Posts tagged with 'Katrina'

TPMtv: A Chat with John Barry

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, AUGUST 21 2008 04:00 PM | PERMALINK

A Chat with John Barry

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: Saturday will be the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's initial formation over the Bahamas. When she washed over Mississippi and Louisiana six days later, on Aug. 29, 2005, she breached critical levees that were supposed to protect New Orleans. Hundreds drowned. At Netroots Nation in Austin TPMtv talked to author John Barry, a New Orleans resident who now serves on the Levee Board, about the current situation in New Orleans three years on and...
McCain criticizes Bush admin. for Katrina aftermath

POSTED BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, APRIL 24 2008 03:01 PM | PERMALINK

Sen. John McCain, who is in New Orleans today, said that he would have handled Katrina differently if he had been president. He was openly critical of the Bush administration. From the New York Times:

Mr. McCain, who was on the fourth day of a tour of America’s “forgotten places” to try to prove that he is a kinder, gentler Republican, ticked off a long list of mistakes: “There was unqualified people in charge, there was a total misreading of the dimensions of the disaster, there was a failure of...
TPMtv: McCain Can't Quit John Hagee

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, MARCH 05 2008 03:00 PM | PERMALINK

McCain Can't Quit John Hagee

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: There's been a lot of chatter over the last few days about John McCain's embrace of Pastor John Hagee, who's well-known for a history of anti-Catholicism and claims that God will send terrorists to create a "bloodbath" in America for its support of a two state solution in Israel/Palestine. So what is it exactly that Hagee's said and just how much has McCain cozied up to him? We thought we'd put all the choicest moments into one quick video so...
Ground Hounds: From Evacuation to Eviction

POSTED BY RAMON DESOUZA, DECEMBER 14 2007 12:59 PM | PERMALINK

Ground Hound Teresa Marshall shows us the devastation created by the neo-liberal agenda, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Featuring analysis by author Naomi Klein “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” and returning New Orleans residents.
If the Water Didn't Kill Ya, the Formaldehyde Could

POSTED BY , JULY 23 2007 11:37 AM | PERMALINK

“How many times can the federal government let down the victims of the hurricanes that ravaged the Gulf Coast two years ago?”

That is the question posed by an editorial in the Sunday NYTimes. Everyone is perhaps too aware of the answer. The Gulf Coast is housing 66,000 Katrina victims in FEMA’s huge trailer parks, ironically meant to protect people who lost everything to 175mph winds. The trailers’ inadequacies in the realm of security were just dwarfed by the contents of their walls and...