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Corporations Are The New Conquistadors: Haiti

February 11, 2015 By Andrey Panevin 8 Comments

On the 12th of January 2010, Haiti was devastated by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake. An estimated 3 million people were affected, with upwards of 160,000 to 316,000 people killed. In the wake of this disaster a massive aid-campaign was initiated, with the United States leading the charge.

However the allotted funds have not been used to help the people of Haiti, instead they have been funneled towards programs managed by USAID and Monsanto. The goals of these programs are to fundamentally restructure the Haitian economy, particularly the agricultural sectors. This is being done in order to maintain a corporate monopoly on both the import of food products into Haiti, as well as the means of food production within the country.

At the head of the post-earthquake aid effort was the the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which reported that in 2013 alone it had spent over $270m in Haiti. From this significant figure, American non-profits received 40% and a further 50% went to US-based corporations. One such company is Chemonics International, which was allotted more than $58m. Chemonics claimed this would be dedicated to further “promoting recovery and laying the foundation for long term development in Haiti.” Unfortunately Haiti’s recovery is not being pursued and the only long term foundations that are being laid are for the total corporate annexation of Haiti’s economy.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Health & Lifestyle, National News Tagged With: agriculture, American imperialism, Barbados nut, biodiversity, capitalism, Carl Bildt, Chavannes Jean-Baptiste, Chemonics International, Corporate America, corruption, earthquakes, Environmental Instability in Haiti, food, food safety, foreign aid, foreign policy, George Soros, Global capitalism, green capitalism, Haiti, Haiti earthquake, Haiti: Saving the Environment Preventing Instability and Conflict, ICG, imperialism, International Crisis Group, Jatropha curcas, local food, locavore, Monsanto, Mouvement Paysan Papaye, multinational corporations, NATO, Peasant Movement of Papaye, pesticides, poverty, The Grand Chessboard, United States Agency for International Development, US Inspector General, USAID, Watershed Initiative for National Natural Environmental Resources, Wesley Clark, WINNER, Zbigniew Brzezinski

Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: Building Snowmen On Doomsday

January 29, 2015 By Kate Lanier Leave a Comment

Every week, Kate Lanier assembles the most important global energy and climate news. This week includes:

Davos: $100 billion in Europe could have been better spent on renewable power plants if there were “better cross-border coordination and bigger power cables between countries.” Update: Some of our oligarchs are worried.

Peru: Recently we celebrated Maxima Acuna de Chaupe’s major legal victory against the mining company. Of course, this cannot go unpunished, so a local “police and [Yanacocha Mine Co.] security contingent”—with no warrants—have prevented her and her husband from “attending to their farm” and actually threatened them when they protested.

Nebraska: TransCanada has filed eminent domain petitions against those landowners fighting to keep the pipeline off their properties (h/t wendydavis). It’s “just another step in the process” for them. Update: Hillary Clinton, in Winnipeg, “‘You won’t get me to talk about Keystone.’”

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, Alaska, Antarctica, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Australia, Ayotzinapa, Barack Obama, Boston, BP Oil, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, California, China, Climate change, coal, Congress, Davos, Deepwater Horizon, Democratic Party, Doomsday Clock, earthquakes, Egypt, energy, England, environment, Exxon Mobil, fracking, gas, Great Barrier Reef, Hillary Clinton, hydraulic fracturing, Iran, Iraq, iron, Irving, Keystone XL North, Keystone XL Pipeline, KeystoneXL, Kosovo, Larry Hogan, Lisa Murkowski, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico, mining, Montana, Nebraska, Nigeria, North Carolina, Norway, ocean, oceans, offshore drilling, oil, oil trains, OPEC, Peru, Peter DeFazio, Republican Party, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shell Oil, South Africa, Switzerland, Texas, United Kingdom, Yellowstone River

Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: Keystone Showdown

January 13, 2015 By Kate Lanier Leave a Comment

Kate Lanier’s collects global energy and climate news. This week, she has a special focus on the fight over the Keystone XL Pipeline in Congress including:

Keystone XL Pipeline, US Senate: Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) of the senate’s Energy and Natural resources Committee blasted the Senate’s Keystone XL pipeline bill. Sanders is concerned about the US Senate rejecting science and efficient renewable energy, while Warren concentrated on the pipeline benefitting the Canadian oil industry and not US families. Update: “Democrats plan tough votes for GOP on Keystone pipeline bill.”

Meanwhile, from Vatican City: Pope Francis has added his voice in opposition to mining, fracking, and disregard for the earth in general. He appears in a movie, La Guerra Del Fracking de Pino Solanas (The Fracking War), banned in Argentina (where the government calls fracking “non-conventional gas”), but now on YouTube.” Pope Francis also spoke to the urgency of focusing on youth, the future.

Alabama: Radioactive (tritium) leak at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant near Athens, after which TVA said “the leak was quickly contained and presented no public risk.” Not the only TVA radioactive leak, nor the only one at Browns Ferry.

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: #NoKXL, Alabama, Alaska, Argentina, Army Corps of Engineers, Azarga Uranium Corp, Bernie Sanders, BNSF Railway, Bodo, Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant, California, Canada, capitalism, carbon, carbon dioxide, Carlyle Group, climate, Climate change, CO2, coal, Congress, Constitution Pipeline, Decatur, Democratic Party, Department of Environmental Conservation, divestment, earthquakes, economics, Elizabeth Warren, energy, Energy and Natural resources Committee, first Nations, fossil fuel divestment, fossil fuels, fracked gas, Fracked Oil, fracking, fracking earthquakes, gas, Gazprom, GOP, Hawaii, Helis Oil & Gas, Hermosa Beach, Hong Kong, hydraulic fracturing, Illinois, indigenous, Joe Manchin, Keynesian Economics, Keystone XL, Keystone XL North, Keystone XL Pipeline, KXL, La Guerra Del Fracking de Pino Solanas, lithium, Louisiana, Lummi Nation, mining, Moncrief Oil, Montana, Native Americans, Nebraska, Nebraska Supreme Court, New Mexico, New York, Nigeria, North Carolina, North Dakota, nuclear, Oglala Sioux, oil, oil prices, oil trains, Pacific International Terminals, Paul Krugman, Philadelphus, Pontifex, Pope Francis, renewable energy, Republican Party, Robeson County, Royal Dutch Shell, Russia, Sally Jewell, Salton Sea, Santa Monica, Senate, Senate Energy Committee, Shell, solar energy, South Dakota, Steve Scalise, Tar sands, taxes, Tennessee Valley Authority, Tesla Motors, Texas, The Fracking War, TransCanada, United States Department of the Interior, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, University of Hawaii, uranium, US Department of Energy, Victoria, Warren Buffett, Washington, WBH Energy, wind power, Wyoming

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