Staff, GRITtv AlterNet: Video. September 3, 2009. An unlikely work of art hits close to home by portraying real stories from the Katrina disaster, 4 years later.
Mark Ristaino, AlterNet AlterNet: World. September 3, 2009. "I don't think you guys get back your credibility on national security until you realize that [going to war] was a wrong decision."
Jed Lewison, Daily Kos AlterNet: PEEK. July 22, 2009. Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wants to make sure nobody thinks the GOP has even one single ounce of empathy.
Jill Tubman, Jack & Jill Politics AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 19, 2008. Armed whites targeted innocent black victims fleeing from the storm’s aftermath.
Ryan Powers, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 16, 2008. Dick Cheney refused President Bush's request to head up a "cabinet-level task force" aimed at speeding the recovery effort.
Carl Pope, Huffington Post. September 8, 2008. Three years after Katrina and a week since Gustav, we are in need of a sobering reminder of some basic truths.
Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor. August 31, 2008. As Gustav bears down, the greatest threat is the potential for a 20-foot storm surge that could overtop the region's vast fortifications.
Bill Quigley, CounterPunch. August 29, 2008. The United States' economic crisis and simultaneous wars have left New Orleans as an afterthought. This is what the city looks like today.
Pat Garofalo, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. July 20, 2008. McCain claims that oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico "have survived, very successfully, the impacts of hurricanes." He's wrong.
Christine Cupaiuolo, The American Prospect. September 28, 2007. FOX's new drama portrays a post-Katrina New Orleans. But in reducing its tragedy to a cop drama, have the real lessons been lost?
Zuzu, AlterNet: PEEK. September 11, 2007. Zuzu: I'm tired of talking about it, I'm tired of hearing about it, I'm tired of Giuliani's continuing relevance because of it.
Amy Goodman, King Features Syndicate. September 5, 2007. Bush flew from the bayou to Baghdad as a People's Hurricane tribunal in New Orleans put every level of government on trial. What was the verdict?
Onnesha Roychoudhuri, AlterNet. August 31, 2007. Author of the new book The Culture of Calamity, Kevin Rozario explains why we are so fond of a good crisis.
