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As Republican leaders announced a joint House-Senate inquiry into failures surrounding the response to Hurricane Katrina, we take a look at why FEMA failed with Salon.com staff writer Farhad Manjoo who writes, "Ideologically opposed to a strong federal role in disaster relief and obsessed with terrorism, the Bush administration let a once-admired agency fall apart." In Washington, Republican leaders on Wednesday announced a joint House-Senate inquiry into failures surrounding the re...

While the US Gestapo, FEMA, illegally attempts to thwart photography of the dead of New Orleans, photos are being taken and published around the world of the genocide perpetrated by the US Government, with malice aforethought....

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans with a double blow when it made landfall Aug. 29. First, storm surge waters from the east rapidly swamped St. Bernard Parish and eastern New Orleans before the eye of the storm had passed the city around 9 a.m. Within hours, surge waters collapsed city canal floodwalls and began to “fill the bowl,” while top officials continued to operate for a full day under the mistaken belief that the danger had passed....

Two paramedics stranded in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina give their account of self-organisation and abandonment in the disaster zone...

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week. Firefighters in Atlanta, who are search-and-rescue certified, paramedics, haz-mat certified, assembled from throughout the United States, have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA. FEMA has warned them not to talk to reporters. Firefighters say they want to brave the heat, the debris-littered roads, the poisonous cotto...

Saturday, September 10th, 10 am – 12:30 pm at the FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, OAKLAND 2501 Harrison Street, Oakland...

We speak with three residents of New Orleans who were forced to flee - David Gladstone, Beverly Wright and Curtis Muhammad - about who gets saved and who doesn't and even the question: will New Orleans be rebuilt?...

“We want help! We want help!” were the thunderous shouts of protests by thousands of surviving African American residents on the flooded streets of a devastated New Orleans. Jarring scenes like these provoked by the government’s racist and uncoordinated response to Hurricane Katrina, which also hammered the gulf coast of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, slapping President Bush upside his head with this serious domestic crisis brewing in the country’s South....

*the denial of aid appears to be continuing, though some supplies are getting in. *Daniel describes living in a complete war zone -- the few people left in houses holed up together with guns, fearing for their lives. *People calling the one radio station from their attics, desparate, saying there was but a foot of space left between the flood waters and the roof and to please come get them before they died -- but there was no one to come....

(New Orleans, LA, Sept. 6, 2005) Mayor Nagin today released a declaration of Emergency Order for the City of New Orleans. The declaration reads as follows:...