USA & Canada

Katrina II: Gustav

Will Gustave be Katrina II? More important, why?

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USA & Canada

Canadaville Deal Goes Sour

Canadaville was a bold experiment, they said, moving people to an area near Sommerville to work on an organic farm and have their lodgings there.

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USA & Canada

2008: A Turning Point for New Orleans?

The rebuilding effort in the city of New Orleans, is now going into 2008. The Leadership of New Orleans remains quite optimistic about the future of New Orleans.

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Opinions

Disasters

Comparison of Katrina to the Wildfires.

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Opinions

Kleptocracy, Cronyism and War Profiteers – Part Seven

In Part Seven of “Kleptocracy, Cronyism and War Profiteers: Too Many Hands in the Cookie Jar”, war profiteer Custer Battles legal battle and vacated guilty ruling make for some interesting reading, we review Blackwater USA’s wrongful death lawsuits by grieving families, their heavy handed tactics in New Orleans post-Katrina disaster, and finally their current advertising of “we’re for hire by any government with a small uprising!”.

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