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it’s only been one year? : my brief subjective reflection on Katrina scott crow 2006-08-29 5:13 PM
I have avoided much of the media and the media hype around Katrina, the levee failure and the aftermath. I didn’t need to see it again I, like many others feel it almost everyday. (text/plain + 2 comments)

Katrina, one year later: For black liberation through socialist revolution! Fred Bergen 2006-08-29 2:47 PM
We revolutionaries insist that black liberation, including the conquest of full democratic rights for blacks in the US, can only be achieved through socialist revolution. It is hopeless and naïve to expect the US government to "rebuild for democracy". The face of US capitalist "democracy" was unmasked by Hurricane Katrina, and it's not going to get any prettier. (text/plain)

when it comes to katrina, spike ain't cicer jeffery mcnary 2006-08-29 1:47 PM
sometimes art and history collide (text/plain)

Radical Responses to Katrina: Building Common Ground Recorded and produced by George King 2006-08-29 11:47 AM
Two MP3's, mono, 64 kbps. Part One: 44:48 Part Two: 35:11 Radio Broadcasters PLEASE NOTE: There is one known swear, on Track 2 at 34:12. (audio/mpeg)

CORPORATE NEWS NETWORK BLASTS SUCCESSFUL ''YES MEN'' INTERVENTION corporate news network 2006-08-29 10:41 AM
Humiliated Wal-Mart, federal, state and local officials admitted they were publicly named and shamed by a Yes Men protestor posing as a HUD official. Annie Chen, media coordinator for Survivors Village, a tent-city protest for the reopening of public housing in New Orleans, applauded Bichlbaum's theatrics. "Right now, a lie is better than the truth," she said. (text/plain)

CUBA UNDER CASTRO Stephen Lendman 2006-08-29 7:25 AM
WHAT FIDEL CASTRO HAS DONE FOR THE PEOPLE OF CUBA (text/plain)

"The Movie That Will Cause the Declaration of Martial Law in the US" Aaron Russo 2006-08-29 5:22 AM
That's my review of Aaron Russo's Masterpiece of Rights. I can not put it more strongly or simply. One way or the other, this is the movie of your life. The movie will make you sick to your stomach and terrified of what the US government is doing by documented evidence. We must act now or forever live in fear. (text/plain)

Secret senator blocks bill, creating classic 'whodunit' Rebecca Carr 2006-08-29 1:01 AM
Secret senator blocks bill, creating classic 'whodunit' Something may be afoot as legislation that would provide database to track federal spending may never be voted on (text/plain)

Voters everywhere agree political system "badly broken" Rasmussen Reports survey 2006-08-29 12:54 AM
The Rasmussen Reports surveys were conducted as part of a series of Election 2006 polls on Senate and Governor's races across the nation. An earlier, national, survey found that just 48% of American adults believe that elections are generally fair to voters. That number has been fairly consistent since we began polling on the topic in the mid-90s. The only change has been the partisan details. In the 1990s, with a Democrat in the White House, (text/plain)

The Daily Show: Rocky Trailer Picture Show - New Orleans' anti-Cindy Sheehan Jon Stewart 2006-08-29 12:45 AM
Satire commentated video on Rocky the Repug's FEMA trailer trip to DC who 'somehow' managed to meet the Commandant and Thief and not be charged with a federal offense. (text/plain)

Katrina: This Is What America Looks Like Terje Anderson 2006-08-29 12:21 AM
Katrina hit two days before "mother's day," the day when welfare payments and food stamps are delivered to most poor people in this country. (Actually these days it is more likely be added to plastic cards via electronic debit accounts.) It was just two days before the paycheck that arrives at the end of the month. (text/plain)

Still Blind to the Poverty Jonathan Alter 2006-08-29 12:18 AM
Some readers told me at the time that this was naive—that the president, if not indifferent to the problems of black people, as the singer Kanye West charged, was not going to do anything significant to help them. At first this seemed too cynical. The week after the article appeared, Bush went to Jackson Square in New Orleans and made televised promises not only for Katrina relief but to address some of the underlying struggles of the poor. He proposed "worker recovery accounts" to help evacuees find work by paying for job training, school and child care; an Urban (text/plain)

Is this Bush's secret bunker? The Guardian 2006-08-29 12:08 AM
Mount Weather first caught the American imagination on December 1 1974, when a Dulles-bound TransWorld Airlines 727, struggling through heavy rains and 50mph winds, crashed into the top of the mountain, less than a mile and a half from the site. The crash briefly severed the underground line linking to the Emergency Broadcast System, and teletype machines in news offices across the country began spitting out garbled transmissions. (text/plain)

On the anniversary of Katrina: why Hezbollah does what Bush wouldn't. leni? 2006-08-29 12:00 AM
The Katrina dossier undoubtedly needs updating, but looking through it, it stands up well as an account of the racist, barbaric criminality of the Bush administration, the local Democratic establishment, the police and practically every relevant institution of the American state. Far from being merely incompetence or cruel indifference during a natural disaster, it was a shocking crime perpetrated on the poor. Not merely underfunding and poor planning: they had a plan, but it didn't include helping the poor. Not merely neglect, but the conscious blockading of the city, the refusal of aid, and the eventual imposition of martial law. Not merely the inability to house 'refugees', but the deliberate use of the situation to impose a plan for turning New Orleans into a Disneyland for rich yuppies. (text/plain)

