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The caravan of medics from the Bay Area Radical Health Collective and other local activists arrived in New Orleans on the evening of Monday, September 12. One truck made it into the city before the dusk-to-dawn curfew, while the others persuaded officers to let them through the checkpoint by showing their EMT licenses....

The water in the lower Ninth Ward is thickening into a glassy, fetid slick as the gasoline, oil, solvents and sewage from thousands of submerged vehicles and homes leaches out. Some rescue crews can stay out on their boats for only an hour before getting light-headed. The water's blue-black sheen casts back an almost mocking mirror image of the horrible devastation and incongruously beautiful blue sky above....

One of the central mysteries emerging in the Hurricane Katrina disaster is why concrete floodwalls in three canals breached during the storm, causing much of the catastrophic flooding, while earthen hurricane levees surrounding the city remained intact....

On Saturday September 10th, the Bay area Radical Health Collective organized a caravan of 3 vehicles and 10 volunteers to travel to Louisiana. Shortly before they left town Bay Area Political Review was able to interview of of the organizers of the caravan, about their volunteer efforts, and what they expect to find when they arrive in Louisiana....

Finally, a miniscule amount of accountability in this "can do no wrong" administration....

In addition to the thousands of military troops patrolling the streets of New Orleans, there are also scores of private soldiers that are now spreading out across the city, like those from the Blackwater Security firm. Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reports....

Part one of a transcript for Rahim's comments during the radio interview with San Diego Radio Active....

...There is, however, a more fundamental issue which neither the US media nor the political establishment is prepared to address, let alone answer. The Bush administration’s performance in the Hurricane Katrina disaster cannot be dismissed as the result of shifting the focus of FEMA from natural disasters to terrorism. Many of the tasks which FEMA was called on to perform after Hurricane Katrina would have been similar in the wake of a nuclear, chemical or biological attack. Scientists have c...

Property values have risen an average of 425% in California since 1980 and 115% in Los Angeles since 2000. If you have the means, escape the "perpetual tenant syndrome" and enter the rent control rehab program before it's too late....

“The worst disaster in United State history. Worse than September 11th. ” I don’t even remember which reporter, talking head, or politician said this, but I couldn’t help but think it must be me. Do disasters follow me? Surely there must be someone else out there who was living in Manhattan on September 11th, and whose home in New Orleans was mercilessly taken away by Katrina?...