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Big, Easy Iraqi-Style Contracts Flood New Orleans As Katrina's flood waters recede, government contractors are flowing into the Gulf Coast and reaping billions of dollars in pre-bid, limited bid, and sometimes no-bid contracts. We speak with Pratap Chatterjee, managing editor of CorpWatch.org, about his latest article titled "Big, Easy Iraqi-Style Contracts Flood New Orleans."...
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 7:07am PDT
Fresh From Iraq, Private Security Forces Roam the Streets of an American City With Impunit In this week's cover story in The Nation, Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reports on how mercenaries from private security firms like Blackwater USA and BATS are patrolling the streets in New Orleans....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 7:05am PDT
Disaster Profiteering: Purging the Poor in the New New Orleans We speak with writer and author Naomi Klein about what some are calling the real looting of New Orleans. In this week's cover story in The Nation magazine, Klein reports on how the city's poorest evacuees are being kept out of thousands of perfectly livable empty homes....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 7:02am PDT
Democrats cave on reactionary chief justice: Senate panel rubberstamps Roberts nomination By a vote of 13-5, the Senate Judiciary Committee ratified the nomination of right-wing jurist John Roberts to be the next chief justice of the US Supreme Court. Three of the eight Democrats on the panel—Patrick Leahy of Vermont, and Russ Feingold and Herbert Kohl, both of Wisconsin—joined with a unanimous Republican majority to endorse Roberts, whose confirmation by the full Senate is now effectively assured....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 6:34am PDT
Blair and Murdoch defend Bush over Hurricane Katrina Rupert Murdoch inadvertently performed a public service when he cited an attack by Prime Minister Tony Blair on the BBC’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina in which Blair described the network’s reporting as “full of hate” for America....
Posted: Fri, Sep 23, 2005 6:31am PDT
Fascist Democrats vote for Nazi Judge Roberts Democratic Senators Feingold, Kohl & Leahy voted for confirmation of the fascist Judge Roberts as US Chief Justice, sending his confirmation to the full senate next week, where, in this so-called "democracy" the confirmation by this millionaire's club of an outright fascist, John Roberts, as US Chief Justice, is guaranteed. Only a labor movement can stop this march to fascism....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 7:14pm PDT
The Truth About the Green Party What happened to the Green Party? Where is the alternative to the Republican/Democrat duopoly? The answer is complicated. This article goes a long way to explaining What Happened, What Is, and What Could Be.
Read this:...
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 5:21pm PDT
Blong Xiong Announces his Candidacy 
Blong Xiong is the first candidate to announce he is running for Fresno City Council in District 1....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 4:40pm PDT
Our work together, after Katrina Hurricane Katrina exposed the deep poverty and racism that remains in our country.
It showed that the President failed to deliver on his central promise—to keep us
safe. But more broadly, Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that a right-wing "sink or
swim" ideology is a disaster for America....
Posted: Thu, Sep 22, 2005 10:16am PDT
Contesting Arnold’s Election 
How Fresno is organizing to win in November, voting recommendations, and more...
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 9:57pm PDT
world cant wait demo at berekley cal 
A funeral to all the victim in New Orleans. By the "world cant wait " coalition....
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 6:50pm PDT
Dump the Democraps: Leahy First Judiciary Dem to Back Roberts for Chief Justice Dump them all. It's time. Any congress person who says "I find it is better to vote yes than no" on this issue is ready to be dumped by the people. To say "I can only take him at his word,' is to directly betray the people. (Interestingly, Yahoo doesn't seem to link to Leahy in this story although they link to everyone else)....
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 10:15am PDT
Spooky Educational FEMA Website for Kids 
Link to Department of Homeland Security's FEMA website for kids.
Gee....
Posted: Wed, Sep 21, 2005 5:44am PDT
Feds See Little Need for Healthcare Volunteers The federal Deptartment of Health & Human Services today sent the following message to people who signed up as volunteer healthcare workers (click 'continue reading'). It appears the feds deployed 1200 employees and a mere 150 volunteer care providers....
Posted: Tue, Sep 20, 2005 6:03pm PDT
The Deregulated Catastrophe The gigantic relief machinery first started almost a week after the beginning of the catastrophe..Hyper-modern America found it shockingly difficult to act in the emergency and provide the fastest possible relief to the despairing..The other side, the poor side of the rich superpower, was suddenly revealed....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 4:54pm PDT
Will Katrina Wallop Black Voting Power? The hurricane, by scattering black voters over several states, may have given the GOP a gift....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 2:36pm PDT
New Orleans Response: Pillaging, looting - these guys are pros The $200 billion that President George W. Bush has earmarked for rebuilding the Gulf of Mexico region is chum for the big-ticket, GOP contributors. It will bring in the Great White contract-seeking sharks from Maine all the way to Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 6:58am PDT
Mubarak wins Egypt’s stage-managed presidential election Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak won another six-year term in office September 7, with 88.6 percent of the total vote. The lop-sided result reflected the carefully orchestrated nature of the campaign, which Mubarak instigated in order to give his dictatorial regime a “democratic” gloss. Despite evidence of large-scale electoral fraud and intimidation, the Bush administration welcomed the vote as a positive step towards democracy....
Posted: Mon, Sep 19, 2005 4:57am PDT
URGENT FROM BOGALUSA...PEOPLE ARE F**KING DYING America is too hopelessly and willfully deluded and distracted to properly care for itself. Consider this an international alert. Worldwide assistance is desperately required in America yesterday!...
Posted: Sun, Sep 18, 2005 10:50am PDT
"Justin" Raimondo - a Neofascist Turd Raimondo is a treasonous little shit...
Posted: Sun, Sep 18, 2005 1:08am PDT
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