There are at least 595,000 Haitians living in camps around Port au Prince (1). President Martelly has a program, called 16-6, which…
Leftists don't spend enough time or energy working on important strategic questions. If we could resolve a handful of these, even tentatively,…
Patrick Elie is a Haitian activist who worked in the first Aristide administration. I interviewed him in Port au Prince on October…
The centerpiece of Haitian President Martelly's policies so far is his scholarship program. It is an ambitious plan to provide free education…
Barbancourt 17, a camp on a construction site south of the Toussaint L'Ouverture Airport (sud-aeroport), was evicted last week – on Thursday…
Ha-Joon Chang is a development economist with a special interest in economic history. His most recent book, “23 Things They Don't Tell…
A friend from the movement asked me my thoughts on George Monbiot's article in the UK Guardian about how Fukushima actually converted him…
For the seven years since he was overthrown in a coup in February 2004 there have been many different speculations about why…
Justin Podur on Wikileaks and the Future of Information Part 2 from Justin Podur on Vimeo.
Philanthrocapitalism, a book by Bishop and Green, argues that philanthropy will help the public accept a new age of plutocracy (the rule…
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