t r u t h o u t | 09.05

t r u t h o u t | 09.05

Times-Picayune: Fire Michael Brown
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090505A.shtml
An angry Times-Picayune calls for the firing of FEMA chief and others in an open
letter to the President on Sunday.

Norman Solomon | Bush's Implicit Answer to Cindy Sheehan's Question
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090505B.shtml
President Bush has evaded Cindy Sheehan's question, "What was the noble cause
that my son died for?" But he provided a partial answer on the day that the New
Orleans levees gave way.

Amid Difficulties, Leaders of Labor See Opportunity
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090505C.shtml
As they have on past Labor Days, the nation's union leaders are vowing to
reverse labor's decline, but that goal is made more difficult this year by the
schism in the AFL-CIO and by the likelihood that striking mechanics at Northwest
Airlines will suffer a bruising defeat.

James Ridgeway | Pumping Us Dry
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090505D.shtml
James Ridgeway: The very first thing George W. Bush did in response to Hurricane
Katrina was to offer a helping hand - not to the people stranded on rooftops in
New Orleans, but to his friends in the oil industry. These were the same people
who gave him $52 million in his last campaign.

Waters and Jackson: Give Me Shelter
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090505E.shtml
Trying to force authorities to open an Air Force base as a shelter, Jesse
Jackson and other black leaders picked up 150 evacuees at the squalid New
Orleans Airport and headed into the night.

Paul Krugman | Killed by Contempt
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090505F.shtml
Paul Krugman writes: Each day since Katrina brings more evidence of the lethal
ineptitude of federal officials. I'm not letting state and local officials off
the hook, but federal officials had access to resources that could have made all
the difference, but were never mobilized.

Dr. James J. Zogby | Katrina and Iraq Vie for Attention
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090505G.shtml
Dr. Zogby points out that Hurricane Katrina forced President George W. Bush to
do what Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, could
not. Four days into the worst natural disaster to hit the US, the President
cancelled his month-long vacation and returned to Washington.

Bob Herbert: A Failure of Leadership
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090505X.shtml
Bob Herbert writes: Neither the death of the chief justice nor the frantic
efforts of panicked White House political advisers can conceal the magnitude of
the president's failure of leadership last week. The catastrophe in New Orleans
billowed up like the howling winds of hell and was carried live and in color on
television screens across the US and around the world.

Bush Faces Rising Complaints about Handling of Disaster
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090505Y.shtml
President Bush faced increasingly bitter complaints today from local and state
officials in the battered Gulf Coast region as he struggled to exert control
over a disaster that almost surely claimed thousands of lives. Senator Mary
Landrieu of Louisiana, a Democrat, said today that she was so angry about
federal failures and second-guessing that if she heard any more criticism of
local efforts, even from the president, she might "punch" him.