And, in this post we bring to the Network's attention Reuters' latest article, which clearly delineates the other most
common storyline about Haiti.

Reportings on Haiti, such as Reuters' "Graveyard quiet of huge Haiti slum signals progress" frame and spin with
statements propagating Haiti's historic "failures," "thuggery," and "incompetence." The article plugs into the
well-established US/Euro negative images about Haiti and the accepted lie about the unreasonably angry and
violence-prone Haitians while simultaneously putting forth the "good intentions" and "benevolence" of the foreigners and Internationals with statements such as: "Ferocious poverty in Haiti means a recent surge in food prices cut deep.
The prime minister was forced out of office last month after food riots resulted in six deaths...The only thing
preventing (President Preval from easily being toppled by the 'angry Haitian protesters who sought to storm the national palace last month') was the U.N. peacekeeping force". (See - Graveyard quiet of huge Haiti slum signals progress by Tom Brown, Reuters at

http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/veil.html#graveyard

 

In other words, it is Haiti's failures (Uhmmm...."self-imposed?" poverty) that make the rise in food prices cut so deep.
Reuters' ironically titled: "Graveyard quiet of huge Haiti slum signals progress" frame and spin withstatements such as these.

The article seems straightforward, factual and imminently plausible. And, if you knew nothing about Haiti, you'd have no reason to question the assertions made. But, if you've been following closely to the non-mainstream media, this reporting would leave you shaking your head in cynical acceptance of the embedded media's hopelessness,
unprofessionalism and biases. For, you'd already know it is not just simply Haiti's FAILURES (poverty) that makes the  rise in food prices cut so deep. It is the US's FAILURES - through its historic economic thuggery, greed, imposition of  coup d'etats on the populace, incompetent neoliberal death plan, its financial institutions' endless debt, its orchestrated destabilization of "fragile democratic" Haitian governments, rapacious NGOs, discriminatory implementation of US immigration policies towards Haitians and intractable racism - that makes the rise of food pricescut so deep in Haiti.

In these sorts of mainstream articles, as represented here by this Reuters' article, you will find underscored that
 "so many elected Haitian leaders have been ousted,"; the "...only thing preventing (Uhmm, this present one -
President Preval from easily being toppled by the 'angry Haitian protesters who sought to storm the national palace last month') is the U.N. peacekeeping force" and that "change has never come easily amid the deep divides separating  Haiti's tiny elite from its impoverished masses..."

The direct implication is that the poor, violent-prone Haitian "hoards" have done the government ousters and coup
 d'etat's in Haiti. Not the Bush-supported Haitian army in 1991 and, in 2004, the US-Bush State Department and hired Haitian mercenaries, trained in the Dominican Republic. No.

There is no mention of the actual fact that President René Préval of Haiti "appeared to taunt the populace as the
chorus of complaints about la vie chère — the expensive life — grew. He said if Haitians could afford cellphones,
which many do carry, they should be able to feed their families. “If there is a protest against the rising prices,” he said,  “come get me at the palace and I will demonstrate with you.” No. Reuters' Tom Brown article summarily ignores that fact, or that even other articles had already outline this explanation for the Haitian protestors to have gone to the National Palace. (See, New York Times article "Across Globe, Empty Bellies Bring Rising Anger " and a Reuters article by By Michael Christie edited by Tom Brown, entitled "INTERVIEW-Haiti not descending into instability - minister", where when asked if there would be a coup d'etat, or  in Reuters bias words: "...when asked if the angry mobs storming through the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday  threatened Haiti's stability," the Haitian expert told Reuters, no, "that's not my reading." Effectively telling Reuters'
Tom Brown, et al: "no, we are not descending into chaos."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/world/americas/18food.html?_r=1&sq=the%20poor%20eat%20mud&st=cse&scp=1&pagewanted=all

; http://www.margueritelaurent.com/pressclips/veil.html#notdescending )

 

But who cares about journalistic accuracy vis-a-vis powerless Black and Haitian? Certainly not Tom Brown and his ilk at  Reuters who demonstrate herein how Reuters could care less what Haitians officials have to say about the Haitian  situation. Unless of course, it fits in with their US assumptions about the innately "violent and unthinking Haitian hoards," who Reuters must lie about, misrepresent and say are the ones conducting coup d'etats, and instability in Haiti when this has NEVER, ever been the truth. Or, unless it helps to keep the UN mandate being continually renewed.

