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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?...

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

On Saturday September 3, award-winning filmmaker Gloria La Riva, internationally-acclaimed photographer Bill Hackwell and A.N.S.W.E.R. Youth & Student Coordinator Caneisha Mills, a senior at Howard University, arrived in New Orleans. View the video in Windows Media player Shot by Gloria La Riva of the A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition. In Windows Media (14 min, 36 MB)...

Arab Talk Radio interviews Bill Hackwell who just returned from New Orleans. Additionally we have interviews with Bashir Anastas and Sonia El Feki of the Arab Film Festival. 55mins, english...

As the tide of evacuees rolls into Baton Rouge, Jamie Doward learns that thousands will not go back to New Orleans - and the effect on the economy across the South will be deep and prolonged...