After the Festival, the Celebration
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Posted 05.06.2008
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Politics
New Orleans made the good kind of news this past week -- what didn't make national news, though, was a new court decision.
New Orleans made the good kind of news this past week -- what didn't make national news, though, was a new court decision.
Maybe we're not surprised anymore when hidden motives paraded before us are ignored by the corporate media. Have we also moved beyond public radio being held to a higher standard?
When people outside New Orleans ask, "what happened to all the federal money?", the question is echoed by those in the city. Here's one answer.
Gee, I wonder how a government gets to the point where it's more interested in the preservation of its own power than in relieving the suffering of its people in the wake of a disaster.
I've realized just how false the national media's depiction of the Lower 9th ward is as dead, derelict and devastated. The recovery by homeowners continues despite the lack of leadership.
It's probably not escaped your attention that the administration has Iran in its sights, but efforts to show that Iranian weapons are in Iraq have come up short.
Just in case Scott McClellan wasn't keeping count, the Center for Public Integrity was: at least 935 falsehoods told by the president and his aides in the runup to the war.