Katrina's Second Crisis Van Jones and James Rucker 2006-08-28 11:49 PM
Last year, Americans met a massive human tragedy with a massive opening of our homes and our hearts. But as we enter the 12th month of this ongoing crisis in the Gulf Coast, it is clear that charity alone won’t do. For too many of those whose lives were uprooted and overturned by Hurricane Katrina, the horrors of those first awful weeks in the fall of 2005 have given way to new fears, new struggles and new displacements. Many are not much better off than they were 12 months ago; some are arguably worse off. They are trying to rebuild their lives, to prevent the loss of their battered homes, to find jobs and to take care of their children. But despite the initial outpouring of support, those who were left behind in August 2005 are being left behind again. (text/plain)

After the Storm The Nation Blog 2006-08-28 11:31 PM
Again, the question: Why? The Black Activist Coalition on Katrina and the People's Hurricane Relief Fund say that the astoundingly incompetent response is an example of "the monumental failure of the US government to protect and respect the lives of blacks and the poor" and "the direct result of the institutional dimensions of race, class, and gender oppression inherent in the US government...throughout its 230 year history." (text/plain)

DEA to influence CO election Ryan Morgan 2006-08-28 11:23 PM
In an e-mail to political campaign professionals, an agent named Michael Moore asks for help finding a campaign manager to defeat the measure, which voters will consider in November. If passed, it would allow people 21 and older to have up to 1 ounce of marijuana. (text/plain)

9 Arrested in Action to Reopen New Orleans Public Housing Darwin BondGraham 2006-08-28 10:26 PM

The reopening of the Lafitte today was a response to the policies of HUD which have left the Lafitte closed to residents. The development was not badly damaged by Katrina or the subsequent flood. (image/gif + 3 comments)

No Troops to Lebanon! ICP 2006-08-28 8:29 PM
Israel’s war in Lebanon had several aspects: some concern its own territorial interests, others concern the policy of American imperialism in the Middle East of which it is the fundamental instrument, finally others are related to "the instability" of Lebanon and to the resistance of the Palestinian populations which have been unable to emancipate themselves from the national oppression to which they were subjected initially by British colonialism, then by Zionism (text/html)

Vermont Republican U.S. Senate candidate Cris Ericson asks for Impeachment proceedings! reposted 2006-08-28 4:55 PM
by Cris Ericson (text/plain)

"Trouble in the Water" mp3 Paul Kotheimer 2006-08-28 1:01 PM
Here's an updated folk song, set to the tune of the traditional American Spiritual, "Wade in the Water." Dedicated in solidarity to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Lyrics below, first published here September 8, 2005. Follow the link to the Urbana-Champaign IMC site for a brand-new high-res mp3 of the song. (text/plain)

Preparativos para cumbre NOAL marcan semana en Cuba kaiser 2006-08-28 12:48 PM
La Habana, 26 de agosto (PL).- Las autoridades cubanas afinan este sábado los más mínimos detalles concernientes a los lugares de alojamiento y vías de desplazamiento, así como a la seguridad de los recintos oficiales de la cumbre del Movimiento No Alineados (NOAL). (text/plain + 2 comments)

Remembering Katrina and the Need for Climate Justice William Hughes 2006-08-28 11:46 AM

Nearly one year after Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, the Bush-Cheney Gang has done little, on the issue of global warming, to prevent another devastating disaster. At a rally, on Aug. 26, 2006, at the main headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm. (NOAA), Mike Tidwell, the author of “The Ravaging Tide,” charged that unless something is done now about the warming of our global atmosphere, more Katrinas are on their way. (image/jpeg)

Edward Bernays and BBC 2006-08-28 8:14 AM
This seven-minute video which I call "The Assassin of Democracy" focuses on one of the most skillful and amoral expert of all the experts in mass manipulation, Edward Bernays. Bernays got his first taste of the power of propaganda during World War I. He advised US presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Einsehower and served numerous corporations and business associations. One of his biggest fans was Hitler's propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, a fact about which Bernays bragged proudly. (text/plain)

Big, Easy Money CorpWatch 2006-08-28 7:37 AM
Disaster profiteers make millions while local companies and laborers in New Orleans and the rest of the Katrina-devastated Gulf Coast region are systematically getting the short end of the stick, according to a major new report from the nonprofit CorpWatch. (text/plain)

Republican Congressional Candidate Fingers the Bushies for planning 9/11 reposted 2006-08-27 11:40 PM
author: Realpolitiker (text/plain)

Democrat Gatekeeper's Camptown Races Do-Da Ed Ward, MD 2006-08-27 10:21 PM
What do you do when America's discontent with the democrat's (rats, dims, or for a real laugh democratic) and the republican's (repugs) party is at an all time high? Enough correct and righteous outrage that many simply call both parties - the party of elitists. Democrats formed other democrat groups such as the ADA, Americans for Democratic (apparently, democratic substituting for democrat similar to the currently spun substitution of democracy) Action. The ADA states, "...we lobby through coalition partnerships, through direct advocacy, and through media." The direct inference being democrats will lobby through a 'coalition partners' without the recognized connection of direct advocacy. According to democrat spin this stated strategy seems to also make the word deception interchangeable for democrat, democratic and even democracy. (text/plain)

BTL:Washington Determined to Demolish New Orleans' Public Housing Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus 2006-08-27 8:16 PM
Interview with Elizabeth Cook, housing activist, conducted by Between the Lines' Melinda Tuhus (text/plain)

Join Camp Democracy? I don't think so. Participate? Absolutely Ed Ward, MD 2006-08-27 6:36 PM

Camp Democracy - This is it d.o. 2006-08-27 3:41 PM

This is our opportunity to do what the citizens of the Ukraine, of Mexico, and of other countries do when their democracies are taken from them. This is our chance to say, "Enough is enough!" (image/jpeg)

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