Travis Ross

Journalist & co-editor of Canada-Haiti Information Project. at @haitiliberte @blkagendareport @TheCanadaFiles

[Travis Ross @Travis_M_Ross]

My latest.

"The most controversial revision proposes that political parties must have a minimum of 30,000 members to participate in elections."

@haiti_liberte #haiti #imperialism #CEP

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Megyn Kelly and Matt Walsh obsess over Haitians because it's the lowest red meat for their idiot audience, who like themselves lack the most basic knowledge of recent Haitian history and direct US interference. Look at how Ryan Grim exposed and humiliated Walsh on this:

[Common Sense Lover @Cardinal8824]

@MegynKellyShow This is what people from Ohio ACTUALLY think about Haitians‼️

[Sabby Sabs @SabbySabs2]

@MegynKellyShow Why don’t you tell the US to get out of Haiti Megyn!

[Travis Ross @Travis_M_Ross]

@jimmy_dore @MegynKellyShow The US govt enthusiastically supported & funded the Duvalier regime.

The US govt has invades Haiti three times. Haiti has spent most of the past 110 years as a vassal state of the US. When Haitians voted for a leader democratically, Aristide was couped, twice.

[Jimmy Dore @jimmy_dore]

Truly breathtaking taking what Megyn Kelly intentionally leaves out of her rant.

Kelly pretends the problem is some inherent flaw in Haitian “culture” or lack of “work ethic.”

In reality, the conditions forcing people to flee — extreme poverty, gang violence fueled by desperation, collapsed institutions — are the direct legacy of U.S.-backed coups, economic warfare, and neocolonial policies designed to keep Haiti weak, dependent, and a source of exploitable labor.

Direct U.S. interventions destroyed their ability to build a decent life at home.
Demanding they “go back” to the ruins those policies helped engineer is pure hypocrisy. The desperation isn’t innate — it was manufactured by the very powerful economic forces and U.S. government coups Kelly refuses to acknowledge.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

When Jean-Bertrand Aristide — Haiti’s first democratically elected president, backed by the poor and working masses — took office, his government immediately moved to double the minimum wage, mobilize the poor, bolster healthcare and education, foster neighborhood truces, and hold paramilitaries accountable.

These pro-worker steps threatened the sweatshop owners and foreign interests profiting from starvation wages.
The U.S. responded with economic sabotage and a violent coup.

A classified diplomatic cable obtained by The Grayzone reveals veteran CIA operative Janice L. Elmore (operating under State Department cover) meeting coup plotters and disloyal police in Gonaïves right before a strategic 2002 jailbreak that freed paramilitaries and set the 2004 overthrow in motion.

The Bush administration, through the U.S. government-funded International Republican Institute, trained and unified Aristide’s opponents, encouraged them to reject power-sharing, imposed crippling sanctions that froze loans and aid, and ultimately backed the coup that ousted Aristide on February 29, 2004.
Post-coup, the price of rice — the staple food for Haiti’s poor — more than doubled in months.

Looting, chaos, starvation risks, mass layoffs, and paramilitary violence followed. Regime change delivered exactly what the poor had feared: more misery.

This fits a longer pattern. Under Bill Clinton, the U.S. slashed tariffs on subsidized American rice, flooding Haiti and wiping out local rice farmers. Clinton himself later admitted: “It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake.”

The result was the destruction of Haitian agriculture and forced dependence on low-wage factory jobs.

Wikileaks cables show U.S. officials and contractors for major American brands actively pressured Haitian governments against even modest minimum wage increases — opposing a rise from 24 cents to 61 cents an hour as supposedly not reflecting “economic reality.”

Aristide’s earlier wage hikes were sabotaged for the same reason: protecting cheap labor for U.S. corporate interests.

[Katie Halper @kthalps]

You don’t have to “guess” why I’m not releasing it on my channel. I explain it in the message you selectively screenshot. @DanielBMate is releasing it on his channel & I sent you the files so you can release it as well. Not quite the behavior of someone afraid of how it went.

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

📹NEW VIDEO -- Starmer defeated! Palestine activists walk free after arms factory raid

After over 17 hours of deliberation, a jury at Birmingham crown court refused to convict four activists accused of committing criminal damage at an arms factory.
https://t.co/RMQF5GnLeV

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"A breast feeding baby was shot by a quad copter through the head"

Yesterday the UN commission of inquiry published a report detailing how Israel deliberately targets & kills Palestinian children

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

من الصعب أن تستطيع مواصلة الاستماع إلى شهادته حتى النهاية.

معاناةٌ تفوق الوصف.
الصحفي الفلسطيني مجاهد بني مفلح يكشف جانبًا من معاناة الأسرى، وكيف دمّر اعتقاله صحته.

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

🇵🇸🇮🇱 Nine minutes of testimonies from both Israeli soldiers and civilians explaining how the IDF killed their own people on October 7.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is genuinely shocking, and says so much about our approach to China.

I decided to check for independent reviews of the English version Xi Jinping's latest book, published a year ago, to see what people had to say about it since I hadn't read it myself.

To my surprise, I couldn't find any: not a single thoughtful review about the book out there! Even on Amazon, check it for yourself (https://t.co/1LVlhACA53): the book has only 3 ratings, that's it.

No matter where you stand on China, you’ve got to admit that’s pretty crazy: the sitting president of the world's rising superpower publishes a 700-page book explaining exactly what he's doing and why, and we don’t even care to look.

If there ever was a fact that illustrates just how willfully ignorant we are about China, this is it.

All the more because we then go spew the usual clichés around how secretive and impenetrable the Chinese system is: the book is on Amazon for $21 for crying out loud!

