This past week marked the 20th anniversary of the cataclysmic hurricane Katrina, that devastated much of the U.S. Gulf coast. More deadly though than the damage wrecked by the category 5 super storm is the wholly engineered greed and stupidity of those charged with protecting the people of Louisiana, and New Orleans especially. But far from being punished, or learning from the errors, the same lethal criminality that did for New Orleans is still doing mischief, and will do so too for those caught in maelstroms to come.
Reporting Investigator, Greg Palast is a journalist, author, and documentary filmmaker. The Chicago School of Economics alum studied corruption close up, under modern economics architect, Milton Freedman, and has reported the putrescence emanating the school’s acolytes on both sides of the Atlantic since.
Greg Palast’s books, ‘The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tale of Billionaires & Ballot Bandits’, ‘Armed Madhouse’, and ‘The Best Democracy Money Can Buy’ 2004 edition have all resided on the New York Times’ bestseller list, while his ‘Vultures’ Picnic’ was named Book of the Year by BBC Newsnight Review. His latest book ‘How Trump Stole 2020’, tells that sordid tale, while his recently released documentary, ‘Vigilantes Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen‘ shows you how its done.
Greg Palast in the first half.
And; somehow Canadians are sanguine with refugee families being bombed daily in their tents; somehow we’re OK with the children of those families, after traveling miles through an apocalyptic landscape of the dead, being picked off by army snipers while queuing for promised food relief packages. At least you’d think those are our Canadian values listening to the country’s new Prime Minister, Mark Carney. Nearing two years of a genocide waged against Palestine’s civil society, Mark and his minions still support those doing the killing. But to be fair, so too do nearly all parties to the People’s House.
Yves Engler hopes to change that. The crusading journalist, author, and activist is now standing for the vacant leadership of the NDP; that party whose abandonment of its leftist roots and the principled tenets of its membership led to ruin in the last election, seeing not only its leader fail to win his seat, but a decimation so complete the “Party” no longer enjoys party-status in Parliament.
Yves Engler and taking back the NDP in the second half.
But first, Greg Palast and going back to New Orleans, All Washed Away.
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