Campbell Brown on Bush and Katrina

Campbell Brown's amazing takedown of G-Dub's delusional hurricane Katrina spin.


"..Many people will disagree over many aspects of the Bush legacy," Brown said. "But on the government's handling of Katrina? It is impossible to challenge what so many of us witnessed firsthand, what the entire country witnessed through the images on our television screens day and night.."

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The Levee Video That Scared The Corps And The Engineers

A group of high schoolers made an investigative video of the New Orleans levees, the Corps of Engineers, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. The ASCE was supposed to have investigated the corp's work, they(the ASCE) then got a million dollars for their efforts. Both groups forced YouTube to take down the student's video but it's back up(for now). Here it is:



Thanks to Skippy.

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Gulf Coast Recovery Bill

Sign the petition for passage of Senator Dodd's Gulf Coast Recovery Bill. Like Iraq the Katrina disaster gave Bushco another money pit to pour federal money into the pockets of wealthy cronies and fatcats. Thousands of others are still without homes and stuck in limbo.



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New Orleans | Katrina Doctor Tells Her Side

Dr. Anna Pou was accused of murdering nine patients in a New Orleans hospital wracked by Katrina, but a grand jury declined to indict her. Now she gives her side of the story.
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‘Everybody May Not Make It Out’

"..The conditions were unbearable. Inside the hospital it was pitch black, with odors, smell, human waste everywhere. It was very rancid. You would take a breath in and it would burn the back of your throat. The patients were very sick. That’s when we had to go from triage to reverse triage because we came to realize if patients aren’t being evacuated, [we had to deal with what we had]. Basically it was a general consensus that we’re not going to be able to save everybody. We hope that we can, but we realize everybody may not make it out.."

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Voices From the Gulf

Voices from the Gulf.


Dennis Sigur, Dennis's Barber Shop

Two years after Katrina, the Gulf Coast is still recovering, and thousands of personal stories remain unheard.

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