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var _NTW_stories = [{"rating":"4.2","num_reviews":"3","title":"Haiti: WikiLeaks Cables Expose How U.S. Blocked Aristide's Return After 2004 Coup","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/11/haiti_wikileaks_cables_expose_how_us","date":"2011/08/11","id":7358786,"story_type":"Investigative Report","quote":"A new expos\u00e9 on Haiti reveals how the United States led a vast international campaign to prevent former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from returning to his country while he was exiled in South Africa. It\u2019s part of a series of reports by The Nation magazine and the Haitian weekly Ha\u00efti Libert\u00e9 that draw from almost 2,000 U.S. diplomatic cables on Haiti released by WikiLeaks. The cables show that high-level U.S. and U.N. officials coordinated a politically motivated prosecution of Aristide to prevent him from \"gaining more traction with the Haitian population and returning to Haiti.\"","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.6","num_reviews":"1","title":"Clinton Foundation Accused of Sending Haiti Shoddy Trailers Found Toxic After Katrina","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/12/clinton_foundation_accused_of_sending_haiti","date":"2011/07/12","id":6999496,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"A new expos\u00e9 in The Nation magazine reveals that trailers the Clinton Foundation donated to post- earthquake Haiti to use as temporary classrooms \u2014 and to double as hurricane shelters \u2014 are plagued by mold, shoddy construction. In at least one case, an air quality test revealed worrying levels of formeldahyde. The trailers were built by the same company that is being sued in the United States for providing formeldahyde-laced trailers to displaced residents after Hurricane Katrina. We speak with the journalists who broke this story, Isabel Macdonald and Isabeau Doucet. \u201cWhat does it say about the reconstruction efforts in Haiti if the very first project approved by the commission that is supposed to ensure accountability and transparency in Haiti's rebuilding passes this kind of project and Bill Clinton himself has his hands all over it?,\u201d says Macdonald. \u201cHe is the co-chair of this commission that is supposed to ensure Haiti is built back better.\u201d","authors":"Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"1.0","num_reviews":"0","title":"Leaked WikiLeaks Cable: 2005 Democracy Now! Report on Haiti Killings Irked U.S. Embassy","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/24/leaked_wikileaks_cable_2005_democracy_now","date":"2011/06/24","id":6789139,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Democracy Now! is mentioned in a U.S. diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks that cites our 2005 report on a deadly raid in the poor neighborhood of Cit\u00e9 Soleil by United Nations forces. \u201cYou accurately reported on what was going on and the embassy was alarmed by it,\u201d says our guest, longtime Haiti correspondent Dan Coughlin. \u201cWhat they were upset about is there wasn\u2019t PR push back on Democracy Now! by the U.N.\u201d Another cable shows U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called embassies around the world to tell them to \u201cget the narrative right\u201d with editors and fight negative portrayals of U.S. deployment in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. [includes rush transcript]","authors":"Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"1.0","num_reviews":"0","title":"Haiti: Leaked Cables Expose U.S. Suppression of Min. Wage, Election Doubts and Elite's Private Army","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/24/haiti_leaked_cables_expose_us_suppression","date":"2011/06/24","id":6787322,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Drawing on almost 2,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables on Haiti released by WikiLeaks, a partnership between The Nation magazine and the Haitian weekly, Ha\u00efti Libert\u00e9, exposes new details on how Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi\u2019s worked with the United States to block an increase in the minimum wage in the hemisphere's poorest nation, how business owners and members of the country's elite used Haiti's police force as their own private army after the 2004 U.S.