A Natural Disaster, a Man-Made Catastrophe, and a Human Tragedy Ted Steinberg Chronicle of Higher Education, September 9th 2005 Is Hurricane Katrina “our tsunami,” as the mayor of Biloxi, Miss., A.J. Holloway, has said? Does it make sense to compare today’s disaster to a catastrophe that killed upwards of 200,000 …
Capitalist Rulers Leave Blacks, Poor to Die New Orleans: Racist Atrocity For a Planned Economy Under Workers Rule! Spartacist League USA September 4th, 2005 “We’re dying!” This was the desperate cry of those mainly black people trapped by flooding from Hurricane Katrina, which has submerged 80 percent of New Orleans …
‘Get Off The Fucking Freeway’: The Sinking State Loots its Own Survivors by Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky Socialist Worker, September 9th 2005 Two paramedics stranded in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina give their account of self-organisation and abandonment in the disaster zone Two days after …
The American Left and the Battle of New Orleans Steven Sherman Counterpunch, September 9th 2005 About ten years ago, Michael Moore complained that while US leftists raced to Nicaragua to pick coffee, they did not come to his hometown of Flint Michigan when it was being destroyed by plant closures. …
Iraq war delayed Katrina relief effort, inquiry finds Kim Sengupta The Independent, October 3rd 2005 Relief efforts to combat Hurricane Katrina suffered near catastrophic failures due to endemic corruption, divisions within the military and troop shortages caused by the Iraq war, an official American inquiry into the disaster has revealed. …
 Expulsion is Transfer: The Colonial Logic of Bush’s Response to New Orleans Jonathan Scott The Black Commentator, September 15th 2005 It’s not so much that the Emperor has no clothes but that his clothes, under the black sky, are shining white, with many thousands gone, enabled deliberately by his white …
Blackwater Down  Jeremy Scahill The Nation, October 10th 2005 The men from Blackwater USA arrived in New Orleans right after Katrina hit. The company known for its private security work guarding senior US diplomats in Iraq beat the federal government and most aid organizations to the scene in another …
Disabled Folk in Hurricane Katrina Dave Reynolds Inclusion Daily Express, August 31st, 2005 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA–While some of those who were caught in the path of Hurricane Katrina did so because they failed to recognize the storm’s danger, it is becoming increasingly clear that thousands were unable to leave because …
Firms with White House ties get Katrina contracts FEMA taps Halliburton subsidiary, Shaw Group, Bechtel for cleanup Reuters, September 10th 2005 WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration’s first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts …
WANTED FOR MASS MURDER Revolutionary Communist Party Revolution #13 September 4th 2005 (click the poster to download a printable PDF version, 252K) The Bush regime is wanted for the murders of thousands of people in the New Orleans area. These gangsters: Slashed the funds for flood control and environmental preservation …