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Louisiana declares emergency as new storm looms
Oil companies began evacuating workers from rigs in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of what US forecasters said could be a powerful and dangerous storm, and Louisiana declared a state of emergency. The National Hurricane Center on Thursday issued tropical storm warnings for the coastal areas from Pascagoula, Mississippi, to…
Obama remembers Katrina, after Hurricane Irene
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama paid tribute Monday to the grit of the people of the US Gulf Coast, exactly six years after Hurricane Katrina roared ashore and inundated New Orleans. After a weekend in which Hurricane Irene tore up the US east coast, the president argued that federal disaster…
Police called criminals as New Orleans trial closes
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Five New Orleans police officers on trial in the shooting deaths of civilians during Hurricane Katrina were portrayed Tuesday in closing arguments as criminals or heroes amid the chaos of disaster. “It was unreasonable for these officers to fire even one shot,” said Assistant US Attorney…
US donations to Japan near $150 million
WASHINGTON – US relief groups said Tuesday that Americans have donated close to $150 million to support Japan after its devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The American Red Cross said it has raised $120.5 million. It said it gave $10 million initially to the Japanese Red Cross and would…
Tar balls hit Texas as BP oil spill cost soars
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AFP) – BP faced a broadening crisis Tuesday with tar balls from the Gulf oil spill turning up on Texas beaches, as the firm’s clean-up costs soared and British officials reportedly mulled a possible BP collapse. A giant Taiwanese ship deployed to boost the clean-up meanwhile remained…
Oil closes in on Fla. as BP tries risky cap move
GREG BLUESTEIN and BRIAN SKOLOFF AP News Jun 02, 2010 07:11 EDT As submersible robots made another risky attempt to control the underwater Gulf oil gusher, the crude on the surface spread, closing in on Florida. BP’s stock plummeted and took much of the market down with it, and the…
New media meme: Oil spill is ‘Obama’s Iran hostage crisis’
Comparing the Gulf oil spill to Hurricane Katrina doesn’t explain the amount of damage being done to Barack Obama’s presidency if you believe a new talking point that is circulating in the media. President Bush was already in his second term when his government was heavily criticized for its poor…
The Nation: Katrina’s Hidden Race War
You have to read this devastating piece by A.C. Thompson in The Nation about a rag-tag band of white vigilantes on a race-based rampage in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, formed to protect one of the neighborhoods not flooded when the levees broke. It sounds like a nightmare out of…
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