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  • THE FOX AT THE HENHOUSE
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Either President Bush just doesn’t get it, or he just doesn’t care, or he thinks the people he serves are all gullible morons.
    He’s appointed his own Homeland Security Advisor, Ms. Frances Townsend, to lead the White House investigation into how the government screwed up with Hurricane Katrina ? and what to do about it.
    Does the president really believe the American people will find such an investigation credible?
    I’m sure Ms. Townsend is a very smart lady. She has (…)

  • The Big Empty &The Big Easy
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    I look out of my window in Brooklyn and see a beam of light soaring skyward from the World Trade Center site. Following the tragedy of 9-11, I found this luminous image greatly inspiring, as it represented America’s steely determination to rebuild the Twin Towers and defeat Al Qaeda.
    Four years later, this grand incandescent spectacle is just as symbolic. This time, however, it highlights George W. Bush’s utter failure to capitalize on the catastrophe to unify America and (…)

  • Glover & Belafonte Speak Out on Katrina
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Danny Glover & Harry Belafonte
    The following speeches were made during the PBS/BET-televised Higher Ground Hurricane Relief Benefit concert on Saturday, September 17, 2005
    Danny Glover:
    John Coltrane once said "the main thing a musician would like to do, is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe." When Miles Davis asked him why he played so long, Coltrane answered, "It took that long to get it all in."
    New Orleans (…)

  • This is global warming, says environmental chief
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As Hurricane Rita threatens devastation, scientist blames climate change
    By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor
    Super-powerful hurricanes now hitting the United States are the "smoking gun" of global warming, one of Britain’s leading scientists believes.
    The growing violence of storms such as Katrina, which wrecked New Orleans, and Rita, now threatening Texas, is very probably caused by climate change, said Sir John Lawton, chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. (…)

  • Blackwater Down
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jeremy Scahill
    The men from Blackwater USA arrived in New Orleans right after Katrina hit. The company known for its private security work guarding senior US diplomats in Iraq beat the federal government and most aid organizations to the scene in another devastated Gulf. About 150 heavily armed Blackwater troops dressed in full battle gear spread out into the chaos of New Orleans. Officially, the company boasted of its forces "join[ing] the hurricane relief effort." But its men on the (…)

  • Public Pressure Mounts for Bush to Curtail Iraq War After Katrina Disaster
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Beth Gorham WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush says he can wage war in Iraq and still pay most of the huge bill for rebuilding the hurricane-lashed Gulf Coast. Most Americans don’t agree with him. And for the first time, Bush is facing a serious revolt in his own party over how to pay for hurricane relief.
    Republicans already edgy about the estimated $200-billion US price tag to clean up after Katrina were bracing for more damage by week’s end as hurricane Rita hurtled toward Texas (…)

  • Healthcare swept away
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Derrick Z. Jackson
    ONE OF THE most sordid stories to come out of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was the discovery of 154 bodies in hospitals and nursing homes. They account for 21 percent of the currently counted fatalities in Louisiana. Despite the heroism of doctors and nurses, The New York Times wrote, ’’the collapse of one of society’s most basic covenants — to care for the helpless — suggests that the elderly and critically ill plummeted to the bottom of priority lists as (…)

  • Union women unite in Detroit
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The 600 union members gathered Friday for a national convention in downtown Detroit were buzzing about the nomination of John Roberts to be the chief justice of the Supreme Court - because of his positions on issues such as reproductive rights and pay equity for women.
    At the plenary session at the Marriott Renaissance Center, speakers talked about cervical cancer and contraceptive equity. And among the topics for that afternoon’s workshops : A Man is not a Financial Plan, Personal Safety (…)

  • Protest Over Metal Detectors Gains Legs as Students Walk Out
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By FERNANDA SANTOS
    The first rumors started swirling last spring, in hushed talks in the classroom, amid hallway banter, in lunchtime chats at pizza parlors along Jerome Avenue. Metal detectors were coming to DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.
    By the time the summer school term began, students were noticing the newly installed surveillance cameras along DeWitt Clinton’s stairwells and the shell of a metal detector perched beyond a side door. "The school is on lockdown," one student (…)

  • Pattern of Abuse
    24 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A decorated Army officer reveals new allegations of detainee mistreatment in Iraq and Afghanistan. Did the military ignore his charges?
    By ADAM ZAGORIN
    he U.S. Army has launched a criminal investigation into new allegations of serious prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan made by a decorated former Captain in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an Army spokesman has confirmed to TIME. The claims of the Captain, who has not been named, are in part corroborated by statements of two (…)