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  • Kevin Benderman : "Moral Courage"
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Sgt. Kevin Benderman "I will not compromise my integrity, nor my moral courage."
    by Monica Benderman
    These words come directly from the NCO creed, which I swore to uphold as a member of the US Army. When I filed for Conscientious Objector status, it was after careful consideration of my duty to my wife, my step-children, my country and the soldiers I served with. But before I could consider all of this, I had to consider myself. I had to ensure that my actions did not compromise (…)

  • Where Have all the Soldiers Gone?
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "You know the year of 1900-that was 60 years ago/when death come howling on the ocean/death calls, you gotta go"—Tom Rush, Wasn’t it a Mighty Storm
    by Daniel Patrick Welch
    "Galveston had a seawall, just to keep the waters down. But the high tide from the ocean spread the water over the town." The worst hurricane in US history saw almost 6000 people drowned in Galveston, Texas a little over a century ago, in a human tragedy immortalized by Tom Rush’s mournful 1960 ballad. But it was an (…)

  • Bush and Third World America
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Out of Chaos, an Awakening
    The images coming out of the Gulf Coast and New Orleans in particular have been nothing short of unfathomable, nightmarish visions of anarchy and misery, a ghoulish reality haunting our minds and lives. For what we see on our television sets is a devastation of humanity never before seen or experienced or felt within American shores. It is a surreal and up close glimpse of natural and human made destruction reserved almost exclusively for (…)

  • RESIGN
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Madsen
    "Team Bush" still refusing international aid. Russian rescue crews on four cargo planes with helicopters on board sit idle at an airport near Moscow waiting for green light, Cuba has 1500 doctors with 26 tons of medical supplies and Bush is refusing them entry to U.S., Venezuelan disaster rescue teams wait for a "go," Dominican Republic crews with hurricane recovery experience wait and wait and wait. It’s the same scene at airports around the world. Meanwhile, FEMA turned (…)

  • Bush criticism is widely reported
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fierce criticism of President Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina dominates Tuesday’s papers, amid reports of ongoing suffering among storm victims.
    The Daily Mirror condemns the response as amazingly inadequate, pointing out that the richest country on Earth needs aid from poorer nations.
    And the Guardian says many evacuees at a Louisiana church centre visited by Mr Bush were unimpressed by the president.
    Meanwhile, the Sun likens New Orleans to a medieval wasteland.
    Hurricane (…)

  • New Orleans : prisoners fell on barbed wire in bid to find water
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    New Orleans prison inmates desperate to get water fell out of cell windows onto razor wire where they hung for hours waiting to be rescued, according to a sheriff’s deputy.
    Luis Reyes, who guarded a prison during Hurricane Katrina and the days after, said that some detainees drowned in their cells as flood waters rose.
    In an interview with AFP, Mr Reyes said many prisoners broke out of their cells because there were just not enough guards to control the Community Correctional Centre (…)

  • Patrolling the ’Venice from Hell’
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Matthew Davis
    In a small boat chugging round the streets of eastern New Orleans, the surreal scene dumbfounds even seasoned rescuers.
    Road signs crane above the stagnant waters, power lines hang inches above head height.
    Beneath the surface, cars have become the twisted equivalent of sandbanks.
    Our boat passes rows of houses marked with red spray paint - signs that show the building has been checked, and which tell of the fate of their occupants.
    Brown lines along the wooden (…)

  • The Smoking Gun: Navy Ship sits unused awaiting Bush’s orders, while Bush ate cake
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    After the Hurricane struck, Bush did NOTHING to mitigate the disaster, instead he continued on his scheduled photo ops- yucking it up with Seniors, eating cake with John McCain, and playing guitar for the cameras. Meanwhile, a US Navy ship with amphibious landing vehicles, hopsital facilities with 600 beds, 9 million meals (MREs) and the capacity to make 100,000 gallons of water per day- sat unused for a week- awaiting Bush’s orders. In this BBC interview with Lt. Commander (…)

  • New Orleans : water is being pumped out
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DOUG SIMPSON
    The floodwaters that caused so much misery and death in New Orleans were being pumped back into Lake Pontchartrain and authorities braced for what the receding deluge would reveal. "It’s going to wake the nation up again," Mayor Ray Nagin said Tuesday.
    The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began pumping water out the flooded city after closing a major gap in a key levee that burst during Hurricane Katrina, flooding 80 percent of the bowl-shaped city.
    Nagin said it would take (…)

  • New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin to feds: ’Get off your asses’
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Transcript of radio interview with New Orleans’ Nagin
    New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin blasted the slow pace of federal and state relief efforts in an expletive-laced interview with local radio station WWL-AM.
    The following is a transcript of WWL correspondent Garland Robinette’s interview with Nagin on Thursday night. Robinette asked the mayor about his conversation with President Bush:
    NAGIN: I told him we had an incredible crisis here and that his flying over in Air Force One does not do (…)