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Major Media Misinformation
On January 10, Time magazine asked "Who Failed on Haiti's Recovery," saying:
The combination of "rapacious foreign aid workers (and) feckless politicians" lost Haiti, ignoring Washington's iron grip on the country for generations, the root of Haiti's problems. Yet Time stressed that "numerous formerly poor, underperforming countries....achieved a degree of stability and prosperity that would have been unthinkable a few years ago."
False, with few exceptions as throughout the developing world imperial America and predatory capitalism institutionalized exploitation and poverty for the vast majority. Local officials and elites, business leaders, and a small professional class alone profited. South Africa is a case in point where conditions for the Black majority are worse now than under apartheid, an unreported story in the West.
Yet Time insisted that America's "moral obligation isn't to solve the world's most intractable problems. It's to act where we can do the most good." That, of course, required freeing developing countries from its imperial grip, the core issue Time and other Western media ignore.
On January 3, New York Times writer Deborah Sontag headlined, "A Year Later, Haiti Struggles Back," saying:
Despite Haiti's "gloomy backdrop, many Haitians (have) started to find some equilibrium - to heal, to rebuild or simply to readjust their sights....haunting and hopeful." Relating some of their stories, Sontag showed exceptions obscuring the overwhelming misery most Haitians face, ones she and other mainstream journalists ignore, pretending conditions are improving. Daily, in fact, they worsen.
The White House, World Bank, USAID, UN and Predatory NGOs One Year Later
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