06 September 2005
Firing Michael Brown is not enough. How about Bush and Cheney?
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Norman Solomon
Calls for firing Michael Brown are understandable. Aptly described as “the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA” by columnist Maureen Dowd a few days ago, he’s an easy and appropriate target.

President Bush met with Brown...
04 September 2005
Katrina: A tragedy made worse
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Jesse Jackson
Reverend Jesse Jackson is working in the Louisiana region with the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Last week, Rev. Jackson and a Rainbow/PUSH delegation visited Venezuela, and are grateful for the relief aid offered by President Hugo...
04 September 2005
Missing the forest for the uprooted floating trees
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David Swanson
The trillion dollar question has long been: How do we get the major media outlets in this country to notice that the White House is run by oil barons who launch illegal wars based on lies, defund everything else, and destroy the...
04 September 2005
Happy Labor Day, comrades
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Molly Ivins
AUSTIN, Texas -- Happy Labor Day, comrades. Hail to all who have yet to be outsourced, downsized, zero-budgeted, streamlined, cut back, laid off, globalized or otherwise pre-shrunk. Those of us who are lucky winners in the employment...
04 September 2005
All Supreme Court appointments must be postponed
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Harvey Wasserman
The death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist and the deaths of some 10,000 or more American citizens in New Orleans and Mississippi have come virtually at the same time.

We thus face one of the most important moments of...
04 September 2005
Bush’s implicit answer to Cindy Sheehan’s question
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Norman Solomon
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.

The media coverage was scant and...

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