Dominican Republic Archives - BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/topics/dominican-republic/ News You Won't Find on BBC or ITN Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:36:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://bsnews.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cropped-truth1-55x55.jpg Dominican Republic Archives - BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/topics/dominican-republic/ 32 32 49333625 Hillary Clinton and Haiti https://bsnews.info/hillary-clinton-haiti/ https://bsnews.info/hillary-clinton-haiti/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2016 19:36:57 +0000 http://bsnews.info/?p=14443 The idea was to transform Haiti into a Taiwan of the Caribbean, with maquiladoras, an apparel industry, tourism, and call centers. These would be the niche sectors that would guide the new cooperation framework.

In this plan, the particularities of Haiti itself didn’t matter much.

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]]> https://bsnews.info/hillary-clinton-haiti/feed/ 1 14443 How to make a monster. Imperialism and the Islamic ‘State’. https://bsnews.info/how-to-make-a-monster-imperialism-and-the-islamic-state/ https://bsnews.info/how-to-make-a-monster-imperialism-and-the-islamic-state/#respond Mon, 23 Nov 2015 18:21:14 +0000 http://bsnews.info/?p=13244 Once again in the history of American intervention we have the spectacle of the creators being threatened by their own creation. It’s not that long ago that the mujahideen, who benefited from American financial and military support during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, later turned on the West in the form of Al-Qa‘ida. Yesterday’s “freedom fighters” have become today’s “terrorists.”

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