Economic Hit Men and the Next Drowning of New Orleans – Hurricane Bush Four Years Later, Part 2 by Greg Palast

by Greg Palast
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Dandelion Salad
www.gregpalast.com
August 27, 2009

For Crooks and Liars

This week only, our readers can download, free of charge, Greg Palast’s film, “Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans.” Or donate and get a signed DVD. Watch the 1-minute trailer …

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Expert Fired Who Warned Levees Would Burst – Hurricane George, Four Years Later by Greg Palast

by Greg Palast
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.gregpalast.com
August 25, 2009

For Crooks and Liars

Tonight on Air America: Greg Palast joins Crooks and Liars’ John Amato, guest host of “Clout!” on your local progressive station or streaming live on AirAmericaRadio.com at 9pm Eastern.

There’s another floater. Four years on, there’s another victim face down in the waters of Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Ivor van Heerden.

I don’t get to use the word “heroic” very often. Van Heerden is heroic. The Deputy Director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, it was van Heerden who told me, on camera, something so horrible, so frightening, that, if it weren’t for his international stature, it would have been hard to believe: