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Recent Ruling Shows True Tragedy of Katrina was Federal Government's Creation of the Disaster Itself

Sandy Rosenthal | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans Levees, Katrina, Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Army Corps of Engineers, US Army Corps of Engineers, Judge Stanwood Duval, Politics News
Sandy Rosenthal

The majority of Americans live in counties protected by levees, and the most important ones are built by the US Army Corps of Engineers, whose failure in Louisiana was presumably not an isolated event.

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Why Obama Needs to Weigh In With the Corps of Engineers

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, President Obama, US Army Corps of Engineers, Obama New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Republicans defended Bush and blamed state and local officials when the Army Corps of Engineers was found culpable for the flooding of New Orleans. Now Democrats are doing the same thing.

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Waste in Your Levee? Don't Blame the Corps

Harry Shearer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Levees, US Army Corps of Engineers, Politics News
Harry Shearer

Crazy how accountability works at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Other than construction waste in the levees, how many other such mistakes have gone undiscovered?

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Is the Corps of Engineers Astro-Turfing Its Critics?

Harry Shearer | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Katrina, New Orleans, US Army Corps of Engineers, Hurricane Katrina, Politics News
Harry Shearer

In New Orleans, when the subject is the Corps and its federal overseers, hope is something that was left at the starting gate last November.

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The Pentagon Loves KBR

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Camp Adder, Kbr Soldier Electrocuted, Pentagon, Kbr Soldier Electrocution, US Army Corps of Engineers, KBR Electrocution, Politics News
Christopher Brauchli

The KBR issue has risen Phoenix like from the ashes of the six dead servicemen who died because of its electrical work in Iraq.

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Fixing The Responder, Ignoring the Cause?

Harry Shearer | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Fema, Obama, US Army Corps of Engineers, Barack Obama, Infrastructure, Obama FEMA, Army Corps of Engineers, Rebuilding New Orleans, Politics News
Harry Shearer

FEMA was the poster child for federal incompetence, according to the consensus media narrative of the New Orleans flooding disaster. But the true poster child was and is the US Army Corps of Engineers.

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On the Ground: Disaster Flood Engineering

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 06.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Katrina, Floods, Mary Landrieu, US Army Corps of Engineers, Naomi Klein, Tom Harkin, Iowa, Green News
Georgianne Nienaber

With the epic dimensions of this flood and the scope of infrastructure failures, how can the Army Corps of Engineers say to the devastated people that they had better get busy and "top the levees?"

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