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  • 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 (…)

  • New Orleans is dead; time to bury it!!
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I dont much care for the actions of our President; but tell me where the federal government has a responsibility to do ANYTHING. Its sure not in the Constitution. Read it; its the States duty to prepare and clean up this mess. Blame the States for being ill prepared and overwhelmed, not the federal govenment. That being said Im sure I think that maybe its time to carefully draft an amendment to our Constitution that allows for federal relief.
    As far as rebuilding it; why bother??? (…)

  • Venezuela’s Chavez Avoids Class War
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sergio Pareja Law Professor
    Pat Robertson’s recently retracted suggestion that the United States should "take out" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is an extreme echo of the views of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Earlier this year when asked by Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., if there was anything good she could say about Chavez, she responded, "It’s pretty hard ... to find something positive."
    I have traveled to Venezuela to visit family all my life. During my most recent trip, I (…)

  • Rice Defends Bush’s Katrina Response
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By LARA JAKES JORDAN
    BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended President Bush on Sunday against charges that the government’s sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina showed racial insensitivity.
    Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race,’’ the administration’s highest-ranking black said as she toured damaged parts of her native Alabama.
    Later, during a service at the Pilgrim Rest AME Zion church outside Mobile, Rice (…)

  • Floor Statement of Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich: The Supplemental for Hurricane Katrina
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) gave the following speech today on the House floor during a special session to provide relief money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina:
    “This amount of money is only a fraction of what is needed and everyone here knows it. Let it go forward quickly with heart-felt thanks to those who are helping to save lives with necessary food, water, shelter, medical care and security. Congress must also demand accountability with the appropriations. Because until (…)

  • The president from Mars
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dennis Roddy
    As New Orleans took on the atmospherics of a John Carpenter movie, George W. Bush, a man reluctant to distinguish between desperation and lawlessness, much less make the connection between the two, proved at last he is his father’s son.
    Thirteen years earlier George Bush the Elder saw a black population mired in poverty and alienation riot after a California jury blithely acquitted the posse of Los Angeles cops who beat Rodney King half to death. His response was to (…)

  • Landrieu Blasts Bush on Katrina Response
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Liddell
    U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., issued the following statement this afternoon regarding her call yesterday for President Bush to appoint a cabinet-level official to oversee Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery efforts within 24 hours.
    Sen. Landrieu said:
    “Yesterday, I was hoping President Bush would come away from his tour of the regional devastation triggered by Hurricane Katrina with a new understanding for the magnitude of the suffering and for the abject (…)

  • Bush Tries for Damage Control at a Critical Point
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Doyle McManus
    It took him most of a week to get there, but President Bush accomplished several goals Friday on his tour of the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. He brought comfort to some of the uncounted homeless. He lent encouragement to emergency workers battling to save those still in danger.
    And, not least, he launched a rescue mission to restore his own image after mounting criticism of an apparent shortage of federal leadership. (…)

  • Helping the Blind to See - Venezuela’s People First Policies
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Charley Allan - Morning Star
    The contrast between the calls from a wealthy bible basher to assassinate Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez and the south American country’s people-first policies in the region and beyond could not be larger.
    So, US televangelist Pat Robertson has ordered his million-strong "brownshirt" army to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
    This powerful Bush ally, who sells "miracles" on live TV to people who really believe that he has a hot-line to God, may (…)

  • The U.S. Needs to Start Over Failing at War, Peace and Dignity
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DAN LA BOTZ
    Hurricane Katrina’s blow to New Orleans and the failure of the government to respond have shown the United States to be a failed state.
    The George W. Bush administration focused all of its resources on war and the Department of Homeland Security, yet when a major American city was attacked, albeit by the forces of nature, the government failed to respond leaving at least hundreds, probably thousands, to die, others to suffer in illness and injury, and many more thirsty and (…)