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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?...

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said Sunday morning that any rebuilding effort should be led by New Orleanians and not outsiders....

When I woke up today, the only thought that came to mind was Reverend Jesse Jackson's indignant cry, "This is the bottom of the slave ship we are looking at."...

In a brief but wide-ranging interview, the mayor reflected on the tragedies of the past two weeks, acknowledging that he may have made some mistakes but said that he hopes others in positions of authority – including President George W. Bush and Gov. Kathleen Blanco -- are scrutinized as closely as he and his staff have been. “I’m not pointing any fingers at anyone,” Nagin said. “But I was in the fire. I was down there. Where were they? I’m confident the truth is gonna come out. But I want e...

"This American Life" has interviewed many different people who tried to get out of New Orleans and it's one of the most revealing accounts as to what happened and perhaps why. If you think the problem was just poverty take a listen and its revealing how much race played in the response and how racism was perhaps one of the major reasons for the response....

ACORN, the nation's largest activist organization of low-income families, is headquartered in New Orleans. The accompanying report gives fresh insight into what's happening to displacees and how ACORN is organizing to gain victims immediate assistance....

A bad law just keeps getting worse. The devastating aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is exposing more shortcomings in the federal bankruptcy law that's scheduled to take effect Oct. 17. The so-called Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act is the love letter that Congress wrote to the credit card industry this spring. It's been widely decried by corporate and personal bankruptcy attorneys alike for making the process more convoluted, expensive and difficult for consumers, ...