‘We are all by ourselves’: Haitians warn that fall of Port-au-Prince is imminent
Families are being uprooted time and again, forced to leave everything behind as they flee for safety. Many of those ...
Amid escalating gang violence, new leader takes over Haiti’s rocky transitional council
A U.S. educated economist and former head of Haiti’s Central Bank assumed the presidency of the country’s embattled transition council on Friday, pointing fingers at the economic elite and blaming ...
The mothers of history's worst dictators: How Hitler's mum's painful death 'hardened' him - and Stalin became a communist after being sent to seminary by his mother
When growing up in his native Austria, Hitler was very close to his mother, Klara (pair pictured above). He would later write that her death - from breast cancer in 1907 - 'hardened' him.
PBS18d
Haiti in crisis
Most came to the United States to escape the humanitarian crisis in Haiti,… ‘We live in misery.’ Haitians struggle to survive as country spirals in chaos The situation in Haiti seems to be ...
The Arts Desk7d
theartsdesk Q&A: Raoul Peck, director of the documentary 'Ernest Cole: Lost and Found'
With his furious docu-essay I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck caused a stir in 2016. The film about African-American writer ...
The Irish Times28d
Apartheid South Africa: ‘Ernest Cole’s photographs were the first that told the story from inside the beast’
There was a dictatorship in Haiti. I was working on my diploma so ... of our film that he didn’t want to become a chronicler of misery and injustice. But, knowing the US in the 1960s, you ...
The Mail & Guardian13d
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found — A profound portrait of the artist in exile
Ernest Cole’s untold story comes home — with a revealing documentary premiering at the Joburg Film Festival this week ...
CounterPunch25d
Some Comments on Migration
Can this obsolete enterprise that lies at the foundation of all this misery be brought to a merciful ... Guatemala, 1954; Haiti 1934; Panama 1989; Dominican Republic, 1965; Grenada, 1983 ...
Opinion
CounterPunch10dOpinion
The Oval Office, Kyiv and the Kremlin
Some world events can look different to those of us on this side of the Atlantic, also, more precisely, in Berlin. God knows, here too I’m frightened at ...
Foreign Affairs13d
Tension in the French West Indies
The sharp reduction of exports to France since 1940 has caused widespread unemployment. For the past two years the mass of the people have been living in misery. They are reduced to eating tropical ...