Security “Red Zones” in Haiti Preventing Large Aid Groups from Effectively Distributing Aid

DemocracyNow!
January 22, 2010

As thousands of well-equipped US soldiers pour into Haiti, there is an increasing concern about the militarization of the country, supporting the soldiers and not the people. Or, as one doctor put it, “people need gauze, not guns.” We take a look at aid distribution in Haiti and the effect on Haitians fighting to survive in the aftermath of the earthquake...

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Raj Patel on “The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”

DemocracyNow!
January 12, 2009

Author and activist Raj Patel joins us to discuss his new book, The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy. “We’ve come to believe that the only way we can value things is by sticking them in a market,” Patel says. “The trouble is, as we’ve seen through this recession, that markets are a tremendously bad way of valuing things, tremendously fickle.”...

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