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Summary: Natural Disasters: Week of August 29

Sat, 08/28/2010 - 09:45 — Dave Culver
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Foreign Affairs

Haitian Earthquake, Pakistani and Chinese Floods,  Russian Fires

6 New Items including:

  • Pakistani floods: A man-made not a natural disaster
  • Where's Haiti's Bailout?

David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest

Jeff Danziger

What is fuelling floods and fires? Julia Slater and Renat Künzi, Swiss Info

  • While most climate experts say that it is too soon to draw any conclusions about a link with climate change, many agree that current events fit in with the warnings issued by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) over the past 20 years.
  • The truth: Still there, still inconvenient
  • Who Cooked the Planet?

Pakistani floods: A man-made not a natural disaster, Wije Dias, World Socialist Web Site
The tragedy unfolding in Pakistan as a result of the country’s worst floods in 80 years is a devastating indictment not only of the present Pakistani government, but of its international allies—the US in particular—and the profit system as a whole.

Rebuilding Haiti: Dispatches from the Relief Effort, Huffington Post
Haiti is still there. Shattered, starving and suffering, the Haitian people endure and slowly, a rebuilt nation is rising from the rubble.
Beginning March 23 members of the Huffington Post Citizen Reporting unit will chronicle these efforts on this blog. The team includes relief workers both on the ground in Haiti, members of international support teams like UNICEF and Oxfam as well as supporters dispatching help from their hometowns across the country.

Still Hoping For Haiti, Progress Report
While the U.S. government has funneled roughly $4 billion into Haiti's economy to counter the country's "dismal economic trajectory" since 1990, Haiti still "continued to languish as the poorest in the Western Hemisphere," with the U.S. and neoliberal economic policies partially at fault.

Where's Haiti's Bailout? Isabel Macdonald, Huffington Post
Six months after the earthquake, the plan for a "New Future for Haiti" seems remote indeed.

IMF cancels $268 million Haiti debt, Associated Press
The IMF says it has canceled Haiti's $268 million debt and will lend the earthquake-devastated country another $60 million to help it with reconstruction plans.

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