Articles by Seth Donnelly
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Haiti: Stop the Destruction of a Nation
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
6 Jun 2023 – What’s going on in Haiti today–with all historical context. It is truly a disaster and atrocity on a massive scale.
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US Tax Dollars at Work: Neocolonial Dictatorship, Paramilitary and Police Terror in Haiti Today
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Sending additional foreign troops into Haiti: it misses the fact that it was subjected to such an intervention culminating in the foreign occupation of Haiti since 2004. Similarly, the call for greater US-funding and training of the Haitian police camouflages the following fundamental realities:
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The Haitian Revolution Today and the Limits of Token Solidarity
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
“Solidarity in the fight for social justice must be international. It’s not acceptable to be in solidarity with the Venezuelan people, but not in solidarity with the Haitian people; it’s not acceptable to be for Iraq, but against Haiti.”
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The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti?
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
13 Jul 2021 – Today, the people of Haiti are facing down the US-backed dictatorship of the ruling Haitian Tet Kale Party (PHTK) that came to power through the fraudulent election of Michel Martelly in 2010 and maintained its grip on power through the fraudulent election of Jovenel Moise in 2016, what Haitian activists refer to as electoral coup d’etats.
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The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
Seth Donnelly | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
“We’re making headway on global poverty,” trills billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. “Decline of Global Extreme Poverty Continues,” reports the World Bank. And “How did the global poverty rate halve in 20 years?” inquires The Economist magazine. Seth Donnelly answers: “It didn’t!” In fact, according to Donnelly’s The Lie of Global Prosperity, virtually nothing about these glad tidings proclaiming plummeting global poverty rates is true.
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