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German Environmental Minister Jürgen Trittin remains stolid in his assertion that Hurricane Katrina is linked to global warming and America’s refusal to reduce emissions. He may be right, but the timing of his tirade is way off.
Germany’s Minister of the Environment, Jürgen Trittin of the Green Party, on Tuesday unleashed a firestorm of criticism in the United States over comments he made in a newspaper column directly linking the natural catastrophe in the American South to global (…)

I’m challenging my party, the Green Party, to come down here and help us just as soon as things are a little more organized. The Republicans and Democrats didn’t do anything to prevent this or plan for it and don’t seem to care if everyone dies.
by Malik Rahim
Malik Rahim, a veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans, for decades an organizer of public housing tenants both there and in San Francisco and a recent Green Party candidate for New Orleans City Council, lives in the (…)

Citizen media, journalism, & reports as it happened on Wednesday August 31st. Real time web dispatches from across the Gulf as the historic disaster unfolded, survivor accounts, photos, amateur video, links to TV station forums, and a sample of the best bloggers - discovered in a half-day scour using blog search engines. This story must be told, full documentation and a wide-eyed, open assessment must be adamantly sought, to insure better preparation in the future, and accountability for (…)

by Dwarika Nath Rath from India
We, in the third world countries has an cinematic impression about the sensitivity of the US citizens towards it’s citizens.There is an impression that it can go to any extent and spend billions in the rescue operation of it’s citizens.
The US Govt.s deliberate silence sending warnings to the countries on Tsunami is a well known chapter. And again reaching with aids with heavy military to Srilanka and other S.E. Asia countries is an open truth. The post (…)

by SPIEGEL ONLINE
If the pain and destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina wasn’t enough, now the looting has started on the streets of New Orleans. But many people simply need to feed their families and are consequently forced to "borrow" food from waterlogged grocery stores. So what makes somebody a looter? And does it have anything to do with the color of their skin?
It didn’t take long for reports of looting to filter through. No sooner had Hurricane Katrina’s winds died down, than (…)

According to Drudge, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has recently enjoyed a little Broadway entertainment.
And Page Six reports that she’s also working on her backhand with Monica Seles.
So the Gulf Coast has gone all Mad Max, women are being raped in the Superdome, and Rice is enjoying a brief vacation in New York. We wish we were surprised.
What does surprise us: Just moments ago at the Ferragamo on 5th Avenue, Condoleeza Rice was seen spending several thousands of dollars on (…)

PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO REITERATES MEDICAL CARE OFFER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN HIS REMARKS DURING THE TV ROUND TABLE.
Our country is ready to send, in the small hours of morning, 100 clinicians and specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine, who at dawn tomorrow, Saturday, could be in Houston International Airport, Texas, the closest to the region struck by the tragedy, in order to be transferred by air, sea or river to the isolated shelters, facilities and neighborhoods in the (…)

Be Alert! Be Alarmed!
Condoleezza Rice is coming to Adelaide!
Rumsfeld may come too!
Fellow Australians, Come to Adelaide in November and protest against the presence of Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld, two central figures in the Bush Administration.
The invasion of Iraq is a war crime
Let’s show the world that Australians reject the US’ wars of empire; that we reject US militarism and unilateralism in world affairs because they undermine peace, justice and progress in the (…)

By Sam Varghese
An Australian anti-racist website came under a sustained distributed denial of service earlier this week and the people who run the site suspect the perpetrators may be from across the Tasman.
Sydney activist Mat Henderson-Hau, who runs the website Fightdemback, said the attacks had begun on Monday and knocked the site offline.
"We suspect someone in New Zealand but we cannot say anything definitely now," he said.
The site is hosted by a small Melbourne provider which (…)

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the U.S. government, on Wednesday called President Bush a "cowboy" who had failed to manage the Hurricane Katrina disaster and evacuate victims.
"That government had no evacuation plan, it is incredible, the first power in the world that is so involved in Iraq ... and left its own population adrift," Chavez said in a cabinet meeting broadcast live on television.
His remarks came as U.S. authorities (…)