Haiti Needs Water, Not Occupation

Haiti Needs Water, Not Occupation: The US has never wanted Haitian self-rule, and its focus on 'security concerns' has hampered the earthquake aid response, by Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian, January 20, 2010 On Monday, six days after the earthquake in Haiti, the US Southern Command finally began to drop bottled water and food from an air force C-17. US defence secretary Robert Gates had previously rejected such a method because of "security concerns". More...