t r u t h o u t | 09.07

t r u t h o u t | 09.07

Scott Galindez | Exploiting September 11th
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705A.shtml
Scott Galindez asserts that if Osama is still alive, he is now George W. Bush's
#1 supporter. Galindez reminds us that once again, on Sunday, the Bush
administration will be exploiting 9/11 to justify a war that there is no
justification for. A war based on lies and evidence fixed to meet the policy. A
war that accomplished many of Osama bin Laden's goals.


White House Falls out of Step
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705B.shtml
The Bush White House is known for its ability to remain in control of its
message and image, sliding out of crises with barely a scratch. Not this time.
Despite day after day of appearances by President Bush aimed at undoing the
political damage from a poor response to Hurricane Katrina, the White House has
not been able to regain its footing, already shaken by the war in Iraq and a
death toll exceeding 1,880.


Jack Shafer | The Rebellion of the Talking Heads
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705C.shtml
Newscasters, sick of official lies and stonewalling, finally start snarling. In
the last couple of days, many of the broadcasters reporting from the bowl-shaped
toxic waste dump that was once the city of New Orleans have stopped playing the
role of wind-swept wet men facing down a big storm to become public advocates
for the poor, the displaced, the starving, the dying, and the dead.


Report Details Government Intervention in Stock Market
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705D.shtml
The new report is titled "Move Over, Adam Smith: The Visible Hand of Uncle Sam,"
and has been published by Sprott Asset Management of Toronto. It was written by
the firm's president, John P. Embry, and his assistant, Andrew Hepburn, and
concludes that the US government has intervened to support the stock market so
many times that "what apparently started as a stopgap measure may have morphed
into a serious moral hazard situation, with market manipulation an endemic
feature of the US stock market."


Frustrated: Fire Crews to Hand Out Fliers for FEMA
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705E.shtml
Not long after some 1,000 firefighters sat down for eight hours of training, the
whispering began: "What are we doing here?" Many of the firefighters, assembled
from throughout the United States by the FEMA, thought they were going to be
deployed as emergency workers. Instead, they have learned they are going to be
community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region
to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA.


The New York Daily News | Disaster Used as Political Payoff
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705F.shtml
Already under fire for its woeful response to Hurricane Katrina, the federal
disaster agency appears to have turned hurricane relief donations into a
political payoff - until it was challenged. The New York Daily News says that
all last week, FEMA bureaucrats gave prominent placement on the agency's Web
site to Operation Blessing, the Virginia-based charity run by controversial
right-wing evangelist and Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson.


Katrina's Impact on Conservative Objectives
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705H.shtml
While George W. Bush is weakened by his own surprising inertia, absence of
responsiveness, and lack of speed in gauging the measure of the Louisiana
catastrophe (we will remember that he needed the same amount of time to react
following the Asian tsunami last December), the administration could not allow
the post of Chief Justice to remain vacant for three reasons.


Robert Scheer | The Real Costs of a Culture of Greed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705K.shtml
Instead of the much-celebrated American can-do machine that promises to bring
freedom and prosperity to less fortunate people abroad, we have seen a callous
official incompetence that puts even Third World rulers to shame. Robert Scheer
states that the well-reported litany of mistakes by the Bush administration in
failing to prevent and respond to Katrina's destruction grew longer with each
hour's grim revelation from the streets of an apocalyptic New Orleans.


Farhad Manjoo | Why FEMA Failed
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705L.shtml
Ideologically opposed to a strong federal role in disaster relief and obsessed
with terrorism, the Bush administration let a once-admired agency fall apart.


Call for Timetable for Iraq Sets Feingold Apart
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705M.shtml
By issuing an early call for a timetable to withdraw US troops from Iraq, Sen.
Russ Feingold could emerge as the Democrats' anti-war candidate of 2008, in the
tradition of Eugene McCarthy and Howard Dean.


After Katrina: The Toxic Timebomb
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705N.shtml
The devastation of Hurricane Katrina has created a vast toxic soup that
stretches across south-eastern Louisiana and Mississippi, and portends the
arrival of an environmental disaster to rival the awe-inspiring destruction of
property and human life over the past week.


Dennis J. Kucinich: The Supplemental for Hurricane Katrina
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705O.shtml
"The Administration yesterday said that no one anticipated the breach of the
levees. Did the Administration not see or care about the 2001 FEMA warning about
the risk of a devastating hurricane hitting the people of New Orleans?" Dennis
Kucinich asks, "Did it not know or care that civil and army engineers were
warning for years about the consequences of failure to strengthen the flood
control system? Was it aware or did it care that the very same Administration
which decries the plight of the people today, cut from the budget tens of
millions needed for Gulf-area flood control projects?"


Canada Lends Humanitarian Aid to US
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705P.shtml
The Canadian government, sending quick offers of oil, warships, airplanes and
other humanitarian aid to the United States to deal with Hurricane Katrina,
hopes those measures will help improve testy relations and remind Americans that
Canada is their main supplier of oil.


Iraq Redux: FEMA Blocks Photos of Katrina Dead
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705Y.shtml
FEMA, heavily criticized for its slow response to the devastation caused by the
hurricane, rejected requests from journalists to accompany rescue boats as they
went out to search for storm victims.


FEMA Chief Waited until After Storm Hit
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090705Z.shtml
Washington - The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane
Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch
1,000 Homeland Security employees to the region - and gave them two days to
arrive, according to internal documents.