Katrina
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Black Agenda Report for 28 August, 2013: The "Dreamer" With a Kill List, the "Dreamer" as Zombie, Syria Enters American Hell
28 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Dr. King Was A Man, “The Dreamer” Is A Zombie by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Gary Younge points out that King’s “I Have A Dream” speech wasn’t offered as the penultimate moment of his career till after his death. Those Continue reading
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ICH 3 December 2012: Chris Hedges: Katrina, All Over Again
3 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria WMD Claim Is False By Moon Of Alabama If the Wired writers, had even some basic knowledge about ammunition engineering they would not fall for such a stupid claim some anonymous official makes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33215.htm Continue reading
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New Atlantis – Part Two: How musicians rebuilt New Orleans
More from the interview with jazz writer John Swenson. How jazz musicians pulled together to save New Orleans the city after the federal levee failures. Includes footage from one of the first big second line parades after the flood, a memorial parade for a murdered artist, and musician Glen David Andrews speaking at the Silence… Continue reading
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Video: New Atlantis – Part One: How musicians rebuilt New Orleans
24 August 2011 — Jazz on the Tube Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 10 August 2011: Barack's Satan Sandwich / Obama Slipping / Black Brits Revolt
10 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report: News, commentary and analysis from the black left Barack’s Satan Sandwich Only The First Course: Will We Re-Hire the Chef in 2012 Anyway? Bruce A. Dixon By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver pronounced the debt deal a Satan Sandwich. The CBC is conducting its Continue reading
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New Orleans: Rebuilding on People’s Bones
16 September, 2010 — The Real News Network Jordan Flaherty: Thousands of people are not able to return to New Orleans. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Video.4456756 New Orleans: Rebuilding on People’s Bones, posted with vodpod Bio Jordan Flaherty is a New Orleans-based journalist and works with the Louisiana Justice Institute. He was the first writer to bring the story Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report – Duncan: Katrina “Best Thing That Happened” / Blacks and Net Neutrality
3 February, 2010 — Black Agenda Report How Corporate Dollars Dominate the Black and Latino Conversation on Network Neutrality by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon The utter dependence of our “civil rights” organizations like the NAACP and LULAC upon corporate donations from Big Cable and the telecom industry has caused them to weigh into Continue reading
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Disaster Capitalism in Haiti By Stephen Lendman
In her book, ‘The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism,’ Naomi Klein explores the myth of free market democracy, explaining how neoliberalism dominates the world with America its main exponent exploiting security threats, terror attacks, economic meltdowns, competing ideologies, tectonic political or economic shifts, and natural disasters to impose its will everywhere. Continue reading
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Fight back against the colonial takeover of Haiti! By James Circello
In the wake of a devastating earthquake in Haiti, Washington has seized the opportunity to strengthen its grip on Haiti—not only politically and economically, but militarily as well. The U.S. military has deployed naval vessels, military jets, and more than 2,000 marines and 3,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Infantry Division. An additional 10,000 U.S.… Continue reading
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The Disaster Within The Disaster: Its Time To Investigate the Aid Fiasco By Danny Schechter
19 January, 2010 — Media Channel Haiti remains a death trap, with an aid program that has sat by and watched thousands die without relief. The International Red Cross describes the situation there as a catastrophe while the American Red Cross reports raising more than $100 million dollars thanks to texting technologies and backing from Continue reading
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Haiti: And on the Eighth Day… By William Bowles
The Americans have landed, or as they used to say of the GIs in the UK during WWII, ‘they’re overfed, over sexed and over here’. So now, in spite of protestations that air-dropping supplies would cause a riot, on the eighth day of this catastrophe (one that the BBC still continues to call a “humanitarian… Continue reading
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Help Haiti: The Unforgiven Country Cries Out By Chris Floyd
The relentlessly maintained, deliberately inflicted political and economic ruin of Haiti has a direct bearing on the amount of death and devastation that the country is suffering today after the earthquake. It will also greatly cripple any recovery from this natural disaster. As detailed below, Washington’s rapacious economic policies have destroyed all attempts to build… Continue reading
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Video: Catastrophe in the Making
Video: A just-released book describes the most dangerous project built by the US Army Corps of Engineers in regional New Orleans. Catastrophe in the Making describes how the MRGO (Mississippi River Gulf Outlet) put New Orleans and nearby St. Bernard Parish in harm’s way by allowing salt water intrusion that killed protective cypress forests and… Continue reading
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FAIR Media Advisory: Erasing Katrina
August 29 marked the fourth anniversary of the day Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. The devastation wrought by both the hurricane itself and the government’s inept response prompted remarkably critical corporate media coverage that promised to fight for Katrina survivors and change the way we talk about poverty and race. But… Continue reading
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Protecting Coastal Communities: The Dutch Say Yes We Do – In America, We Can, Too
Levees.org has created a video documentary using footage captured by an Amsterdam-based filmmaker while in The Netherlands this past May….HJ Bosworth Jr and Sandy Rosenthal were part of US Senator Mary Landrieu’s Second Congressional Delegation (CoDel) excursion to Holland. Unlike the first CoDel which studied peripheral barriers (floodgates), the goal of the Second CoDel was… Continue reading
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The Katrina Myth – the truth about a thoroughly unnatural disaster
Few people understand what really happened in New Orleans or what caused it. Fewer still realize that they too may be living under a similar or an even greater threat. This video exposes the key myths and misunderstandings about the New Orleans flood. Continue reading
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Chris Floyd: A Correction and an Apology
Obviously, I was letting my knee-jerk liberal PC prejudices run wild. For as a new article in The Nation forcefully demonstrates, African-Americans are not treated as second-class citizens in the United States; they are treated as wild animals to be hunted down and shot in cold blood. Continue reading
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Waiting for the Bus in New Orleans By Bill Quigley
In the blazing midday sun, hot and thirsty little children walk around bags of diapers and soft suitcases piled outside a locked community center in the Lower Ninth Ward. Military police in camouflage and local police in dark blue uniforms and sunglasses sit a few feet away in their cars. Moms and grandmas sit with… Continue reading
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Anti-Empire Report, May 1, 2008 By William Blum
Anti-Empire Report, May 1, 2008 The Anti-Empire Report Read this or George W. Bush will be president the rest of your life May 1, 2008 www.killinghope.org Since I gave up hope, I feel better. ‘More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other Continue reading
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The Gulf of Disbelief By William Bowles
Aside from everything else Hurricane Katrina has blown away it’s also ripped off the mask that covers the real face of corporate capitalism and reveals the stark reality that the US government has as little regard for its own ‘citizens’ as it does for those of Iraq or Afghanistan. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 