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3. The other problem
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 12:07 PM
Jun 2016

Last edited Sun Jun 5, 2016, 02:16 PM - Edit history (1)

.....with Clinton and Haiti is the Clinton Foundation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/crossover-dreams/the-clinton-bush-haiti-fu_b_778503.html

The Foundation raised 30M after the earthquake for donations. Sounds great--right? But it didn't go to immediate relief of suffering after a devastating catastrophe. It went to the "long -term" economic stability of Haiti. Still sounds sort of good---right? (Despite the desperate people with immediate housing, food and medical needs and the title of the donation: Haiti EarthQuake Relief.)

Here's what was meant by "long term". Fancy new beach front hotels (two of them I think) for the international wealthy to invest in and vacation in. Haiti was never directly rebuilt by the fund. It was just a business deal. Meant to create trickle down----you know pennies a day to the cleaning ladies.

Shades of what happened in Katrina where the model was to rebuild the place for an entirely new population. The fund was, after all, called the Clinton-Bush fund.

This is the 3rd way. This is what is meant by Clinton's neo-liberal "more nuanced approach" to desperate problems. Corporate profit has to be part of it.

There's lots of info on this. Amy Goodman did a piece on Democracy Now, too. It's in the archives.

We know why no one in the MSM talks about this.


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