Aid State

Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti

By: Jake Johnston

Narrated by: James Lurie

Haiti’s state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 2021 assassination of President Moise, refugees desperately set out on boats to reach the US and Latin America, and the economy reels from the after-effects of disasters, both man-made and natural, that destroyed much of Haiti’s infrastructure. How did a nation founded on liberation—a people that successfully revolted against their colonizers and enslavers—come to such a precipice?

In Aid State, Jake Johnston, researcher and writer at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, reveals how US and European capitalist goals re-enslaved Haiti under the guise of helping it. To the global West, Haiti has always been a place where labor is cheap, politicians are compliant, and profits are to be made. Over the course of nearly 100 years, the US has sought to control Haiti with occupying police, military, and euphemistically-called peacekeeping forces, as well as hand-picked leaders meant to quell uprisings and protect corporate interests. Earthquakes and hurricanes only further hurt a state already decimated by the aid industrial complex.

Based on years of on-the-ground reporting in Haiti and interviews with politicians in the US and Haiti, UN officials, and Haitians who struggle for their lives, homes, and families, Aid State is a conscience-searing book of witness.

©2024 Jake Johnston (P)2024 Dreamscape Media

Informative

Eye opening and informative. Great detail and smooth connection of all key players and their parts in the overall picture.

I loved this book !! Winds of peace and conciosness are blowing, says BBQ, Jimmy Cherizezs.

Last line.., ' they didn't expect this to be the final act." (of the AID STATE, sucking up money like a Christmas store. This 'Aid state'" now visible, likely spawned by devil Dulles
descendents, now they give us right under our nose the:
AID INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, feed it billions, watch machine washing out of and disappearance of cash like stains, wisked away. Last act, it's over now baby ! "We got this Presidehnt Sanders". Boom shak-a-la !!

Haiti Rocks, and we the people rule.

Good

It was slightly hard to follow at times but still very awesome and giving in for that we wernt supposed to know!!

Brilliant insight

This is very interesting, both for the background on Haiti, but also all tne other countries they have been messed up by external forces. The parallels are clear.

investigative journalism at its best

Thankful the author took the time to answer so many lingering questions going back to the 2010 earthquake.