Links of Interest

As usual, all the chatter about the outpouring of U.S. support obscures the uncomfortable fact that America is deeply complicit in what is happening in Haiti:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jan2010/pers-j15.shtml

http://uhurunews.com/story?resource_name=haiti-20100113

Also, I am endlessly fascinated (and a bit disgusted) by the commemoration of Lee-Jackson Day in Virginia. If the suggestion that there is some level of equivalency between Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King, Jr. makes you physically nauseous, then this holiday is not for you:

http://www.blueridgemuse.com/node/2956

http://www.alextimes.com/news/2010/jan/14/at-the-junction-of-politics-and-history