-backed coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and how the United States, the European Union and the United Nations supported Haiti\u2019s recent presidential and parliamentary elections, despite concerns over the exclusion of Haiti's largest opposition party, Lavalas, the party of Aristide. We speak with the reports' authors, longtime Haiti correspondent Dan Coughlin and Ha\u00efti Libert\u00e9 editor, Kim Ives.","authors":"Juan Gonzalez, Amy Goodman","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.8","num_reviews":"3","title":"WikiLeaks Haiti: Cable Depicts Fraudulent Haiti Election","url":"http://www.thenation.com/article/161216/wikileaks-haiti-cable-depicts-fraudulent-haiti-election","date":"2011/06/10","id":6580974,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"Confirming what Haitians already knew, a WikiLeaks document shows how US and international donors staged the phony presidential election.","authors":"Dan Coughlin, Kim Ives","source":{"rating":"3.8","name":"The Nation","framebuster":false,"id":"the_nation","ownership":"ind","type":"magazine","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.3","num_reviews":"8","title":"WikiLeaks Cables Reveal \"Secret History\" of U.S. Bullying in Haiti at Oil Companies' Behest","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/3/wikileaks_cables_reveal_secret_history_of","date":"2011/06/03","id":6520202,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"The Nation magazine, in partnership with the Haitian weekly newspaper, Ha\u00efti Libert\u00e9, has launched a series of reports based on more than 19,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. Called \"The PetroCaribe Files,\" the series begins with an expos\u00e9 of how the United States\u2014with pressure from Exxon and Chevron\u2014tried to interfere with an oil agreement between Haiti and Venezuela that would save Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, $100 million per year. \"It is really amazing to see an ambassador pushing around a president, and all his officials telling them what to do, trying to tell them what Haiti's interests are. It is the epitome of arrogance,\" says the report\u2019s co-author, Kim Ives. We are also joined by veteran Haiti correspondent, Dan Coughlin.","authors":"Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.8","num_reviews":"1","title":"WHO report finds rich and poor nations now battle all kinds of diseases","url":"http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2011/may/17/who-non-communicable-diseases-affect-poor-too","date":"2011/05/17","id":6311078,"story_type":null,"quote":"Progress has been made on key MDG health targets, but non-infectious diseases have spread to developing countriesThe world is experiencing a change in the geographic distribution of diseases. Traditionally, infectious diseases, which claim the lives of so many children, have affected poor countries and non-communicable diseases, such as diabetes, cardiac ailments and cancer, have plagued rich countries.But the latest statistics released by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday show that the income level of nations is no longer so important, and that all countries now face the burden of both kinds of diseases.Up to now, non-communicable diseases tended to be identified as the ills of opulence, limited to high-income countries, WHO's director of health statistics and informatics, Ties Boerma, told IPS.However, due to changes caused by the ageing population, improvements brought about by the global effort to meet the millennium development goals (MDGs), changes in birthrates and other factors, developing countries are now also fighting non-infectious diseases, he said.Boerma noted that the phenomenon began in urban areas of developing nations, among the most highly educated population groups, but it is now expanding rapidly. That was one of the central conclusions reached by WHO experts on the basis of the World Health Statistics 2011 report published on Friday.The study confirms that important progress has been made in improving the main health indicators, fighting poverty, bolstering gender equality and education, and moving towards the other goals outlined in the eight MDGs, which were agreed by the international community in the 2000 UN general assembly and have a 2015 deadline, Boerma said.Over the past 10 years, the rate of improvement of infant and maternal mortality rates \u2013 key MDG targets \u2013 has been twice as fast as progress made in the 1990s.Many countries are still lagging, some of them considerably, which means a huge effort is needed over the next five years to meet the MDGs, Boerma said. Nevertheless, the rate of progress is speeding up overall, he added.In the case of child mortality, the world is only halfway to the MDG target, while in the case of maternal mortality, the world is only one-third of the way there, the WHO expert said.The question of infant mortality will be evaluated again in September, when WHO and Unicef, the UN children's fund, release new statistics. For now, \"we are still standing at 8.1 million\" children under five who died in 2009, Boerma said, compared with 12.4 million in 1990.With respect to the situation in the Americas, he said the statistics show that \"very good