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Top Hurricane Expert Says Officials Threatened His Job Over
Pre-Katrina Warnings; For Whom is New Orleans Being Rebuilt?
City Demographics Radically Altered With Many Black Residents
Still Unable to Return; Common Ground Collective Continues
to Bring Thousands of Volunteers From Around the World to
Gulf Coast For Post-Katrina Relief Efforts; Lebanese MP Ghassan
Moukheiber on the Future of Lebanon Politics, Hezbollah and
the Ongoing Israeli Occupation
Top Hurricane Expert Says Officials Threatened His
Job Over Pre-Katrina Warnings
On the eve of the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina,
investigative journalist Greg Palast reports that a top hurricane
expert says government officials threatened his job over his
warnings about the impending disaster.
For Whom is New Orleans Being Rebuilt? City Demographics
Radically Altered With Many Black Residents Still Unable to
Return
A year after Hurricane Katrina hit, only about half of New
Orleans' population of 450,000 has returned. Many of those
unable to come back are poor and African-American, drastically
altering the demographics of a city that used to be two-thirds
black. Investigative journalist Greg Palast reports from New
Orelans.
Common Ground Collective Continues to Bring Thousands
of Volunteers From Around the World to Gulf Coast For Post-Katrina
Relief Efforts
We speak with New Orleans community activist and co-founder
of the Common Ground Collective, Malik Rahim, about his continued
relief efforts in the Gulf Coast, the racism in the federal
government's response to the disaster and much more.
Lebanese MP Ghassan Moukheiber on the Future of Lebanon
Politics, Hezbollah and the Ongoing Israeli Occupation
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan arrives in Beirut
for talks aimed at shoring up the ceasefire between Israel
and Hezbollah. We speak with Lebanese parliament member Ghassan
Moukheiber about the future of Lebanese politics, Hezbollah,
and the continued Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon.
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