We're back to our more regular form this week, folks as we bring you George Bush's latest distracting efforts to deflect some attention from Tom DeLay's indictments, Bill Frist's own personal SEC investigation and, well, who knows what else? The Pentagon is still screwing over the troops, no one knows what the hell is going on in Iraq, least of all Rumsfeld and we revisit an old story with a new and amusing twist. Bill Bennett is a dunce and Italian girls just wanna have fun; no wagering, please.

We're back to our more regular form this week, folks as we bring you George Bush's latest distracting efforts to deflect some attention from Tom DeLay's indictments, Bill Frist's own personal SEC investigation and, well, who knows what else? The Pentagon is still screwing over the troops, no one knows what the hell is going on in Iraq, least of all Rumsfeld and we revisit an old story with a new and amusing twist. Bill Bennett is a dunce and Italian girls just wanna have fun; no wagering, please.

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By Alternative Press Center

The Alternative Press Center's "Picks of the Month!" Links to articles on an alternative United Nations, toxic clean-up after hurricane Katrina, US Federal Reserve's Alan Greenspan, former Soviet Union countries and cigarette smoking, children of 'closeted' gays and bisexuals, Brazil under former Workers Party leader Luiz Inacio 'Lula' da Silva, and an elegy for public intellectual Susan Sontag.

After the criticism of his disastrous handling the Katrina disaster, President George Bush promises a reconstruction programme of $200bn for areas destroyed by the hurricane. But the first and biggest beneficiaries will be businesses that specialise in profiting from disaster, and have already had lucrative contracts in Iraq; they will gentrify New Orleans at the expense of its poor, black citizens. Analysis by Mike Davis, author of "City of Quartz", "Ecology of Fear", and other critical works.

The tenticles of cronyism with American government and it attendant, expected and deliterious effects.

Seeking Real Resistance to the War: On the Need to Bring Nonviolence to the Peace Movement

Gordon Clark (Iraq Pledge of Resistance) reflects on the place of nonviolent resistance in the movement to end the war in Iraq, why nonviolence as a tactic is not more widely used, and how we can begin to make the kind of sacrifices that effective nonviolence resistance entails.

Investigative journalist Christian Parenti reports from New Orleans on hurricane Katrina's devastation and the government's response.

Nellista Bess offers political analysis of the devastation of hurricane Katrina and the Bush adminsitration's response in the context of the political-economic situation in the USA.