progress\" has been made in many countries.In Brazil, Argentina and Chile, for example, \"there have been steady but relatively fast declines in child mortality, and coverage intervention is high. And they also reduced the inequity between the poorest and the richest. Brazil has been a very good case study of where the poorest have benefited,\" he said, adding that Mexico has also progressed.At the other extreme, of course, is Haiti, he said, adding that the health indicators are still worrying in countries like Bolivia and Peru, which have made some advances but \"still have a much longer way to go\".Boerma cited the case of Cuba, pointing out that although it is not a rich country, it \"spends quite a lot on health\" and does so \"in a very equitable way.\"Everybody has (free) access to health services,\" he said. \"So in terms of life expectancy it ranks quite high and it has low child mortality and high coverage of intervention. So it is very successful in reaching the whole population and getting good value\" for its investment, he added.The expert noted that the US \"is not at the top\" in terms of health statistics in the Americas. He said: \"They are at the top when it comes to the amount of money they spend on health. But they are not at the top in terms of getting good results for their investments in health services.\"One reason,\" he said, \"may be that coverage of the whole population is not so good. So much of the expenditure goes to relatively expensive curative interventions or interventions that benefit a smaller proportion of the population.\"The WHO study reported that average global life expectancy rose from 64 years in 1990 to 68 in 2009. In poor countries, the average is 56 years, while it has climbed to 80 years in wealthy countries.Life expectancy for women is five years longer on average than for men. That difference has held fairly steady, between four and five years, over the past two decades.The WHO figures show there is still a huge gap in health spending between low and high-income countries, averaging an annual $32 per capita in the former and $400 per capita in the latter.The study reports that high-income countries have, per capita, 10 times more doctors, 12 times more nurses and midwives and 30 times more dentists, on average, than low-income countries.HealthWorld Health OrganisationAids and HIVMillennium development goalsInfant mortalityMaternal healthMaternal mortalityUnited StatesBrazilArgentinaCubaBoliviaPeruHaitiUnited Nationsguardian.co.uk \u00a9 Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds","authors":null,"source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"The Guardian","framebuster":false,"id":"the_guardian","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.3","num_reviews":"2","title":"\u201cSing Your Song\u201d: Harry Belafonte on Art & Politics, Civil Rights & His Critique of President Obama","url":"http://www.democracynow.org/2011/5/16/sing_your_song_harry_belafonte_on","date":"2011/05/16","id":6297205,"story_type":"Interview","quote":"Legendary musician, actor, activist and humanitarian Harry Belafonte joins us for the hour to talk about his battle against racism, his mentor Paul Robeson, the power of music to push for political change, his close relationship with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the U.S. role in Haiti","authors":"Harry Belafonte","source":{"rating":"4.0","name":"Democracy Now","framebuster":false,"id":"democracy_now","ownership":"ind","type":"tv","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.9","num_reviews":"5","title":"Haitians Forced Out of Tents to Homes Just as Precarious","url":"http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/world/americas/24haiti.html","date":"2011/04/24","id":6016475,"story_type":"News","quote":"More than half of the Haitians driven into camps by the 2010 earthquake have moved out, but most of them appear to have been forced out or to have left to escape crime and living conditions.","authors":"Randal C. Archibold","source":{"rating":"3.6","name":"New York Times","framebuster":true,"id":"new_york_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.5","num_reviews":"7","title":"Obamas Donated 14% of Their Income to Charity in 2010","url":"http://philanthropy.com/blogs/government-and-politics/obamas-donated-14-of-their-income-to-charity-in-2010/28350?sid=","date":"2011/04/19","id":5968370,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"President Obama and his wife, Michelle, donated 14 percent of their income to charity in 2010, according to the couple\u2019s 2010 tax return.\n\nThe couple, which reported an adjusted gross income of $1.7-million in 2010, gave $245,075 to 36 charities.","authors":"Lisa Chiu","source":{"rating":"0.0","name":"The Chronicle of Philanthropy","framebuster":false,"id":null,"ownership":"","type":""}}]