Chomsky: Wanted a leader for America

[NVMojo]

10/05/05 "Khaleej Times" -- -- AS THE survivors of Hurricane Katrina try to piece their lives back together, it is all the clearer that a long-gathering storm of misguided policies and priorities preceded the tragedy.

Government failures at home and the war in Iraq found a confluence in Katrina’s wake that graphically illustrates the need for fundamental social change, lest we suffer worse disasters in the future.

In a pre-9/11 report, the Federal Emergency Management Agency had listed a major hurricane in New Orleans as one of the three most likely catastrophes to strike the United States. The others: a terrorist attack in New York and an earthquake in San Francisco.

New Orleans had become an urgent priority at FEMA since January, when the agency’s now-departed director Michael Brown returned from touring the tsunami devastation in Asia.


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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10534.htm

[Wetzelbill]

1. interesting, seems a little different than a typical Noam article

reads differently. Good post though.

[julianer]

2. Wanted: Chomsky for world leader

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4298568.stm

Apart from the business leaders it's not too bad.

[NVMojo]

3. hmmmmmm, interesting ...thanks for the link!