t r u t h o u t | 09.08

Paramedics: Police Prevent People from Leaving New Orleans
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805A.shtml
Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky, paramedics from California who were
attending the EMS conference in New Orleans, detail their own experiences during
and after Katrina. Their reports show that official relief efforts were callous,
inept, and racist.


Offers Pour In, But the US Is Unprepared
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805B.shtml
Generous offers of aid for Hurricane Katrina victims are pouring in from scores
of nations, but in many cases the United States is unprepared to receive the
goods.


Macabre Reminder: The Corpse on Union Street
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805C.shtml
Six National Guardsmen walked up to the corpse on Union Street Tuesday
afternoon. One soldier took a parting snapshot like some visiting conventioneer,
and they walked away.


Norman Solomon | "Bush the Protector" vs. "Bush the Menace"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805D.shtml
The media storyline for the cataclysm of 9/11 - echoing countless narratives
from Bush and others in the administration - was a continuous tale of American
virtue in a mortal struggle with its opposite. Few journalists challenged that
simplicity, but now, Norman Solomon explains, to the extent that the media
storyline for the catastrophe of New Orleans has a villain, it's the Bush
Administration itself.


Newsweek | Wrong Priorities?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805E.shtml
Angry state officials accuse the White House of ignoring warnings that its focus
on terror left the nation unprepared to cope with natural disasters.


Feingold: Provide Airtime for Hurricane Survivors
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805G.shtml
In a letter to the five major news networks, US Senator Russ Feingold today
asked each of them to provide airtime to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina who
are spread out across the country in relief staging areas.


America Takes a Dive
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805H.shtml
Barely a word of compassion for Katrina's victims and the perpetual, endless,
everlasting excuse that he had already used after the September 11, 2001,
attacks: no one could have predicted. It is even more of a lie today than it was
four years ago.


Edwards, Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry, Dean Step Up Criticism of White House
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805I.shtml
Democratic leaders unleashed a burst of attacks on the White House on Wednesday,
saying the wreckage in New Orleans raised doubts about the country's readiness
to endure a terrorist attack and exposed ominous economic rifts that they said
had worsened under five years of Republican rule.


Barbara Bush: It's Good Enough for the Poor
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805J.shtml
On the tape of the interview, Mrs. Bush chuckles audibly as she observes just
how great things are going for families that are separated from loved ones,
people who have been forced to abandon their homes and the only community where
they have ever lived, and parents who are explaining to children that their
pets, their toys and in some cases their friends may be lost forever. Perhaps
the former first lady was amusing herself with the notion that evacuees without
bread could eat cake.


Cindy Sheehan | What Kind of Extremist Will You Be?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805K.shtml
Cindy Sheehan laments that now oceans of blood - both Iraqi and American - have
been spilled for ruinous and disturbing policies of very bad people in our
government who have based their reasons for invasion and occupation on their
twisted imaginations and their seemingly bottomless lust for power, profits,
chaos and confusion.


UN Report: Parts of America Are as Poor as Third World
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805L.shtml
Parts of the United States are as poor as the Third World, according to a
shocking United Nations report on global inequality.


Sidney Blumenthal | What Didn't Go Right?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805M.shtml
The Bush administration's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina stands as the
pluperfect case study of the Republican Party's theory and practice of
government. Sidney Blumenthal reminds us that for decades conservatives have
funded think tanks, filled libraries and conducted political campaigns to
promote the idea of limited government. Now, in New Orleans, the theory has been
tested. The floodwaters have rolled over the rhetoric.


Journalist Groups Protest FEMA Ban on Photos of Dead
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805N.shtml
"It's impossible for me to imagine how you report a story whose subject is death
without allowing the public to see images of the subject of the story," Larry
Siems of the PEN American Center told Reuters.


Max J. Castro | Katrina Exposes Ugly Aspects of Bush and America
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805P.shtml
It is not merely an emotional outburst when a top rap singer says on national
television that George Bush doesn't care about black people; Max J. Castro says
it's a solid argument backed not just by the evidence of the past few days but
also by the policies of the last five and a half years.

Now: Did Race and Class Affect the Relief Effort?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805Q.shtml
How did race and class affect the relief effort in the aftermath of Katrina?


William Rivers Pitt | Let the Dead Teach the Living
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805Y.shtml
"What have the dead taught the living in the last two weeks," William Rivers
Pitt asks. We have learned that priorities matter. We have learned that the
conservative small-government model is a recipe for catastrophe. We have learned
that government is sure to absolutely fail its citizens when it is run by people
who hate government. Responsible and effective government matters. At this
moment, we have neither. We are, simply put, on our own.


Dean: Race Played a Role in Katrina Deaths
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805Z.shtml
Race was a factor in the death toll from Hurricane Katrina, Howard Dean told
members of the National Baptist Convention of America on Wednesday at the
group's annual meeting.