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 …
Hurricane Katrina: The People Did Not and Do Not Have to Die Revolutionary Communist Party USA August 31st 2005 There was no way to stop Hurricane Katrina, but the chaos, suffering and death that resulted from this storm WAS preventable. Why didn’t the government organize massive and systematic evacuation? Why …
The Hurricane Brought Misery and Death… THE SYSTEM MADE THINGS WORSE! Revolutionary Communist Party Revolution #13 September 4th 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast region of the United States—and in its wake, it left untold devastation and revealed in a hundred ways what is wrong with this system of …
Voices from Louisiana—“We’re Way Past Angry” Revolutionary Correspondents in Louisiana Revolution #13 September 4th 2005 On the way towards New Orleans, I talked to a man from Thibodeaux who had flown into New Orleans by helicopter to help repair generators. “They’re not telling people what’s happening there,” he said. “There …