The US government has yet to respond to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s offer to send planeloads of aid, including 2,000 soldiers, firefighters, volunteers and other disaster specialists to Louisiana. Venezuela, the world’s fifth largest oil exporter, also pledged $1 million… Read moreChavez offers US disaster aid, warns of global energy disaster
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina may not be entirely the result of an act of nature. After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project. The Corps of Engineers strengthened and… Read moreEnvironmental policy roots of Katrina disaster
As looting and gunfire erupt in New Orleans, the authorities are shifting their attention from a humanitarian mission to what is starting to look like counter-insurgency. “They have M-16s and they’re locked and loaded,” Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said of… Read moreNew Orleans: laboratory of counter-insurgency
Exclusive Interview: MAURITANIA: SLAVERY, ETHNIC CLEANSING, DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION Voices of the African Liberation Forces of Mauritania (FLAM) by Bill Weinberg DARFUR: THE OVERKILL The Janjaweed Spin Out of Control by Rene Wadlow OIL AND OCCUPATION IN WESTERN SAHARA Kerr-McGee Lubricates… Read more#. 113. September 2005
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