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Dysentery outbreak feared Authorities faced a deteriorating and disturbing public health crisis from Hurricane Katrina on Saturday as bodies continued to wash ashore after five days at sea and a possible dysentery outbreak shut down a shelter for hundreds....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 8:56am PDT
No immediate cleanup plans for oil spill on Mississippi River There are no immediate plans to clean up a large oil spill spotted near the town of Venice, on the Mississippi River downstream from New Orleans....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 8:55am PDT
Commerce on Mississippi River may halt for months Hurricane Katrina has closed the door on the biggest passageway in American agriculture, the Mississippi River, triggering shifts that will hurt farmers and cut exports....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 8:54am PDT
Groups to support in New Orleans Rather than contribute money to the bureaucratic thieves in the American Red Cross, the homophoic Salvation Army or Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing, here is a lsit of grass-roots groups that are doing good work....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 8:11am PDT
What Is Cuban Fidel Castros' Secret? 09/03/05 "t r u t h o u t" -- --- Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 6:35am PDT
Message to All Greens: Peter Camejo's Statement on Tulsa 
Since 2004, the Green Party in the United States has seen its influence severely challenged. Many attempts have been made to restore the party to the strength it had in 2000 with poor results. Most recently, attempts were made in Oklahoma and Utah to debate the party's future. Peter Camejo, who was Nader's Vice-Presidential running mate in an independent campaign in 2004 here explains his views and those of the GDI (Greens for Independence and Democracy) about what went wrong, and how the ...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 11:13pm PDT
New Orleans: Massive airlift rescues thousands Survivors of Hurricane Katrina in the southern US are being taken to safety in what is being called the largest-ever airlift in the country....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 10:03pm PDT
Mississippi Suffering Overshadowed Mississippi hurricane survivors looked around Saturday and wondered just how long it would take to get food, clean water and shelter. And they were more than angry at the federal government and the national news media....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 9:34pm PDT
New Orleans will be a 'ghost town' for 9 months New Orleans will have to be abandoned for at least nine months, and many of its people will remain homeless for up to two years, the US government believes....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 9:18pm PDT
Now is the Time? Now is the Time! The Potential of the Gulf Coast Crisis Now is the Time? Now is the Time!
The Potential of the Gulf Coast Crisis: Points for Discussion and Intervention...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 9:09pm PDT
Supreme Court Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who helped shift the U.S. Supreme Court toward a more conservative ideology and strongly supported states' rights during his three decades on the bench, has died. Rehnquist was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in October 2004, not long after the 2004-2005 court session began, and received outpatient radiation and chemotherapy treatments....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 8:31pm PDT
OH NO: Mr. Bill Knew, So Why Didn't Washington? (video/x-ms-wmv 2.4MB) Before we buy the claims of politicians that there was no way to predict or prevent the sinking of New Orleans, it's worth asking how Mr. Bill knew? That's right, the hapless clay figure once featured on NBC's Saturday Night Live starred in a prophetic public service announcement earlier this year to raise awareness about the environmental conditions that could lead to a hurricane drowning the city....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 7:59pm PDT
U.S. Military Admits It Killed Reuters Journalist, Calls It 'Appropriate' U.S. military confirmed on Thursday that its soldiers killed a Reuters journalist in Iraq but said their action was "appropriate."...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 7:44pm PDT
FEMA Incompetence: Michael Brown's Background Was Not Disaster Relief (video/x-ms-wmv 2.6MB) ...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 7:43pm PDT
New Orleans Refugees Being Sent to Toxic Waste Dump in Arkansas I live in Fort Smith Arkansas and 360 people from NO have been shipped to an old army base outside our town. The problem is the base barracks they have put the people in is listed as a toxic waste dump. The barracks are so inundated with lead paint that the people that have to get around them wear masks so they don't have to breathe the fumes coming off them....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 7:15pm PDT
'They're not giving us what we need to survive' Jamie Doward reports on the fury of New Orleans residents who say they were ignored and mistreated by the authorities...
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 5:40pm PDT
Last refugees leave the Superdome amid a sea of stinking trash The last 300 refugees in the Superdome climbed aboard buses Saturday bound for new temporary shelter, leaving behind a darkened and stinking arena strewn with trash....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 5:26pm PDT
Why was relief so long in coming? Thank God for Ted Koppel, the reporters in New Orleans and Harry Connick Jr.
Without them asking the tough questions and shedding light on the poor rescue and relief efforts, hurricane victims in New Orleans still would have no food, no water and no protection. They still would be dying in the streets or threatened by gunmen with rifles and AK-47s....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 1:37pm PDT
New Orleans catastrophe: the product of a bankrupt system September 1st, three of the worst looters appeared on CNN. President Bush himself along with two former presidents, Bush the father and Bill Clinton. The current Bush brought the two former one’s in as fundraisers. What hypocrites these characters are....
Posted: Sat, Sep 3, 2005 1:34pm PDT
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