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Six months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, we speak with two activists about what many call the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. Jordan Flaherty is an organizer with the New Orleans Network and an editor of Left Turn magazine; Kevin Powell is a journalist and author who is helping to launch Katrina On the Ground, an initiative which will bring student delegations from around the country to the Gulf Coast to work with local aid organizations....

Footage of a videoconference between President Bush and disaster officials a day before Hurricane Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast is smoking-gun proof of the president's poor leadership skills, the writer says. Earl Ofari Huthchinson is an associate editor at New America Media and the author of "The Crisis in Black and Black."...

The Winter 2006 issue of Middle East Journal ran a scathing review by Professor Marc Saperstein of my book Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of history. Saperstein alleged that my book was a "prolonged diatribe," replete with "outrageous ad hominem attacks" and written in the "rhetorical style of the arrogant academic pit bull."...

Disaster jobless benefits for 140,000 workers left unemployed by Katrina are about to run out. You can help those families today by telling your U.S. representative to pass the Katrina Emergency Assistance Act, which will extend those benefits for 13 weeks....

Thanks in part to your efforts, the breaking news about Bush's smoking gun Katrina warning is spreading rapidly. However, the media is largely not featuring what is perhaps the most obvious revelation of all: Bush lied....

Tucson, Ariz. - (March 2, 2006) The Center for Biological Diversity released a report yesterday which found that no endangered species have gone extinct in the Northeast and 93 percent have increased their population size or become stable since being protected under the federal Endangered Species Act....

US disaster officials warned President George Bush in dramatic and sometimes agonising terms that Hurricane Katrina could breach New Orleans levees....

We look at the ongoing battle over uranium mining in the Navajo Nation. Mining has occurred on Navajo territory for over fifty years and the impact is still being felt. We speak with the directors of the Eastern Navajo Dine Against Uranium Mining and the Southwest Research and Information Center....

Supervisor Sophie Maxwell triumphed yesterday in her effort to increase city enforcement over problem liquor stores. Faced with a potentially killing amendment from Supervisor Ma, Maxwell beseeched her colleagues to stand firm against rogue liquor stores wreaking havoc on low-income communities. Maxwell argued that the amendment, which would exempt city enforcement of problems caused by liquor stores that occur outside the premises, would undermine the legislation’s purpose and send a terribl...

The Federal Reserve released its “Survey of Consumer Finance” on February 23, a report that measures changes in income and other financial measures and is produced every three years. Together with a number of reports that have emerged recently, the Federal Reserve data gives a partial portrait of the state of social relations in the United States—characterized by growing social inequality and increased financial hardship for most Americans....