1368: Haiti and empire / Seth Donnelly

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🗓️ 22 July 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Haiti Action Committee's Seth Donnelly on Haitian politics and US / Western imperialism, and his article "The Assassination of Jovenel Moise: What Next for Haiti?" for Black Agenda Report, and in a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen gives an avowed centrist a lesson in radical socialist leisurism https://blackagendareport.com/assassination-jovenel-moise-what-next-haiti

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0:00.0	I saw a God a God shadow on this world
0:05.0	a song on his world
0:08.0	a song on his world I saw a shadow on his world
0:11.0	I saw a shadow on his work.
0:13.0	I'm God Shadow on his world.
0:16.0	I'm God shadow on his world.
0:19.0	I'm going to show on his world.
0:20.0	I'm going to move. This. This is hell.
0:35.0	With our most sincere apologies, we don't have any of the answers you might be seeking, but we got plenty of questions. This is hell. Questions like,
0:49.4	what the hell is happening in Haiti? The president who was elected through what Haitian
0:53.6	activists like today's guest calls an electoral coup d'etah. He's assassinated
0:58.9	only days after he names a new Prime Minister. This is only a month after he has a falling out with
1:03.8	Haiti's wealthiest person, but instead of the hand-picked prime minister
1:08.6	following the line of succession becoming the new president, the acting prime minister declares he is now president.
1:16.2	However, he soon abdicates stepping aside for the person who the assassinated president
1:20.7	had selected as the new prime minister.
1:23.7	If that's not complicated enough for you, the national police, according to a recent
1:27.2	Harvard study, are in cahoots with gangs and paramilitaries who have murdered hundreds
1:31.6	of innocent Haitians and raped dozens more.
1:34.9	That police force is now is how the ruling party keeps down any opposition.
1:40.0	But that's not the only way they stay in power.
1:42.3	They also retain that control because they are supported not only by the United States,
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