HURRICANE KATRINA: POLITICAL FALLOUT:

Contact Janet Eaton at or jeaton@ca.inter.net for copy. DIGEST : HURRICANE KATRINA: POLITICAL FALLOUT: (Digest #1 Covers the period August 31 to Sept 4, 2005) Compiled by Janet M. Eaton, PhD, September, 2005) http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/jmeaton/war/jeaton.htm =============================================== Dear All: These Digests assemble, summarize and bring together in one location a sampling of the political analysis and critique which is mounting in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and which threaten to 'breach the barricades of the Bush administration'. INDEX : [1] Hurricane Katrina's real name By Ross Gelbspan The Boston Globe, August 31, 2005 [2] "For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind" Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Date: 31 Aug 2005 [3] On the devolution of FEMA (Sept 1, 2005) http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_09/007023.ph p Washington Monthly September 1, 2005 By Kevin Drum [4] Halliburton gets contract to repair damage from Hurricane Katrina halliburtonwatch.org September 1, 2005 [5] How the Free Market Killed New Orleans* By Michael Parenti, ZNet, E-mailed by Michael Albert [Sep 02, 2005] [6] Dennis Kucinich Speech on the House Floor 'Indifference Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction' The Nation BLOG | Posted 09/03/2005 @ 8:33pm [7] Tomgram: Iraq in America : At the Front of Nowhere at All The Perfect Storm and the Feral City By Tom Engelhardt Sept. 4, 2005 [8] Chertoff: Katrina scenario did not exist However, experts for years had warned of threat to New Orleans Sept 4, 2005 [9] The U.S. Needs to Start Over: Failing at War, Peace and Dignity, Counterpunch, September 3 / 4, 2005