NEWS COVERAGE ON HURRICANE KATRINA AND ITS AFTERMATH

HOW THE POOR GOT TRAPPED
Will Bunch, Attytood
Why was the issue of getting the poor and the car-less out of New Orleans treated like there was no solution, when there was so much that could have been done?
http://www.alternet.org/story/25068/

A HURRICANE OF CONSEQUENCES
Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy in Focus
The Bush administration decision that most directly contributed to the high numbers of unnecessary deaths from Katrina was the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
http://www.alternet.org/story/25041/

ANOTHER CASE OF GOVERNMENT FOR SOME
Makani Themba-Nixon, AlterNet
The states hardest hit by Katrina are for many African Americans our real home. Once again we are forced to face the fact that to politicians, blacklife is cheap.
http://www.alternet.org/story/25058/

MONUMENT TO A ROTTEN SYSTEM
Dave Zirin, AlterNet
Governmental hypocrisy is personified painfully in the monument to corporate greed that has rapidly become the earth's most damnable homeless shelter: the Louisiana Superdome.
http://www.alternet.org/story/25018/

[DUCHESS NOTE ... Have I mentioned lately how much I loath this damn evil Bushit regime and all the bastards connected with it?!? Grrrrrrrrrrr]