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Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media? As President Bush scurries back to the Gulf Coast, it is clear that this is the greatest challenge to politics-as-usual in America since the fall of Richard Nixon in the 1970s....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 9:57am PDT
Q groups oppose Roberts as Chief Justice Excerpts from report;
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Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 9:28am PDT
Hour-Long Special on John Roberts, Nominee to Be Supreme Court Chief Justice In this hour-long online special we examine the legal background and history of Judge John Roberts. Earlier today President Bush nominated Roberts to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court replacing the late William Rehnquist, who died at the age of 80 on Saturday....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 9:02am PDT
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's Desperate Plea For Help New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin expresses outrage and frustration during an interview last week by a local New Orleans radio station. Nagin demands greater effort and quicker delivery....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 9:00am PDT
Rev. Al Sharpton: President Bush's Response "Inexcusable" More public figures have spoken out, lambasting the government”s slow response to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Reverend Al Sharpton spoke in Houston on Saturday and said that race played a role....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:59am PDT
Kanye West: "Bush Doesn't Care About Black People" On Friday night, Grammy-award winning hip-hop superstar Kanye West delivered a blistering critique of President Bush and the administration”s response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. "I hate the way they portray us in the media," West said. "If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food."...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:58am PDT
Survivors From New Orleans Speak Out About Week of Horror We go to Louis Armstrong airport in New Orleans where thousands of hurricane survivors are staying. The airport has become a triage center where the oldest, the youngest and the sickest lay desperate for help....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:57am PDT
Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff Refuses To Resign Over Handling Of Hurricane ...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:55am PDT
Suicides, resignations hit New Orleans police department There may be no better way to explain the desperation on the city's ravaged streets than this: In the past few days, two police officers took their own lives and dozens have turned in their badges....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:40am PDT
Way Below The Poverty (and Water) Line People walking aimlessly in the streets. Food preparation on the sidewalk. People pushing shopping carts on the bridges and causeways filled with blankets, bits of clothes and a half-consumed jug of water. Homeless people? Panhandlers? Recyclers? No, survivors of Hurricane Katrina in the ravaged streets of Mississippi, New Orleans and parts of Florida....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 8:02am PDT
Report from final days of “Camp Casey” Soldier returned from Iraq: “The rich don’t fight wars in America”...
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 7:53am PDT
As hurricane disaster mounts, Bush scapegoats state, local officials The Bush administration has set out to shift attention from its own responsibility for the enormous damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. With the federal government coming under increasing criticism for its shocking display of indifference and negligence, the White House is seeking to transfer blame onto the backs of local and state authorities....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 7:50am PDT
New Orleans - awash in corpses NEW Orleans turned much of its attention to gathering and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in thousands of corpses. ”It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine,” the US homeland security chief warned....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 7:47am PDT
Bush Chooses John Roberts as Next U.S. Chief Justice U.S. President George W. Bush, acting only two days after the death of William H. Rehnquist, said he will nominate federal appeals court Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to be the nation's 17th chief justice....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2005 7:45am PDT
Taser Saga Continues as Chicago Teenager Suffers Near-Fatal Ventricular Fibrillation... Apparently, the only reason the teenager survived was that he received immediate medical attention. Dr. Wayne H. Franklin, a pediatric electrophysiologist at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago (and a second doctor), claimed that an electrocardiogram confirmed that the boy did, in fact, suffer fibrillation....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 11:56pm PDT
Hurricane Katrina Mutual Aid Relief 
Want to help out the people affected by Hurricane Katrina? Are you interested in supporting grassroots efforts to help people, instead of religious or corporate charities like the Starvation Army and the Red Cross?...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 10:05pm PDT
Crisis and Crisis Management in Hurricane Katrina: A Radical Critique Stepping back from the horrid immediacies this situation presents, we can discern two intimately connected aspects of our social reality that bear upon the disaster: First, we see the present market-based social and economic order where each must fend for him or herself without any background assurance that society will help when in need.
Second, we see that the relationship of this social order with its natural environment is one of dangerous ecological imbalance. These two aspects of our...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 9:34pm PDT
Report emailed from Veterans for Peace in Covington, LA We have set up a permanent Camp Casey at the Pine View Middle School, 1115 West 28th Street, Covington, LA. We are supporting The Red Cross with power and medical supplies and kitchen service, food bank, and distribution and Internet communications....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 8:18pm PDT
How the Free Market Killed New Orleans Latest commentary from Michael Parenti on the tragedy ay New Orleans...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 6:40pm PDT
Rescue helicopter crashes in New Orleans 
Underscoring the dangerous nature of the operation, a rescue helicopter crashed northwest of downtown New Orleans Sunday evening. The pilot and crew were rescued, said those aboard another helicopter hovering above just after the crash....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 5:53pm PDT
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