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On AlterNet: katrina

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "katrina"

GOP Lawmaker Cao: Obama Administration 'Has Been Tremendous' For New Orleans on Katrina Recovery Effort

GOP Lawmaker Cao: Obama Administration 'Has Been Tremendous' For New Orleans on Katrina Recovery Effort

Ben Armbruster, AlterNet: PEEK. November 12, 2009.
More important to have the Administration engaged in New Orleans, than for the President to appear in photo-ops.

Louisiana Cooks Up a Gumbo of New Americans

Louisiana Cooks Up a Gumbo of New Americans

Wendy Feliz Sefsaf, Immigration Impact. October 27, 2009.
If America is the melting pot, Louisiana is creating its own immigration Gumbo

How Corporate Media Are Washing Away Katrina From America's Mind

How Corporate Media Are Washing Away Katrina From America's Mind

FAIRSeptember 10, 2009.
Four years on, MSM continue to neglect an ongoing disaster.

Katrina Disaster Retold in Comic Book Form?

Katrina Disaster Retold in Comic Book Form?

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.

Maddow Makes Tom Ridge Sweat Over Iraq

Maddow Makes Tom Ridge Sweat Over Iraq

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."

Fox Guest Compares 'Cash for Clunkers' Program to Katrina

Ben Armbruster, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. August 5, 2009.
Seems inappropriate.

GOPer: 'Future Katrina Victims Don't Deserve Emergency Aid'

GOPer: 'Future Katrina Victims Don't Deserve Emergency Aid'

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.

Katrina Survivors Outraged By Jindal's Lies

Katrina Survivors Outraged By Jindal's Lies

Staff, Color of Change AlterNet: PEEK. February 28, 2009.
Jindal, it's time to apologize.

Liar! Bobby Jindal Revises His Katrina Story

Liar! Bobby Jindal Revises His Katrina Story

Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake AlterNet: Media and Technology. February 27, 2009.
It looks like Jindal is trying to walk his Katrina story back a bit.

Jindal's Speech Wasn't Only Bad, It Was Full of Sh*t

Jindal's Speech Wasn't Only Bad, It Was Full of Sh*t

Melissa McEwan, Shakesville AlterNet: PEEK. February 27, 2009.
Surprise, surprise.

Appalling: The Untold Story of Hurricane Katrina's Violent Race War

Appalling: The Untold Story of Hurricane Katrina's Violent Race War

Jill Tubman, Jack & Jill Politics AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. December 19, 2008.
Armed whites targeted innocent black victims fleeing from the storm’s aftermath.

Three Years After Katrina, Bush's FEMA Still Sucks

Three Years After Katrina, Bush's FEMA Still Sucks

Blue Texan, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. September 16, 2008.
Good to see that W. has learned the lessons of Katrina.

Cheney Passed on Katrina Recovery Because 'He Doesn't Do Touchy-Feely'

Cheney Passed on Katrina Recovery Because 'He Doesn't Do Touchy-Feely'

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.

Five Things You Need to Know about Hurricanes

Five Things You Need to Know about Hurricanes

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.

Is New Orleans Really Ready for Gustav?

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.

Reconstruction After Katrina: Brazen Housing Discrimination Continues

Reconstruction After Katrina: Brazen Housing Discrimination Continues

Lizzy Ratner, The Nation. August 30, 2008.
White parishes are zoning minorities out of neighborhoods all over New Orleans.

Katrina Pain Index: Measuring New Orleans' Devastation Three Years Later

Katrina Pain Index: Measuring New Orleans' Devastation Three Years Later

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.

McCain Needs to Do His Homework About Offshore Drilling and Environmental Safety

McCain Needs to Do His Homework About Offshore Drilling and Environmental Safety

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.

Is Iowa Another Katrina?

Is Iowa Another Katrina?

Jill C., Brilliant at Breakfast AlterNet: PEEK. June 10, 2008.
As Iowa drowns, where are the media and government?

McCain Falsely Claims He Has ‘Supported Every Investigation’ Into Katrina Failures

McCain Falsely Claims He Has ‘Supported Every Investigation’ Into Katrina Failures

Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: Election 2008. June 5, 2008.
The straight-talk express derails in Louisiana.

The Politics of Humanitarian Aid

The Politics of Humanitarian Aid

Walter Brasch, The All Spin Zone AlterNet: PEEK. June 2, 2008.
Seeing Shades of Katrina in the Myanmar Cyclone

Hagee Reneges On Retraction Of His Katrina Comments

Hagee Reneges On Retraction Of His Katrina Comments

Matthew Duss, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. May 8, 2008.
McCain's radical pastor blames the New Orleans gay community for Hurricane Katrina.

The Culture of

The Culture of "K-Ville"

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?

A Case of 9/11 Fatigue

A Case of 9/11 Fatigue

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.

From the Bayou to Baghdad: Mission Not Accomplished

From the Bayou to Baghdad: Mission Not Accomplished

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?