About a month ago, a team of journalists in Haiti released a nine-article study of a massive seed distribution that took place after the earthquake last year.

Humanitarians were warning that Haitians were "eating their seed." Millions of dollars - along with seeds and tools - flowed...

Now they are saying we have 3,481 killed by cholera. It is doubtless many more...

But in any case, these are just numbers to newspaper readers and radio listeners.

But 3,481 bodies is 3,481 bodies.

The bodies - and the tens of thousands made ill to date...

Some photos from the new Haiti Grassroots Watch report.

Go ahead and vote on these photos... since you can't vote in the questionable elections funded by US tax dollars (about $15 million of $29 million) to be held in Haiti on Nov. 28.

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"As Haiti suffers, the world dozes," remarked a recent Washington Post editorial.

But not everyone is dozing...

All across Haiti, humanitarian agencies and organizations are running scores of "cash-for-work" jobs programs where people get 200 gourdes a day - about US$5 -to sweep streets, clear rubble by...

The way in which international and national authorities in Haiti are dealing with Hurricane Tomas can teach us a great deal about how the economically and politically powerful are dealing with the powerless, especially the 1.3 million living in refugee "tent cities."

Incapacity, and even cynicism are exposed. But so,...

Nine months after the catastrophic earthquake which killed 230,000 to 300,000 people and left 1.3 million homeless, most of the refugees continue to live under plastic tarps and tents in horrific and dangerous conditions in Haiti's 1,354 squalid refugee camps. [See the related blog for more details.]
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UN, NGOs carrying out expensive, disjointed, uncoordinated and unworkable plan for "return and resettlement"

Nine months after the catastrophic earthquake which killed 230,000 to 300,000 people and left 1.3 million homeless, most of Haiti's impoverished refugees continue to live under plastic tarps and tents in horrific and dangerous conditions...