Anyhow, this felt so wrong that I figured I'd fix it. I bought the book, read it attentively and wrote what I hope you'll agree is a thoughtful review of it.

The book contains genuinely surprising passages, such as Xi writing that oversight of the Communist Party by "the judiciary, the public, and the media" was not just something the Party must “readily accept,” but something that he framed as historically decisive - an essential component to "escaping the historical cycle of rise and fall" that has doomed every dynasty in China's history.

Other passage that I'm sure would surprise many: a common narrative out there is that China blames the West for the century of humiliation and is driven by revenge. Well, Xi explains that's not true at all: the century of humiliation was China's own mistake, originated in the Ming Dynasty's disastrous "policy of national seclusion" that "resulted in China missing out on the opportunities presented by the Industrial Revolution" and "led to China’s decline."

All in all, the book is remarkably self-reflective and thoughtful. For instance Xi recognizes that his drive for “full and rigorous internal governance” - including to rid the Party of corruption - risked "instill[ing] fear and apprehension, or intimidate members into inaction.” He emphasizes the need for pragmatism in this regard, codified in a framework called the “Three Distinctions” that separates honest mistakes - made while experimenting, reforming, or operating without precedent - from deliberate violations committed for personal gain.

And many other surprises still. I found it a genuinely fascinating read for anyone interested in how the Chinese system works and how Xi thinks - or anyone interested in governance, period, as so much of what he writes is pretty universally applicable.

This is the link to my review of the book, an article I titled "The Book the West Refuses to Read": https://t.co/DYowWEESOd

[Jake Johnston @JakobJohnston]

The last boat illegally blown up by the US military (two days ago) had 8 people on board. That's more than were on any of the 67 boats the US has bombed since September ... except the very first one, which Pentagon officials now say was likely carrying victims of human trafficking, as @nickturse reported. Both took place in the Caribbean.

[Radio Télé Métronome @Radio_Metronome]

Sur ordre du Premier ministre de facto, la Police nationale d’Haïti (PNH) a bombardé, hier, à coups de gaz lacrymogène, un sit-in organisé par des étudiants de la Faculté de médecine, devant la primature qui réclament la réouverture de l’Hôpital général. La manière dont les policiers ont maltraité ces étudiants dérange plus d’un, et la Primature n’a pas réagi à cette situation. Quel tort ces étudiants ont-ils commis ? Ils exigent la réouverture d’un hôpital pour le bien du pays, pendant que le Premier ministre de facto, lui-même, gaspille les maigres ressources de l’État. Le pays souffre. La population n’a pas accès aux hôpitaux, dont la plupart sont fermés à cause de la violence des gangs, tandis que le Premier ministre de facto voyage en jet privé. #metronomehaiti

[Jake Johnston @JakobJohnston]

Institut Macaya, a Haitian "think tank" run by a who's who of Haiti's elite closely aligned with the current de facto prime minister, has hired a US lobbyist, Mercury Public Affairs, for $40k/month.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Canadian police chief forced to make a video statement after his officers started running the plates of attractive women coming out of coffee shops and gyms.

Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs is calling on officers who use police databases to meet women to quit.

Stubbs says these officers are turning police databases into "their own way to meet women."

"We've seen members messaging vulnerable victims on calls that they've attended in an attempt to develop an intimate relationship," Stubbs said.

Despite the accusations, Stubbs says the police force has committed to hiring enough women so that females make up 30% of the workforce, according to CBC.

[The Grayzone @TheGrayzoneNews]

A mysterious wave of attacks targeting Jewish sites in Canada is attributed to apolitical youth paid in crypto

The gun for hire attacks mirror those in Australia and the UK

Iran and pro-Palestine activists are blamed without evidence

But who benefits?
https://t.co/CtIvEQZ9F6

[Gustavo Petro @petrogustavo]

Mi hijo Andrés Petro que vive en el exterior se acercó a votar a su mesa y descubrió que ya había una señora votado por él.

Le permitieron votar pero el cónsul le dijo que eso estaba sucediendo mucho y que antes no sucedía tanto.

Debe aumentar la vigilancia de testigos en el exterior.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US empire is waging a neocolonial assault all across Latin America.

The US blatantly meddled in Colombia's election. Trump and Marco Rubio backed the far-right, multimillionaire candidate Abelardo de la Espriella (a defender of fascist paramilitaries), and there are serious irregularities in the results.

Colombia's current left-wing President Gustavo Petro has been very pro-Palestine and pro-China. He cut relations with the genocidal Israeli regime and joined China's Belt and Road Initiative.

De la Espriella vows to form a close alliance with the US and Israel, and minimize relations with China. Just a few weeks before the elections, he was in Florida, meeting with far-right US politicians who are close allies of Trump and Rubio.

The same thing is happening across the continent. The US carried out a blatant electoral coup in Honduras, to put a drug cartel-linked, pro-US, pro-Israel, anti-China puppet in power.

The US is currently trying to steal the election in Peru, to put the daughter of the fascist former dictator in power.

The US empire already has far-right puppets in power in Argentina, Chile, and Ecuador. The leader of Chile is the Pinochet-defending son of a Nazi war criminal. The dictator of Ecuador is the son of the country's richest billionaire oligarch.

Brazil is the next target of the US empire's neocolonial assault, in this year's election.

This is the colonial Monroe Doctrine in the neo-fascist era.

[Travis Ross @Travis_M_Ross]

https://t.co/ZAn4OdhmAq

[Kit Klarenberg @KitKlarenberg]

Decline & Fall did a breakdown of the extremely dodgy trial of Starmer's arsonists, and ensuing BBC-led media/political propaganda blitz designed to blame Russia, and foment public support for 'defeating Putin' in Ukraine:

https://t.co/R49MMD4ku7