Articles by Ashley Smith

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Haiti’s Misery before Sandy
Ashley Smith – Socialist Worker, 12 Nov 2012

How decades of neoliberalism and imperialist intervention set the stage for a new level of devastation after Hurricane Sandy.

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Did the U.S. Leave Behind a Civil War in Iraq?
Ashley Smith – Socialist Worker, 23 Jan 2012

“Everything that the American troops have done in Iraq–all the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and the training and the partnering–all of it has led to this moment of success,” Obama said. “[W]e’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people.” Such claims are a lie. Obama’s claims about America’s “extraordinary achievement” in Iraq are Orwellian. In reality, the U.S. war and occupation further wrecked an already devastated country, left it in a shambles rather than rebuild it and stoked sectarianism between Iraq’s three main groups–Kurds, Shia Muslims and Sunni Muslims.

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Haiti 18 Months After Devastating Quake
Ashley Smith – InDepth News, 18 Jul 2011

Some eighteen months after the disastrous earthquake that killed 300,000 people and drove 2 million into temporary camps, Haiti’s crisis remains as difficult as ever. Ashley Smith talked to Kim Ives, a journalist and editor with Haiti Liberté, a weekly newspaper published in Port-au-Prince and New York City, about what the Caribbean country could expect from the U.S.-backed Michel Martelly, who won a presidential runoff election in March 2011. He was sworn in as president on May 14, 2011.

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How Haiti Was Abandoned
Ashley Smith – Socialist Worker, 24 Jan 2011

The broken promises of support for Haiti from the world’s most powerful governments–and the neoliberal agenda they are pursuing instead.

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Haiti’s Colonial Overlord
Ashley Smith – Socialist Worker, 9 Aug 2010

The role of Bill Clinton’s Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission and other institutions that claim to look out for the interests of Haiti’s poor.

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HAITI AFTER THE QUAKE: IMPERIALISM WITH A HUMAN FACE (Part 1)
Ashley Smith – International Socialist Review, 5 Apr 2010

THE EARTHQUAKE that shook Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on January 12 is one of the worst disasters in human history. The quake flattened houses, hotels, and government buildings, including the National Palace and UN headquarters. By some estimates, 60 percent of Port-au-Prince’s buildings collapsed. Even more damage struck some of the smaller towns near the capital […]

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HAITI AFTER THE QUAKE: IMPERIALISM WITH A HUMAN FACE (Part 2)
Ashley Smith – International Socialist Review, 5 Apr 2010

Problems with the NGOs Haiti has approximately 10,000 NGOs operating within its borders, one of the highest numbers per capita in the world. The international NGOs are unaccountable to either the Haitian state or Haitian population. So the aid funneled through them further weakens what little hold Haitians have on their own society. These NGOs […]

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THE AID RACKET
Ashley Smith - Socialist Worker, 26 Feb 2010

IT’S NOW more than a month since the earthquake that laid waste to Port-au-Prince, killing more than 200,000 people and thrusting millions of people into the most desperate conditions. But according to the U.S. government, Haitians have a lot to be thankful for. On February 12, the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Ken Merten boasted, "In terms of […]

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THE “SHOCK DOCTRINE” FOR HAITI
Ashley Smith – Socialist Worker, 10 Feb 2010

The U.S. is reviving what Haitians call "the plan of death."ONE MONTH after the devastating earthquake, Haiti continues to suffer under apocalyptic conditions. The quake killed more than 200,000 people, injured 250,000 and has left over 3 million dependent on assistance for food, water and housing. Contrary to the puff pieces in the media, the […]

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CATASTROPHE IN HAITI
Ashley Smith – Socialist Worker, 21 Jan 2010

The natural and not-so-natural factors that contributed to the devastation when Haiti was struck by a strong earthquake.A DEVASTATING earthquake, the worst in 200 years, struck Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, laying waste to the city and killing untold numbers of people. The quake measured 7.0 on the Richter scale, and detonated more than 30 aftershocks, all […]

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