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Haiti's Prime Minister wants to mobilize its army of 2000 soldier…

By Evens Sanon, The Associated Press, March 17, 2023 Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry signaled on Friday that he wanted to mobilize the Haitian military to help the national police fight the country's increasingly powerful gangs. During an appearance at the headquarters of the armed forces that he intended to mobilize all security forces in the country i…
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OPL spokesperson Danio Siriac criticizes the silence of the representa…

By Alterpress March 16, 2023 In a recent interview on Alterpress Radio, the political party Organisation du peuple en lutte (Organization of the Struggling People - OPL) expressed its astonishment at the silence of the de facto representatives of Haiti at the recent  meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS). Held on Wednesday, March 15, 2023, in…
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Trudeau, Henry and our problems Two prime ministers occupy the Haitian…

By Frantz Duval, Le Nouvelliste, March 16, 2023 Two prime ministers occupy the Haitian news. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada who does not spend a week without speaking out on the Haitian crisis without ever proposing concrete solutions and Ariel Henry, Haitian Prime Minister, who does not propose anything concrete to address the many Haitian crises…
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Haiti is On the Front Lines of a Possible World War III

By Berthony DuPont, Haiti Liberté, March 15, 2023 Over the past week, the world has lurched ever closer to the brink of World War III, as the U.S. empire continues its desperate attempts to turn back the clock of history and return to the unipolar world that existed before the new multipolar order came to full fruition with Russia’s “special military operat…
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Renewed Calls for International Solidarity from Haitian Trade Unions a…

By Travis Ross, Black Agenda Report, March 15, 2023 Haitian trade unions and civil society groups are united in demanding sovereignty for their nation and an end to foreign interference. A coalition of trade unions in Haiti recently published  the “Ouanaminthe Declaration.” This followed a two-day gathering by members of The Confederation of Haitian Worker…
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Haiti’s Rule of Lawlessness

By Monique Clesca, Foreign Affairs, March 10, 2023 To comprehend the depth of the rot in Haitian politics, consider the public figures who have been slapped with sanctions by the U.S. and Canadian governments over the last few months because of their corruption and connections to drug smuggling and gang violence. The list reads like a who’s who of the polit…
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Canada's top general worries military lacks capacity to lead Hait…

By Steve Sherer, Reuters, March 9, 2023 Canada's top general said he was concerned that his country's armed forces, which are already stretched thin by support for Ukraine and NATO, do not have the capacity to lead a possible security mission to Haiti. Haiti's government and top United Nations officials have called for an international force to support Hai…
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Multiculturalism is over in Canada - it’s back to Sinophobia

By Justin Podur, The Canada Files, March 16, 2023

This article was originally published on The Anti-Empire Project Newsletter.

Breaking Canada-China science connections as prologue

The death throes of Canadian multiculturalism began on February 2023 over China-Canada science connections. Canada’s Innovation Minister said Canadian universities shouldn’t do research with China’s military, as 50 of them have since 2005. “I am not happy and it’s unacceptable,” Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said, quoted in a February 2 Globe and Mail article “Ottawa vows to curb research with Chinese military scientists”. Champagne reminded Canadians that there are new national-security reviews for scientists since 2021 - also designed for China. Michael Chong, the foreign…

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