{"id":79893,"date":"2021-09-26T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T19:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=79893"},"modified":"2021-09-26T15:59:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T19:59:32","slug":"schiller-institute-internet-dialogue-need-creative-genius-of-the-world-to-bear-on-haiti-and-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/blog\/2021\/09\/26\/schiller-institute-internet-dialogue-need-creative-genius-of-the-world-to-bear-on-haiti-and-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Schiller Institute Internet Dialogue \u2014 \u2018Need Creative Genius of the World to Bear on Haiti and Afghanistan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sept. 25 (EIRNS)\u2014Today the Schiller Institute held an international webinar titled, \u201cReconstructing Haiti\u2014America\u2019s Way Out of the \u2018Global Britain\u2019 Trap.<\/strong>\u201d<\/a> The two-and-a-half-hour discussion featured elements of a proposed development outline for Haiti, as well as immediate emergency action required, and brought together experts, with ties to Haiti, in engineering, medicine and development policy. Today\u2019s deliberations stand in stark contrast to the events of the week, which included the U.S. forced deportation of thousands of displaced Haitians from the Texas-Mexico border, back to Haiti, to disaster conditions from the August earthquake and before.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The six panelists were Richard Freeman, co-author of \u201cThe Schiller Institute Plan To Develop Haiti,\u201d which EIR will publish this week for its Oct. 1 issue; Eric Walcott, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Institute of Caribbean Studies; Firmin Backer, co-founder and President of the Haiti Renewal Alliance; Joel DeJean, engineer and Texas activist with The LaRouche Organization; Dr. Walter Faggett, MD, based in Washington, D.C., where he is former Chief Medical Officer of the District of Columbia, and currently Co-Chairman of the Health Council of D.C.\u2019s Ward 8, and an international leader with the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites; and moderator Dennis Speed of the Schiller Institute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Freeman presented both the dimensions of both the extreme underdevelopment forced for decades on Haiti, and also the essentials of a development program for that nation, in the context of development of all the Island of Hispaniola, and the Caribbean. He presented a map of proposed rail, nuclear power sites, safe water systems and other vital infrastructure. He showed maps of proposals that Chinese firms had made in recent years, but which fell into abeyance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firmin Backer pointed out that the USAID has spent $5.1 billion in Haiti over the 11 years since the 2010 earthquake, but what is there to show for it? Now, with the latest earthquake on Aug. 14, we can\u2019t even get aid into the stricken zones, because there is no airport nor port in southern Haiti to serve the stricken people. We should reassess how wrongly the U.S. funding was spent. Firmin reported how Haiti was given some debt cancellation by the IMF years back, but then disallowed from seeking foreign credit! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eric Walcott was adamant, \u201cWe need the creative genius of the world to bear on Haiti and Afghanistan.\u201d He said, \u201cleverage the diaspora\u201d to develop Haiti. There are more Haitian medics in New York and Miami than all of Haiti. He stressed that Haiti is not poor; the conditions are what is poor. But the population has pride, talent and resourcefulness. Walcott made a special point about elections in Haiti. He said, \u201cElections are a process,\u201d not an event. He has experience. From 1998 to 2000, Walcott served as the lead observer for the OAS, for elections in Haiti. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joel DeJean, an American of Haitian lineage, was forceful about the need to aim for the highest level in that nation, for example, leapfrog from charcoal to nuclear power. He advised, \u201cgive China the opportunity\u201d to deploy the very latest nuclear technology in Haiti\u2014the pebble-bed gas cooled modular reactor. We \u201cdon\u2019t need more nuclear submarines, we need nuclear technology!\u201d He called for the establishment of a development bank in Haiti, and other specifics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Faggett summed up at many points, with the widest viewpoint and encouragement of action. He served in the U.S. military\u2019s \u201cCaribbean Peace-Keeping Force,\u201d and was emphatic about taking action not only in Haiti, but worldwide. He referenced President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, saying that \u201cyou can tell a lot about people, by how they take care of the health of their people.\u201d He reported that, at present, aid workers in Haiti, are having to shelter in place, because of the terrible conditions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, he said, we should mobilize. Have \u201cvaccine diplomacy,\u201d and work to build a health platform in Haiti, and a health care delivery system the world over. He is \u201cexcited about realizing Helga\u2019s mission,\u201d referring to Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Chairwoman of the Schiller Institute, who issued a call in June 2020, for a world health security platform. At that time, she and Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. Surgeon General, formed the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sept. 25 (EIRNS)\u2014Today the Schiller Institute held an international webinar titled, \u201cReconstructing Haiti\u2014America\u2019s Way Out of the \u2018Global Britain\u2019 Trap.\u201d The two-and-a-half-hour discussion featured elements of a proposed development outline for Haiti, as well as immediate emergency action required, and brought together experts, with ties to Haiti, in engineering, medicine and development policy. Today\u2019s deliberations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":79894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,667,643,520,505,634,702,700,98,626,506],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-79893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activity","category-agriculture","category-covid-19","category-updates-development","category-updates","category-healthcare","category-healthcare-updates-development","category-power-energy","category-updates-space","category-committee-for-the-coincidence-of-opposites","category-updates-wlb","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79907,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79893\/revisions\/79907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}