Creative-i : For $10 Billion of “Promises” Haiti Surrenders its Sovereignty By Kim Ives

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For $10 Billion of “Promises” Haiti Surrenders its Sovereignty By Kim Ives

It was fitting that the Mar. 31 ‘International Donors Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti’ was held in the Trusteeship Council at the United Nations headquarters in New York. At the event, Haitian President René Préval in effect turned over the keys to Haiti to a consortium of foreign banks and governments, which will decide how (to use the conference’s principal slogan) to ‘build back better’ the country devastated by the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Also tagged Bill Clinton, International Monetary Fund, MINUSTAH, Rene Preval, united nations

2010 04 28 Creative-i on Haiti Comments (0)

CounterCurrents Newsletter 22 March, 2010: Walking With The Comrades By Arundhati Roy

Also tagged anti-semitism, Creative-i on Iraq, Haiti, india, israel, palestine

2010 03 23 CounterCurrents Comments (0)

Colombian Trade Unions: A Target for Intimidation and Assassination

For most of its modern existence, Colombia has struggled with internal violence, most recently in the form of human rights abuses and brutality against organized trade union groups carried out by paramilitary and insurgent armies. This group in particular has been subjected to a disproportionate amount of violence. In the past twenty years, over 2,000 activists have been gunned down, making labor activists and trade union members likely the most targeted group of civilians in the country.

Also tagged colombia, Death Squads, ICFTU, Occidental Petroleum, privatization, trade unions, Uribe

2009 08 04 Creative-i on Latin America Comments (0)

GUEST MEDIA ALERT: Turning Children Into Consumers By Sharon Beder

Children are naïve about advertising and can easily be manipulated and exploited by marketers to want and demand their products. Corporate marketers believe that over time they can be shaped into lifelong consumers with brand loyalties and that can be profitable for decades to come. What is more, children influence family spending decisions worth hundreds of billions of dollars on household items like furniture, electrical appliances and computers, vacations, and even the family car.

Also tagged advertising, Cadbury, children, Junk food, McDonald’s, Nestlé, Pepsi

2009 06 29 Creative-i on the Media Comments (0)