Reuters turns the truth on its head. For, the un-debatable fact of the matter is that these Haitian masses being herein
 maligned, demonized and vilified are the very ones who peacefully demonstrated, protested and got slaughtered for trying to STOP the last two bloody, unconstitutional Bush-Dynasty coup d'etats that occurred in Haiti.

But never mind all evidence to the contrary, the Reuters spin and frame must arrive at: "... many elected Haitian leaders have been ousted,"; the "...only thing preventing (this present one - President Preval from easily being toppled by the 'angry Haitian protesters who  sought to storm the national palace last month') was the U.N. peacekeeping force." End of story. Haitians are not human beings made in the image of God, but subjects to be given emergency hand-outs, made refugees in their own  lands, fleeced of their resources and defined and given their roles and place by the Reuters' and other mainstream  corporate Tom Brown "Gods" in earth's "New World".

Thus, the face of senseless violence in Haiti, as unhesitatingly promoted by this Reuters article, is "the angry Haitian
protesters who sought to storm the national palace last month," the "warlords!" in Site Soley, now "pacified"
(code for: summarily executed by the UN, murdered or indefinitely incarcerated) who are to blame for Haiti's violence.
Not the US, not the UN and not the US-financed, morally repugnant Haitian economic elite, who were too tiny in
numbers to actually deliver the Bush 2004 coup d'etat, so the Bush Administration ended up carrying it out itself
- through military rendition - kidnapping Haiti's president out of Haiti. But, the US's hierarchy of subjugation, strumming,  for its neocolonial and racist geopolitical purposes, "deep divides" between the impoverished masses and Haiti's tiny elite  from is deliberately and willfully omitted, goes unstated in these mainstream
reportings.

No. There will be no such statements of truths. What you will read in these sorts of mainstream articles is that Haiti and  other developing countries are "rattled by violence over rising food prices BLAMED on growing demand in Asia, the use of crops for biofuel, record oil prices and speculation."

You won't find any explanation in such articles about how the US ousted Constitutionally elected Aristide in order to push its failed neoliberal economic policies, massive privatization plans and how, to date, these neoliberal plans have  destroyed Haiti's national production, Haiti's self-sufficiency and are the ultimate cause of Haiti's anger and current  Clorox hunger and food crisis. Instead, you will be regaled with tales of "Ferocious poverty... food riots, six deaths.... the poorest places in the poorest country in the Americas....the notorious armed gangs of Cite Soleil...mostly loyal to ousted former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide... ruled their domains like warlords." In effect, the necessity for US  benevolence, domination and control to keep Haitian brutality, barbarity, violence, Black incompetence at a minimum, the choice for Aristide continually demonized, and of course, to ensure President Aristide is kept safely in exil. These messages are repeated ad nausea, practically in every such article, like a desperate mantra.

In these sorts of mainstream articles, there will be no mention of the US hand in the 2004 coup d'etat, its purposeful orchestrating Haiti's instability and anarchy in order to bring UN occupation - the Bush proxy saviors, its hand in
creating Site Soley in the first place or, why the people protested the occupation before the election of President Preval in 2006.

This second sort of storyline absolves the US of its historic thuggery and continuing maliciousness in Haiti, while upholding the myth of US, UN and their controlled world financial institutions' good intentions, democratic intentions
and benevolences. You'll not find, in such mainstream stories on Haiti, how the US/Euro sponsored two ferocious coup d'etats against the people of Haiti in recent memory or, about the US's neoliberal death plans in Haiti pushing
Haitians into fleeing to shark infested waters by unsafe boats. There will be no repetitive accounting about how countless Haitians are continuing the Middle Passage journey of their ancestors before them, finding no asylum, no
sanctuary, no justice in the Western Hemisphere - in this American Mediterranean hostile to Haitians.

Though no blame is ever pointed at US' economic thuggery in Haiti, these articles will spin around, frame the appropriate quote to invariably point to the incompetence of Haiti's leaders:’ We’re dying of misery and hunger
here,' said Joseph, 44. 'I haven't seen any improvement...(President) Preval's initial reaction to the food riots in early April was: "Poze," meaning "cooldown" or "chill" in Creole. His words offered little solace to people..."