What on earth is going on in Haiti, and why isn't the mainstream media covering it?

Under UN protection and with little mainstream press criticism, the interim coup government has continued its methodical campaign of persecution and imprisonment of political activists.... The mainstream media has continuously ignored visible examples of Haitians being killed by the United Nations...

Oh. Okay -- that explains it. Can't tarnish the UN.

(Gosh, it sucks to be a former French colony.)

The linked article keeps mentioning the "U.S.-installed interim government" which (given that the source appears to lean left) appears a backhanded way of admitting the US has had no apparent direct involvement since the existing government took power.

And that description itself is a lie: Aristide lost power when, after a widely-discredited (apparently rigged) election, rival Haitian rebel groups took control of city after city. According to Aristide, at the last minute, the US and France, conspiring together (no, nothing implausble there!) kidnapped him and forced him to leave the country. According to the Bush administration, Aristide himself had personally asked for safe transport out of the country, and boarded the dispatched plane voluntarily.

Even if you believe Aristide would never lie, that still doesn't add up to a "US-installed interim government." But hey, if the UN's misbehaving again, I'm sure it must be the fault of the US somehow.

I feel so bad for those poor people in Haiti. They need help, but it needs to be delivered accompanied by the barrel of a gun. Sadly, there's nothing the US can do, most likely, as the international/US left views every single humanitarian effort by the US as part of some secret coup. Missionaries are all CIA operatives. Christians dispensing aid are all part of the vast Bush-backed right-wing agenda. Who cares if the poor suffer?

It would just be a cover to plunder the vast petroleum and mineral weath of Haiti. And produce Republican voters in Haiti. Or something like that.

Call in the UN!

Oh, wait...