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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

What’s The Real Threat To Washington Of A Nuclear Iran?

February 2, 2015 By Steven Chovanec 3 Comments

There is much discussion in Western political discourse of the “threat” of Iran, spoken of as though it is a self-evident truth, an assumption that underlies the entire spectrum of debate. To question such an obvious truism is something that disciplined intellectuals understand is not proper of them to do. Most likely the thought doesn’t even cross their minds, thanks to dignified university education and the values instilled from it; there are some things not suitable for a respectable intellectual to discuss, after all. Former US Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters went so far as to say that “Iran is building a new Persian Empire.”

Furthermore, in order to slow down Iran’s progress towards a bomb, Netanyahu has threatened to launch an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Threats which are credible, according to officials from the Obama administration. Obama, over the years, has used such threats by telling other world leaders that toughening sanctions on Iran is the only way to forestall an Israeli attack. Obama himself has argued that a nuclear Iran poses a “profound” national security threat to the US.

Given this ubiquitous rhetoric, there is an obvious question that arises, one which is seldom asked: what exactly is this “threat” that a nuclear Iran poses? What exactly is such a grave and existential threat that Western leaders would risk escalation and military confrontation by threatening the Iranian republic with an attack? Fortunately, we have an authoritative answer to this.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Media & Culture, National News Tagged With: 1979 Iranian Revolution, Africa, Ali Khamenei, Anthony Cordesman, assassination, Ayatollah Khomeini, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Che Guevara, CIA, Congress, Cuba, Defense Department, Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA, Egypt, Fidel Castro, Hasan Ruhani, intelligence, Iran, Israel, John Boehner, John McCain, Martin van Creveld, MENA, Michael T. Flynn, Middle East, Monroe Doctrine, nuclear, oppression, Pentagon, propaganda, Ralph Peters, Ron Dermer, sanctions, Senate, Senate Armed Services Committee, terrorism, US Department of Defense, Zbigniew Brzezinski

ISIS: The Boogeymen of Our Times, Justifying Empire & Imperialism

November 6, 2014 By Steven Chovanec 2 Comments

When faced with the prospect of analyzing the current rise of ISIS, or the misinformed albeit widely accepted threat of Russia, or that of Iran, it is imperative that we keep in mind a few key points.

One of these is the US foreign policy strategy of containment, or more aptly, the strategy of limiting the power of anyone who challenges the United States’ hegemony on the global chessboard. The memo depicting this strategy was penned under the supervision of influential neo-conservative statesmen Paul Wolfowitz in 1992, thus dubbed the “Wolfowitz doctrine,” and was not intended for public release. I would argue strongly that the evidence of the past decades suggests that this is still the dominant foreign policy doctrine that has been followed under both the Bush and Obama administrations.

The preeminent strategy outlined therein is to “establish and protect a new order,” that accounts for “the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order.” The goal is to protect a world order in which the United States is the supreme power, and to stop any nation who seeks to challenge this dominance and overturn America’s preeminent position.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: al-Nusra, al-Qaida, Barack Obama, Bashar Assad, British Army, Charles Shoebridge, CIA, Cold War, Dick Cheney, Erdogan, Global War on Terror, Graham Fuller, Harvard University, Hezbollah, history, imperialism, intelligence, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, Jordan, Libya, MENA, Middle East, Nafeez Ahmed, oil, Patrick Cockburn, Paul Wolfowitz, Rand Corporation, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Russia, Samuel P. Huntington, Saudi Arabia, Shia Islam, Strategic Forecasting, Stratfor, Sunni Islam, Syria, Truman Doctrine, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Wolfowitz doctrine, Zbigniew Brzezinski

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