 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 that 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 fringe 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 lagos on the epicenter of the two thousand and ten earthquake former u.s. president jimmy carter and his wife rosalynn work intimately for a week every year with habitat accompanying the organizations working to should have for the poorest communities around the world what habitat is doing is amazing and providing homes for one hundred. 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. use of peace and solve which is why he believes there has been allocated to government heat. of the united states. needs to cease and desist. well up. to the middle of the hour. and also getting brutal over all over all of the problems with the fair the. u.s. and whether that be there what was unusual very good. that he did because nothing will. go all the. big years of the focus for the he will close

that program with. this with a little bit of he. most of the year or so we're. going to see you're going to come up with it do you think it will grow it difficult so i think if you go so reboot it will hold even lower than usual. because the only. thing that. leads to this race to the next you're still that will will be living it will be halted. he took the lives of these people will work for you he will be there. i really appreciated president carter's optimism. about haiti's future and isn't this he has 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. in trying to. move. on to the. role of. the routes that they were. ok. and deeded 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. that the haitian government is functioning better than the american government and as you know the european union has a plain old even the paschal budget so we have to put these 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 struggle for years to fully implement self-governing democracy and that despite these shortcomings he's seeing 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 and to maintain an outpost for u.s. corporate interests fast forward to nine hundred ninety when john bircher 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 dearest good leaders were appointed to key diplomatic positions infrastructure initiatives were terminated the haitian

national police was deterred because of the weapons and 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 it began to unite areas steeds political potence opponents that would eventually overthrow his government and it's more than a coincidence that these same opponents were trained at the school. america is a 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 areas steet 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 sent the haitians selecting their next leader for themselves the international community chose a former u.n. official gerard latortue was sworn in as the new prime minister of haiti but the fifteen nation caribbean community refused to recognize the latortue government 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 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 breaking the set and subscriber check out our facebook page at facebook dot com break and said 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 wonder about what i'm doing when i'm not on or follow me on twitter at abby martin . they didn't break 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. looking pretty much in the field that you won't find it here if you're looking for relevant stories unique perspectives on top my scans and our.

own home. all right guys here's the deal because secure isn't putting on concerts for haiti or the fact that why class john and it is better for presidency there doesn't mean the country isn't deserving of our attention right now breaking us that traveled 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 man 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 seventy 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 all. other imperialists nations have set the stage for haiti's vulnerability presenting solutions that seem to always fall short to find out why breaking the set traveled to haiti on a chartered 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 little gun 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. 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 that remains concerned about the thousands of others that can't share his good fortune i don't know what i could do for them but also i have already. though gone 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 to tap 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 helping start micro businesses help them. to learn how to. dispose of trash why. there are 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. and about to take charge of where the sun 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 to half billion dollars after the earthquake but according to the u.n. only about half of that 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. rose around here were here when aristide was first elected when he came back so we are 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. un 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. were unhappy with the route 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 mixin 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 and start from scratch but starting from scratch would require 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 is plenty that can be said about haiti so far we've only touched

upon a few of the key issues so to talk a little more about what we learned in the 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 of all rob lowe is not only has to go is a good trip. 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 dress up to go to school the ribbons there are really cute little girls there but we did go to the worst in port au prince. 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 and 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 that. 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 appalled apocalyptic feeling like a nuclear bomb hit the region and it's just kind of everything that was remained in the sort of the civilization is building on top of these remnants of these structures really fascinating and then of course. the tent city and then you when it was a huge presence there as well as we said as you 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. it 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 and when we're talking about. 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 sign this free trade agreement and loosen tariffs this was terrible for haitian farmers and again this was great for american conglomerates and corporations 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 as you mentioned is the 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. has a hose on haitian farmers it was 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 policies 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 resources of 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 could 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 the 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 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 there in haiti. where these stormtrooper guards are running around on trucks a really heavy presence to see i mean people are literally competing for road space 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 you in

vehicle and really just want to mention monsanto could you briefly have like thirty seconds just talk a little bit a month does roll 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 it 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 learned a lot really appreciate your input cheers out here out. well i hope you guys learned a little bit about haiti are the poorest country in the western hemisphere and seeing the devastation firsthand was a life changing experience not only deeply humbled but it made me realize how much more there. to be done and the pressure of the international community to use every dime already pledged to haiti for the programs that will actually let the country

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